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At Titane in Sicyonia, Pausanias saw an altar, in front of it a tumulus raised to the hero Epopeus, and, near to the barrow-tomb, the " Gods of Aversion "— the apotropai —" before whom are performed the ceremonies which the Hellenes observe for the averting of evils ".
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At the wedding Philip was assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis.
At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.
At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.
At the sanctuary were bases of statues, which by Pausanias ’ time had been deprived of the statues themselves, as well as a hippodrome, where the athletic games had once been held.
* At a grand celebration of his daughter Cleopatra's marriage to Alexander I of Epirus ( brother of Olympias ), Philip II is assassinated at Aegae by Pausanias of Orestis, a young Macedonian noble with a bitter grievance against the young queen's uncle Attalus and against Philip for denying him justice.
At Cirrha, the port that served Delphi, Pausanias noted " a temple of Apollo, Artemis and Leto, with very large images of Attic workmanship.
At Sparta the temple to the Moirai stood near the communal hearth of the polis, as Pausanias observed.
At Elis, white poplar was the only wood used in sacrifices to Zeus, according to Pausanias, because Herakles imported the tree and used it to burn the thigh bones of sacrificial victims at Olympia.
At about that time Patroclus killed Las, founder of a namesake city near Gytheio, Laconia, according to Pausanias the geographer.
At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos ; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios.
At Sparta a cenotaph was erected in his memory near the tombs of Pausanias and Leonidas, and yearly speeches were made and games celebrated in their honor, in which only Spartiates could compete ..
At the murder trial, two other men, Heromenes and Arrhabaeus, were found guilty of conspiracy with Pausanias, and executed.
At Haliartos in Boeotia, Pausanias saw the open-air " sanctuary of the goddesses whom they call Praxidikae.
At and saw
At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.
At the landing she saw Juanita, her face flushed pink with excitement, run down the hall from the kitchen to the front door.
At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.
At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.
At 3:57 a.m., with the plane about twenty minutes out of El Paso, passenger Robert Berry, a San Antonio advertising man, glanced up and saw the man and boy, accompanied by a stewardess, walking up the aisle toward the cockpit.
At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.
At the same time, the most western island of the Juan Fernández Islands was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island although Selkirk probably never saw that island ( 97 miles west ).
" At first I thought, despite everything that I saw with my own eyes, that the Soviet state was a breakthrough into the future, a kind of prototype for all countries ".
At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas, which some have questioned may have signified an allegiance to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas, which some believe may have signified an allegiance to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
At about the same time a U. S. businessman, Milton Reynolds, saw a Biro pen in a store in Buenos Aires.
* At Corby, the closure of the former Stewarts & Lloyds site in the early 1980s saw the loss of 11, 000 jobs, leading to an initial unemployment rate of over 30 %.
At 72 years of age, Attlee contested the 1955 general election against Anthony Eden, which saw the Conservative majority increase.
At first, Constans was under the guardianship of Constantine II, and the original settlement saw Constans receiving the praetorian prefectures of Italy and Africa.
At this stage of his career Churchill was opposed to what he saw as excessive defence spending.
At La Martinique, playwright Moss Hart saw Danny perform, which led to Hart casting him in Hart's hit Broadway comedy Lady in the Dark.
" At times Husserl saw his goal as one of moral " renewal ".
At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.
At 11: 15pm reporters waiting outside the National Palace saw two cars containing Madero and Suárez emerge from the main gate under a heavy escort commanded by Captain Francisco Cardenas, an officer of the rurales.
At the time, he saw only three of them, and he believed them to be fixed stars near Jupiter.
At this time, many local dukes saw it as a chance to oppose the hegemony of Emperor Charles V. The empire then became fatally divided along religious lines, with the north, the east, and many of the major cities — Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Nuremberg — becoming Protestant while the southern and western regions largely remained Catholic.
At the end of the 80s he made a comeback of sorts ; Yada Yada ( 1988 ), produced by George Kooymans, was well-received, and he toured Germany with a renewed Wild Romance ( which saw the return of Danny Lademacher ).
