An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

For the music and instruments of the ancient Celts until late Antiquity, see Ancient Celtic music.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

For example: if five ancient historians, none of whom knew each other, all claim that Julius Caesar seized power in Rome in 49 BCE, this is strong evidence in favor of that event occurring even if each individual historian is only partially reliable.

For example, ancient Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance amongst other forms of ' clear ' experiencing, as siddhis, or ' perfections ', skills that are yielded through appropriate meditation and personal discipline.

In the third century AD, Flavius Philostratus wrote this: " For there is an ancient law in regard to the Red Sea, which the king Erythras laid down, when he held sway over that sea, to the effect that the Egyptians should not enter it with a vessel of war, and indeed should employ only a single merchant ship.

For instance, the democracy of ancient Athens did not allow women, foreigners, or slaves to vote, and the original United States Constitution left the topic of suffrage to the states ; usually only white male property owners were able to vote.

For example, according to ancient Hebrew belief, life takes a linear ( and not cyclical ) path ; the world began with God and is constantly headed toward God ’ s final goal for creation.

For the ancient Greek mathematicians, geometry was the crown jewel of their sciences, reaching a completeness and perfection of methodology that no other branch of their knowledge had attained.

For some of the ancient sources, such as Herophilus, Galen's account of their work is all that survives.

For example Hecataeus of Miletus, a geographer and historian in ancient Greece, described inhabitants of the ancient world as well as physical features.

For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

For example, gatka is a weapon-based Indian martial art created by the Sikhs of the Punjab region of India and the Kshatriya caste of Hindus have another ancient martial art named Shastra vidhya.

For example ancient people knew that " lodestones ," when suspended from a string and allowed to freely rotate, come to rest horizontally in the North-South direction.

" For his thesis, Atta focused his studies on the ancient city of Aleppo in Syria.

For in the Epistle which he wrote to the priests of Gaul, charging them with connivance with error, in that by their silence they failed in their duty to the ancient faith, and allowed profane novelties to spring up, he says: " We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence.

For illustration purposes, below are examples of striking and grappling techniques ( including examples of counters ), as well as strategies and tactics, that have been identified from the ancient sources ( visual arts or literature ).

For example Constantine started putting restrictions on the ancient Roman concept of patria potestas, the power held by the male head of a family over his descendents, by acknowledging that persons in potestate, the descendents, could have proprietary rights.

For example, mind-melding before the ancient teachings were recovered was considered immoral ; after, it was embraced as the legacy of all Vulcans.

For treatment of scabies in Spain, Egg Oil was used along with oil of castor and roses in ancient Andalusia.

For years, scientists have tried to unravel ancient clues as to why the boy king of Egypt, who reigned for 10 years, died at the age of 19.

For a possible etymological connection, Schuessler notes the ancient Fangyan dictionary defines yu < * lokh 裕 and lu < * lu 猷 as Eastern Qi State dialectal words meaning dào < * lûʔ 道 " road ".

For the Kigensetsu celebration of 1940, according to the calculation the 2, 600th anniversary of Emperor Jimmu, the government constructed on the legendary site of Emperor Jimmu's palace, near Miyazaki, the Hakkō Tower.

For the film ’ s legendary opening sequence in a Saigon hotel room, Sheen didn ’ t have to act so much since it was his 36th birthday and he was very drunk.

: For the legendary Irish High King, see Bres Rí ; for the Marvel Comics character, see Bres ( comics )

For several years, legendary Titanic Thompson lived in Lovington.

For one week, residents reported signs of the legendary Sasquatch.

For the ancient Greeks Semiramis ( pronounced ) was one of several legendary Assyrian queens.

In those 11 years, Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed and made fun of these legendary stars in this order: Ronald Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O ' Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Landon, Evel Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gabe Kaplan, Ted Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Betty White, Suzanne Somers, Joan Collins, and Mr T. For nearly a decade, Martin had recorded as many as four albums a year for Reprise Records.

His first piano piece, " For a Small White Seashell " (" Για μια Μικρή Λευκή Αχιβάδα "), came out in 1947 and in 1948 he shook the musical establishment by delivering his legendary lecture on rembetika, the urban folk songs that flourished in Greek cities, mainly Piraeus, after the Asia Minor refugee influx in 1922 and until then had heavy underworld and cannabis use connections and were consequently looked down upon.

Alexia Vassiliou with Mikis Theodorakis For a period of 10 years, Internationally knows singer, Alexia Vassiliou teamed up with the legendary Mikis Theodorakis and his Popular Orchestra.

For example, in early games Blade Cusinart was introduced as " a legendary sword made by the famous blacksmith, Cusinart " as Cuisinart and its food processors were virtually unknown in Japan and thus its meaning was misinterpreted.

For example, the legendary Jerry Abershawe terrorised the area around Kingston and led a gang based at the Bald Faced Stag Inn on the Portsmouth Road.

For this, he would become legendary as the main hero of the war.

For eight years, Beaufort directed the Arctic Council during its search for the explorer, Sir John Franklin, lost in his last polar voyage to search for the legendary Northwest Passage.

For example, the episode " The Tale of the Twisted Claw " is an adaptation of W. W. Jacobs ' legendary short story " The Monkey's Paw ".

For years the post has been directly appointed by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham and in modern times, with the existence of the police force, the position is entirely ceremonial and sustained to boost tourism due to the legendary connection with the fictional Sheriff of Nottingham in the tales of Robin Hood.

Dad is known for being stubborn most of the time and his favorite hobbies include caring for his lawn (" Grounded For Life "), and fishing, particularly for " Old Bob ", a legendary striped bass (" On Golden Pete ").

For many years he worked with other legendary Globe sports writers Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan, and Leigh Montville.

In addition to rap, legendary smooth jazz musician Grover Washington, Jr., a fan of the 76ers, created the song " Let It Flow ( For Dr. J )", from the album Winelight, in honor of Erving.

For the last years of his life, golf legend Sam Snead held the position of the resort's emeritus pro ; today, that title is held by the equally legendary Tom Watson.

Quoting from that page: For the history of this great work, including the eventual discovery of the legendary lost ending, see New York Review of Science Fiction # 195, November 2004, and # 198, February 2005.

For that, Lasker was invited to participate in the legendary New York 1924 chess tournament, a double round robin featuring such world class players as Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubov, Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, and Réti.

For the generation of national leaders coming of age in the 1820s and 1830s – men like Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun – " the founders " represented a heroic but anonymous abstraction whose long shadow fell across all followers and whose legendary accomplishments defied comparison.

For the subject of his play, the author of Locrine drew upon a legendary pseudo-history of the founding of Britain.

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries it was agreed among scholars that this was an early version of the Book of Deuteronomy, but recent biblical scholarship sees it as largely legendary narrative about one of the earliest stages of creation of Deuteronomistic work.