Alongside Hercule Poirot, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

Some television shows such as Deadliest Warrior have incorrectly portrayed butted mail as having been used historically in Europe or the Middle East ( in reality, Japanese mail ( kusari ) is one of the few historically correct examples of mail being constructed with such butted links ).

Kimveer Gill, who killed one and injured nineteen, maintained an online journal at a web site, VampireFreaks, in which he " portrayed himself as a gun-loving Goth.

Saint Louis has often been portrayed as a one dimensional character, a flawless representant of the faith and an administrative reformer who for the governed ones.

Although it is sometimes claimed that Irenaeus believed Christ did not die until he was older than is conventionally portrayed, the bishop of Lyons simply pointed out that because Jesus turned the permissible age for becoming a rabbi ( 30 years old and above ), he recapitulated and sanctified the period between 30 and 50 years old, as per the Jewish custom of periodization of human life, and so touches the beginning of old age when one becomes 50 years old.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

The visual trope portrayed in the Libro de juegos miniatures is seen in other European transcriptions of the Arabic translations, most notably the German Carmina Burana Manuscript: two figures, one on either side of the board, with the board tilted up to reveal to the readers the moves made by the players.

Usually men and women are portrayed dancing together holding hands at shoulder level but occasionally the groups consist of only one sex.

The ministry and Passion of Jesus, as portrayed in one or more of the New Testament Gospels, has also been a theme in film, almost since the inception of the medium ( e. g., " La Passion ", France, 1903 ).

The 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades ; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son ( invented for that purpose ) rather than compete with the image of this one.

From 1981 to 1989, Robert the Bruce was portrayed on £ 1 notes issued by the Clydesdale Bank, one of the three Scottish banks with right to issue banknotes.

He is portrayed as loathing his condition, and at one point he turns Clara Crofton, a member of another family he terrorizes, into a vampire for revenge.

The actual sign for the San Francisco Doggie Diner, commonly portrayed in the comic strip as one of Zippy's conversational foils

Just as, in the case of the original Adam, woman was constructed from man, and their carnal cleaving together was portrayed as becoming one flesh, so the ideal for kabbalists is the reconstitution of what Wolfson calls the male androgyne.

He is loosely categorized as one of the zanni or servant characters though he often was portrayed as a member of the middle class such as a tavern owner: his character could be adapted to whatever the needs to the scenario might be, just as Brighella himself is adaptable to any circumstance.

Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.

Roy Harper also makes an uncredited guest appearance as one of the ' greedy millionaires ' portrayed at a business meeting of multi-national corporations.

In Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles m ' était conté, Louis was portrayed by one of the film's producers, Gilbert Bokanowski, using the alias Gilbert Boka.

This last one may underlie the tradition that a homemaker is portrayed wearing an apron.

Other historians have portrayed the Somme as a preliminary to the defeat of the German Army and one which taught the British Army tactical and operational lessons.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, set 32 years before A New Hope, R2-D2 is portrayed as belonging to the Naboo defense forces and is one of eight astromech droids deployed for repair duty on Queen Padmé Amidala's starship as it attempts to get past the Trade Federation blockade.

For the reverse, Dupré apparently followed one of Jefferson's suggestions, depicting a scene of international commerce portrayed as Mercury ( the god of diplomacy ) in conference with the genius of America ( shown as an Indian chief, similar to some early American copper coins ).

The character is portrayed as demonstrating a number of traditional Japanese virtues, but ultimately falls prey to his own human flaws.

The elephant ’ s head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of baku portrayed in classical era ( pre-Meiji ) Japanese wood-block prints ( see illustration ) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings.

In the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora, Konoe was portrayed by Japanese actor Koreya Senda.

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora!

To satisfy these needs, " the Japanese portrayed and catalogued Taiwan's indigenous peoples in a welter of statistical tables, magazine and newspaper articles, photograph albums for popular consumption ".

She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow.

* He is also portrayed in the Japanese anime The Rose of Versailles.

He has been portrayed by French, British, Irish, Austrian, Dutch, German, Italian, and Japanese actors.

He was voiced in the Japanese version by Chikao Ōhtsuka, who also portrayed the Disney incarnation of the character in Japanese media, particularly in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

Miyazaki read a description of Nausicaa in a Japanese translation of Bernard Evslin's anthology of Greek mythology, which portrayed her as a lover of nature.

By the late 18th century female pubic hair is openly portrayed in Japanese shunga ( erotica ), especially in the ukiyo-e tradition.

Haushofer is portrayed as a minor villain in the 2005 anime movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, in which he is voiced by Masane Tsukayama in the Japanese version and John Swasey in the English version.

The cartoon's titular character ( voiced by an uncredited Sara Berner ) is portrayed as an overly enthusiastic, buck-toothed Japanese woman speaking on a propaganda broadcast with a loud voice and an American accent.

The Japanese themselves are portrayed with little sympathy ; most of those shown are soldiers or government agents involved in the invasion of Manchuria.

* The 1978 Japanese series Takarajima, he is portrayed as a tall blond man.

In the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora, Nagumo was portrayed by Japanese actor Eijirō Tōno.

" as they rammed their planes into enemy ships ; although Japanese manga have portrayed this romantisized scene, it is unknown if any pilot actually did so.

Set after the events of the PlayStation game, Snake, Meryl, Campbell and Mei Ling ( all portrayed by their original Japanese voice actors ) pursue missions in hostile third world nations as FOXHOUND.

The tradition of tsukkomi and boke is often used in other Japanese comedy, although it may not be as obviously portrayed as it usually is in manzai.

However, Western-style bukkake videos differ in some aspects from those in Japan ; in Japanese bukkake videos, female performers are frequently dressed as office ladies or in school uniforms and depicted in subdued poses, whereas women in Western-style bukkake videos are portrayed as enjoying the scene.

As in other aspects of Japanese culture, the subjects portrayed by netsuke trend, over the long term, away from an initial emphasis on motifs of Chinese derivation toward a focus on objects of more strictly national interest.

Although guilt comes into play, taking responsibility for one's actions and mistakes is paramount in the Confucian and Japanese ideology portrayed in the novel, and Sensei understands those traditions.

Consistent with Japanese folklore, the tanuki ( Japanese Raccoon Dogs, Nyctereutes procyonoides ) are portrayed as a highly sociable, mischievous species, able to use " illusion science " to transform into almost anything, but too fun-loving and too fond of tasty treats to be a real threat – unlike the kitsune ( foxes ) and other shapeshifters.