The natural foci of plague are situated in a broad belt in the tropical and sub – tropical latitudes and the warmer parts of the temperate latitudes around the globe, between the parallels 55 degrees North and 40 degrees South.

He drew with great art and accuracy, across the colures, five other circles called parallels, which, from one pole to the other, divided the half of the sphere into thirty parts.

Other state roads in the county include State Road 62, which closely parallels I-64 ; State Road 145, which winds through the western parts of the county ; State Road 166, which is little more than a road to and from the hamlet of Tobinsport ; State Road 237, which connects Cannelton directly to State Road 37 ( also the site of a bridge on the Ohio River ); a short run of State Road 545 near Troy ; and State Road 70 which connects State Road 37 with State Road 66.

Elements of the media have attempted to draw parallels between the organisation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States: indeed, parts of the press have labelled SOCA the " British FBI.

Further historical lists such as The 72 Names of the Lord show parallels in the history and interpretation of the Name of God amongst Kabbalah, Christianity, and Hebrew scholarship in various parts of the Mediterranean world.

The Mafia proper frequently parallels, collaborates with or clashes with, networks originating in other parts of southern Italy, such as the Camorra ( from Campania ), the ' Ndrangheta ( from Calabria ), the Stidda ( southern Sicily ) and the Sacra Corona Unita ( from Apulia ).

( This parallels Dickens naming the parts of A Christmas Carol " staves " – that is " stanzas " – and dividing The Cricket on the Hearth into " chirps ".

Raymond Doyle born c. 1949 ( Martin Shaw ) was a former Detective constable, who originated in Derby but later lived in an un-specified " city " with parallels to Birmingham, was working the seedier parts of East London when recruited into CI5.

This parallels the importance of cattle as ' royal property ' in other parts of Africa at later times.

A gravel road parallels the course of this stretch of the river, becoming asphalted close to the point where the Leith meets the urban parts of the city at Glenleith.

East of Pasadena the Foothill Freeway parallels, and in some parts replaced, the route of former U. S. Route 66.

" I do not think it derogatory to Ptolemy if I do not follow his Cosmografia, because, to have observed his meridians or parallels or degrees, it would be necessary in respect to the setting out of the known parts of this circumference, to leave out many provinces not mentioned by Ptolemy.

The story parallels elements of earlier stories such as Heimskringla ( euhemerization of gods ), parts of the poem Lokasenna ( Loki's accusation of Gefjun sleeping with a boy for a necklace ), parts of the Húsdrápa poem ( Loki stealing the necklace Brísingamen ), and the eternal battle Hjaðningavíg ( various earlier sources ).

The Pioneer Trail, a National Recreation Trail, parallels SR 20 from a point on Harmony Ridge to the Bear Valley, and includes parts of a branch of the California Trail first used in 1850.

* The reception of Beowulf by the coast guard with drawn spear and a challenge but the situation is quickly smoothed over by an explanation of why the ship has arrived parallels Aeneas ' landing and very similar reception with drawn spear by Pallas in book VIII of the Aeneid.

* Hercules ( Aeneid book VIII ) following a trail to the giant Cacus ' cave where he wrestles with him and kills him parallels Beowulf following a trail to Grendel's mother's cave where he wrestles with and kills her.

In 2011, media analyst and political activist Mark Dice published a non-fiction book titled Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True which analyses the parallels between elements of the storyline in Nineteen Eighty-Four, and current government programs, technology, and cultural trends.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

The book has many stylistic parallels with Tristram Shandy, and indeed, the narrator is one of the minor characters from the earlier novel.

Joseph Sobran's book, Alias Shakespeare, includes Oxford's known poetry in an appendix with what he considers extensive verbal parallels with the work of Shakespeare, and he argues that Oxford's poetry is comparable in quality to some of Shakespeare's early work, such as Titus Andronicus.

But her violent death marks the start of an increasingly bleak and violent chain of events ( influenced by co-writer Nick Davies ' documentary book Dark Heart ) which in spite of the director's denial that the film had " serious parallels " to Shakespeare's play, actually mirror aspects of its plot closely.

Inspired in part by a visit to Palestine during which he was struck by the historic parallels between the British and Roman occupations of the region, the book draws on materials from early British history and mythology and the history and myths of the Mediterranean region to explore the possibility of small cultures resisting the power of empire.

The historical parallels in the succession of Richard II may not have been intended as political comment on the contemporary situation, with the weak Richard II analogous to Queen Elizabeth and an implicit argument in favour of her replacement by a monarch capable of creating a stable dynasty, but lawyers investigating John Hayward's historical work, The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV, a book partly derived from Shakespeare's Richard II, chose to make this connection.

It parallels how humans search through a telephone book for a particular name, the key value by which the book's entries are ordered.

Using Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a stepping stone, their book explores the parallels between new paradigm thinking in science and religion that together offer what the authors consider remarkably compatible view of the universe.

