The interest in Etruscan antiquities and the mysterious Etruscan language found its modern origin in a book by a Dominican friar, Annio da Viterbo ( d. 1502 ), the cabalist and orientalist, now remembered mainly for literary forgeries.

* Francesco Petrarca ( often considered the first man of the Renaissance ) first visits Rome, to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.

The fate of the mysterious prisoner – and the extent of apparent precautions his jailers took – created much interest and many legends.

*" Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

He is a school teacher made to chemically analyze a " green powder " of uncertain origin by his students, and, upon lighting the powder on fire, is violently launched into a mysterious parallel dimension next to ours where mute " Watchers of the Living ", obviously deceased souls or alternate versions of existing people in our world, take keen interest in us.

They do so in such a way that nature fuses with their state of spirit and it is melancholic, tetric, mysterious, dark ... as opposed to the neoclassicals, who barely showed interest in the landscape.

The entire series is actively narrated by Snicket, who makes numerous references to his mysterious, deceased love interest, Beatrice.

In the film, Scott was Joan Crawford's somewhat sleazy love interest, whose mysterious murder formed the basis of the plot.

Meanwhile, Fagin is visited by the mysterious Monks ( Ralph Truman ), who has a strong interest in Oliver.

She was a romantic interest to Hurley and was very mysterious showing up in flashbacks.

But no one visited the island to check the story until official interest was sparked in the early 1910s by stories from Dutch sailors based in Flores about a mysterious creature.

Frank begins to tease the traveller, Morris, pretending to assume an interest in the mysterious box.

Among many other examinees, Gon continuously encounters Hisoka, a mysterious and deadly conjurer who takes an interest in Gon.

In the discipline of linguistics, ideophones have long been overlooked or treated as mysterious words ( Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001: 2 ), though a recent surge of interest in sound symbolism, iconicity and linguistic diversity has brought them renewed attention ( Imai et al.

: A mysterious black-winged Windragon who seems to be the one in true control of DWC ( he bullies and intimidates the President of the company constantly ) and has an interest in Shiron as he is very similar to him.

Fort also briefly touched on UFOs again in this book, and wrote extensively on a number of other topics which he felt can be explained by teleportation: cryptozoology ( including the Jersey Devil and various out of place animals ), animal mutilations and attacks on people, strange swarming of insects, the appearance of various strange people from nowhere ( the famous cases of Princess Caraboo and Kaspar Hauser ), and the mysterious disappearances of others ( including the diplomat Benjamin Bathurst, and vessels such as the Mary Celeste, Carroll A. Deering, and USS Cyclops, presaging later interest in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon ).

The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend Benjie, Jennifer O ' Neill as Hermie's mysterious love interest, and Katherine Allentuck and Christopher Norris as a pair of girls whom Hermie and Oscy attempt to seduce.

A mysterious ship docks directly outside their shack, and as she looks out to the open sea, Giuliana confides to Corrado, " I can't look at the sea for long or I lose interest in what's happening on land.

The brief and mysterious life and death of Erik Johan Stagnelius have given a romantic interest to all that is connected with his name.

Despite Longabaugh and Parker's fame, by the mid-20th century, it was the mysterious vanishing of Place that sparked the most interest, which continues to the present day.

During an archeological dig, Cartman discovers a mysterious stone triangle, which he promptly throws away without interest.

Official Stargate sources advertised Vala as a " scheming, unscrupulous, thieving con artist ", " feisty " and " occasionally fickle ", with a " mysterious agenda " and a seemingly " amorous interest in Dr. Daniel Jackson ".

Carmilla appears injured after her carriage accident, but her mysterious mother informs Laura's father that her journey is urgent and cannot be delayed.

The mysterious Egerton Gospel appears to represent a parallel but independent tradition to the Gospel of John.

In the latter enhanced version there appears a separation of material or large cut on the right arm of the creature and a mysterious object or deformity above the breasts.

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named " Solomon Kohan " appears in early 18th century London.

The Saint Steps In reveals that Templar is operating on behalf of a mysterious individual known as Hamilton who appears again in the next WWII-era Saint book, The Saint on Guard.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

The game chronicles the struggle of an older Link to clear the troubles of the interacting " Twilight Realm ", a mysterious force that appears around Hyrule.

It was suggested by Andreas Plaitakis and Roger Duvoisin in 1983 that the mysterious magical herb moly that appears in Homer's Odyssey is actually snowdrop.

This also was a great triumph for the new equation, as it traced the mysterious i that appears in it, and the necessity of a complex wave function, back to the geometry of space-time through the Dirac algebra.

Among other problems, Durandal has gone rampant and appears to be playing the humans against the Pfhor to further his own mysterious agenda ; ultimately leading the S ' pht, one of the races enslaved by the Pfhor, in a rebellion.

Mela drew the first map on which the mysterious continent of Earth appears in the unknown half of Earth — our antipodes.

A mysterious barkeep ( Bruce McGill ) appears to know much more about Sam's leaping, but in the end convinces Sam that he is in control of his own leaping, and that it is his choice to return home or not.

Later during a three-part episode, Qui-Gon appears as a Force ghost twice ; first to Obi-Wan and later to Anakin when they, along with Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano, are trapped on the mysterious planet Mortis.

The story involves two American tourists who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years.

August Derleth identifies this mysterious entity with Hastur ( though Hastur appears in the same " Whisperer in Darkness " list with the Magnum Innominandum ), while Robert M. Price equates him with Yog-Sothoth -- though he also suggests that Shub-Niggurath's mate is implicitly the snake god Yig.

* In the 2009 film, Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty appears as a shadowy, mysterious villain employing Irene Adler.

There, Lisle ( Isabella Rossellini ) is revealed as a mysterious, wealthy socialite who appears to be in her thirties.

One day, a mysterious alien named Tatanga appears and hypnotizes the inhabitants of Sarasaland, including Daisy.

The second movement has a mysterious sounding introduction that creates an atmosphere of impending excitement, followed by a passage dominated by two harps, then the flowing waltz theme appears, derived from the idée fixe at first, and then transforming it.

A mysterious fleet led by Admiral Daala, loyal to Pallaeon, appears, accompanied by 100 Mandalorian mercenaries, and together, owing to Daala's experimental weapons, they send the Galactic Alliance Fleet into retreat.

Hermine also introduces Harry to a mysterious saxophonist named Pablo, who appears to be the very opposite of what Harry considers a serious, thoughtful man.

As Leto's eyes are opened to the Golden Path that will save mankind, a mysterious blind man known as The Preacher appears to undermine Alia and her priests in the eyes of the people.

In the episode " Skulls ," a mysterious figure ( Conrad Dunn ) appears out of nowhere, whom only Nikko can see, and guides Nikko.

Friendly characters who are non-playable include Tikal, a mysterious female echidna who appears whenever Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, E-102 Gamma and Big are sent back in time.