Traditional accounts of his life, on which we rely for biographical details, were almost entirely deduced from his poetry or were simply fiction, as for example an account by Pausanias of his supposed transformation from a lame, stupid school teacher in Athens to the mastermind of Spartan victories against the Messenians.

He also wrote the book The Traditional Potters of Seagrove, N. C. in 1994, and started Southern Arts Journal a quarterly magazine featuring essays, fiction and poetry about all things Southern, in 2005.

: Traditional science fiction writing in two flavors.

Traditional encyclopedias are written by a number of employed text writers, usually people with an academic degree, and distributed as proprietary content.

Many readers and writers of Regency Romance make a distinction between " Traditional Regency Romance " and " Regency Historical ".

Traditional Regency Romance writers usually pay close attention to historical detail, as their readers are notorious for noting errors.

Traditional Hinduism is said by some writers to have competed in political and spiritual realm with Buddhism in the gangetic plains while Buddhism flourished in the realms of the Bactrian kings.

Traditional writers use this narrative to indicate that in bhakti, faults are not seen by God.

Traditional East Asian writing uses the Four Treasures of the Study ( T: / S: ): the ink brushes to write Chinese characters, Chinese ink, paper, and inkstone, known as the Four Friends of the Study ( HG: 문방사우 / HJ: 文房四友 ) in Korea.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 include personalization features that learn a user's writing patterns and / or vocabulary for English, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified and Korean.

China's many different ethnic groups speak many different languages, collectively called Zhōngguó Yǔwén ( 中国语文 ; Traditional Chinese: 中國語文 )), literally, " speech and writing of China ", which span eight primary language families.

Traditional forms in Qin remained in use as well, so that two forms of writing coexisted.

After the Eleventh Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Guangxi Nationality Institute and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences together created a new Yao writing system which was unified with the research results of the Yao-American scholar Yuēsè Hòu ( Traditional Chinese: 約瑟 · 候 / Simplified Chinese: 约瑟 · 候 ).

Liu Di ( Traditional: 劉荻 ; Simplified: 刘荻 ; Pinyin: Liú Dí ; born October 9, 1981 ), writing under the screen name " Stainless Steel Rat " ( 不锈钢老鼠 ), named after the assertive Harry Harrison SF character, became a high-profile symbol for democracy and free speech in China since her detention in November 2002.

Note the Traditional Chinese writing of the mall's name.

Balogh, Beverley, and Loretta Chase are three authors who have made the transition from writing Traditional Regency novels to Regency Historical novels.

Post-process theorists also saw Murray and other proponents of process theory as enabling prescribed rules that limited the writer's ability to explore through writing and harkened back to Current Traditional Rhetoric.

Traditional accounts say that, during the reign of Songtsän Gampo, examples of handicrafts and astrological systems were imported from China and Minyag ; Dharma and the art of writing came from India ; material wealth and treasures from the Nepalis and the lands of the Mongols, while model laws and administration were imported from the Uighurs to the North.

Traditional areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies are taught in a hands-on manner.

Van Nghi's brother was director of the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Hanoi, and through him, Van Nghi had access to the North Vietnamese teaching text Trung Y Hoc ( Studies of Chinese Medicine ) and teaching materials from Beijing and Nanjing which explain the strong TCM flavor of much of his ( especially later ) writing.

Traditional Chinese characters are widely used, and are the de facto writing standard in Hong Kong.

Both horizontal and vertical writing are used in Japan, as well as in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan where the Traditional Chinese orthography is used.

The " Traditional System " used in writing Potawatomi is an alphabetic system.

Traditional farms are laid out in concentric circles centred on the village.

Traditional survey methods of measurement and calculation have been replaced by inertial orientation and navigators and GPS.

Traditional translations have him say, " Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Traditional English Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) (: " Chinese medicine ") is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2, 000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage ( Tui na ), exercise ( qigong ), and dietary therapy.

Traditional church buildings are often in the shape of a cross and frequently have a tower or dome.

Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").

Traditional planting methods, such as mixed-cropping ( instead of monocropping ) and crop rotation have also been shown to significantly reduce erosion rates.

Traditional Mennonite and German Baptist Brethren Churches such as the Church of the Brethren churches and congregations have the Agape Meal, footwashing and the serving of the bread and wine two parts to the Communion service in the Lovefeast.

Traditional scholars have argued the letter's audience was Jewish Christians, as early as the end of the 2nd century ( hence its title, " The Epistle to the Hebrews ").

A student-led organization, Increasing Harvey Mudd's Traditional Practices ( IHTP ), works to revive college traditions that have slowly faded over the years, and also starts new traditions that the group hopes to see take root on campus.

Traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed Bop, the 1970s jazz fusion era much else as a period of commercial debasement of the music.

They have been accepted as religious holidays by the following groups: The Union of Orthodox Congregations and the Rabbinical Council of America ; The United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth ; Reform Judaism ; Conservative Judaism ; Reconstructionist Judaism ; the Union for Traditional Judaism.

Traditional Christian thought on the subject points to St. John the Apostle as the author of the Gospel, the three Epistles and the Book of Revelation that bear his name, and there is some internal textual evidence to suggest they may have been authored by the same person ( see textual criticism ).

Traditional pocket knives and Swiss Army Knives commonly employ the nail nick, while modern folding knives more often use a stud, hole, disk, or flipper located on the blade, all which have the benefit of allowing the user to open the knife with one hand.

Various forms of Wicca have since evolved or been adapted from Gardner's British Traditional Wicca or Gardnerian Wicca such as Alexandrian Wicca.

Traditional cowboy boots have a Cuban heel, rounded to pointed toe, high shaft, and, traditionally, no lacing.

The most faithful of the reproductions are the Traditional Hunter Limited Series model 1885 Single Shots, as they have the original style steel crescent butt plates, and folding steel tang rear sights, with full length octagon barrels.

Traditional Muslims believe that the sunnah is justified by verses such as " A similar ( favour have ye already received ) in that We have sent among you a Messenger of your own, rehearsing to you Our Signs, and sanctifying you, and instructing you in Scripture and Wisdom, and in new knowledge.

Traditional sextants have a half-horizon mirror.

Chinese alchemy ( especially neidan ), Chinese astrology, Zen Buddhism, several martial arts, Traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui, and many styles of qigong have been intertwined with Taoism throughout history.

Traditional ISA cards remained compatible as they would not have pins past the normal ISA or EISA portion of the slot.

* Traditional foods that have always been vegetarian ( cereals / grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc.

Traditional Romanian culture, however, continues to have a major influence in arts such as theatre, film and music.