Hercules monument ( Kassel ) | Herkules Monument and water running down the cascades during the water features.

The Hercules monument is a huge octagonal stone structure carrying a giant replica of Hercules " Farnese " ( now at Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy ).

The neoclassical eye, trained to appreciate svelte line and idealised refinements of nature, did not savour the rude vigour and immediacy of Roubiliac: the legs of the figure of Hercules, supporting the bust of Sir Peter Warren in Roubliac's monument in Westminster Abbey ( 1753 ), J. T.

A monument to the four gods depicting Juno, Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, possibly once the base of a Jupiter Column, was discovered on the heights of Schoenberg at the point where two Roman roads once crossed.

The monument is referenced by Herman Melville ( as Ishmael ) in Chapter XXXV ( The Mast-Head ) of Moby-Dick, " Great Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules ' pillars, his column marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go.

An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

* Monte Hacho ( Abila Mons ), the southern of the Pillars of Hercules on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

As for this young man ( motioning to Lucius ), he insists that you are Hector reborn ...( now speaking to Lucius ) or was it Hercules?

5 French francs Hercule de Dupré 1996 F346-2 obverse. jpg | Commemorative 5-franc piece ( 1996 ), Hercules in center

In Greek mythology, the Heracleidae () or Heraclids were the numerous descendants of Heracles ( Hercules ), especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of Hyllus, the eldest of his four sons by Deianira ( Hyllus was also sometimes thought of as Heracles ' son by Melite ( naiad ).

* Nemesis ( Xena and Hercules ), a recurring character in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

* Rhea ( mother of Aventinus ), a separate figure to Rhea Silvia, mother of Aventinus by Hercules

It is also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, or STROG ( Strait Of Gibraltar ), in naval use and as the " Pillars of Hercules " ( Greek: Ηράκλειες Στήλες ) in the ancient world.

# Secondly ( 4. 8 ), a legend told by the Pontic Greeks featuring Scythes, the first king of the Scythians, as a child of Hercules and Echidna.

Hercules can be used as a development environment to verify that code is portable ( across Linux processor architectures, for example ), supports symmetric multiprocessing ( SMP ), and is 64-bit " clean.

Compared to the more powerful but still entry-level IBM Multiprise 2000 and 3000 mainframes ( also from the 1990s ), Hercules on typical X86 hardware would be considered a mid-range server in performance terms.

Whereas however Pindar's ode focuses on the myth of Pelops and Tantalus and demonstrates a stern moral about the need for moderation in personal conduct ( a reflection on Hieron's political excesses ), Bacchylides's ode focuses on the myths of Meleager and Hercules, demonstrating the moral that nobody is fortunate or happy in all things ( possibly a reflection on Hieron's chronic illness ).

In his third pro fight on 8 May 1899, he battled " Klondike " ( John W. Haynes or Haines ), an African American heavyweight known as " The Black Hercules ", in Chicago.

Examples of this practice can be found in the Bible ( such as David's service to King Saul ), in Hittite and Egyptian art, and in Greek mythology ( such as the story of Hercules and Hylas ), philosophy and literature.

Some of the well-known beetles from the Scarabaeidae are Japanese beetles, dung beetles, June beetles, rose chafers ( Australian, European and North American ), rhinoceros beetles, Hercules beetles and Goliath beetles.

" The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who accidentally reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules ( Henry Victor ), the strong man ; she mocks the freaks, tosses the wine in their faces, and drives them away.

Venus ( Leila Hyams ), another circus performer, overhears Cleopatra and Hercules discussing the murder plot and tells Hans and the other freaks.

Rotating as Hercules ' other regular companion, particularly in earlier seasons, is Salmoneus ( Robert Trebor ), a wheeler-dealer ever looking to make a quick dinar.

Tingis ( modern Tangier ), a town at the Pillars of Hercules ( modern Strait of Gibraltar ) became a major trade centre.

Hercules " retired " from playing as Aylesbury were relegated in 2000, still one goal shy of his landmark 300th, however he returned a few months later as manager and was able to add two more goals to his tally during fleeting substitute appearances as his team earned promotion in his first and only full season at the helm, 2001 – 02.

Peak deployment was in 1963 with 134 Hercules batteries not including the US Army Hercules batteries deployed in Germany, Greece, Greenland, Italy, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Nicholas then represented the pope in Germany, becoming known as the Hercules of the Eugenian cause.

In his Annals, Tacitus again refers to the veneration of " Hercules " by the Germanic peoples ; he records a wood beyond the river Weser ( in what is now northwestern Germany ) as dedicated to him.