Whilst Lee has downplayed autobiographical parallels in the book, Truman Capote, mentioning the character Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, described details he considered biographical: " In my original version of Other Voices, Other Rooms I had that same man living in the house that used to leave things in the trees, and then I took that out.

This famous, Sicilian-born writer of realist fiction lived in Florence during the same period as them — 1865 – 1867 — and his best known book, Cavalleria rusticana, contains certain verbal parallels to the effects achieved on canvas by the Tuscan landscape school of this era.

The book has continuing relevance: it addressed what Nader perceived as the political meddling of the car industry to oppose new safety features, which parallels the debates in the 1990s over the mandatory fitting of air bags in the United States, and industry efforts by the ACEA to delay the introduction of crash tests to assess vehicle-front pedestrian protection in the European Union.

The parallels between Hari Seldon and Isaac Asimov found in this book — the last one written by Asimov — and the focus on Hari Seldon as he grows old and dies, strengthen the idea that Asimov considered Seldon his literary alter ego.

The thesis of her book attempts to draw parallels between drama and the computer, with computers allowing their users to play equivalent roles to both the drama performer as well as the audience member.

The story has many parallels with Geek Love, having drawn heavy inspiration from Dunn's book.

The book is told in the form of Sacchetti's diary, and includes literary references to the story of Faust ( at one point the prisoners stage Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sacchetti's friendship with ringleader Mordecai Washington parallels Faust's with Mephistopheles ).

A reviewer of the book in the Los Angeles Times said that Shikasta is a " reworking of the Bible ", and the Infinity Plus website draws parallels between the Canopeans and their emissaries, and God and his angels from the Old Testament.

The Syriac Infancy Gospel ( Injilu't Tufuliyyah ), translated from a Coptic original, gives some parallels to the episodes " recorded in the book of Josephus the Chief Priest, who was in the time of Christ.

Doc Daneeka's bureaucratic death parallels one of the main themes of the book that the bureaucratic system holds an impersonal attitude toward those who do not hold power in the higher echelons of the military branch ( colonels and generals ).

In 1543, Postel published a criticism of Protestantism, and highlighted parallels between Islam and Protestantism in Alcorani seu legis Mahometi et Evangelistarum concordiae liber (" The book of concord between the Coran and the Gospel ").

However, the senior Roberts ' book, on page 55, also describes some training methods similar to the " Join-up " technique, and blogger John Dolan has noted other parallels between the training methods of father and son.

Similarly, the self-conscious narrator in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children parallels the creation of his book to the creation of chutney and the creation of independent India.

Her acquaintance with him parallels her writing a number of poems, which may suggest she fell in love with him.

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

This parallels the ways in which capitalism led to the commodification of many aspects of social life that hitherto had no monetary or economic value per se.

In Futurism, parallels may be drawn with historical events, but most eschatological prophecies are chiefly referring to events which have not been fulfilled, but will take place at the end of the age and the end of the world.

A common origin for the Herpesviruses and the Caudoviruses has been suggested on the basis of parallels in their capsid assembly pathways and similarities between their portal complexes, through which DNA enters the capsid.

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

Modern customs and institutions offer few useful parallels to the legal and social context which defined the gladiatoria munera Under law, anyone condemned to the arena or the gladiator schools ( ad ludum ) was a servus poenae under sentence of death unless manumitted.

Muslim exegesis preserves a tradition, which parallels that of the Hebrew Bible, which states that Hezekiah was the king that ruled over Jerusalem during Isaiah's time.

Joseph Campbell attempted to draw parallels between the story of Jonah and the epic of Gilgamesh, in which Gilgamesh obtains a plant from the bottom of the sea.

The origin of the word has various parallels, such as Icelandic kippa which means " to pull, snatch " and the German word kippen which means " to tilt, to incline ".

The cone intersects the sphere ( the earth ) at one or two parallels which are chosen as standard lines.

The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which stops only on the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary trails which lead him all over civilization at a particular epoch.

Developmental psychologist Jean Piaget favored a weaker version of the formula, according to which ontogeny parallels phylogeny because the two are subject to similar external constraints.

Furthermore, Veal argues, the only explanation for the verbal parallels with the English translation of 1582 would be that the translator saw the play performed and echoed it in his translation, which he describes as " not an impossible theory but far from a plausible one.

Most notable among these, they say, are certain similar incidents found in Oxford's biography and Hamlet, and Henry IV, Part 1, which includes a well-known robbery scene with uncanny parallels to a real-life incident involving Oxford.

It enters the Amazon River west of the Madeira River, which it parallels as far south as the falls of the latter stream.

He is an agnostic, which he claims to be a major determining factor for the story development process, with him drawing parallels between his characters and himself.

Saskatchewan has the distinction of being the only Canadian province for which no borders correspond to physical geographic features ( i. e. they are parallels and meridians ).

Three of the posts ( and possibly four ) were in an east-west alignment which may have had ritual significance ; no parallels are known from Britain at the time but similar sites have been found in Scandinavia.