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 ".

An unusual sculpture is the ancient Roman statue of Narcissus restored by Valerio Cioli c1564 with plaster.

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 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 ).

The Almoravids veiled themselves below the eyes ( see tagelmust ), a custom they adapted from southern Sanhaja Berbers ( as can still be seen among the modern Tuareg people ), but unusual further north.

This situation varies in unusual conformations of DNA within the cell ( see below ), but the major and minor grooves are always named to reflect the differences in size that would be seen if the DNA is twisted back into the ordinary B form.

This type of door is also often seen as a mark of prestige and glamour for a building and it not unusual for neighbouring buildings to install their own revolving doors when a rival building gets one.

He relied greatly on astrologers ( though that was not seen as unusual for a ruler at the time ), even to the extent that he required that they work out the most auspicious time for the imperial camp to enter a city.

By the time this occurs, the boat has passed and the unusual waves are all that can be seen.

Although the painting is barely begun, the composition can be seen and it is very unusual.

In 1982 materials scientist Dan Shechtman observed that certain Aluminium-Manganese alloys produced the unusual diffractograms which today are seen as revelatory of quasicrystal structures.

Because strong, healthy blacks in their prime working and reproductive years were seen and treated as highly valuable commodities, it was not unusual for free blacks — both freedmen ( former slaves ) and those who had never been slaves — to be kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Here, vibranium was seen to be an unusual metallic element with decidedly strange properties.

" Haring described the writing as " wonderful ," also saying that it " has got one of the most distinctive graphic looks I've seen in any game product " and that the " unusual drawings remind a little of Dr.

Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction.

Signs of Rett syndrome that are also present in cerebral palsy ( regression of the type seen in Rett syndrome would be unusual in cerebral palsy ; this confusion could rarely be made ):

Extreme weather includes unusual, severe or unseasonal weather ; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution — the range that has been seen in the past.

There were anecdotal tales of unusual rocks found on the ground after fireballs had been seen in the sky, but such stories were often dismissed as fantasy.

Gordo likes to have unusual interests such as unicycling and the Rat Pack because he does not want to be seen as part of the herd.

The national flag has the unusual proportions of 13: 15, but is rarely seen.

The title track sequence, filmed in black-and-white, is arguably one of the prime archetypes of the modern performance-style music video, employing rhythmic cross-cutting, contrasting long shots and close-ups, and unusual shots and camera angles, such as the shot near the end of the song, in which George Harrison's left hand and the neck of his guitar are seen in sharp focus in the foreground while the completely out-of-focus figure of John Lennon sings in the background.

Many of Colts Neck's residents are professional business people who commute into New York City's financial district, as could be seen in the unusual proportion of the small community who were lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the World Trade Center.

Some software still uses XOR to draw interactive highlight rectangles ; when this is done to color images the unusual resulting colors are easily seen.

Generally he is seen walking in the most unusual places ( on a fence or a rooftop, for example ) and other times he is about to fall into a hole or step on a nail.

As more games are played and more players play across different servers using what they believe is a new opening line or an unusual defensive line which an opponent has not seen.

In what was seen as an unusual step for a maker of high-end business software, Autodesk began offering AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac through the Apple Mac App Store.

M98 ( NGC 4192 ) is a bright, elongated spiral galaxy that is seen nearly edge-on ; it can appear elliptical because of its unusual angle.

It is also unusual for one of the pair to be seen without the other.

The legacy of this plan can be seen today in the unusual width of Pahiatua's Main Street which was designed to accommodate the railway down the centre.

Some brochs such as Dun Dornaigill and Culswick in Shetland have unusual triangular lintels above the entrance door.

* The Rising breech carbine: An unusual action produced by Bilharz, Hall and Co. for the southern Confederacy, the rising breech's underlever caused the breechblock including the chamber to slide vertically above the line of the barrel, the reverse of a falling-block ; the chamber was loaded from the front with a paper cartridge.