Nuclear-armed Nike Hercules missiles were deployed in the United States, Greece, Italy, Korea and Turkey, and with Belgian, Dutch, and U. S. forces in West Germany.

Conventionally-armed Nike Hercules missiles also served in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Norway, and Taiwan.

Under development by Germany, Italy and the United States, MEADS is a mobile air defense system designed to replace Patriot systems in the United States and Germany and Nike Hercules systems in Italy.

* Hercules GmbH, a former motorcycle and bicycle company in Nürnberg, Germany

On his return through Germany he executed two fountains in 1596 for the city of Augsburg, the Mercury and Hercules and the Hydra fountains, which may still be seen in Maximilianstraße.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

A fragment of the Milion ( Greek: Μίλ ( λ ) ιον ), a mile-marker monument

The later Stele of the Vultures at the end of the Early Dynastic III period ( 2600 – 2350 BC ), commemorating the victory of Eannatum of Lagash over the neighbouring rival city of Umma is the oldest monument in the world that celebrates a massacre.

* Atlanta from the Ashes ( The Phoenix ), monument symbolizing Atlanta's rise after its burning in the American Civil War

This monument covers the tomb of a certain Exekestos, is possibly situated on the agora and is dedicated to the κτίστης ( ktistès ), the foundation hero of the city.

The 1797 scheme came from the renowned Prussian architect Friedrich David Gilly ( 1772 – 1800 ), who proposed a monument to the former Prussian King, Friedrich II.

Today, his remains, along with the remains of his nephew Pope Julius II ( Giuliano della Rovere ), are interred in St. Peter's Basilica in the floor in front of the monument to Pope Clement X.

He was buried in Lausanne ( the seat of the IOC ), although, in accordance with his will, his heart was buried separately in a monument near the ruins of ancient Olympia.

The first monument consisted of a circular bank and ditch enclosure made of Late Cretaceous ( Santonian Age ) Seaford Chalk, ( 7 and 8 ), measuring about in diameter, with a large entrance to the north east and a smaller one to the south ( 14 ).

It should be pointed out that both explanations were mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( below ), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

There is a stone monument with a bronze plaque at the Hürtgen military cemetery dedicated by veterans of the U. S. 4th Infantry Division to the memory of Friedrich Lengfeld ( 29 September 1921 – 12 November 1944 ), a German lieutenant.

Among these houses, Bevacqua remember the Villa Villa and Cumbo, S. Marina, and the ancient church of ' Spadafora, S. Peter. Among the most famous are those of the Fatherland Fallen Milazzo ( located in Piazza Roma and erected in 1924 ), the source of the mythical and ancient Apple ( opposite the Church of the Carmine ), the ' Statue of Liberty, built in honor of Garibaldi, the Statue of Luigi Rizzo, the monument Milazzo Bridge, erected to commemorate the famous battle of 20 July 1860 ; the large floor mosaic depicting the coat of arms, located in the Atrium of the Carmine.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

The oldest monument in Reims, the Porte de Mars (" Mars Gate ", so called from a temple to Mars in the neighbourhood ), a triumphal arch 108 feet in length by 43 in height, consists of three archways flanked by columns.

Other architectural forms that are still in evidence are the processional gateway ( propylon ), the public square ( agora ) surrounded by storied colonnade ( stoa ), the town council building ( bouleuterion ), the public monument, the monumental tomb ( mausoleum ) and the stadium.

Among many of his remarkable designs at this time, the monument ( 1671 – 76 ) commemorating the Great Fire also involved Robert Hooke, but Wren was in control of the final design, the Royal Observatory ( 1675 – 76 ), and the library at Trinity College, Cambridge ( 1676 – 84 ) were the most important ones.

* Golgi ’ s tomb is in the Monumental Cemetery of Pavia ( viale San Giovannino ), along the central lane, just before the big monument to the fallen of the First World War.

For more than 100 years, a simple granite stone was the only marker of the Road's beginning in Cumberland, MD In June, 2012, a monument and plaza were built in Riverside Park ( Cumberland ), adjoining the starting place.

* Bilbao ( Basque Country, Spain ), " Simón Bolívar Street ", a street in Bilbao city center to honour Bolívar and his Basque ancestry and a monument at Venezuela square.

* Bolivar ( Basque Country, Spain ), Bolívar's ancestor's home town ; a monument to Bolívar, a gift by Venezuela.

This is the work of Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, La Grande Arche de la Fraternité ( also known as simply La Grande Arche or L ' Arche de la Défense ), a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than militaristic victories.