By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

What future translator Samuel Putnam called " the prevailing slapstick quality of this work, especially where Sancho Panza is involved, the obtrusion of the obscene where it is found in the original, and the slurring of difficulties through omissions or expanding upon the text " all made the Motteux version irresponsible.

Emmy, however, travels to the future and returns with Mecha-King Ghidorah, a resurrected cyborg version of the original.

The Ancestor Cell suggests that he is a future version of the Doctor, but this is retconned in The Gallifrey Chronicles, to him being everyone's potential future self.

To facilitate cross platform compatibility, it defined a minimal set of common file attributes ( directory or ordinary file and time of recording ) and name attributes ( name, extension, and version ), and used a separate system use area where future optional extensions for each file may be specified.

Though it was published almost ten years before Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy and takes place in a different version of the future, Icehenge contains elements that should be familiar to readers of the Mars series.

* In Marvel Comics, Limbo is a section outside time, ruled over by a future version of Kang the Conqueror called Immortus.

" We did not adequately specify how to handle a future MIME version ," Borenstein said.

An 8-bit data bus version of the 68000 ( i. e., the 68008 ) was intended for use in future 8-bit designs.

It was such a commercial debacle and critical failure that Mad successfully arranged for all references to the magazine ( including a cameo by Alfred E. Neuman ) to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film, although those references were eventually restored on the DVD version.

: This field indicates the version of the Ogg bitstream format, to allow for future expansion.

Likewise, the symmetric key algorithm used in PGP version 2 was IDEA, which might, at some future time, be found to have a previously unsuspected cryptanalytic flaw.

Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release has been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believes this is the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.

This version had met with only limited success, and Carmack decided to write for generic APIs in the future rather than tailoring for specific hardware.

With the intervention of a future / alternate version of herself, Janeway leads her crew in using one of the Borg's transwarp conduits to return her ship to Federation space after having traveled through the Delta Quadrant for seven years.

However that timeline, as well as that version of the future, is destroyed when Picard changes the past.

The USS Enterprise ( NCC-1701-C ) responded to the outpost's distress call and engaged the Romulan ships, but was defeated and taken with its survivors ( among them a version of Lieutenant Tasha Yar from the future of an alternate timeline ) back to Romulan territory.

" However, a version of Amy Pond from seconds in the future appears as soon as he says this allowing him to rectify the problem.

In late August 2007, Sony released an email to customers of its Online Music Store ( Connect ) stating that Sony would shut down the service and begin to phase out the ATRAC codec on any future version of the Walkman portable device.

This new metropolis was to be accompanied by a massively expanded version of the already existing naval base, which was intended to become the primary future stronghold of the German Kriegsmarine.

The Ada Rapporteur Group is preparing the inclusion of subprogram contracts ( AI05-0145 ) and type invariants ( AI05-0146 ) in the future version of Ada, Ada 201X.

Neither the. WDM ( Windows Device Model ) drivers for Windows 98, 98SE, nor ME, nor any driver for any NT-kernel version of Windows ( NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server, nor likely any future OSes ) support this, nor can they for technical reasons.

Hiro, along with partners Superfly Johnson and Mikiko Ebihara, attempts to recover the Daikatana and return the Earth to the way its meant to be, travelling to ancient Greece, medieval Norway, near future Los Angeles and futuristic Tokyo in the process.

The morning after their victory celebration, Hiro implies his intention to play baseball as a professional and Haruka declares her decision to acompany him on his way " I will be the stewardess ", to which Hiro replies " Yes, probably ", meaning he will probably marry her ; this is a reference to an earlier chapter where Haruka said she wanted to become a stewardess so she could be with her future husband who would be a baseball player.

The episode " Five Years Gone " was a further homage to the story, featuring Hiro and his friend Ando travelling into a future where New York has been destroyed and people with abilities are being hunted, forcing them to travel back into the past to prevent the original explosion.

It was also in the late ' 70s that the Briscos discovered Terry Bollea, the future wrestling legend best known as Hulk Hogan, who they introduced to Hiro Matsuda for training.

Hideyoshi led troops in the Battle of Anegawa in 1570 in which Oda Nobunaga allied with future rival Tokugawa Ieyasu ( who would eventually displace Hideyoshi's son and rule Japan ) to lay siege to two fortresses of the Azai and Asakura clans.

