Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

Ralph Kimball, a well-known author on data warehousing, is a proponent of an approach to data warehouse design which he describes as bottom-up.

The Christian author Tertullian, commenting on ludi meridiani in Roman Carthage during the peak era of the games, describes a more humiliating method of removal.

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

The unknown author of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea describes this route and the ports and trade goods along the coasts of Africa and India around AD 70.

The author of Kings describes that, while the captains ( commanders ) of the Israelite army were assembled away from the king's eyes, the prophet Elisha sent one of his students to this meeting.

The author of Kings describes how Jehu entered the city without any resistance, and saw Jezebel, the mother of king Jehoram, presenting herself from a window in the palace and receiving him with insolence.

Fenton judges the Parsons based on their attractiveness and is agitated when they do not “ fulfil stereotypical female roles ,” as author Anne Cranny-Francis describes it ( Feminist Science Fiction, 30 ).

" The author constructed the latter from an Icelandic saga source, and describes an experiment performed to determine its accuracy.

German author Andreas Kossert describes the post-war process of " national verification " as based on an ethnic racism which categorized the local populace according to their alleged ethnic background.

One author describes authoritarian political systems as those where " individual rights and goals are subjugated to group goals, expectations and conformities ", while libertarians generally oppose the state and hold the individual as sovereign.

The author Arrian, during his personal experience in Spain, describes hare hunting with Galgos in a manner almost identical to that used nowadays in Spain, adding that it was a general Celtic tradition not related to a social class.

The composition is by an anonymous author from the 10th century and is referred to as Eiríksmál, and describes Eric Bloodaxe and five other kings arriving in Valhalla after their death.

* 863: The Chinese author Duan Chengshi describes the slave trade, ivory trade, and ambergris trade of Somalia in East Africa.

His 1942 book, Last Train from Berlin: An Eye-Witness Account of Germany at War describes the reporter's observations from Berlin in the year after the departure of Berlin Diary author William L. Shirer.

* Song Dynasty Chinese author Qin Guan writes the Can Shu ( Book of Sericulture ), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative and epic ( a mixture of dialogue and narrative ).

In his book Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the " Bismarck ", the author Ludovic Kennedy describes an incident that allegedly took place below the Denmark Strait during 1941, following the sinking of the Hood.

In his book Ninety Degrees North, polar historian and author Fergus Fleming describes Peary as " undoubtedly the most driven, possibly the most successful and probably the most unpleasant man in the annals of polar exploration.

In his book Planet Simpson, author Chris Turner describes Krusty as " the wizened veteran, the total pro " who lives the celebrity life but is miserable and needs his celebrity status.

The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there.

Here, according to Maria C. Pantelia, Helen becomes the ' author ' of a catalog when she describes for Priam the qualities of the most important Greek warriors.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

Paul Roche observes that the author abounded in mistakes and anachronisms, using Daniel as a symbol for the faithful Jew serving Yahweh, and the use of various pagan kings as symbols of heathenism.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces.

Various editions with various authors historically, the longest term revising author as ( Ellen ) Dorrit Hoffleit.

* Sara Cone Bryant ( born 1873 ), the author of various children's book in the early 20th century

Enid Blyton's status as a bestselling author is in spite of disapproval of her works from various perspectives, which has led to altered reprints of the books and withdrawals or “ bans ” from libraries.

Paul, the earliest known Christian author, wrote several letters ( or epistles ) in Greek to various churches.

The Petrine author writes of his addressees undergoing “ various trials ” ( 1 Peter 1: 6 ), being “ tested by fire ” ( 1: 7 ), maligned “ as evildoers ” ( 2: 12 ) and suffering “ for doing good ” ( 3: 17 ).

In the fictional Discworld universe created by author Terry Pratchett, the city-state of Ankh-Morpork contains numerous Guilds ( including respective Guilds for Assassins, Beggars and Fools, as well as Thieves and others ), all of which have a monopoly on the various trades which they dominate.

Henry Mayhew was the great-grandfather of Audrey Mayhew Allen ( b. 1870 ), author of a number of children's stories published in various periodicals, and of a book Gladys in Grammarland, an imitation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland books.

He is best known as the author of the widely popular History of Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1855 ), in which the various elements and episodes in Napoleon's career are described.

According to author Simon Reeve, Afif, Nazzal and one of their confederates had all worked in various capacities in the Olympic Village, and had spent a couple of weeks scouting out their potential target.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

He was also the primary author of most of the scripts, although he co-wrote many scripts with various collaborators, most notably Larry Stephens and Eric Sykes.

A prolific author on various topics, he has had a significant influence on the politics of various individuals and groups across the world, including senior leaders like Nelson Mandela, Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales.

Scholars disagree about the various, too often contradictory, accounts of his life given in sources from his era of history, such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, and the Heimskringla, a 13th-century work by Icelandic author Snorri Sturluson.

On page two among various Acknowledgments, the author writes: ' To Mr. Arnold Fraser-Campbell the author is particularly indebted for permission to use material and quotations from his manuscript in which is described his method of hand valuation by counting losing tricks, and from which the author has developed the Losing Trick Count described herein.

" The work and its author were popularized through its illustrations in various media: emaki ( illustrated handscrolls ); ( screen paintings ), ukiyo-e ( woodblock prints ); films, comics, and in the modern period, manga.

Fons Trompenaars, author of Did the Pedestrian Die ?, tested members of different cultures with various moral dilemmas.

In the spring of 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral set sail from Cape Verde with 13 ships and crews and a list of nobles that included Nicolau Coelho, Bartolomeu Dias and his brother Diogo, Duarte Pacheco Pereira ( author of the Esmeraldo ) along with various other nobles, nine chaplains and some 1, 200 men.