The Siren, by John William Waterhouse ( circa 1900 ), depicted as a fish-chimera. According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses V, 551 ), the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted.

( UTC ) According to published accounts, Senator Gervais said he hoped that " in this town we should find refuge under the wings of COLUMBIA ", for that was the name which he wished it to be called.

According to witnesses, the plane lifted off and climbed slowly, with its nose high and its wings wobbling.

According to the Seyahatname of Ottoman historian and traveller Evliya Çelebi, in circa 1630-1632, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi flew as an early intercontinental aviator using artificial wings for gliding from this tower over the Bosphorus to the slopes of Üsküdar on the Anatolian side, nearly six kilometres away.

According to some they were designed to foil attacks by Tatar lasso ; another theory has it that the sound of vibrating feathers attached to the wings made a strange sound that frightened enemy horses during the charge.

According to legend, while visiting the Hanover Mill Works to inspect his cannonballs being forged, Commodore Stephen Decatur sighted a flying creature flapping its wings and fired a cannonball directly upon it to no effect.

According to Badaoni, Hemu's army was dispirited, and who set all his hopes on the elephants, surrounded by his chiefs charged the imperial hosts, and threw both right and left wings in to great confusion.

According to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this form is influenced by the iconography of the Islamic Buraq, who is portrayed with a horse's body, wings, and a woman's face.

According to GoGriffs. com, the griffin is a " mythical creature of supposed gigantic size that has the head, forelegs and wings of an eagle and the hindquarters, tail and ears of a lion.

According to Apollonius of Rhodes and Ovid, amber originated from the tears of the Heliades, encased in poplars as dryads, shed when their brother, Phaeton, died and fell from the sky, struck by Zeus ' thunderbolt, and tumbled into the Eridanos, where " to this very day the marsh exhales a heavy vapour which rises from his smouldering wound ; no bird can stretch out its fragile wings to fly over that water, but in mid-flight it falls dead in the flames ;" " along the green banks of the river Eridanos ," Cygnus mourned him — Ovid told — and was transformed into a swan.

According to James Lees-Milne, its first appearance in Britain was in the remodeled wings of Burlington House, London, where the immediate source was actually in Inigo Jones's designs for Whitehall Palace rather than drawn from Palladio himself.

** According to the possible weapon configurations which were revealed, EA-18G would also be capable of performing " time-sensitive " strike missions, carrying AGM-154 JSOW under wings, or multi-sensor reconnaissance missions with SHARP and AN / ASQ-228 ATFLIR on centerline and left conformal weapon stations, respectively.

According to Roy Strong: " the designs for the 1589 intermezzi are crucial, for they are the earliest mass-disseminated illustrations of what became a norm throughout Europe for theatrical visual experience for the next three hundred years, the proscenium arch behind which receded ranks of side wings, the vista closed by a back-shutter.

According to popular belief, this meant that Ælla's back was cut open, the ribs pulled from his spine, and his lungs pulled out to form ' wings '.

According to AFI36-2903, page 139 ( edition of 2 August 2006 ), Air Force personnel may wear foreign-awarded jump wings while stationed in the awarding country or attending an official or social function hosted by the awarding government, and if the recipient has already been awarded US jump wings.

According to the official accident report, the problem of clear ice formation in the wings in this type of aircraft was a well known phenomenon at the time of the accident.

According to an excerpt originally printed by Automotive Engineering dated January 1989 " The movable wings are positive pressure-and vacuum-operated, their angle changes are controlled by an eight-bit 36-kilo byte computer that also manages fuel injection.

According to legend, when the mosque was completed in 1579, Ferhad-Pasha had the masons locked inside this minaret, sentencing them to death so they could never make anything so beautiful, but one night they made wings and flew away.

There is some contradiction in the modern record: According to some secondary sources, about 20 years before Ibn Firnas attempted to fly he may have witnessed Firman as he wrapped himself in a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts and jumped from a tower in Córdoba, intending to use the garment as wings on which he could glide.

According to that theory, a butterfly flapping its wings in America could cause or prevent a tornado in Indonesia.

According to the Batesian mimicry theory the pattern on the wings of Caligo resemble the head of a predator like a lizard or an amphibian.

