A female dragon named Delphyne ( δελφύς: womb ), who is obviously connected with Delphi and Apollo Delphinios, and a male serpent Typhon ( τύφειν: smoke ), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python.

In February 1997, cloning became the focus of media attention when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced the successful cloning of a sheep, named Dolly, from the mammary glands of an adult female.

First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla.

* In six of the Castlevania games ; Circle of the Moon, Rondo of Blood, its PSP remake Dracula X Chronicles, Simon's Quest, Judgment, and Lords of Shadow ; there is a female vampire named Carmilla ( also spelled Camilla in Circle of the Moon ).

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

She was named the world's best selling female artist of 2001.

In chapter 34, High describes Loki, and says that Loki had three children with a female jötunn named Angrboða located in the land of Jötunheimr ; Fenrisúlfr, the serpent Jörmungandr, and the female being Hel.

In Mysticism, Gnosticism, as well as some Hellenistic religions, there is a female spirit or goddess named Sophia who is said to embody wisdom and who is sometimes described as a virgin.

Garrod discovered Neanderthal and early modern human remains, including the skeleton of a Neanderthal female, named Tabun I, which is regarded as one of the most important human fossils ever found.

The thirteen heavens were ruled by Ometeotl, the dual Lord, creator of the Dual-Genesis who, as male, takes the name Ometecuhtli ( Two Lord ), and as female is named Omecihuatl ( Two Lady ).

The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory.

In consideration of her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute named Pickford 24th among the greatest female stars of all time.

* In the Harry Potter series, J. K Rowling named a leading female character Minerva McGonagall in light of the Goddess.

Female forms of Michael include Michèle, Michelle, Michaela, Mechelle, Micheline, and Michaelle, although Michael is occasionally seen as a female name, with women named Michael including actresses Michael Learned and Michael Michele.

In his telling, the female pope is not named, and the events are set in 1099.

Some manuscripts of it contain a brief mention of a female Pope named Joanna ( the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name ), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work.

It was around this time when a long series of busts of past Popes was made for the Duomo of Siena, which included one of the female Pope, named as " Johannes VIII, Foemina de Anglia " and included between Leo IV and Benedict III.

The system began development under the codename Darlene, named after an attractive female employee at Atari.

In October 2008, Julie Schonfeld was named as the new executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, making her the first female rabbi to serve in the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association.

In an alternate future episode, " Endgame ", the Doctor adopts the name Joe, and marries a human female, named Lana ( played by Amy Lindsay ).

* 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

At a neighborhood coffee shop near a carnival, he meets and becomes friends with a female midget named Clarice ( April Kent ), who is proportionately his equal, with him being slightly taller.

The mascot's name is Muddy, and the female mascot is named Muddonna.

** Miracle Moon ( female, born April 30, 1997 ), calf of Big Momma ( brown ).

** Rainbow Spirit ( female, born June 8, 2000, calf of Miracle Moon )

** Mandela Peace Pilgrim ( female, born July 18, 2001, calf of Miracle Moon )

** Be Happy Spirit ( female, born May 4, 2008, calf of Miracle Moon )

The song was co-written by Robinson's fellow Miracles members Pete Moore and Marv Tarplin. The Miracles also sang background on this recording, along with Motown's long-standing female back-up group, The Andantes, and Miracle Marv Tarplin played lead guitar.

In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

Now, if this were Vivian next door to him and if, for some obscure female reason, she kept her clothes in the refrigerator, they would not be pink.

) Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of that staple of British detective fiction, the gentleman detective.

Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )

United Methodist bishops may be male or female, with the Rev.

CME Church bishops may be male or female.

In some smaller Protestant denominations and independent churches the term bishop is used in the same way as pastor, to refer to the leader of the local congregation, and may be male or female.

In a few Western countries female toplessness at a beach is acceptable, although it may not be acceptable in the town center.

Many people regard the female human body, of which breasts are an important aspect, to be aesthetically pleasing, as well as erotic.

Many people regard bare female breasts to be erotic, and they can elicit heightened sexual desires in some men in some cultures.

Some people show a sexual interest in female breasts distinct from that of the person, which may be regarded as a breast fetish.

Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

Although this is a relatively rare instance of a female Confucian voice, Ban Zhao almost entirely accepts the prevailing views concerning women's proper roles ; they should be silent, hard-working, and compliant.

Where chloroplasts are inherited only from the female, transgenes in these plastids cannot be disseminated by pollen.

Although often appearing in stories as male, Coyote can be female, hermaphrodite, or gender changing, in traditional Aboriginal stories.

" Seashells ", or conchae in Latin, may be a metaphor for something else such as female genitalia ( perhaps the troops visited brothels ) or boats ( perhaps they captured several small British boats ).

* Armitage in the movie Armitage III is a " Third Type " cyborg which was an all female line of cyborgs designed to have conscience, free will and the ability to procreate as a way for a Mars-colony to better sustain a population and thus be able break away from Earth.

Such scholars purport that passages in scripture related to slavery, war, genocide, female marginalization, and sex between men may not necessarily be about God's wishes, but rather about the predominant culture's opinions at the time of the passage's writing.

The common chimpanzee lives in a fission-fusion society and may be found in groups of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, consisting of both sexes, or one female and her offspring.

Nevertheless, the status of an adult female may be important for her offspring.

He has indicated that the institution of the Dalai Lama may be abolished in the future, and also that the next Dalai Lama may be found outside Tibet and may be female.