Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

The Old Testament story of Judith illustrates how a woman frees the Israelites by tricking and assassinating Holofernes, a warlord of the rival Assyrians, with whom the Israelites were at war.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

* Splasho, Online overview of lambda ( illustrates genes active at all stages in lifecycle )

The image at the right illustrates that 12 is not prime: 12 = 3 · 4.

This freedom is characterised in his works by the treatment of planes rich in colours and gradations — as in Yellow – red – blue ( 1925 ), where Kandinsky illustrates his distance from the constructivism and suprematism movements influential at the time.

" The Venetian ambassador who related this of him was not unbiased, nor was he in Rome at the time ; nevertheless the phrase illustrates fairly the Pope's culture-loving nature and the humanistic interests that characterized him.

A simple displacement diagram illustrates the follower motion at a constant velocity rise followed by a similar return with a dwell in between as depicted in figure 2.

( The diagram illustrates an angle μ swept out in unit time at tangential velocity v < sub > t </ sub >.

The top trace illustrates the vapor composition above the liquid at a given temperature.

Again the bottom trace illustrates the boiling temperature at various compositions, and again, below the bottom trace the mixture must be entirely liquid phase.

The IEEE logo is a diamond-shaped design which illustrates the right hand grip rule embedded in Benjamin Franklin's kite, and it was created at the time of the 1963 merger.

Asclepius ' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods.

The memorandum from LeMay, Chief of Staff, USAF, to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, January 4, 1964, illustrates LeMay's reasons for keeping bomber forces alongside ballistic missiles: " It is important to recognize, however, that ballistic missile forces represent both the U. S. and Soviet potential for strategic nuclear warfare at the highest, most indiscriminate level, and at a level least susceptible to control.

The following example illustrates the LZW algorithm in action, showing the status of the output and the dictionary at every stage, both in encoding and decoding the data.

His poetry illustrates the beliefs and values of Archaic Greece at the dawn of the classical period.

The figure at right illustrates a finite state machine, which belongs to one well-known variety of automaton.

A satellite photo of East Asia at night in 2000 illustrates the limited electric power generating capacity of North Korea in contrast to that of the neighboring countries.

Rothko's 1945 masterpiece, " Slow Swirl at Edge of Sea " illustrates his newfound propensity towards abstraction.

The 1858 Anthracite Map, prepared as part of the First Pennsylvania Geological Survey, illustrates Plymouth's mines and collieries at a moment of transition.

The vignette at the top illustrates, from left to right, the god Huh ( god ) | Heh as a representation of the Sea ; a gateway to the realm of Osiris ; the Eye of Horus ; the celestial cow Mehet-Weret ; and a human head rising from a coffin, guarded by the four Sons of Horus.

The drawing illustrates the example Sertorius gave to his followers that in the same way a horse's tail can be picked out hair by hair but not pulled out all at once, so smaller forces could defeat the Roman armies.

The following diagram illustrates the general idea of the key exchange by using colours instead of a very large number.

This relation illustrates the compromise between high resolution ( a large number of

A recently-discovered modern gastropod that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents illustrates the influence of both ancient and modern local chemical environments: its shell is made of aragonite, which is found in some of the earliest fossil mollusks ; but it also has armor plates on the sides of its foot, and these are mineralized with the iron sulfides pyrite and greigite, which had never previously been found in any metazoan but whose ingredients are emitted in large quantities by the vents.

The instrument illustrates Cristofori's ingenuity in the large number of levers and extensions that permit the player great flexibility in determining which strings will sound.

In this gallery, a large map, rating 190 countries, illustrates the differences in press freedom around the world.

Gretna also illustrates the danger of relying on a single large investor — after its owner, Brooks Mileson, withdrew his support in February 2008 due to what eventually proved to be a fatal illness, the club went bankrupt and was liquidated within six months.

An area cartogram is sometimes referred to as a value-by-area map or an isodemographic map, the latter particularly for a population cartogram, which illustrates the relative sizes of the populations of the countries of the world by scaling the area of each country in proportion to its population ; the shape and relative location of each country is retained to as large an extent as possible, but inevitably a large amount of distortion results.

