The fleur de lis, which became a potent and enigmatic emblem of the divine right of kings, said to have been bestowed on early French kings by an angel, evolved in Egypt and Mesopotamia as a variant of the palmette.

Hadraniel ( or Hadarniel, among other variant spellings ), whose name means " majesty greatness of God ," is an angel in Jewish Angelology assigned as gatekeeper at the second gate in heaven.

* Problem of Hell, a variant of the problem of evil

* Rage ( card game ), a commercial variant of the card game Oh Hell

On June 19, 1879, William Tecumseh Sherman, General in Chief of the U. S. Army, delivered a variant of his famous " War Is Hell " speech to the graduating class.

Romanian whist is a variant of whist which is similar to the English or American game Oh Hell!

: Rage is also the name of a commercial variant of the card game Oh Hell ; See Rage ( card game ).

Probably the most common variant converts statistical performance into points that are compiled and totaled according to a roster selected by a manager that makes up a fantasy team.

This is a variant of fulist, which originated before late 1978, according to comments by its author, Theo Alkema.

Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.

GM2 is the basis of the instrument selection mechanism in Scalable Polyphony MIDI ( SP-MIDI ), a MIDI variant for low power devices that allows the device's polyphony to scale according to its processing power.

But according to Hinnells, no such variant of the myth is known, and that this is merely speculation: " In no known Iranian text Zoroastrian or otherwise does Mithra slay a bull "

* Penalty under, Zero Over: A variation of exact scoring that combines variants with and without penalties ; overtricking scores zero points while undertricking results in a penalty according to the specific exact scoring variant used.

The player with the best hand according to the poker variant being played wins the pot.

The expanded Pseudo-Ignatian version of Magnesians, possibly from the middle of the 3rd century, rewrites this passage to make " Lord's " refer to the first day ( the variant textual reading of kata kyriaken zontes, " living according to the Lord's ", is supported by the medieval Latin manuscript Codex Caiensis 395, " secundum Dominicam viventes ").

Rollo is also known in the documents as Radulf ( us ) ( Old Low Franconian ) ( or sometimes Rodulf ( us )) > French Raoul, that is the French translation of Hróðulfr > Hrólfr, according to the Low Franconian variant form Radulf of Germanic Rodulf / Rudolf .</ ref >

It is also evident from the notings of corrections and of variant alternatives that scribes felt free to choose according to their personal taste and discretion between different readings.

The name Nycteus signifies " of the night ", as does Nyctimene in the following variant: according to accounts by the Roman Gaius Julius Hyginus and in Ovid's Metamorphoses ( ii. 590 ), an Epopeus was a king of Lesbos.

The others, according to the Book of Enoch, are Uriel, Raguel, Sariel, and Jerahmeel, while from other apocryphal sources we get the variant names Izidkiel, Hanael, and Kepharel instead of the last three in the other list.

Germanus may have made a second visit to Britain in the mid 430s or mid 440s, though this is contested by some scholars who suggest it may be a ' doublet ' or variant version of the visit that has been mistaken as describing a different visit and erroneously included as such by Constantius, according to whom Germanus was joined by Severus, Bishop of Trier and met Elafius, described by Bede as ' a chief of that region '.

The variant of Bikol Central dialect spoken in Canaman, Camarines Sur is said to be the purest form of Coastal Bikol according to Jesuit Anthropologist Frank Lynch, S. J .).

Distinctive features of Catalan in the Balearic Islands differ according to the specific variant being spoken ( Majorcan, Minorcan and Ibizan ).

Puckle demonstrated two versions of the basic design: one, intended for use against Christian enemies, fired conventional round bullets, while the second variant, designed to be used against the Muslim Turks, fired square bullets, designed by Kyle Tunis, which were considered to be more damaging and would, according to its patent, convince the Turks of the " benefits of Christian civilization.

However, in the largest compilation of Notre Dame repertoires ( F ) no less than 462 clausulae exist, many recurrences of the same clausulae ( Domino, et gaudebit in variant settings, according to Waite ' written in a variety of styles and with varying competence ' A further innovation was the motellus, to be found in W2, in which the upper part of a discant section is supplied with a new text, so that when the tenor utters a single syllable of chant, the upper part will pronounce several syllables or words.

One sophisticated variant, patented by Frederic Eugene Ives in 1897, was driven by clockwork and could be adjusted to automatically make each of the exposures for a different length of time according to the particular color sensitivities of the emulsion being used.

