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Medallions and from
A central motif of the album is the organ riff from " Double Shot ( Of My Baby's Love )" by 1960s frat rock band The Swingin ' Medallions.
The renovation includes a rebuilt grand plaza entrance, elimination of 2 lower-level suites in each corner ( 8 of current 28 suites ) leaving views from the concourse area to the playing area, renovation of each suite, elimination of sections 323 and 324 on the terrace level ( 574 seats ) for a bar and stage area that will feature a new digital theatre organ, more concessions areas on the terrace level, an 11, 000-sq ft outdoor deck and party area overlooking outside plaza and facing the downtown skyline, new climate controls that improve both the ice surface and spectator comfort, new lighting, all new padded seats, resurfaced and redecorated concourse, combining Icons and Medallions restaurants into one venue, and updated restrooms.
Perhaps the best known rock band to hail from South Carolina was Hootie & the Blowfish, but other groups such as The Marshall Tucker Band, The Swinging Medallions, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs and Crossfade also hail from the Palmetto State.
* Medallions from Barhut

from and Tegea
According to Herodotus, the Spartans attributed their conquest of Arcadia to their theft of the bones of Orestes from the Arcadian town of Tegea.
* Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia.
There were ancient icons of Eileithyia at Athens, one said to have been brought from Crete, according to Pausanias, who mentioned shrines to Eileithyia in Tegea and Argos, with an extremely important shrine in Aigion.
Heracles is said to have obtained a lock of Medusa ’ s hair ( which possessed the same powers as the head ) from Athena and to have given it to Sterope, the daughter of Cepheus, as a protection for the town of Tegea against attack.
Thermopylae is primarily known for the battle that took place there in 480 BC, in which an outnumbered Greek force probably of seven thousand ( including the famous 300 Spartans, 500 warriors from Tegea, 500 from Mantinea, 120 from Arcadian Orchomenos, 1000 from the rest of Arcadia, 200 from Phlius, 80 from Mycenae, 700 Corinthians, 400 Thebans, 1000 Phocians and the Opuntian Locrians ) held off a substantially larger force of Persians estimated in the range 70, 000-300, 000 under Xerxes.
Tegea was a very important place, as it controlled the exit from Laconia.
Agis marched the whole of the Spartan army, together with the neodamodeis and everyone who was able to fight in Sparta out to Tegea where he was joined by his allies from Arcadia, and he sent for help from his northern allies, Corinth, Boeotia, Phocis, and Locris.
In the 4th century Tegea joined the Arcadian League and struggled to free itself from Sparta.
Works after Scopas are preserved in the British Museum ( reliefs ) in London ; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens ; the celebrated Ludovisi Ares in the Palazzo Altemps, Rome ; a statue of Pothos restored as Apollo Citharoedus in the Capitoline Museum, Rome ; and a statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The head of Achilles from Tegea and other sculptures by Skopas in the J. Paul Getty Museum J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif. 1982.
Epaminondas ' Thebans were assisted by the Arcadians loyal to the League, principally those from the city-states of Megalopolis ( founded by the Thebans when they were last in the Peloponnese, as the Arcadian federal capital ) and Tegea ( the traditional leading city-state of the Arcadians ).
According to Herodotus, the Spartans attributed their conquest of Arcadia to their theft of the bones of Orestes from the Arcadian town of Tegea.
Leonidas, who had returned to the city, fled again, to Tegea, protected from Agis by Agesilaus, who persuaded Agis and Lysander that the most effective way to secure the consent of the wealthy to the distribution of their lands, would be to begin by cancelling the debts.

from and Meleager
Detail from an early 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus depicting the death of Meleager
Meleager ’ s uncles, Plexippus and Toxeus, were angry and tried to take the skin from her.
The Moirai were supposed to appear three nights after a child's birth to determine the course of its life, as in the story of Meleager and the firebrand taken from the hearth and preserved by his mother to extend his life.
Meleager's mother, sister of Meleager's slain uncles, took the fatal brand from the chest where she had kept it ( see Meleager ) and threw it once more on the fire ; as it was consumed, Meleager died on the spot, as the Fates had foretold.
When Meleager was born from them, suddenly in the palace the Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, appeared.
When Althaea's brothers, “ thinking scorn that a woman should get the prize in the face of men, took the skin from her, alleging that it belonged to them by right of birth if Meleager did not choose to take it ,” Meleager flew into a rage and killed both of his uncles.
Oeneus sent Meleager to gather up heroes from all over Greece to hunt the Calydonian Boar that had been terrorizing the area, rooting up the vines, Oeneus having omitted Artemis at a festival in which he honored the other gods.
When Althaea found out that Meleager had killed her brother and one of her sons, Althaea placed the brand that she had stolen from the Fates ( the one that the Fates predicted, once engulfed with fire, would kill Meleager ) upon the fire, thus fulfilling the prophecy and killing Meleager.
Aside from the boar that killed Adonis, the other most celebrated boar in Greek myth was the Calydonian boar, who was killed by Meleager.
Perdiccas, who became regent of Macedon on the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, had mutineers from the faction of Meleager thrown to the elephants to be crushed in the city of Babylon.
He withdrew from the main body some 300 men who had followed Meleager at the time when he burst from the first meeting held after Alexander's death, and before the eyes of the entire army he threw them to the elephants.
The word derives from the Greek word ἀνθολογία ( anthologia ; literally “ flower-gathering ”) for garland — or bouquet of flowers — which was the title of the earliest surviving anthology, assembled by Meleager of Gadara.
* Alan Cameron: The Greek Anthology, from Meleager to Planudes ( 1993 ).
In 1796 – 1797, he published paraphrases from Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Sappho and Meleager.
* At the Battle of the Granicus the battalions were those of ( from right to left ): Perdiccas, Coenus, Amyntas, Philip, Meleager, and Craterus.
* At the Battle of Issus the battalions were those of ( from right to left ): Coenus, Perdiccas, Craterus, Meleager, Ptolemy ( replacing Philip ), Amyntas.
* At the Battle of Gaugamela the battalions were those of ( from right to left ): Coenus, Perdiccas, Meleager, Polyperchon ( replacing Ptolemy ), Simmias ( deputising for Amyntas, who was recruiting in Macedonia ), Craterus.
* At the Battle of the Hydaspes River only five battalions took part, and were those of ( from right to left ): Antigenes, Clitus the White, Meleager, Attalus, Gorgias.

from and Gadara
It probably draws its name from one of the two major cities in the region, Gerasa and Gadara.
Jesus healing the man from Gadara.

from and Anacreontea
* Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by David A. Campbell ( June 1989 ) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-99158-3 ( Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.
Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman
* Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by David A. Campbell ( June 1989 ) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-99158-3 ( Original Greek with facing page English translations, an excellent starting point for students with a serious interest in ancient lyric poetry.

from and Latin
May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.
He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.
He also displayed the ability to write Latin verse on almost any topic of dispute, the verses, of course, to be delivered from memory.
Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.
Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.
more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.
He met with enthusiastic audience approval, especially when he swung from jazz to Latin American things like the Mambo.
Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.
With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.
From Latin animātiō, " the act of bringing to life "; from animō (" to animate " or " give life to ") +-ātiō (" the act of ").
For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").
To the Romans, he was known in this capacity as Averruncus ( ; from Latin āverruncare, " to avert ").
In this respect, the Romans called him Coelispex ( ; from Latin coelum, " sky ", and specere, " to look at ").
The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

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