* A large increase in tumours in immunosuppressed individuals illustrates that the immune system efficiently destroys aberrant cells and nascent tumors.

The analysis that follows illustrates the difficulty caused by the nonlinearity, namely, that it causes interaction between large and small scales, preventing separation of scales.

An action by Mollie Sneden during this period illustrates the close interaction of British and patriots in this vicinity. The story goes that a British soldier was pursued down the gully by some patriots ; she hid him in her house in a large chest on which she set pans of cream to rise, and when the patriots arrived she misinformed them ; they were tired and asked for refreshment, and she offered them all the milk she had, but told them not to disturb the pans of cream which she had just set out.

" Hicks appears in the liner notes / sleeve as a doctor, and a lenticular image below the case tray illustrates a large portion of California disappearing leaving only the Pacific Ocean, as is mentioned in the song.

( b ) illustrates the same process using spectroscopic notation,. The Auger effect () is a physical phenomenon in which the filling of an inner-shell vacancy of an atom is accompanied by the emission of an electron from the same atom.

Dobbingstone Burn, Scotland — This photo illustrates two different types of erosion affecting the same place.

* Toy model, a simplified system that illustrates or exhibits the same behaviour as the more complex, general system

The lower-right illustrates the same magnification as a bitmap image.

( b ) illustrates the same process using spectroscopic notation,.

This illustrates the general principle that if the shape of an antenna is symmetrical, its radiation pattern will have the same symmetry.

Computer Modern Roman illustrates many uses of this feature ; a typical TeX installation includes a number of versions of the font in sizes from 5pt to 17pt, with the stroke widths the same in all sizes ( rather than increasing as the font is scaled up ) and aspect ratios widening in the smaller sizes for increased legibility.

This statement illustrates the difficulty of trying to distinguish between " real " and " virtual " particles, because, in mathematical terms, they are the same objects and it is only our definition of " reality " that is weak here.

Cao Zhi's full-length portrait on " Nymph of Luo River " ( or " Goddess of Luo River ") by Gu Kaizhi of the Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ), which illustrates a Fu ( poetry ) | fu ( descriptive poem ) of same title written by Cao Zhi.

This figure also illustrates the reason why the versine was sometimes called the sagitta, Latin for arrow, from the Arabic usage sahem of the same meaning.

This also illustrates that the intermediate moves do not need to be the same – just the positions.

The History of the United States ( 1980 – 1991 ) illustrates that this was a time when there was economic distress, high unemployment, and was the period when chronic homelessness became a modern problem In 1980 federal funds accounted for 22 % of big city budgets, but by 1989 the same such aid composed only 6 % of urban revenue ( part of a larger 60 % decrease in federal spending to support local governments ).

Eminem references Big Daddy Kane in the lyrics to his song ‘ Yellow Brick Road ’ from his Encore album, saying, “ we ( Eminem and Proof ) was on the same shit, that Big Daddy Kane shit, where compound syllables sound combined ” and he quotes the same lines in his book, The Way I Am – this illustrates how Big Daddy Kane had an influence on both Eminem ’ s and Proof ’ s rhyme technique.

While no-one can say Tutanekai and Tiki were sexually involved, their relationship was accepted to be intimate beyond mere friendship, and the story illustrates the concept that takatāpui in traditional Māori life was not exactly the same as constructions of contemporary homosexuality in Western societies.

On the other hand, actual experience in POP illustrates how POP projects also focuses on those very same crime concerns of importance to police.

Cross-cutting also forms parallels ; it illustrates a narrative action that happens in several places at approximately the same time.

Built in the same period and to similar plan ( and probably by the same architect ), this structure closely illustrates the appearance of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion when it was intact.

Director Julio Médem illustrates the cyclical nature of the unresolved strife and vacillating alliance between the two rival families in the film by using the same actor to portray generations of characters.

Médem further illustrates the cyclical nature of the unresolved strife and vacillating alliance by using the same actor to portray generations of characters.

The call of the Eight probably also illustrates the significant Mormon doctrine of continuous revelation because in Doctrine and Covenants 5: 11-14 ( revealed to Joseph Smith in March 1829 ) the Three Witnesses are told that they will be given power to see the golden plates, " and to none else will I grant this power, to receive this same testimony among this generation.