Tunnels & Trolls is unusual among roleplaying games in conducting mass combat resolution with one set of rolls, as the above system applies to combats between any number of opponents.

They were of unusual design, each with a pendulum 13 feet ( 3. 96 metres ) in length mounted above the clock face, giving a period of four seconds and an accuracy, then unparalleled, of seven seconds per day.

* When the feet are not on the floor, they are pointed except when playing unusual characters ( as above ) for which the feet may be flexed.

It is also unusual as it is a terpenoid like THC as opposed to an alkaloid like the comparably intense serotonergic psychedelics and NMDA receptor antagonists mentioned above.

Along with Cordoba and Seville, Badajoz has one of the hottest summers in Spain when maximum temperatures reach around 35c on a daily basis during July and August, with highs above 40c not unusual.

As well as the above, some interesting quirks of the character include rather unusual ingenuity in his job such as: using police hang gliders, riding an ostrich, speaking hippie tongue, and using loud music to flush Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel out of Springfield Elementary ( albeit with a poorly chosen song ) to which they locked down to name a few.

The tall mill, without the usual tar coating in Lincs, stands on the dyke above the drain it is named after and is unusual in having an odd number ( five ) of sails.

Its summit, an alpine area above the tree line, is a nearly flat plateau about 13 km ( 8 mi ) across composed of serpentine bedrock and supporting a quite unusual flora.

This is due to the unusual harmonic characteristics of foundry bells, which have strong overtones above and below the fundamental frequency.

Cases of higher value (£ 50, 000. 00 or above ) and those of unusual complexity are tried in the High Court, and the advocates in the High Court were until recently barristers engaged by solicitors to assist.

Although other London Underground lines operate fully underground, the Northern line is unusual in that it is a deep-level tube line that serves the outer suburbs of South London yet there is only one station above ground ( Morden tube station ) while the rest of this part of the line is deep below ground.

The shape of Hart's Location is unusual: about long and wide, with crooked boundaries that echo the paths of the upper Saco River and U. S. Route 302 ( near the centerline of the town ), pinched from both sides between steep mountains and in some areas sheer cliffs above.

It is not unusual for summer daytime temperatures to reach in the mid to upper 90s and occasionally exceed 100 degrees F. It is typical for winter temperatures to fall into the teens at night, but temperatures generally warm to above freezing during the day.

Winter temperatures tend to remain above or well above freezing, though snowfall does happen and occasional snow and ice storms are not unusual.

Although he left Opabinia ′ s classification above the family level open, the annulated but not articulated body and the unusual lateral lobes with gills persuaded him that it may have been a representative of the ancestral stock from which both the annelids and arthropods arose.

The town of Blowing Rock takes its name from an unusual rock formation which juts over above the Johns River gorge.

Those sections above the flat sides of the octagon are flat and contain a window at their base, alternating with sections from the corners of the octagon which are scalloped, creating an unusual kind of pumpkin dome.

Moses is unusual in that he is taken up by a princess, who is of superior birth to his mother, but like the other foundlings listed above, he reaches adulthood and returns to his birth family.

For humans, maintaining an upside down position, with the head vertically below the feet, is highly uncomfortable for any extended period of time, and consequently burial in that attitude ( as opposed to attitudes of rest or watchfulness, as above ) is highly unusual and generally symbolic.

This leads to an unusual river crossroads at the Thames called " Four Rivers " above Osney Lock.

Minami-Tori-Shima is triangular in shape, and unusual in that it has an inverted-saucer like profile, with a raised outer rim of between above sea level.

Care must be taken to distinguish true compartments from items upon which supporters are merely resting one or more feet, or, sometimes, mere heraldic badges or pure decoration under the shield, and, conversely, care must also be taken in very unusual cases such as the coat of arms of Belize, in which what may be taken to be a crest, the mahogany tree rising above the shield, is really part of the compartment.