Dixit is a Goodwill Ambassador and a patron for " Emeralds for Elephants " — a charity project for the conservation of Asian Elephants and other endangered species.

The most dangerous species of scorpion resides in North Africa, and its sting may kill, so Serket was considered a highly important goddess, and was sometimes considered by pharaohs to be their patron.

Some clans holding the latter view have actively conspired to have humanity's patron status officially vacated and to adopt the " wolfling " race themselves, thus gaining three sentient races and control of " fallow " genetic material: Earth's wealth of species with uplift potential.

He was responsible for the scientific investigation and display of Diplodocus carnegii, a species named by Hatcher for his patron Andrew Carnegie ( 1835 – 1919 ), the Scottish-American industrialist.

The brown alludes to the Virgin Carmen, patron of the cidreños, and to the Savannah Dove, which is a unique species in the world that has its habitat in this municipality.

This civilization is perpetuated by the act of Uplift, in which a " patron " species genetically modifies a Pre-sapient " client " species until it is sapient.

The client species is typically indentured to its patron species for 100, 000 years.

Humanity is therefore a rare anomaly – a species with no apparent patron race.

Most of humanity believes itself to be a wolfling species that emerged into sapiency solely through natural evolution, without genetic manipulation of a patron species.

The fact that Humanity had already uplifted two species ( chimpanzees and bottlenose dolphins ) when it encountered the galactic civilization gave Humanity patron status, which is one of the few lucky turns it has had in its difficult position as pariah in the galactic civilization.

This ability is used on five Spirit creatures, the patron spirits of five non-human species in Kamigawa.

By his patron Canova was placed under Bernardi, or, as he is generally called by filiation, Giuseppe Torretto, a sculptor of considerable eminence, who had taken up a temporary residence at Pagnano, one of Asolo's boroughs

While there is no documentary evidence connecting Oxford ( or any authorial candidate ) to the plays of Shakespeare, Oxfordian researchers, including Mark Anderson and Charlton Ogburn, believe the connection is provided by considerable circumstantial evidence inferred from Oxford's connections to the Elizabethan theatre and poetry scene ; the participation of his family in the printing and publication of the First Folio ; his relationship with the Earl of Southampton ( believed by most Shakespeare scholars to have been Shakespeare's patron ); as well as a number of specific incidents and circumstances of Oxford's life that Oxfordians believe are depicted in the plays themselves.

A patron of the arts, the Marquise amassed a considerable amount of furniture and objets d ' art in her various estates.

However, there were cases in Medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence and transferred to its cathedral the remains of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, and made him or her the city's patron saint – such a practice conferring considerable prestige on the city concerned.

His patron died when Malherbe was on a visit in his native province, and for a time he had no particular employment, though by some servile verses he obtained a considerable gift of money from Henry III, whom he afterwards libelled.

Puebla was a significant center of music composition in the 17th century, as the city had considerable wealth and for a time was presided over by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who was an enthusiastic patron of music.

Philip himself is estimated to have added six hundred manuscripts to the ducal collection, making him by a considerable margin the most important patron of the period.

Philip was also a considerable patron of other arts, commissioning many tapestries ( which he tended to prefer over paintings ), pieces from goldsmiths, jewellery, and other works of art.

With its adherent Anatoly Lunacharsky at the helm of Narkompros, the Proletkult movement had an important patron with considerable influence over state policy and the purse.

In May 1922, after deciding he could afford the cost of considerable necessary renovation, the Swiss philanthropist Werner Reinhart bought Muzot so that Rilke could live there rent-free, and became Rilke's patron.

A bon vivant, patron of the arts and author, he pursued these interests with considerable vigour.

The evidence establishing the rise in a Bishops status comes in the form of Cyril being able to serve as a patron.

As munera grew larger and more popular, open spaces such as the Forum Romanum were adapted ( as the Forum Boarium had been ) as venues in Rome and elsewhere, with temporary, elevated seating for the patron and high status spectators ; they were popular but not truly public events:

The high crosses were status symbols, either for a monastery or for a sponsor or patron, and possibly preaching crosses, and may have had other functions.

The term Metic began to lose its distinctive legal status in 4th century BC, when metics were allowed to act in the court without a Prostates ( patron ) and came to an end in Hellenistic Athens, when the purchase of citizenship became very frequent.

Working under his patron, Navy Minister Saigō Tsugumichi from 1893, Yamamoto became the real leader of the navy ; initiating numerous reforms, attempting to end favoritism toward officers of his own Satsuma province, attempting to end officers from profiteering from military office, and attempting to attain roughly equal status with the army in the Supreme War Council.

However, by the time of first contact with galactic civilization, humans had themselves raised chimpanzees and dolphins to sentience, giving the human race a claim to patron status.

A man's social status is determined by those with whom he establishes patron / client relationships, and one of the best means of securing this relationship is through one's children.

Even both British VHS releases delete at least one scene present in the BBC broadcast of the film ( Travis testing his status in the home of his industrialist patron ) in the early eighties.

This is related to his status as patron of hunters ; jägermeisters were senior foresters and gamekeepers in the German civil service at the time of the drink's introduction in 1935.

His status as a patron of knowledge brought him fame across the Muslim world, to the point where even books written in Iraq, which was under Abbasid control were dedicated to him.

Beginning in 1884, the Empress Dowager Cixi became a regular patron of Peking opera, cementing its status over earlier forms like Kunqu.

The relationship was not a unit, but a network ( clientela ), as a patronus might himself be obligated to someone of higher status or greater power, and a cliens might have more than one patron, whose interests might come into conflict.

Her cult and her status as patron saint of Paris were promoted by Clotilde, who may have commissioned the writing of her vita.

The Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII ), an early patron, was a keen shot and his presence ensured the club's status and notability from the beginning.

A Roman Catholic church having a higher status of " Minor Basilica " with " Our Lady of Immaculate Conception " as its patron.

Like most brooches of the period, it contains neither Christian nor pagan religious motifs, and was made for a wealthy patron, almost certainly male, who wanted a personal expression of status.

He became chairman of this society and his status as patron of the Russian presence in Jerusalem is believed to have given him more pleasure than any of his other duties.

In the Tang Dynasty he was even accorded his own state temple as the martial patron and thereby attained officially sanctioned status approaching that of Confucius.

The site of a 1750 defeat of a native uprising and an 1810 oratory to the Virgin of Aranzazú, a Marian apparition and the city's patron saint, Cerro La Matanza was granted village status by the Provincial Legislature, in 1826.

A number of Pelor's followers have achieved deity or near-deity status, the most popular being Mayaheine, demigoddess of Protection, Justice, and Valor, and Saint Bane the Scourger, patron saint of those who hunt the undead.