A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

In 55 BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea ( which means " far to the north ") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years.

Five volumes of his Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (" Research on Fossil Fish ") appeared at intervals from 1833 to 1843.

The term became current in English in the 16th century, along with the first English merchant adventurers in the region: English ships appeared in the Mediterranean in the 1570s and the English merchant company signed its agreement (" capitulations ") with the Grand Turk in 1579 ( Braudel ).

In the 20th and 21st century, he appeared in movies, in fantasy, in video games and in role play, where by extension, the term " pegasus " ( plural: " pegasi ") is often used to refer to any winged horse.

While the family resided in Baton Rouge, Soderbergh's mother appeared regularly on a local ABC-affiliate's ( WBRZ-TV / broadcast channel 2 ) early-morning show (" 2une In ") as a " call-in " psychic, and taught adult-education and " alternative education " classes in " parapsychology " at LSU.

On one occasion Steed appeared on her television set, interrupting an old science-fiction movie ( actually clips from their Year Four episode " The Cybernauts ") to call her to work.

Gli Innamorati ( Italian: " The Lovers ") were stock characters within the theatre style known as Commedia dell ' arte, which appeared in 16th century Italy.

Two years later in 1157 the term " sacrum " ( i. e. " holy ") first appeared in a document in connection with his Empire.

A second wave of migrants appeared around the year 800 ( the Spanish referred to these people as " Arawaks ") and a third in the mid-13th century ( called " Caribs " by the Spanish ).

His motto, one of the first and still most distinctive signatures in art history, ALS IK KAN (" AS I CAN ") first appeared in 1433 on Portrait of a Man in a Turban, which can be seen as indicative of his emerging self-confidence at the time.

The song, preceded by a recitative for Strephon (" My bill has now been read a second time ") appeared shortly after # 21, following the exit of the two Earls and the Lord Chancellor and the entrance of Strephon.

While Bayreuth was previously ( 1199 ) referred to as a villa ( village ), the term civitas (" town ") appeared for the first time in a document published in 1231.

From the mid-11th century the Giudicati (" held by judges ") appeared.

Numerous legends developed around Widukind's life ; he eventually appeared as a saintly figure ( becoming " Blessed Widukind ") and the builder of many churches.

Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, once as herself (" Bart Has Two Mommies ") and another as a ballet teacher, " Homer vs. Patty and Selma ".

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Grudging respect began to emanate from the international press: towards the end of 1951 the opinion appeared in Germany's recently launched Auto Motor und Sport magazine that, despite its " ugliness and primitiveness " (" Häßlichkeit und Primitivität "), the 2CV was a " highly interesting " (" hochinteressantes ") car.

He has also appeared in Internet presentations, including a cameo in a comedy sketch (" Lock Out ") for LoadingReadyRun ( and a reprise of the same the following year in CommodoreHustle 4 ), and the May 30, 2008 episode of the Internet series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show.

Cargo cults — the religious practice that has appeared in many traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures — focus on obtaining the material wealth ( the " cargo ") of the advanced culture by building mock aircraft, landing strips, and the like.

* His daughter, Lucy ( played by Gerry Cowper ), who only appeared on-screen in one episode (" The Right to Know ") but who is mentioned intermittently throughout.

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

The defense counsel will then make a " plea in mitigation " ( also called " submissions on penalty ") wherein he or she will attempt to mitigate the relative seriousness of the offense and heavily refer to and rely upon the defendant's previous good character and good works ( if any ).

The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.

In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.

* Anatoly Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza ( End House Mystery ) ( 1989 ; based on " Peril at End House ")

* Konstantin Raikin, Neudacha Puaro ( Poirot's Failure ) ( 2002 ; based on " The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ")

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

A few species of hummingbirds, notably some hillstars, can be seen at altitudes above, but far higher diversities can be found at lower altitudes, especially in the humid Andean forests (" cloud forests ") growing on slopes in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and far northwestern Argentina.

The highest grade amethyst ( called " Deep Russian ") is exceptionally rare and therefore, when one is found, its value is dependent on the demand of collectors.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

Animism ( from Latin anima " soul, life ") is a set of beliefs based on the existence of non-human " spiritual beings " or similar kinds of embodied principles.

In the later play Frogs, Aristophanes softens his criticisms, but even so it may be only for the sake of punning on Agathon's name ( ἁγαθός = " good ") that he makes Dionysus call him a " good poet ".

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

He shows how a satisfying argument for the validity of experience can be based neither on demonstration ( since " it implies no contradiction that the course of nature may change ") nor experience ( since that would be a circular argument ).

Amalric died of dysentery ( allegedly brought on by " a surfeit of white mullet ") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d ' Acre on 1 April 1205, just after his son Amalric and four days before his wife, and was buried at Saint Sophia, Nicosia.

Arbor Day (" Tag des Baumes ") is on April 25.