At this election, Holt saw his majority in Fawkner nearly disappear in the redistribution.
At that time the Soviet Union saw the Nordic Council as part of NATO of which Denmark, Norway and Iceland were members.
At that time, the British also supported the creation and the training of Palmach, as a unit that could withstand a German offensive in the area, with the consent of Yishuv which saw an opportunity to get trained units and soldiers for the planned Jewish state and during 1944-1945, the most mainstream Jewish para-military organization, Haganah, cooperated with the British authorities against the Lehi and Etzel.
At and altar
At Plataea there was a festival, the Daedala, in which a temporary wooden altar was fashioned, and an effigy was made from an oak-tree and dressed in bridal attire.
At the altar, when the vicar asks if anyone knows a reason why the couple should not marry, David asks Charles to translate for him, and says in sign language that he suspects the groom is having doubts and loves someone else.
At God's command, Abraham was to build a sacrificial altar and sacrifice his son Isaac upon it.
:" At Pergamum there is a great marble altar, high, with colossal sculptures, representing a battle of the giants.
At his funeral in Brauweiler, according to Bruno of Toul ( later Pope Leo IX ), she put her fine jewelry on the altar and declared that she devote the rest of her life as a nun and to preserved the memory of the Ezzonen dynasty.
At the final scene's wedding procession, Akeem waits dejectedly at the altar as his bride-to-be makes her way down the aisle, but when he lifts the veil to kiss her, he finds Lisa instead of his arranged bride.
At the time of the Reformation, altars were fixed against the east end of the church, and the priests would celebrate the Mass standing at the front of the altar.
At the end of that thirty days, his throat was cut on the altar of Saturn.
At a certain point in time the choirs, which had previously chanted to right of the altar or stage, and then to left of it, combined and sang in unison, or permitted the coryphaeus to sing for them all, while standing in the centre.
At its highest point, there is an ancient altar known as the Pillar of Pompey, though it has nothing to do with Pompey.
At the end, when Tess and Angel come to Stonehenge, commonly believed in Hardy's time to be a pagan temple, she willingly lies down on an altar, thus fulfilling her destiny as a human sacrifice.
At the altar can also be found the images of Saptamatri ( Seven Mothers ) flanked by Ganesha and Veerabhadra.
At the same time, the ciborium was added over the altar.
At the 2007 convention, the delegates voted to establish altar and pulpit fellowship with the American Association of Lutheran Churches ( AALC ).
At the end of the second session of the Second Vatican Council in 1963, Paul VI descended the steps of the papal throne in St. Peter's Basilica and ascended to the altar, on which he laid the tiara in a dramatic gesture of humility and as a sign of the renunciation of human glory and power in keeping with the renewed spirit of the Council.
At the rear of the church, above the high altar, stands a statue by Charles Marochetti depicting St Mary Magdalene being lifted up by angels which evokes the tradition concerning ectasy which she entered in her daily prayer while in seclusion.
At the end of the 17th century, it had its basic layout, cupola, sacristy and main altar.
* At the left of the altar is located the most famous statue of all the Cathedral, the San Bartolomeo Flayed ( 1562 ), by Marco d ' Agrate, the saint shows the leather thrown over his shoulders like a stole.
At Shechem, Abram " built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him ... and had given that land to his descendants " ( Gen 12: 6-7 ).
At a beautiful spot near the river, he had his followers build a small canopy of coconut leaves and mango leaves over an altar on a rock jutting out in the water.
At the back of the portico are three chambers ; the central one has an altar and a water channel ( pranalika ), though the Linga is lost.
At the end of the south wall of the south aisle, next to the altar, are a piscina ( a shelf on which the sacred vessels were washed after mass ) and a sedile ( a stone seat for the priest ), both in the decorated gothic style of the 14th century but badly damaged.
At the altar a stone depiction of the Last Supper, based on the painting by Leonardo da Vinci, greets the congregation.
At the end of the route the Clavie is put onto a stone altar ( which was not constructed until the 19th century ) upon Doorie Hill, and more fuel is added, often setting the whole side of the hill alight in the process.
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