According to Cicero and Hyginus, Caelus was the son of Aether and Dies (" Day " or " Daylight ").

In one tradition, Caelus was the father with Tellus of the Muses, though was this probably a mere translation of Ouranos from a Greek source.

Nocturnus appears in several inscriptions found in Dalmatia and Italy, in the company of other deities who are found also in the cosmological schema of Martianus Capella, based on the Etruscan tradition .< ref > Including CIL 3. 1956 = ILS 4887, 9753, 14243 < sup > 2 </ sup >, CIL 5. 4287 = ILS 4888, as cited and discussed by Mario Torelli, Studies in the Romanization of Italy ( University of Alberta Press, 1995 ), pp. 108 – 109 .</ ref > In the Etruscan discipline of divination, Caelus Nocturnus was placed in the sunless north opposite Sol to represent the polar extremities of the axis ( see cardo ).

Opis, when syncretized with Greek mythology, was not only the wife of Saturn, she was his sister and the daughter of Caelus.

Her male complement was a sky god such as Caelus ( Uranus ) or a form of Jupiter.

The name of Caelus indicates that he was the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Uranus ( Οὐρανός, Ouranos ), who was of major importance in the theogonies of the Greeks.

Although Caelus is not known to have had a cult at Rome, not all scholars consider him a Greek import given a Latin name ; he has been associated with Summanus, the god of nocturnal thunder, as " purely Roman.

Caelus begins to appear regularly in Augustan art and in connection with the cult of Mithras during the Imperial era.

As a sky god, he became identified with Jupiter, as indicated by an inscription that reads Optimus Maximus Caelus Aeternus Iup < pi > ter.

Caelus was the father with Hecate of the distinctively Roman god Janus, as well as of Saturn and Ops.

Caelus was also the father of one of the three forms of Jupiter, the other two fathers being Aether and Saturn.

Caelus substituted for Uranus in Latin versions of the myth of Saturn ( Cronus ) castrating his heavenly father, from whose severed genitals, cast upon the sea, the goddess Venus ( Aphrodite ) was born.

Varro says that the Greeks call Caelum ( or Caelus ) " Olympus.

In his work on the cosmological systems of antiquity, the Dutch Renaissance humanist Gerardus Vossius deals extensively with Caelus and his duality as both a god and a place that the other gods inhabit.

It is generally though not universally agreed that Caelus is depicted on the cuirass of the Augustus of Prima Porta, at the very top above the four horses of the Sun god's quadriga.

) On an altar of the Lares now held by the Vatican, Caelus in his chariot appears along with Apollo-Sol above the figure of Augustus.

As Caelus Nocturnus, he was the god of the night-time, starry sky.

The name Caelus occurs in dedicatory inscriptions in connection to the cult of Mithras.

The Mithraic deity Caelus is sometimes depicted allegorically as an eagle bending over the sphere of heaven marked with symbols of the planets or the zodiac.

A form of Ahura-Mazda is invoked in Latin as Caelus Aeternus Iupiter.

The walls of some mithrea feature allegorical depictions of the cosmos with Oceanus and Caelus.

The mithraeum of Dieburg represents the tripartite world with Caelus, Oceanus, and Tellus below Phaeton-Heliodromus.

Some Roman writers used Caelus or Caelum as a way to express the monotheistic god of Judaism.

The legions were renamed Commodianae, the fleet which imported grain from Africa was termed Alexandria Commodiana Togata, the Senate was entitled the Commodian Fortunate Senate, his palace and the Roman people themselves were all given the name Commodianus, and the day on which these reforms were decreed was to be called Dies Commodianus.

Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.

Dies were imported from Macau to Shanghai till early ' 90s when Macau finally ceased producing Matchbox toys.

Dies and tooling were later also licensed to groups in Hungary and Bulgaria ( Mikro ' 67 ), in an attempt to gain a foothold in the Communist bloc countries.

Almost all of the tracks were John Barry compositions, and the revision of his work met with his approval – he contacted Barbara Broccoli, producer of the then upcoming Tomorrow Never Dies, to recommend Arnold as the film's composer.

Martin Dies and the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) were very active in denying any Nazi-sympathetic organization the ability to freely operate during World War II.

The Dies Committee determined in 1938 that 280 salaried CIO organizers, were members of the CPUSA.

While some of these accusations, such as those made by the Dies Committee or Reader's Digest, were so wide of the mark as to discredit the accusers, the tide of unfavorable publicity made any association with the CP that much riskier.

Dies were used until they literally fell apart.

Three sequels were released: Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell and Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled.

At the time of Fallada's death in February 1947, he had recently completed Jeder stirbt für sich allein ( Every Man Dies Alone ), an anti-fascist novel based on the true story of a German couple, Otto and Elise Hampel, who were executed for producing and distributing anti-fascist material in Berlin during the war.

" In addition to General Secretaries Saltzman and Bedacht, those explicitly singled out by the Dies Committee for membership in the Communist Party while holding an executive position in the IWO were President William Weiner, Executive Secretary Herbert Benjamin, General Executive Board members Moissaye J. Olgin and Max Steinberg, and assistant to the General Secretary Rebecca Grecht, among others.

In 1939 the Dies Committee subpoenaed leaders of the AYC, who, in addition to serving the AYC, also were members of the Young Communist League.

The BMT 214A also returned in Tomorrow Never Dies ( 1997 ) and was set to make a cameo appearance in the Scotland-set scenes in The World Is Not Enough ( 1999 ), but these were cut in the final edit.

In 1939, Chapman was an early victim of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, as then-chairman Martin Dies Jr. published a list of government employees who were members of a Communist-controlled organization ( Chapman was considered a member because there was a record that he had contributed two dollars to the American League for Peace and Democracy which was raising money for the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War ).

Five stories were written concerning the Spanish Civil War: " The Denunciation ," " The Butterfly and the Tank ," " Night Before Battle ," " Under The Ridge ," and " Nobody Ever Dies.

" Excepting " Nobody Ever Dies ," these stories were collected in a posthumous 1969 volume with his play, entitled The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War.

He was represented by Montreal lawyer John Philpot, brother of Parti Québécois politician and author Robin Philpot ; this connection later surfaced in the 2007 Quebec general election after statements from Robin Philpot's book Rwanda 1994: Colonialism Dies Hard appearing to deny the extent of the genocide were widely publicized.

In an article for ESPN. com Tim Kavanagh discussed stem cells and how they were used in the episode, writing: " This, as with many other important topics of our day, I learned from " South Park ," specifically Episode 513, entitled ' Kenny Dies.