This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

Black supplanted the wonted Old English word sweart (" black, dark "), which survives as swart, swarth, and swarthy ( compare German schwarz and Dutch zwart, " black ").

The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers in the Hanseatic town of Einbeck.

A typical German dark wheat beer

In astrophysics and physical cosmology, Olbers ' paradox, named after the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and also called the " dark night sky paradox ", is the argument that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe.

* Placebo Effect ( band ), German dark electro band

Looking across Indo-European languages, it becomes apparent that the name could be cognate with Old English fealu ‘ pale, faded, dark, yellowish-brown ,’ Modern English fallow, from Proto-Germanic * falwaz, cognate with Old Norse fölr, Middle Dutch valu, German falb, from Proto-Indo-European * polwos ‘ dark-colored, gray ,’ cf.

The brewery is most well known for producing Shiner Bock, a dark German / Czech-style beer that is now distributed in 41 states.

* Dunkles Weissbier or Dunkles Weizen: a dark version of a wheat beer (" dunkel " is the German word for " dark ").

Both Good Hope and Monmouth were on fire, presenting easy targets to the German gunners now that darkness had fallen, whereas the German ships had disappeared into the dark.

There was some confusion amongst the German ships as to the fate of the two armoured cruisers, which had disappeared into the dark once they ceased firing, and a hunt began.

It begins with a slow introduction, launched by a dark melody played by a baritone horn ( German Tenorhorn ).

* 24 / 25 April 1918, during the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, soldiers of the Australian 50th Infantry Battalion, advancing in the dark under German machine fire, attacked what they believed was an enemy trench.

Several days after the German surrender, U-boat ace Wolfgang Luth was shot and killed by a sentry while walking after dark at the German naval base at Flensburg-Marwik.

* Bethlehem ( band ), a German black metal / dark metal band

" Approaching from below provided the night fighter crew with the advantage that the bomber crew could not see the night fighter against the dark ground or sky, yet allowed the German crew to observe and identify the silhouette of the aircraft before they attacked.

German ground fire was ineffective in the dark, and even though most gliders struck a tree or ditch, most loads were successfully landed without harm.

German jägers in dark green uniforms on watch during the Napoleonic Wars, Georg Friedrich Kersting | Kerstig 1815

Best known were the German Jäger units who were distinguished by their peace-time wear of dark green tunics and shakos ( in contrast to the dark blue tunics and spiked helmets of most German infantry ).

* The German ambient musician and multi-instrumentalist Klaus Wiese released an album titled Samarkand, which is dedicated to the Ḥāl concept of Sufism.

* m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( artist ), the ambient project of German electronic musician and DJ Mathis Mootz

* Black Earth ( Bohren & der Club of Gore album ), a 2002 album by German ambient jazz band Bohren & Der Club of Gore

Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German ambient / jazz band from Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

The first album, Blaue Löwen ( German for " blue lions ", released in 2000 ), represents a more ambient, sampled sound, while the second LP, Gradients ( 2002 ), is more accessible, with more vocals, more hooks and less experimentation.

Asche is a German musical project, one which encompasses the spectrum of noise, power electronics, and droning ambient.

P · A · L is a German musical project whose style ranges from power noise to ambient.

The tune found even more fans after being remade by a German ambient musical project B-Tribe on their much successful album Suave Suave in 1995.

More politically consolidated nations sponsored historical research projects which produced results of permanent value-such as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (" Monuments of German History ") project.

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

Turing's information unit, the ban, was used in the Ultra project, breaking the German Enigma machine code and hastening the end of WWII in Europe.

Pei had difficulty working with German government officials on the project ; their utilitarian approach clashed with his passion for aesthetics.

Frankenheimer was ahead in schedule anyway, and the McQueen / Sturges project was called off, while the German race track was only mentioned briefly in Grand Prix.

* Janus ( musical project ), German darkwave musical project established 1995

In pursuit of his Iraq project, Ribbentrop strongly pushed for German aid to the Rashid Ali al-Gaylani government in Iraq, where he saw a great opportunity for striking a blow at British influence in the Middle East.

Another major German missile development project was the anti-shipping class ( such as the Fritz X and Henschel Hs 293 ), intended to stop any attempt at a cross-channel invasion.

The project was funded by German Development Bank ( KfW ), Government of Nepal and Nepal

He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution.

* Program ( German non-profit ), a project space in Berlin for art and architecture

The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

The popular culture surrounding the Trabant was referenced by the performance artist Liz Cohen in her Bodywork project, which transformed an East German 1987 Trabant into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino.

In mid-1935 Wernher von Braun initiated a fuel pump project at the southwest German firm Klein, Schanzlin & Becker that was experienced in building large fire-fighting pumps .< ref name = Neufeld >

GnuPG is a part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU software project, and has received major funding from the German government.

Carmaker Daimler AG and the utility company RWE AG were set in 2009 to begin a joint electric car and charging station test project in the German capital, Berlin, called " E-Mobility Berlin ".

In 1913 the London Missionary Society responded to the appeal of the To Tsai Church to provide a Headmaster for the project, sending Arnold Hughes to Hong Kong, and the college was re-opened as a middle school in 1914 in rented premises, first at 9 Caine Road, later at 45 Caine Road, and finally at 80 Bonham Road ( a former German Rhenish Mission property ).

But at the very start the German Protestant estates declined to send any delegates to a council in Italy, while the duke of Mantua himself set down such large requirements that Paul III first deferred for a year and then discarded the whole project.

After hearing of the discovery of the Argentine print of the film and the restoration project currently under way, Organ contacted the German restorers about his find.

The original EuroWordNet project dealt with Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Czech, and Estonian.

He directed the enormous construction effort, made critical decisions on the various methods of isotope separation, acquired raw materials, directed the collection of military intelligence on the German nuclear energy project and helped select the cities in Japan that were chosen as targets.

" The project is expected to cost up to € 200m which will be provided by international donors and the German artist Gert Hof.

* Growing up in East Prussia An oral history project, documenting the German history of East Prussia with memories and reports by contemporary witnesses