Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

Robert Graves ( relying on the work of Georges Dumezil argued for tracing the centaurs back to the Indian gandharva ), speculated that the centaurs were a dimly remembered, pre-Hellenic fraternal earth cult who had the horse as a totem.

Although mining had long been practised in Britain ( see Grimes Graves ), the Romans introduced new technical knowledge and large-scale industrial production to revolutionise the industry.

John Graves Simcoe was the only surviving son of John and Katherine Simcoe ; although his parents had four children, he was the only one to live past childhood.

Upon learning that de Grasse had sailed from the West Indies for North America, and that French Admiral de Barras had also sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Graves concluded that they were going to join forces at the Chesapeake.

Meanwhile his colleague and commander of the New York fleet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves, had spent several weeks trying to intercept a convoy organized by John Laurens to bring much-needed supplies and hard currency from France to Boston.

When Hood arrived at New York, he found that Graves was in port ( having failed to intercept the convoy ), but had only five ships of the line that were ready for battle.

By 31 August, Graves had moved his five ships of the line out of New York harbor to meet with Hood's force.

Graves was also concerned about some ships in his own fleet ; Europe in particular had difficulty manoeuvring.

When the true size of the fleets became apparent, Graves assumed that de Grasse and de Barras had already joined forces, and prepared for battle ; he directed his line toward the bay's mouth, assisted by winds from the north-northeast.

The ongoing conflicting signals left by Graves, and discrepancies between his and Hood's records of what signals had been given and when, led to immediate recriminations, written debate, and an eventual formal inquiry.

Graves ordered the Terrible to be scuttled on 11 September due to her leaky condition, and was notified on 13 September that the French fleet was back in the Chesapeake ; he still did not learn that de Grasse's line had not included the fleet of de Barras, because the frigate captain making the report had not counted the ships.

Historian Harold Larrabee points out that this would have exposed Clinton in New York to blockade by the French if Graves had successfully entered the bay ; if Graves did not do so, de Barras ( carrying the siege equipment ) would have been outnumbered by Graves if de Grasse did not sail out in support.

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

By 1925, the Klan was a powerful political force in the state, as urban politicians such as J. Thomas Heflin, David Bibb Graves, and Hugo Black manipulated the KKK membership against the power of the " Big Mule " industrialists and especially the Black Belt planters who had long dominated the state.

As Fusilier Robert Graves reported, " the regiment retorted by inquiring on what occasion since the retreat from Corunna, when the regiment was the last to leave Spain, with the keys of the town postern in the pocket of one of its officers, had any of His Majesty's enemies seen the back of a Royal Welch Fusilier ?," and the matter remained " in abeyance throughout the war.

Sassoon described Rivers's bedside manner in his letter to Graves, written as he lay in hospital after being shot ( a head wound that he had hoped would kill him – he was bitterly disappointed when it didn't ):

In Britain, under the Imperial War Graves Commission, Reverend David Railton had seen a grave marked by a rough cross while serving in the British Army as a chaplain on the Western Front, which bore the pencil-written legend " An Unknown British Soldier ".

During this meeting Hood and Graves supposedly exchanged words concerning the conflicting signals, and Hood proposed turning the fleet around to make for the Chesapeake.

The proposed addition, designed by Michael Graves and announced in 1985, drew immediate opposition.

Graves argues that " true " or " pure " poetry is inextricably linked with the ancient cult-ritual of his proposed White Goddess and of her son.

Of these three, Granbury was the last to be completed, in 1969, and its proposed construction in the mid-1950s became the impetus for John Graves ' book, Goodbye to a River.

The House proposed the expulsion of Graves and the censure of the other participants ( excluding Crittenden, who was a senator and not subject to House censure ).

Philosophers, scientists, and educators that have proposed theories of spiritual evolution include Schelling, Hegel, Max Théon, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Henri Bergson, Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Owen Barfield, Arthur M. Young, Edward Haskell, E. F. Schumacher, Erich Jantsch, Clare W. Graves, Alfred North Whitehead, Terence McKenna, P. R.

Following the economic crisis of Wall Street in September 2008, Graves voted against the proposed bailout of United States financial system, claiming that it neither " punished the wrongdoers nor adequately protected the innocent taxpayers, investors and retirees ” caught in the Wall Street banking crisis.

Robert Graves proposed a theory that it stood for the black pestilence of the church and that the girl was really being protected from entering a nunnery.

Druantia is a hypothetical Gallic tree goddess proposed by Robert Graves in his study The White Goddess ( 1948 ).

The title refers to Graves ' childhood association with the river and the country surrounding it, and his fear of the " drowning " effect that a proposed series of flood-control dams ( most notably, Lake Granbury ) would have on the river.

The view that while geographic clustering of biological traits does exist this does not lend biological validity to racial groups was proposed by several evolutionary anthropologists and geneticists prior to the publication of Edwards critique of Lewontin .< ref > Graves, Joseph.

In 2003, an infection of unknown origin ( possibly bacterial meningitis ) left Graves paralyzed from the waist down.

Graves tells that Turner would outline a scene, sit doing nothing for two or three days, then suddenly, " perhaps on the third day, he would exclaim ' there it is ', and seizing his colours work rapidly till he had noted down the peculiar effect he wished to fix in his memory.

Robert Graves ( The Greek Myths ) suggested that the cow was actually turned loose within a moderately confined space, and that where she lay down, a temple to the moon-goddess ( Selene ) was erected: " A cow's strategic and commercial sensibilities are not well developed ," Graves remarked.

Remarkable in their achievements as craftsmen and farmers they put down roots to blend a political, economic, and social environment unique, perhaps only to Graves County.

The Bush dog, Millie, came down with Graves ' disease, too, although there are reports that she had a different auto-immune disease, lupus.

Her open-mindedness led her to accept a triangular relationship, and from early 1926 Laura Riding lived with her and Graves in London The marriage eventually broke down, as Graves increasingly favoured Riding, leaving Nancy to bring up the four children of the marriage alone, in a succession of locations, including Cumberland and a further spell on Boars Hill.

He went down to Pembroke College, Oxford in 1732 and made another firm friend there in Richard Graves, the author of The Spiritual Quixote.

Ryan Graves would later step down from his role and Travis Kalanick would be made the CEO.

Its streets, and the brook that flows through it, are in turn named after Sir John Graves Simcoe's summer residence in that area overlooking the Don River, which burned down in 1829.

Laid out somewhat like the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Kanchanaburi, by late-2008 the cemetery was overgrown and run down, and inhabited by wild dogs.

When the Sky is cleft asunder ; When the Stars are scattered ; When the Oceans are suffered to burst forth ; And when the Graves are turned upside down ; ( Then ) shall each soul know what it hath sent forward and ( what it hath ) kept back.

The landlord of the Lamb was quick to report that Hayward had said to him " I have been a match for old Graves ... damn and blast the fire: I wish it would burn half Cottenham down.