Because of his frequent association with creatures, scholars often describe Cernunnos as the " Lord of the Animals " or the " Lord of Wild Things ", and Miranda Green describes him as a " peaceful god of nature and fruitfulness ".

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels, often overtly political, that emerged from this movement included Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting ( 1993 ), Warner's Morvern Callar ( 1995 ), Gray ’ s Poor Things ( 1992 ) and Kelman ’ s How Late It Was, How Late ( 1994 ).

Following the usage of, for example, John R. Searle, " speech act " is often meant to refer just to the same thing as the term illocutionary act, which John L. Austin had originally introduced in How to Do Things with Words ( published posthumously in 1962 ).

In George Stimpson's A Book about a Thousand Things, the author notes that, in the war, Japanese spies would often approach checkpoints posing as American or Filipino military personnel.

" Apple Scruffs ", from George Harrison's album All Things Must Pass, refers to the Apple scruffs, a group of teenage girls who staked out The Beatles ' Apple Corps offices, Abbey Road Studios, and Paul McCartney's home, often sleeping outside in rough weather, waiting for a glimpse of a Beatle.

Apart from fiction, Le Queux also wrote extensively on wireless broadcasting, produced various travel works including An Observer in the Near East and several short books on Switzerland, and wrote an unrevealing and often misleading autobiography, Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks ( 1923 ).

Of all of Achebe's works, Things Fall Apart is the one read most often, and has generated the most critical response, examination, and literary criticism.

Although expressing the spirit of the Bright Young Things and Flappers, his designs overlaid the harder silhouettes with a more fluid romanticism in detailing and construction, most evident in his predeliction for evening dresses and afternoon clothes often admired at Court Presentations and many lavish Society weddings, then held in London.

" All Good Things ..." was broadcast as a two-hour episode ; reruns are most often shown in edited form as two one-hour episodes.

Critics often cite this distinction when commenting on O ' Brien's artistic aims in The Things They Carried and, in general, all of his fiction about Vietnam, claiming that O ' Brien feels that the realities of the Vietnam War are best explored in fictional form rather than the presentation of precise facts.

Things may seem wrong: details, like the painting on a wall, not being able to talk or difficulty reading ( purportedly reading in lucid dreams is often difficult or impossible ,) or, oddly, normal types of foods gone missing.

Gilbert also wrote histories and articles and stories for numerous periodicals ( often anonymously ), including Cornhill, Temple Bar, St. Paul's, the Quiver, The Contemporary Review, The Sunday Magazine, Good Things, Good Words, Strahan's Boy's and Girl's ( sic ) Annual and The Fortnightly Review.

Getting Things Done is a book by productivity consultant David Allen that describes the method / procedure that he created with the same title name, often referred to simply as GTD.

After recording a one-off single under the name of " Yellow Bellow Room Boom " for UK CBS in 1967 (" Seeing Things Green " b / w " Still Life "), the pair began their professional music career together in 1969, performing pop music in Strawberry Studios at Stockport near Manchester with Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman ( often mistakenly referred to as being " Bubblegum Music ", perhaps because they were contracted by Kasenetz & Katz, who produced bubblegum sub-teen pop in the US on the Buddah label ).

In his work, Le parti pris des choses ( often translated The Voice of Things ), he meticulously described common things such as oranges, potatoes and cigarettes in a poetic voice, but with a personal style and paragraph form ( prose poem ) much like an essay.

Things to see and do are often offered free, but farms still derive a substantial profit by selling food, beverages, and souvenirs to visitors.

Along with Pierrot le fou, Masculin, féminin, Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Week End, La Chinoise is often seen as signaling a decisive step towards Godard's eventual renunciation of " bourgeois " narrative filmmaking.

" However, since a later Rilo Kiley song ( the closing track to The Execution of All Things ) has the same name, it is often referred to as " Salute My Shorts !," in reference to Sennett's acting role on the television show Salute Your Shorts.

She often refers to the ' This is How We Do Things Big Book, East Coast WASP Edition ', not a real book, but a set of ' rules ' that Anna grew up with ( e. g. always answer that you're fine ).

* In the BBC sitcom The League of Gentlemen, Tubbs and Edward who run the Local Shop are obsessed with stopping ' non-locals ' from purchasing anything in their shop, in particular a collection of snow globes ( which they refer to as ' Precious Things '), often accusing them of attempting to shop-lift (" He covets the precious things of the shop ")

Things such as food and clothing can be classified as either wants or needs, depending on what type and how often a good is asked for.

Things went downhill after the Molenaar brothers left the club.

Things got worse in the early 18th century ; after the War of Spanish Succession, Alicante went into a long, slow decline, surviving through the 18th and 19th centuries by making shoes and growing agricultural produce such as oranges and almonds, and thanks to its fisheries.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

Things initially went well, and for much of the season Chelsea were on course for promotion, but two wins from their final seven league games ensured the club finished 4th.

As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes ( directed by David Koepp ) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

Bono began his music career working at Specialty Records where his song " Things You Do to Me " was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for the record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and " gofer ".

Things went badly after the Eighty Years ' War started in 1568, but luck turned to his advantage when Protestant rebels attacking from the North Sea captured Brielle, a coastal town in present-day South Holland in 1572.

Things went downhill from there.

Things went from bad to worse when the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933, known as the August storm, caused extensive damage in town where damages were estimated at $ 75, 000.

In 2005, the band went through another line-up change with Crosley and Madla leaving, replaced by Solomon Snyder on bass guitar and Michael Miley on drums for the recording of the EP Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things ( LOSALT ).

Shea went on to write historical action novels, including Shike ( 1981 ), a two-volume novel set in Ancient Japan about the warrior monk Jebu and his love Lady Shima Taniko, All Things Are Lights ( 1986 ), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon de Gobignon.

Things went from bad to worse when Sullivan's wife, Marjorie, died in March 1932.

Things went badly, however, when Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and emerged as the dominant power in Germany.

Things went a little out of hand, however, and it looked like Yayoi might lose her life, so Ayaka rescued her.

" Say Wonderful Things " won the national and went on to come 4th in the contest.

Things went differently in the Western Empire.

" I Love the Little Things " won the national and went on to come 2nd in the contest.

Things went from bad to worse after Mickey Thomas, the former Manchester United, Wrexham and Wales player took over.

The song " Superstar " by Jamelia from the soundtrack also went to number one on the Australian singles charts in the same week, and the theme song of the show, " All Things ( Just Keep Getting Better )" by Widelife, went to the top 20 that same month.

Things did not get any better for Beckett in the 2012 season, in which he went 5-11 with a 5. 23 ERA as a Red Sox.

Things went very well:

The sequel to the movie, 2004's Wild Things 2, never saw release in the theatres and went straight to video, as did a third film called Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough ( 2005 ).

Suicide note included the line " Things just went wrong too many times ".