According to stanza 37 of the poem Vafþrúðnismál from the Poetic Edda, he sits at the end of the world ( or the northern edge of the heavens ) and causes the wind to blow when he beats his wings in flight.

According to his estimates, wings consisted mostly of dead weight that decreased launch payload mass.

According to Brownlow and Gill, Chaplin developed a unique method of filmmaking after achieving independence to direct his own films.

According to many of Descartes ' specialists, including Étienne Gilson, the goal of Descartes in establishing this first truth is to demonstrate the capacity of his criterion — the immediate clarity and distinctiveness of self-evident propositions — to establish true and justified propositions despite having adopted a method of generalized doubt.

According to their website, Ceres Power, a UK SOFC fuel cell manufacturer, has developed a method of reducing the operating temperature of their SOFC system to 500-600 degrees Celsius.

According to many Marxists influenced by Soviet Marxism, historical materialism is a specifically sociological method, while dialectical materialism refers to a more general, abstract, philosophy.

According to Donald R. Hopkins ( 2002 ), Madhav included a special chapter on smallpox ( masūrikā ) and described the method of inoculation to protect against smallpox.

According to Gregory Vlastos, the method has the following steps:

According to Rand, attaining knowledge beyond what is given in perception requires both volition ( or the exercise of free will ) and adherence to a specific method of validation through observation, concept-formation, and the application of inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning.

According to Rand, consciousness possesses a specific and finite identity, just like everything else that exists ; therefore, it must operate by a specific method of validation.

According to Title 18 of the United States Code, "... the term " toxin " means the toxic material or product of plants, animals, microorganisms ( including, but not limited to, bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiae or protozoa ), or infectious substances, or a recombinant or synthesized molecule, whatever their origin and method of production ..."

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

According to the FAO report, the Lamalerans " have evolved a method of whaling which suits their natural resources, cultural tenets and style.

According to this book at the time of the outbreak of the Crimean War many English industrialists and inventors became interested in military technology and Bessemer himself developed a method for grooving artillery projectiles so that they could spin without the use of rifling in the bore of the gun.

André-Marie Ampère achieved the same results three years later by another method ( in his -- On the Determination of Proportions in which Bodies Combine According to the Number and the Respective Disposition of the Molecules by Which Their Integral Particles Are Made ), but the same indifference was shown to his theory as well.

According to Rapf, " the Studio rode the bandwagon of method fashionability, and Kazan was its clear star and attraction.

According to Shahnameh ancient Persian book, the hero Rostam was the first person who was born with this method and term رستمينه ( rostamineh ) is corresponded to Caesarean.

According to Hegel, " dialectic " is the method by which human history unfolds ; that is to say, history progresses as a dialectical process.

According to this schema, Indian Mahayana revealed two vehicles ( yana ) or methods for attaining enlightenment: the method

According to Maurice Natanson ( 1973, p. 63 ), “ The radicality of the phenomenological method is both continuous and discontinuous with philosophy ’ s general effort to subject experience to fundamental, critical scrutiny: to take nothing for granted and to show the warranty for what we claim to know .”

According to Ando's method, a bundle of fresh noodles are flash-fried, which dries them out and provides for a long shelf life.

According to this method the sample is scanned in a wide-angle X-ray goniometer, and the scattering intensity is plotted as a function of the 2θ angle.

According to alchemical texts, the philosopher's stone came in two varieties, prepared by an almost identical method: white ( for the purpose of making silver ), and red ( for the purpose of making gold ), the white stone being a less matured version of the red stone.

According to notable author Arthur C. Clarke and former stage magician James Randi, the Silva method consists of the application of positive thinking, visualization meditation, and self hypnosis.

According to skeptical author Robert Carroll, the Silva method appears to be based on the work of Roger Wolcott Sperry, but with Silva's own twists in it that is claimed to make it an inaccurate model.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, " Ferdinand was gifted with great courage and real political ability, but his method of government was vicious and disastrous.

" According to one opinion, " Most thermodynamic data come from calorimetry ..." According to another opinion, " The most common method of measuring “ heat ” is with a calorimeter.