The Boeing 747-244B Combi is a variant of the aircraft that permits the mixing of passengers and airfreight on the main deck according to load factors on any given route and Class B cargo compartment regulations.

Thus the best variant of optimization, if any, is chosen according to failure and transaction outcome statistics.

The letter originated in the thirteenth century as a variant of, at first, according to Djordjić in superscripted line-final position, but by the end of the century elsewhere as well.

Notably he is seen wearing a variant on the costume he wore while with the League of Assassins, complete with a tiger head mask ( according to writer Nunzio DeFilippis he wears the mask to prove it no longer has any power over him ).

After 318, according to Bichir, the " Daco-Carpic " culture was in Moldavia replaced by the Sîntana-de-Mureş " variant " of the Chernyakhov culture common to much of the North-Pontic region of south eastern Europe in the period 200-400.

The pot in poker refers to the sum of money that players wager during a single hand or game, according to the betting rules of the variant being played.

* Wonder Man is included in the Series 11 of Marvel Legends, he comes with a shrunk Yellow Jacket and a bike, with a variant of his ionic form.

* The Destroyer was included as a chase variant in the 15th wave of Toy Biz's 6 " Marvel Legends action figure line.

For liturgical purposes, Samaritan Hebrew, Samaritan Aramaic, and Samaritan Arabic are used, all of which are written in the Samaritan alphabet, a variant of the Old Hebrew alphabet, distinct from the so-called square script Hebrew alphabet of Jews and Judaism, which is a stylized form of the Aramaic alphabet.

In modern times textual analysis of the letter's variant Hebrew versions have suggested an origin among the Jews of northern Italy or Languedoc: several Italian words remained in the Hebrew texts.

The traditional language of the Georgian Jews is Judæo-Georgian, a variant of Georgian, characterized by a large number of Hebrew loanwords, and written using either the Georgian alphabet or Hebrew alphabet.

Both " Jude " and " Judas " are translations of the name Ιούδας in the Greek original New Testament, which in turn is a Greek variant of Judah, a name which was common among Jews at the time.

The Lithuanian Jews were less influenced by Kabbalistic practises, but still retain sidelocks to a degree, in a small number of variant styles:

This dish much resembles the oysters Rockefeller made famous by Antoine's in New Orleans, though the Palace chef announced it as a variant of Manning's roast oysters.

The 2 exceptions are the " non-standard " or " non-canonical " pyrrolysine — found only in some methanogenic organisms but not humans — and selenocysteine ; both of these are encoded via variant codons signaled by mRNA instead.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as " passing parameters by name " ( which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned ).

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

A variant of the binomial formula is obtained by substituting 1 for y, so that it involves only a single variable.

As it turned out, neither of the originally-proposed UK-designed warheads were actually fitted, being superseded by Red Snow, an Anglicised variant of the U. S. W-28 thermonuclear warhead of 1. 1 Mt yield.

A variant of Syrokomla Coat of Arms | Clan Syrokomla arms, used by Khmelnytsky as a noble.

An alternate variant allows hops over any symmetrical arrangement, including pairs of pieces, pieces separated by empty positions, and so on.

" Advanced play " ( a variant of association play for expert players ) gives penalties to a player who runs certain hoops in a turn, to allow the opponent a chance of getting back into the game ; feats of skill such as triple peels or better, in which the partner ball ( or occasionally an opponent ball ) is caused to run a number of hoops in a turn by the striker's ball help avoid these penalties.

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A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s / early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

However, the original Counter-Strike is still available and played by many people via Steam, as the two variants are quite different, and players inevitably prefer one variant over the other.

Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments.

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

Similarly, the Norwegian language is classified as a descendant of West Norse, while the written language used by the vast majority in Norway is derived from an older variant of standard Danish.

Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.

Mortality rates in that area never declined to the same dramatic extent, and now constitute the bulk of malarial deaths worldwide, especially following the disease's resurgence as a result of resistance to drug treatments and the spread of the deadly malarial variant caused by Plasmodium falciparum.

In January 2011 a low power variant ( DECT ULE-ultra low energy ) was discussed at the DECT World and CAT-iq Conference with a whitepaper presented by Sitel ( Now Dialog ) Semiconductor.

Third, a variant of this conjugation trick, which is sometimes preferable because it requires no modification of the data values, involves swapping real and imaginary parts ( which can be done on a computer simply by modifying pointers ).