For the Nuba of southern Sudan, ritual bouts, for which men's bodies were elaborately decorated as well as carefully trained, were the primary source of male status and prestige.
Everything in Germany was elaborately and precisely organized, and German cadets trained in battle scenarios using the latest model of the Mauser loaded with live ammunition.
And yet in essence his work never ceased to be balletic.Born in 1949, he trained as a dancer in New York with Nolan Dingman, one of Balanchine's original dancers, and for many years immersed himself in the elaborately purist style that Balanchine acquired in the early years of the century at the Imperial Ballet school in Leningrad.
One of the outstanding architects of the period, Juan Guas (died c. 1496), a Frenchman trained in Flanders, can be credited with introducing two of the most popular features of Spanish ecclesiastical architectural decoration: the interior facade-tribune that spans the nave at the entrance, often functioning as a choir loft, and the elaborately carved high retablo, or altarpiece.
Elaborately designing dropout training simultaneously in max-pooling and fully-connected layers, we achieve state-of-the-art performance on MNIST, and very competitive results on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, relative to other approaches without data augmentation.
It felt like the last stand of elaborately-festooned wagon trains.
In other news, expect to see hundreds of confused-looking women getting their elaborately patterned headscarves trapped in train doors this Christmas.
It's like meeting a series of elaborately dressed-up strangers on a train who have barely told you their names before moving on to their full medical histories.
On some days, as many as three rabbits were dispatched to Sincerely, where they packed elaborately designed gifts sets whose contents ranged from puppy-training accessories to cocktail supplies and baby gear.
Young's ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains is known for its elaborately appointed track layouts; when David Carr visited Young's "train barn," in 2012, he wrote, "It was hard not to be charmed by the remarkable execution of a deep obsession".
