Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

* Pentamino New, very interesting Pentomino variation.

* The thirty syllable, Celtic verse form Englyn from the Welsh language is another interesting variation of the quatrain, and is also now popular in the English language.

An interesting variation of the rolling block was the Austrian M1867 Werndl-Holub, in which the pivot pin was parallel to the barrel and the block rotated sideways.

Jorge Luis Borges presents an interesting variation of the myth in a short story, " La Casa de Asterión " (" The House of Asterion ").

An interesting variation of the route cipher was the Union Route Cipher, used by Union forces during the American Civil War.

An interesting variation of this idea is the use of genetically modified cells that can produce custom-tailored ribozymes.

An interesting variation was Ford's VV ( Variable Venturi ) carburetor, which was essentially a fixed venturi carburetor with one side of the venturi hinged and movable to give a narrow throat at low rpm and a wider throat at high rpm.

This is an interesting variation on just-in-time compilation, and it results in a much better advantage over an interpreter, since many instructions can be executed in native code without making intervening decisions on the ' direction ' register.

This same account is substantially taken up about three centuries later by the author of the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia but with an interesting variation :"... there was conflict between the nobles and the common people for an extended period.

An interesting variation of the flechette that addresses its difficulties is the SCMITR, developed as part of the Close Assault Weapon System, or CAWS, project.

An interesting variation on the opposed-piston engine is the free-piston engine, which was patented in 1934 by Raúl Pateras de Pescara.

He invented a new hydrogen thermometer ; measured the densities of iodine at very high temperatures ; demonstrated an interesting regularity in the variation of the boiling points of chemically allied substances with the external pressure ; prepared a number of new compounds of the element silicon, which are interesting because of their chemical resemblance to the corresponding compounds of carbon ; and also prepared new compounds of arsenic.

He described Glassjaw as " more interesting than their metal peers " and reflected " Glassjaw can pound it out like the best of them, but the fun comes in never knowing what variation the band will throw in next.

The total variation of any probability measure is exactly one, therefore it is not interesting as a means of investigating the properties of such measures.

An interesting variation of this scheme is to have two or more subroutines in a ring so that they are called in round robin order.

An interesting variation is the following ending playing in no trumps with the lead in South:

Jordan ( 1947 ) noted that the mass ratio for a typical star and an electron approximates to 10 < sup > 60 </ sup >, an interesting variation on the 10 < sup > 40 </ sup > and 10 < sup > 80 </ sup > that are typically associated with Dirac and Eddington respectively.

Particularly interesting about Hugo's transcriptions was his notation of variation between successive verses sung by the lead singer, a procedure common in folk song.

An interesting variation is to have the background and foreground move in opposite directions.

Although white sugar is most commonly used, adding gur ( jaggery ) as the sweetener is an interesting variation prepared in Orissa.

Other critics said it was nothing but " an interesting variation of the old alienation theme "; " a social statement rather than.

An interesting caveat is that although this variation bears Botvinnik's name, he was not the first person known to have played it — a Nazi with the name of Klaus Junge is credited as the actual inventor.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.

This viewpoint I find interesting, but it has never weighed on my soul.

`` I mean '', I went on ruthlessly, `` when he's not talking about you or himself or the wonders of love, is he interesting??

In addition, the neocortical-hypothalamic relations play a great role in primates, as Mirsky's interesting experiment on the `` communication of affect '' demonstrates.

It is interesting to note how many of the plants on Massachusetts' Route 128 draw most of their income either from the government in non-competitive cost-plus arrangements, or from the exploitation of patents which grant at least a partial monopoly.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

He considered some interesting excursion but he was on the road every day from dawn to dusk.

It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.

Also the more interesting software offered for CP / M systems could not run well on a TRS-80.

Disraeli's writing is considered generally interesting, and his books teem with striking thoughts, shrewd maxims, and brilliant phrases which stick in the memory ; on the other hand, he is often considered artificial, extravagant, and turgid.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

It is interesting to note that the Hortaya Borzaya, undoubtedly a very close relative, is traditionally raised on a meager diet of oats and table scraps.

There are a number of interesting monuments, most notably that of Prior Vivian which was formerly in the Priory Church ( Thomas Vivian's effigy lying on a chest: black Catacleuse stone and grey marble ).

he added: Closely examined, painstakingly studied, she is easily the most interesting person on the planet, and in several ways as easily the most extraordinary woman that was ever born upon it.

Notably since US courts are reluctant to take up class actions brought on behalf of injured parties not residing in the US who have suffered damages due to acts or omissions committed outside the US, it may be interesting to combine a US class action and a Dutch collective action to be able come to a settlement that covers plaintiffs worldwide.

" " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " is particularly interesting because it is a barely fictionalized account based on Poe's theory of what happened to the real-life Mary Cecilia Rogers.

The notion of definability treated in this article has been chosen primarily for definiteness, not on the grounds that it's more useful or interesting than other notions.

To put it succinctly, differential topology studies structures on manifolds which, in a sense, have no interesting local structure.

Differential geometry studies structures on manifolds which do have an interesting local ( or sometimes even infinitesimal ) structure.

)</ ref > In a September 2009 interview with Examiner. com, Strassman described the effects on participants in the study: " Subjectively, the most interesting results were that high doses of DMT seemed to allow the consciousness of our volunteers to enter into non-corporeal, free-standing, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who oftentimes were expecting the volunteers, and with whom the volunteers interacted.

Lorenz developed an interesting theory of the evolution of animal communication based on his observations of the nature of fixed action patterns and the circumstances in which animals emit them.

Thus the distribution of Symbiodinium on coral reefs and its role in coral bleaching presents one of the most complex and interesting current problems in reef ecology.

The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.