Massoud was posthumously named " National Hero " by the order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

It was the scene of the legend of Hero and Leander.

In 2002, the anime character was acclaimed as an Asian Hero in a special feature survey conducted by Time Asia magazine.

thumb On 22 April 2002, on the special issue of Asian Hero in TIME Magazine, Doraemon was selected as one of the 22 Asian Heroes.

Being the only anime character selected, Doraemon was described as " The Cuddliest Hero in Asia ".

Rashomon was also remade as The Outrage ( 1964 ), and inspired films with " Rashomon effect " storytelling methods, such as Andha Naal ( 1954 ), The Usual Suspects ( 1995 ) and Hero ( 2002 ).

GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly was optioned by BBC Drama.

Various later editions of RuneQuest, the narrative role-playing game HeroQuest ( the first edition of which was published as Hero Wars ), and the video game King of Dragon Pass were also set in Glorantha, as were several prominent fan efforts.

Stafford was greatly influenced by the ideas on mythology of Joseph Campbell, and echoes of Campbell's work are to be found in many aspects of Glorantha ; for instance the story of the " God Learners " can be seen as an exercise on the implications of Campbell's idea of a unifying monomyth, and the story of Prince Argrath an exploration of Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Hero was loved by Leander, a youth who lived at Abydos, a town on the Asian side of the channel.

They could not marry because Hero was bound by a vow of chastity, and so every night Leander swam from Asia to Europe, guided by a lamp in Hero's tower.

As a joint venture between Hero Games and Iron Crown Enterprises, a stand-alone HERO System Rulebook was published alongside the fourth edition of Champions.

In 2001, a reconstituted Hero Games was formed under the leadership of Steven S. Long, who had written several books for the earlier version of the system.

In The Heroes of Olympus story " The Lost Hero ," there was a reference to the mythical Jason when Jason Grace and his friends encounter Medea.

Only posthumously did he receive the praise and appreciation which had escaped him in life: he was awarded a hero's funeral and numerous medals by the USSR, including the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest distinction awarded for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

She has been named one of the " Best Doctors in the United States " and was chosen by Time as a " Hero of Medicine.

Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an " outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin "; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his " Human Rights in Soviet Society.

Voroshilov was awarded a second medal of Hero of the Soviet Union 1968.

Mikhail Kalashnikov was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour.

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a " Hero of the Russian Federation " and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating " the brand every Russian is proud of.

He returned to Alexandria, and began determinedly studying the works of Aristotle under Olympiodorus the Elder ( he also began studying mathematics during this period as well with a teacher named Heron ( no relation to Hero of Alexandria who was also known as Heron ).

McDaniels was also featured in the 2008 video game, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, making appearances in the songs " Walk this Way " and " King of Rock ".

White Bear and Red Moon is notable for containing the first published material about Glorantha, later used as the primary setting for the role-playing games RuneQuest, Hero Wars and HeroQuest.

The first Hero:

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

2000 KW Curtis steam turbine circa 1905. The first device that may be classified as a reaction steam turbine was little more than a toy, the classic Aeolipile, described in the 1st century by Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria in Roman Egypt.

* The aeolipile, the first steam engine, is described by Hero of Alexandria.

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

To exploit the success of Deighton's first four " Unnamed Hero " novels, he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier ( 1967 ), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a " secret agent " theme – contributions from other writers are described as " surveillance reports.

It was one of the first four Soviet cities to be awarded the title of " Hero City " in 1945, though some of the Odessans had a more favourable view of the Romanian occupation, in contrast with the Soviet official view that the period was exclusively a time of hardship, deprivation, oppression and suffering – claims embodied in public monuments and disseminated through the media to this day.

* ( c. 30 – 70 AD ) – Hero of Alexandria describes the first documented steam-powered device, the aeolipile.

Notable is the construction of the first hydraulic automata by Ctesibius ( flourished c. 270 BC ) and Hero of Alexandria ( c. 10 – 80 AD ).

In 1940, Akhmatova started her Poem without a Hero, finishing a first draft in Tashkent, but working on " The Poem " for twenty years and considering it to be the major work of her life, dedicating it to " the memory of its first audience – my friends and fellow citizens who perished in Leningrad during the siege ".

This may be due to a misinterpretation of the phrase " first century " or because Hero was a common name.

Although the field was not formalized until the 20th century, it is thought that the work of Hero, his automated devices in particular, represents some of the first formal research into cybernetics.

The imaginary number, or imaginary unit, is also noted to have been first observed by Hero while calculating the volume of a pyramidal frustum.

As the field approached the Canal Turn on the first circuit, Easter Hero fell, causing a pile-up from which only seven horses emerged with seated jockeys.

* Made two appearances in the first season of F Troop: an uncredited role as a lackey of Geronimo in the episode " Our Hero.

Contemporary archaeologists ( first of all Michael D. Coe ) have found depictions of characters and episodes from Popol Vuh on Maya ceramics and other art objects ( e. g., the Hero Twins, Howler Monkey Gods, the shooting of Vucub-Caquix and, as many believe, the restoration of the Twins ' dead father, Hun Hunahpu ).

The first human born in the Fourth World is who, in turn, gives birth to the Hero Twins called and.