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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.

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* Minerva is featured on the seal of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
* Minerva is featured on the seal of the " Escuela Comercial Cámara de Comercio ", in Mexico, founded in 1923.
* 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
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.

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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.

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Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.
Very early, Minerva was identified with the Greek goddess Athena, and invested with many of that deity's characteristics and iconography.
No matter how many times Trujillo jailed them, no matter how much of their property and possessions he seized, Minerva, Patria and Maria Teresa refused to give up on their mission to restore democracy and civil liberties to the island nation.
Senua's name appears on votive plaques bearing Minerva's image, while Brigantia also shares many traits associated with Minerva.
Minerva becomes a symbol, and many prisoners, guards, and outsiders secretly voice their support for " the Butterflies ".
While many other medieval churches in Rome have been given Baroque makeovers that cover Gothic structures, the Minerva is the only extant example of original Gothic church building in Rome.
At the turn of the 20th century, rowing was very popular in the area with many local clubs such as Nemesis, Prince of Wales, Minerva, Didsbury and Agecroft all competing regularly.
Jupiter, Juno and Minerva were honored in temples known as Capitolia, which were built on hills and other prominent areas in many cities in Italy and the provinces, particularly during the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods.
The famous general peace that had held the bridge of Minerva in Breno, pompously and solemnly ratified with great oaths in 1397, was short lived and feuds took up so much that in 1403, the fortress of Niardo, which stood on the " Dos del Castel ", became the refuge of the usual Baroncino Nobili from Lozio, which often away from their land in the narrow and well defended Lozio valley, just niardese departed from the castle for his bloody expeditions and for the numerous raids that many deaths and property damage produced between the Ghibellines.
The Minerva succeeds in reducing the size of the fragments, but many pieces impact the Earth anyway, causing the destruction of many areas, including Rome, what appears to be Shanghai, and other metropolitan areas.
Minerva incorporated many bug fixes and enhancements to both QDOS and the SuperBASIC programming language.

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