Photos of historic dioramas of the area you visit will add depth and background to your vacation photo story.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

Early episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow ( William Roache ), who had won a place at university and thus found his background something of an embarrassment.

Dracula expands on the idea of a first person account by creating a series of journal entries and logs of different persons and creating a plausible background story for them having been compiled.

Published adventures typically include a background story, illustrations, maps and goals for PCs to achieve.

Doom, a science fiction / horror themed video game, has a background which is given in the game's instruction manual ; the rest of the story is advanced with short messages displayed between each section of the game ( called episodes ), the action as the player character progresses through the levels, and some visual cues.

Approaching a given genre, certain assumed background information covers the nature and purpose of possible predictable elements of the story, such as the appearance of dragons and wizards in high fantasy, warp drives in science fiction, or shootouts at high noon in Westerns.

German-style games tend to have a theme ( role-play element or a background story )— more like Monopoly or Clue, rather than poker or Tic Tac Toe.

The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.

King wrote the background history of the very first American vampire, Skinner Sweet, in the first five-issues story arc.

The background to the story includes a massive earthquake laying waste to the San Francisco Bay area in California.

With the series character designs finalized and the story set, Yoko Kanno was selected to write the songs for the series, including the background songs which she co-wrote with Hajime Mizoguchi.

In this case, usually the philosophical background is not deep ; sometimes it is just a simple supply of the story.

It includes a generalised German history of unification as a background to the story.

The characters are stronger the background is carefully built, original, and convincing, the story suspenseful enough.

" Although describing the plot as " pretty traditional space opera ," he praised the novel for its " ably drawn " characters, its " well-imagined " background, and its " story told with zest.

In light of the above parallels, Walter Burkert interprets the story as a significant development in the history of Dionysiac cult: " Released from this gloomy background, the cheerful and liberating legend of the sixth century further developed the image of the dolphin-rider under the colors of the renewed cult of Dionysus .".

The story takes place about 2015 AD, against a background of an overpopulated Earth, whose dysfunctional society is clearly an attempt to extrapolate into the future the rapid social changes taking place in the U. S. during the 1960s.

Wilfred doesn't often have much contribution toward story in The Bash Street Kids, often simply present in the background and occasionally in speaking roles.

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson characterized Heinlein's story as " a dream of personal freedom " written with " an enviable craftsmanship ", noted that the novel " carries its thematic burden tightly ", unlike Heinlein's later adult novels, and praised The Rolling Stones for its " sense of an accurately extrapolated future background, with all of the new technologies given an air of commonplace reality ".

The book had an even more complicated structure (" It was impossible to comprehend without thinking in six dimensions ") but already introduced the Culture as background for the story of Cheradenine Zakalwe.

The setting of the story is in fact the very real Tuscan area of Italy as a background.

He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.

Total absorption is measured with normal lamp current, i. e., with a narrow emission line, and background absorption after application of a high-current pulse with the profile of the self-reversed line, which has little emission at the original wavelength, but strong emission on both sides of the analytical line.

* Deleted: Opening credits ; Moved to the end of the film and changed to white credits against a black background with the original Ifukube cue.

The stamp, designed by Howard Paine, displays the book with its original dust jacket, a white Magnolia blossom, and a hilt placed against a background of green velvet.

The console was capable of showing up to 56 different colors simultaneously on screen from its palette of 32, 768 ( 8x4 color background palettes, 8x3 + transparent sprite palettes ), and could add basic four -, seven-or ten-color shading to games that had been developed for the original 4-shades-of-grey Game Boy.

Whatever the original plan might have been, the larger, historical account is often merely a background to a broad range of inquiries and, as Herodotus himself observes, " Digressions are part of my plan.

Robinson's image was also markedly larger and centered on the original poster, with Bogart relegated to the background.

More specifically, the extreme levels of radiation from the Big Bang have been redshifted to microwave wavelengths ( 1100 times lower than its original wavelength ) as a result of the cosmic expansion, and thus form the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

Although string theory had its origins in the study of quark confinement and not of quantum gravity, it was soon discovered that the string spectrum contains the graviton, and that " condensation " of certain vibration modes of strings is equivalent to a modification of the original background.

Stout revealed the reason for the change in a letter obtained by his authorized biographer, John McAleer: " In the original draft of Over My Dead Body Nero was a Montenegrin by birth, and it all fitted previous hints as to his background ; but violent protests from The American Magazine, supported by Farrar & Rinehart, caused his cradle to be transported five thousand miles.

Unlike in the early issues of the original series, the new team was not made up of teenagers and they also had a more diverse background.

Scholars that continue to research the background of the Zohar include Yehudah Liebes ( who wrote his doctor's degree for Scholem on the subject of a Dictionary of the Vocabulary of the Zohar in 1976 ), and Daniel C. Matt, also a student of Scholem, who is currently reconstructing a critical edition of the Zohar based on original unpublished manuscripts.

Actors who are members of a marginalized ethnic or religious group have often adopted stage names, typically changing their surname or entire name to mask their original background.

The game's sequel, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, features the original version of Dr. Marios " Fever " background music theme and a version of the " Chill " theme arranged by Masaaki Iwasaki, who had previously composed for Magical Drop as part of the Data East Sound Team.

Frank Wead, who authored the original, has had ( a ) practical aviation background.

Its many original flourishes include the introduction to the cavatina Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre played by two French horns over a cello background, an effect which in the words of analyst Hervé Lacombe, " resonates in the memory like a fanfare lost in a distant forest ".

Also from a working-class background was the famous poet Lauri Viita of the Pispala district ( which is the original home of Hannu Salama too ).

The following are the 42 members listed on the UNPO Nations & People page, the organizations that currently represent them, and the dates on which they joined the UNPO ( original members listed with blue background ):

There is no equivalent scene or background information in the pilot, except for the description of the passengers in the original theme song.

Indeed, the original production's sepia background painted on the rear stage wall was still extant.

The blue-print process was characterized by light colored lines on a blue background, a negative of the original.

The result is a copy of the original image with the clear background area rendered dark blue and the image reproduced as a white line.