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Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings — the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her — to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus ' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.
Jurgen remarks " Now certainly, Queen Anaitis, you have unusual taste in sculpture ".
Valentine is also home to the unusual sculpture Prada Marfa, which mimics a Prada store and which was installed in 2005 on the town's main street, California Avenue ( US Route 90 ).
A most unusual sculpture by the Artist, Hunter with Dog-Northwoods, was exhibited in 1902.
Gaudí's influence opened many previously unimagined possibilities for Saint Phalle, especially with regard to the use of unusual materials and objets-trouvés as structural elements in sculpture and architecture.
An unusual sculpture seen above the head of the main figure of Shiva is of a " very wide bottle with a curved groove in the middle of it ", which can interpreted variously as: the aum or the linga or a Shiva shrine.
An unusual echo of the exhibit came in 1925, when Contimporanul published a photograph of Brâncuşi's Princess X sculpture.
Peter Camani is a Canadian artist and sculptor who has created an unusual residence, castle, and sculpture garden on an old farm near Burk's Falls, Ontario, Canada, which is most commonly known as Screaming Heads.
He is a passionate man, and indeed is quite unusual in this country in his commitment to modern painting and sculpture.
Hornsey Town Hall is not simply a replica of Hilversum Town Hall-it was innovative in its own right and also unusual for the quantity of sculpture ( by A. J. Ayres, commissioned by Uren ).

unusual and is
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.
the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.
The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.
After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
There is clear evidence that Lucy from childhood had an unusual mind.
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.
In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.
The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.
Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).
It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.
However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.
The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.
Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.
There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

unusual and ancient
The archaeological record indicates that it was not unusual for ancient Pueblo peoples to adapt to climatic change by changing residences and locations.
The use of ordinary members of the community to consider crimes was unusual in ancient cultures, but was nonetheless also found in ancient Greece.
Unlike most ancient human remains, bog bodies have retained their skin and internal organs due to the unusual conditions of the surrounding area.
The town has a traditional Anglican church, St. Margaret's with an ancient tower and an unusual 19th century nave.
The flat hill top is unusual to eastern Kentucky and was created by the Teays River which existed in ancient times and flowed in the opposite direction of the Ohio River.
The softness of these unusual stones reflects the very slow pace of events in the ancient archipelago, since such deep surface-inward weathering requires that the original rounded granite rocks remain immobile and undisturbed over immense lengths of time.
Skepticism might be applied when extinct species are included in trees that are wholly or partly based on DNA sequence data, due to the fact that little useful " ancient DNA " is preserved for longer than 100, 000 years, and except in the most unusual circumstances no DNA sequences long enough for use in phylogenetic analyses have yet been recovered from material over 1 million years old.
Walter Burkert has suggested that the Hymn to Apollo, attributed by an ancient source to Cynaethus of Chios ( a member of the Homeridae ), was composed in 522 BC for performance at the unusual double festival held by Polycrates of Samos to honor Apollo of Delos and of Delphi.
Large and visually unusual sinkholes have been well known to local people since ancient times.
The ancient Greek writer Theopompus in his work Philippica claimed Hyperborea was once planned to be conquered by a large race of soldiers from another island ( some have claimed this was Atlantis ), the plan though was abandoned because the soldiers from Meropis realized the Hyperboreans were too strong for them and the most blessed of people ; this unusual tale, which some believe was satire or comedy, was preserved by Aelian ( Varia Historia, 3.
The type of coinage that Rome introduced was unlike that found elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean, combining a number of " unusual elements ".
* Cappadocia contains several historical underground cities carved out of unusual geological formations formed via the eruptions of ancient volcanoes.
The employment of unusual forms of language cannot be considered as a sign of ancient Hebrew poetry.
Meyer comments that the wish of Satyavati's foster-father was an unusual shulka (" a price given to parents for the purchase of a bride " in ancient India ).
The unusual dedication to St. Peter ad Vincula (" St. Peter in chains ") is derived from the ancient Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
The link to folklore is further established by Madgett's son Smut, who recites the rules of various unusual games played by the characters as if they were ancient traditions.
Larsson's notes disprove the early theory that the unusual runes on the Kensington Runestone were invented on the spot by the supposed 1890s hoaxer ; but without a source for Larsson's rune rows ( for example an ancient book, or records from the hypothetical Masonic-type organisation ), it is not possible to give their origin any particular date range closer than " before 1883.
The parish church in the village St John the Baptist is unusual in that it consists of two buildings: the ancient chapel of ease built in the 12th century which includes a window depicting Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden as ' champions of liberty ', and the more modern Victorian construction that was built of red brick in 1867.
The breed's unusual rolling gait may have been deliberately developed by breeding to prevent the court dogs from wandering in ancient times.
The priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was the Pythia, credited throughout the Greco-Roman world for her prophecies, which gave her a prominence unusual for a woman in male-dominated ancient Greece.
The Palm Cockatoo is an unusual bird, being an ancient species and one of the few bird species known to use tools.
Also, Feist has made his own more unusual additions, including the Pantathians, a race of serpent-men bent on returning their evil goddess to this plane of existence ; the Valheru, an ancient race of godlike warriors and dragon-riders who plundered the universe for millions of years before being banished by the gods ; and the gwali, a shy forest species.
The Thornborough Henges is an unusual ancient monument complex that includes the three aligned henges that give the site its name.

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