Depictions of Apsaras es from the Khajuraho templeIndia played a significant role in the history of sex, from writing one of the first literature that treated sexual intercourse as a science, to in modern times being the origin of the philosophical focus of new-age groups ' attitudes on sex.

Depictions of Neptune in Roman mosaics, especially those of North Africa, are influenced by Hellenistic conventions.

Depictions of karkadann are found also in North Indian art.

Depictions of East Asians began during the California Gold Rush when minstrels encountered Chinese out West.

Depictions of the speed and extent of injury to which Wolverine can heal vary.

Depictions of the serpent can be found on Neolithic Trypillian pottery.

Depictions of early versions of the ney can be found in wall paintings in the pyramids of Egypt, indicating that it is one of the oldest musical instruments in continuous use.

Depictions of pregnant women can serve as mystically connotated symbols of fertility.

Depictions of such flags may be marked with the symbol File: IFIS Equal. svg, indicating the reverse is congruent to ( rather than a mirror image of ) the obverse.

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Depictions of Greek and Roman water screws show them being powered by a human treading on the outer casing to turn the entire apparatus as one piece, which would require that the casing be rigidly attached to the screw.

Depictions of bondage in art may be erotic, in which case they would tend to depict a young woman in danger and fear, and some are BDSM in style.

Depictions of erections of the penis may not be allowed ( see Mull of Kintyre Test ), although attitudes towards this are changing.

From the 1940s, it came to be viewed as a symbol of the Jewish people's return to Zion, to its ancient homeland, For Jewish women, the tomb was associated with fertility and became a place of pilgrimage to pray for successful childbirth. Depictions of the Tomb of Rachel have appeared in thousands of Jewish religious books and works of art.

Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid / Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology.

Depictions of two-tiered ships ( biremes ), with or without the parexeiresia ( the outriggers, see below ), are common in 8th century BC vases and pottery fragments, and it is at the end of that century that the first references to three-tiered ships are found.

Depictions of a variant of breaststroke are found in Babylonian bas-reliefs and Assyrian wall drawings.

Depictions of the crane have been found in Shang Dynasty tombs and Zhou Dynasty ceremonial bronzeware.

* Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid / Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology.

Depictions of a flying falcon with a cross above its head have been found in Old Ladoga, the first seat of Kievan Rurik dynasty, of Scandinavian lineage.

A Reassessment of Pictish Chordophone Depictions ", Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 36, Winter 1998.

* Foolish Clothing: Depictions of Jesters and Fools in the Middle Ages and Renaissance What 14th-16th century jesters wore and carried, as seen in illustrations and museum collections.

Depictions of her last days became enormously popular in preaching and art.

Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, The Last Supper ( Leonardo da Vinci ) | Leonardo da Vinci's late 1490s mural painting in Milan, Italy, being perhaps the best known example.

Depictions of ritual sporting events are seen in the Minoan art of Bronze Age Crete, such as a fresco dating to 1500 BC of gymnastics in the form of religious bull-leaping and possibly bullfighting.

Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art:

Depictions of fae have made their way into the popular culture in other ways as well, including clothing designs, ceramics, figurines, needlecraft, figurative art, quilting, many marketed through Hot Topic to an international market online.

Depictions of humans and animals in a sexual context appear infrequently in rock art in Europe beginning around the onset of the Neolithic and the domestication of animals.

Depictions of Cleopatra VI which appear on temple walls are good examples Ptolemaic Egyptian art.

Depictions of ancient myths and legends, as well as depictions of modern day fantasy in the form of divine interventions and other magical or supernatural forces, are very common elements, and help distinguish fantasy art from other forms.

Depictions of Vishnu are prominent at Angkor Wat, the 12th century temple that was originally dedicated to Vishnu.

Depictions of the large crop hinted at a relationship with pigeons, in which this feature is more developed than other birds.

Depictions of the dawn-goddess with a young lover became popular in Etruria in the fifth century, probably inspired by imported Greek vase-painting.

Depictions of Fenrir have been identified on various objects, and scholarly theories have been proposed regarding Fenrir's relation to other canine beings in Norse mythology.

Depictions include " Freyr und Gerda ; Skade und Niurd " ( drawing, 1883 ) by K. Ehrenberg, " Njörðr " ( 1893 ) by Carl Frederick von Saltza, " Skadi " ( 1901 ) by E. Doepler d. J., and " Njörd's desire of the Sea " ( 1908 ) by W. G. Collingwood.

