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Ajax and often
In the 2000s, XML is often used for asynchronous transfer of structured data between client and server in Ajax web applications.
He fought valiantly and is often listed amongst the first rank of Greek heroes such as Idomeneus, Diomedes, Ajax, etc.
Aspen Mountain ( often called by its former name of Ajax among locals ) is a ski area located in Pitkin County, Colorado, just outside and above the city of Aspen.
Sometimes certain clubs have often been connected with religious denominations, such as both Spurs and Ajax with Judaism, or the Old Firm Rangers F. C.
Popular in Black vaudeville in the American midwest in the late 1910s and 1920s, she appeared often in Chicago and Cincinnati, and made recordings for seven different record labels in 1923 and 1924: Victor, Vocalion, Columbia, Gennett, Brunswick, Ajax, and Paramount Records.
In Champions League, the quarter-final clash vs Ajax turned into an epic battle with tensions often spilling outside the pitch like when Jesús Gil publicly referred to Ajax as " FC Congo " due to the large number of black players of African and Surinamese origin on their team.

Ajax and fought
He fought alongside his half-brother, Ajax, in the Trojan War and is the legendary founder of the city of Salamis on Cyprus.
Next, he fought with great Ajax in an armed sparring contest where the winner was to draw blood first.

Ajax and with
When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.
In punishment for this presumption, Poseidon split the rock with his trident and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea.
Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.
When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.
He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.
In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.
Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites
After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.
In the Iliad, Ajax is notable for his abundant strength and courage, seen particularly in two fights with Hector.
Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

Ajax and brother
Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.
Due to Ajax committing suicide at Troy, Telamon banished Teucer from Salamis for not bringing his brother home.
According to tradition the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.
According to the foundation myth, the founder of Salamis is said to be Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.
However, after signing a 6-year contract extension with Ajax for the 1998 – 99 season, he and his twin brother Ronald took successful legal action to have it voided.
Ajax had agreed orally that if a lucrative offer for one brother came by, he would be released provided the other stayed.
He left Rangers in 2004 after Euro 2004 along with twin brother Ronald ( his teammate at Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers ) to play the rest of his football career in Qatar with Al-Rayyan.
In both Qatari clubs, he was reunited again with his brother Frank, his teammate at Ajax, Barcelona and Rangers.
Teucer, Ajax ’ s brother, arrives in the Greek camp to taunting from his fellow soldiers.
His older brother Gerrie, also a midfield player, won three European Cup titles with Ajax in the early 1970s.
They decided Ajax would loan 1 to 4 players to Haarlem every season, it also meant Ajax would get a say in Haarlem-transfers, and would deploy employees to Haarlem, Cock Jol, brother of Martin Jol supervised the Ajax-Haarlem project.

Ajax and Teucer
Ajax would wield his magnificent shield, as Teucer stood behind picking off enemy Trojans.
* Teucer, son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, stood trial by his father for his half-brother's death.
In the Iliad he was the father of Greek heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer the Archer by different mothers.
During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great archer, who loosed his shafts from behind the giant shield of his half-brother Ajax the Great.
In Sophocles ' Ajax, Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out.
When the Trojans attacked the wall newly built by the Greeks, Sarpedon led his men ( who also included Glaucus and Asteropaios ) to the forefront of the battle and caused Ajax and Teucer to shift their attention from Hector's attack to that of Sarpedon's forces.
The father of Nicocles, the succeeding king of Salamis, he claimed descent from Teucer, the son of Telamon and half-brother of Ajax, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis, although during his childhood Salamis came under Phoenician control, which resulted in his exile.
The concept of using a shield to cover an archer dates to at least to the writing of Homer's Iliad, where Ajax uses his shield to cover his half-brother Teucer, an archer, while he would " peer round " and shoot arrows.
Teucer sends a messenger to Ajax ’ s campsite with word of Calchas ’ prophesy.
Ajax also wishes for the first to find his body to be Teucer, so that he is not found by an enemy and his body left without a proper burial.
Tecmessa is the first to discover Ajax impaled on his sword, with Teucer arriving shortly after.
The play ends with Teucer making arrangements for the burial ( which is to take place without Odysseus, out of respect for Ajax ).

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