In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the god Odin and his brothers, Vili and Vé.

* Ask and Embla, in Norse mythology, the first humans

ørlǫglausa " ørlǫg-less " occurs in Voluspa 17 in reference to driftwood, that is given breath, warmth and spirit by three gods, to create the first humans, Ask (" Ash ") and Embla ( possibly " Elm ").

* Ask and Embla, the first humans in Norse Mythology

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

Some scholars have proposed that the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá may contain an account of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, as having been created by dwarfs.

* Louis Cowan – In addition to Quiz Kids ( 1949 – 1951 ) and Stop the Music ( 1949-1952, 1954-1956 ), Cowan also created Down You Go ( 1951 – 1956 ) and the short-lived Ask Me Another ( 1952 ).

* Jeeves, created in 1915 by P. G. Wodehouse, starred in a series of stories until Wodehouse's death in 1975 ; Reginald Jeeves is considered the " personification of the perfect valet " since 1930, inspired the name of Internet search engine Ask Jeeves, and is now a generic term in dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary.

Two additional parallels drawn from Norse mythology are the depiction of the Sun ( the Goddess Sunna ) as female and the Moon ( the God Máni ) as male ; and the origin of humanity wherein men are created from an ash tree ( Ask ) and women from an elm ( Embla ) by the Aesir.

She also created and hosted the syndicated improvisational comedy show Ask Rita, which mimicked the format of a talk / advice show.

Also at the end of 2008, duetting with Steve Wright's ' Ask Elvis ' ( a. k. a Mitch Benn ), Bruce recorded a version of the Andy Stewart song “ Donald, Where ’ s yer Troosers ?” for the Bandaged CD created to raise money for the charity BBC Children in Need.

Its competitors included Claria, When-U, Ask. com and products created by eXact Advertising.

One of WSBK's most remembered past programs was the informative series Ask the Manager, created by its general manager William J. Flynn in the mid-1970s.

Ask Scotland was created by the Scottish Government's advisory body on libraries, SLIC ( Scottish Library and Information Council ), and funded by the Public Library Quality Improvement Fund ( PLQIF ) in June 2009.

Leon Gieco created the song " Sólo le pido a Dios " (" I only Ask of God ") in 1978 as a response to the warmongering in Argentina.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

9 of the 20 standard amino acids are called " essential " amino acids for humans because they cannot be created from other compounds by the human body, and so must be taken in as food.

Hume offers his friend an objection: if we see an unfinished building, then can't we infer that it has been created by humans with certain intentions, and that it will be finished in the future?

Moreover they argued that some species have been created for the purpose of being sacrificed and eaten by humans, that it is normal for animals to kill and eat other animals, that agriculture, too, inevitably leads to the death of many animals, that plants are living beings as well and must still be destroyed, that we unintentionally and unknowingly destroy life forms all the time, and that a hunted animal has a fair chance to survive by killing the hunter.

Other times the carvings were created to depict commonly seen animals, such as: seals, whales, and even humans.

In Aquinas ' view angels and humans were created for salvation from the very beginning.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Thus, humans must be other biological machines created by a life form just as the BETA are.

In this schema of asha versus druj, mortal beings ( humans and animals both ) play a critical role, for they too are created.

Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly, announced in 2007 that the nuclear transfer technique may never be sufficiently efficient for use in humans.

The 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel Never Let Me Go and the 2010 film adaption are set in an alternate history in which cloned humans are created for the sole purpose of providing organ donations to naturally born humans.

According to Agassiz ’ s theory of polygenism animals, plants and humans were all created in “ special provinces ” each having distinct populations of species created in and for that province.

Agassiz claimed plants, animals and humans did not originate in pairs but were created in large numbers.

One verse " God created man in his own Image " states that God imagined the form of humans, taking image as a root word for imagine, mistakenly understood as man to look like God.

In the dialogue Protagoras, Protagoras asserts that the gods created humans and all the other animals, but it was left to Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus to give defining attributes to each.

Sometimes, a zygote can be created by humans outside of the animal's body in the artificial process of in-vitro fertilization.

Within the Tanakh ( commonly called the Old Testament in Christianity ), is used to teach that the spirit within humans did not pre-exist, but was created within each person in the womb:

The belief that God created the world and therefore humans, can lead to the view that he arranged for humans to know the world.

The Bahá ' í teachings state that since all humans have been created in the image of God, God does not make any distinction between people regardless of race, colour or religion.

Thus, because all humans have been created equal, they all require equal opportunities and treatment.

HARDAC created mechanical replicants to replace existing humans, with the ultimate goal of replacing all humans.