Depictions of daemons between lions, of men between daemons, and processions of daemons, appear also in Mycenean seals and jewllerry, and in Phigalia of Arcadia.

Depictions prior to the 7th century generally used secondary events such as the Myrrhbearers at the tomb of Jesus to convey the concept of the Resurrection.

Depictions of a fictional society dominated by a theocracy recur in science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy.

Depictions have existed from the Upper Paleolithic period, with carvings and paintings from the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves, through virtually all ancient and medieval cultures where they once occurred.

Depictions of family life alternated, and intertwined, with the shadowy crime drama that was always the strip's mainstay, such as the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend, Model, being accidentally shot and killed by her brother, a wanted murderer of a police officer.

But Europeans defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732 ; this proved to be the high water mark of the Islamic conquests in western Europe and of the expansion of Al-Andalus.

The new Christian hierarchy demanded heavy taxes from non-Christians and gave them rights, such as in the Treaty of Granada ( 1491 ) only for Moors in recently Islamic Granada.

* 1264 – In Spain, King James I of Aragon reconquers the cities of Orihuela in Alicante and Elx in Valencia from the Moors, ending over 500 years of Islamic rule.

Andorra is the last independent survivor of the Marca Hispanica, the buffer states created by Charlemagne to keep the Islamic Moors from advancing into Christian France.

* The Moors lose possession of Alicante in Al-Andalus ( Islamic Spain ).

* In Spain, King James I of Aragon reconquers the cities of Orihuela in Alicante and Elx in Valencia from the Moors, ending over 500 years of Islamic rule.

In 711 AD, the now Islamic Moors conquered Visigothic Christian Hispania.

Moorish architecture is a term used to describe the articulated Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal where the Moors were dominant from 711 – 1492.

After the Portuguese annexed Malacca in August 1511, one Portuguese diary noted ' it is thirty years since they became Moors ' - giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Islamic and European influences in the region.

The horsemen of Central Asia, such as the Mongols, used this type of stirrup, as did the Islamic Bedouin and Moors of the Middle East and North Africa.

Construction of the Great Mosque at Córdoba ( now a cathedral known as the Mezquita ) beginning in 785 CE marks the beginning of Islamic architecture in the Iberian peninsula and North Africa ( see Moors ).

After the Portuguese annexed Malacca in August 1511, one Portuguese diary noted ' it is thirty years since they became Moors '- giving a sense of the competition then taking place between Islamic and European influences in the region.

In Portugal there is a city called Alcácer do Sal ( Al Qaşr ), which was an administrative regional seat for the Moors during the Islamic Al-Andalus era on the Iberian Peninsula.

The Spanish proselytized many natives, and labelled those who remained Muslims as Moro, a derogatory term recalling the Moors, an Islamic people of North Africa who occupied Spain for 800 years.

During the period of Islamic rule, after the Normans lay waste to the coast of Málaga in the tenth century, the Moors fortified the coastline and built a string of several lighthouse towers along it.

In the sixteenth century, Sephardi Jews faced religious persecution under the Inquisition, and, along with the Islamic Moors, were exiled from the Iberian peninsula, where they had thrived for centuries.

The Moors began construction of the Great Mosque at Cordoba in 785 marking the beginning of Islamic architecture in Spain and Northern Africa ( see Moors ).

In the 8th century the Islamic Berbers (" Moors ") of North Africa established the Caliphate of Cordoba conquering Baetica.

For instance, the Legion adopted the regimental designation of tercio in memory of the 16th century Spanish infantry formations that had toppled nations and terrorized the battlefields of Europe in the days of Charles V. Millán-Astray also revived the Spaniard's ancient feud with the Moors and portrayed his men first as crusaders on an extended Reconquista against the Islamic civilization, and later as the saviours of Spain warding off the twin evils of Communism and democratic liberalism defeating the dangerous spectre of ' Eastern Atheism.

Just after the conquest of the city to the Moors, the main mosque was decreed to be stripped of its Islamic past and consecrated as the parish church ( named Santa Maria la Coronada y San Bernardo ).

Around the year 711, Hispania was invaded by the Moors from the Maghreb, inaugurating a period of great influence of Islamic culture in the Alentejo region that would last nearly 500 years.

The North African Islamic Moors established themselves in Spain in the early 8th century and the province of Almería came under the authority of the Caliphate of Damascus and was later ruled by the Umayyads of Córdoba.

The city has been linked to the Roman settlement of Colonia Augusta Gemella, and starting in the 8th century was ruled by the Moors under various Islamic states for over 500 years.