Enamored by a microchip featured in a magazine, Son at age 19 became confident that computer technology would ignite the next commercial revolution.

Enamored by the romantic stories that her mother told her about Ra's as a child, Nyssa sets out to find Ra's and eventually locates him at his headquarters in North Africa.

Enamored, he decides to go join Arthur's court.

Enamored with the idea of seeing the sea, the family returns home after Ermei's son has recovered.

Enamored with Brazil, Zingg began to shuttle back and forth between Rio and New York.

Enamored with Amor, the housemaid, Eduardo will sacrifice his love for her because of one single lie.

The great strength of the Italian industry was historical epics, with large casts and massive scenery.

He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike ( 1924 ), Battleship Potemkin ( 1925 ) and October ( 1927 ), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) and Ivan the Terrible ( 1944, 1958 ).

Leone began writing screenplays during the 1950s, primarily for the ' sword and sandal ' ( a. k. a. ' peplum ') historical epics, popular at the time.

In the early 1960s, historical epics fell out of favor with audiences, but Leone had shifted his attention to a sub-genre which came to be known as the " Spaghetti Western ", owing its origin to the American Western.

According to Oppenheim, the corpus of cuneiform literature amounted to around 1, 500 texts at any one time or place, approximately half of which, at least from the first millennium, is extant in fragmentary form, and the most common genres included ( in order of predominance ) are omen texts, lexical lists, ritual incantations, cathartic and apotropaic conjurations, historical and mythological epics, fables and proverbs.

The film retells the story of Helen of Troy, parodying the plot-line of historical epics of the era by transforming the classical characters into everyday people with modern problems.

At the time when the Homeric epics were composed, " primitive " practices such as bride-price and polygamy were no longer part of Greek society ; mentions of them preserve, if they have a historical basis at all, customs dating from the Age of Migrations ( ca.

The Peplum ( or pepla plural ), also known as sword-and-sandal, also fusto ( after an Italian word for ' he-man ') is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or Biblical epics ( costume dramas ) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the " Spaghetti Western ".

The pepla attempted to emulate, or compete with, the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Spartacus, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments ( just as the Spaghetti westerns were imitations of the Hollywood Western ).

While Hollywood filmmakers, such as D. W. Griffith with his 1916 Intolerance, peopled their historical epics with dramatic conflicts and realistic protagonists, many of the Pepla merely took a real historical or Biblical event and used it as a backdrop for a simplistic ( albeit engrossing ), comic book-like heroic adventure tale.

During the 1950s, a number of American historical epics shot in Italy were released.

The highest form of development of this style of singing can be seen in the lyric historical folk epics known as dumy sung to the accompaniment of the bandura, kobza or lira ( lirnyk ).

: Melodiï ukraïns ' kikh narodnykh dum of Ukrainian historical epics ( Lemberg, 1910 – 13, 2 / 1969 )

It is the historical setting of the epics of Homer and of most Greek mythology.

The last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece, it is the historical setting of much ancient Greek literature and myth, including the epics of Homer.

In modern scholarship the study of the historical and literary relationship between the Homeric epics and the rest of the Cycle is called Neoanalysis.

III 466 ), although Ancient and Medieval literature ( e. g. Icelandic sagas and Middle High German epics ) record specific martial deeds and military knowledge ; in addition, historical artwork depicts combat and weaponry ( e. g. the Bayeux tapestry, the Morgan Bible ).

The 1950s and early 60s saw a Hollywood dominated by musicals, historical epics, and other films that benefited from the larger screens, wider framing and improved sound, and as early as 1957 the era was called a " New Hollywood ".

Between 1823 and 1831 he composed four dramas and eight smaller epics, partly historical, partly fanciful.

Médem subverts the conventions of the family saga by replacing the human subjectivity of conventional melodrama and historical epics with a diffidence about life and death that is expressed through the uninterested gaze of the cows.

His samurai films diverged from the norm in that they were not heroic epics of the sort which had by that time become formulaic, but rather satires that used the established symbols and iconography of the samurai culture to comment on both historical and modern society.

For the deserts of Morocco, Milius used many locations in the Almeria region, some of which had been previously used in historical epics such as Lawrence of Arabia and El Cid, as well as several Spaghetti Westerns, though he claims to have discovered the beach where Raisuli rescues the Perdicaris family after their escape.

Tasso's choice of subject matter, an actual historic conflict between Christians and Muslims ( albeit with fantastical elements added ), had a historical grounding, and created compositional implications ( the narrative subject matter had a fixed endpoint and could not be endlessly spun out in multiple volumes ) that are lacking in other Renaissance epics.

It is known that Birger grew up and spent his adolescence in Bjälbo, Östergötland but the exact date of his birth remains uncertain and available historical sources are contradictory.

These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

However, after you've seen all the historical piazzas and plazas, the places and forums, the churches and museums, the palaces and castles, and begin to feel at home in the capitals of Europe, you'll want to change your course and follow the by-roads at will, far from the market places.

`` It is not an individual that is in the dock at this historical trial '' -- said Ben Gurion, `` and not the Nazi regime alone -- but anti-Semitism throughout history ''.

One of Achill's most famous historical sites is that of the Achill Mission or ' the Colony ' at Dugort.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.

Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

The first references in the western historical tradition begin at Syracuse in 399 BC and these devices were widely employed by the Roman Legions in Republican times well before the Christian era.

Abiathar was deposed ( the sole historical instance of the deposition of a high priest ) and banished to his home at Anathoth by Solomon, because he took part in the attempt to raise Adonijah to the throne.

The last mention of Ambrose in the historical record is in Origen's Contra Celsum, which the latter wrote at the solicitation of Ambrose.

It looked at the effects of acid rain and funded research on the effects of acid precipitation on freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, historical buildings, monuments, and building materials.

During his time at Yale he worked on the description of the Hopi language, and the historical linguistics of the Uto-Aztecan languages, publishing many influential papers in professional journals.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

The definition of a battle cannot be arrived at solely through the names of historical battles, many of which are misnomers.

Being politically and geographically inclusive and leaving at the same time space for diversity, this historical vision filled the needs of Dutch nation-building and integration in the 1890-1914 era.

The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.

Recent research conducted at the German military historical

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

In Futurism, parallels may be drawn with historical events, but most eschatological prophecies are chiefly referring to events which have not been fulfilled, but will take place at the end of the age and the end of the world.

The variables which determine climate are numerous and the interactions complex, but there is general agreement that the broad outlines are understood, at least insofar as the determinants of historical climate change are concerned.

Although a recognition of sainthood by the Pope does not directly concern a fact of divine revelation, it must still be " definitively held " by the faithful as infallible under ( at the very least ) the Universal Magisterium of the Church since it is a truth connected to revelation by historical necessity.