Athena ( Minerva ) is the subject of the $ 50 1915-S Panama-Pacific commemorative coin.

The Roman name for Athena is Minerva.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

* 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

The people of Ono-i-Lau in the Lau Islands archipelago claim that Minerva Reef is part of their traditional fishing ground.

His face is presented along with other ancient figures such as Solomon, the Greek god Zeus and the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.

She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl usually named as the " owl of Minerva ", which symbolizes her ties to wisdom.

Extrapolating from her Roman nature, it is assumed that in Etruscan mythology, Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and commerce.

* Minerva is featured in the University at Albany's logo.

The catalog of books and other materials in the University Library at the University at Albany campus is called the " Minerva Catalog ".

Minerva is also mentioned in UAlbany's Alma Mater:

* Minerva is the goddess of Kappa Kappa Gamma and can be seen, with her owl, on their crest.

* Minerva is the symbol of the University of Porto.

* A statue of Minerva is located in the center of La Sapienza University, the most important university of Rome.

* Minerva is displayed in front of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library as " Alma Mater.

* Above the entrance to the University of Vienna main building, there is a sculpture work titled " The Birth of Minerva ".

* Minerva is the name of a language school in Ruse, Bulgaria.

* Minerva is the name of a female residence at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

* Minerva is displayed to the East of University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Elliot University Center as a statue.

* The SUNY Potsdam campus in Potsdam, NY is home to multiple statues of Minerva and a cafe named after her.

* Minerva is featured on the seals and logos of many institutions of higher learning:

There is a tradition within the Lincoln Rugby Union team where it is thought that they are Knights of Minerva, with each match being fought and won in her honour.

Minerva is pictured in the university's logo.

" Minerva is still venerated by seniors and their ' torch bearers ' during a pre-graduation ritual called " Torch Night " there.

* Minerva is featured on the seal of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.

* Minerva is featured in the emblem of Ballarat Clarendon College, Australia, as derivative of the emblem of Clarendon Ladies ' College.

* Minerva is featured in the logo of The Mac. Robertson Girls ' High School, Australia.

* Minerva is featured in the logo of Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland

* Minerva is featured on the seals of many schools and colleges: on that of Union College in Schenectady, NY, the motto is ( translated from the French ) " Under the laws of Minerva, we are all brothers.

New characters featured include Ghetto Man, an African-American superhero who performs a stand-up comedy routine ; Aunt Minerva, the Captain Marvel villainess who seeks a sixth husband from among the male superheroes ; Rhoda Rooter, an entertainment reporter who snags an exclusive interview with the Atom ( Alfie Wise ) and Giganta on their engagement to be married ; and Esther Hol, Hawkman's mother.

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

The reverse depicts the Roman goddess Minerva, who was Domitian's favoured deity, and appeared on numerous coin types throughout his reign.

Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners on 1 December 1828.

" Minerva was worshipped throughout Italy, though only in Rome did she take on the warlike character shared by Athena.

In 207 BC, a guild of poets and actors was formed to meet and make votive offerings at the temple of Minerva on the Aventine hill.

Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.

As patron goddess of wisdom, Minerva frequently features in statuary, as an image on seals, and in other forms, at educational establishments, including:

Raised-relief image of Minerva on a Roman gilt silver bowl, 1st century BC

Statue of Minerva on the Alte Brücke in Heidelberg

* The annual prize for the best Politics student in Liverpool Hope University in the UK is called the Minerva Prize, both because of the association with wisdom and knowledge and because there is a statue of Minerva on the dome of Liverpool Town Hall, the seat of local politics in the city.

** Leiden University, Minerva is presented in the centre of the great seal of the most ancient University in the Netherlands ( 1575 ).

* The seal for the University of Louisville includes a large head of Minerva.

The seal features the Roman goddess Minerva ( Athena in Greek mythology ), the goddess of wisdom and war ; a California grizzly bear ( the official state animal ) feeding on grape vines, representing California's wine production ; a sheaf of grain, representing agriculture ; a miner, representing the California Gold Rush and the mining industry ; and sailing ships, representing the state's economic power.

Even the nearly exhaustive official color scheme for the seal ( e. g., " the spear of Minerva shall be Oakwood, Cable No. 70094 and the tip white "), passed in 1967 -- thirty years after the structure was officially added -- failed to mention the building, and while the seal in the current carpet of the Governor's Office reception area in the State Capitol shows the building, it is shaded the same color as the mountains ( see image ' ca.

In 1994, after seeing Minerva and Medusa on the bronze seal at the west steps of the State Capitol, Pastor Margo Brown called it " an affront to women and Christian faith.

The 1894 James Lick Pioneer Monument features a seal where Minerva and the bear have " escaped " the seal and are sculpted in the round, leaving the remaining elements on Minerva's shield in the space normally occupied only by the face of Medusa.

The city of Eureka, California, uses the same seal, being the only U. S. location to use the state seal as its seal ; Minerva and the bear appear on the seal of the city of Long Beach.

A version of the seal with Conan the Barbarian in the place of Minerva and California spelled phonetically as ' Kahlifoania ' made the rounds soon after Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in 2003.

The precise origins of the motto and the choice of Minerva as the fundamental element of the College seal are obscure, but two things are certain: like most colleges of the time, Union was deeply rooted in the classical tradition, but, unlike most colleges, Union chose a modern language rather than Latin for its motto.