The novel describes a future where the planet Earth has allied with an extraterrestrial species known as ' Starmen in their war against another species, the Reegs.

Furthermore, Hamilcar allied with Hasdrubal the Fair, his future son in law, to restrict the power of the aristocracy, which was led by

* African Standby Force, an allied military force organized by the African Union, planned for the future.

Henry III in his extremity sought an alliance with the Huguenot, Henry of Navarre ( the future Henry IV of France ), and the allied forces drove the leaguers back, and had laid siege to Paris when the assassination of Henry III by a Dominican monk changed the face of affairs and gave new strength to the Catholic party.

Wounded in a battle in Cisalpine Gaul, Mago was recalled back to Carthage along with Hannibal to aid in its defence, as the future Scipio Africanus major had shattered the armies of Hasdrubal Gisco, Hanno, son of Bomilcar, and had captured Syphax, who was allied to Carthage, in Africa.

Páez and the conservative oligarchy were conveniently allied because the oligarchy controlled a great amount of their country's wealth but was not popular with the masses whereas Páez was very much liked by the masses. The 1830s to the 1860s are thought of by historians as a golden era in Venezuela's history, in contrast to previous and future dictatorships.

A recovered Prime Kang later aids the Avengers and their companion Rick Jones against another scheme implemented by his future self, Immortus, who is now allied with the Time Keepers.

When the rash actions of Kang caused the timestream to become critically unbalanced, Immortus allied himself with the Next Avengers and future versions of Iron Man and the Hulk in an attempt to undo the damage.

At the end of the war, when he was in Kyoto, Itami was chosen as an infant prodigy and educated at Tokubetsu Kagaku Gakkyū (; " the special scientific education class ") as a future scientist who was expected to defeat the allied powers.

Military officials began calling for the introduction of a new defense legislation in 1947, arguing that depleted inventories of surplus World War II-vintage armaments, piecemeal planning of new armaments and restrictions on presidential authority threatened current and future efforts to arm allied nations.

On 26 February 1289, in front of the city gates of Siewierz, the allied forces of Władysław I the Elbow-high, then Duke of Kujawy and Mazovia, the future King of Poland, defeated the army of Henryk IV Probus, duke of Wrocław and Kraków.

With time nipping at his heels, the launch of Operation: Volcano going ahead whether he returned or not, Magnus allied himself with the Earth Autobots and worked to discover what had caused Optimus Prime, Prowl and Ratchet to vanish from the middle of the Autobot base, while the other Autobots battled the threat posed by Galvatron, a Decepticon who had travelled back in time from the future.

The main purpose was probably to eliminate social and economic disputes among the Mongols and future allied peoples.

The major exception was Paul Frölich, who had been allied with a third, so-called " conciliator " faction which stood between the future KPO and the KPD leadership.

: I hereby swear to the God Almighty, that I shall loyally serve my Fatherland, Kingdom of Poland and my future King, both on water and on land, and in any circumstances ; that during this war I shall remain a loyal brother in arm of the soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary and of the states allied to them ; that I shall obey my superiors and commanders, fulfil the orders and generally behave so as to be able to live and die as a brave and just Polish soldier.

" The history of Brazil, the complexion of its diverse and dynamic economy with its natural and nature-based resources allied to its industries and its current and future role in international relations, offer a lens and a unique perspective through which a broad-based, transformational outcome is possible at Rio + 20 ," said Mr Steiner.

In turn, they allied themselves with the Bloc, thus effectively gaining a majority for the nationalists in the coalition while creating a climate of frigid relations between EUPV and Bloc for the remainder of the term making the renewal of the pact for future polls unlikely in the short term.

Those groups that adopt this terminology tended to be allied with the Soviet Union while it still existed ( Indeed, Russia incited and aided the rebellion in attempt to annex these regions in the future ).

When Claudius chose Agrippina the Younger in order to consolidate the Julio-Claudian family, and picked her son, the future Emperor Nero to fill the role of temporary older heir, Narcissus allied with Britannicus ' circle in order to secure his future.

After the Soviet take-over of Poland, on 19 January 1945, he ordered the disbandment of the Home Army, fearing that future existence of an allied force in Poland would only lead to more people being murdered or arrested by the Soviets.