* One of the earliest fictional flights to the Moon took place on the pages of Ludovico Ariosto's well-known Italian romantic epic " Orlando furioso " ( 1516 ).

We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;

The Congress tightly controlled the epic public displays of grief over a two-week period — the funeral, mortuary rituals and distribution of the martyr's ashes — as millions participated and hundreds of millions watched.

Finnish born nationalist and linguist Kaarle Akseli Gottlund ( 1796 – 1875 ) expressed his desire for a Finnish epic in a similar vein to The Iliad, Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied compiled from the various poems and songs spread over most of Finland.

The Nez Perce were pursued by over 2, 000 soldiers of the United States Army on an epic flight to freedom of over across four states and multiple mountain ranges.

Yacht races may be over a simple course of only a few miles, as in the harbour racing of the International One Design ; long-distance, open-ocean races, like the Bermuda Race ; or epic trans-global contests such as the Global Challenge, Volvo Ocean Race, Clipper Round the World Race and Mini Transat 6. 50.

It is believed that the allegory of vices and virtues fighting over Man ’ s soul goes back to the 4th century Roman epic, Psychomachia.

In Book IV of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus ' epic poem Pharsalia ( c. 65-61 AD ), the story of Hercules ' victory over Antaeus is told to the Roman Curio by an unnamed Libyan citizen.

Due to Callimachus ' strong stance against the epic, he and his younger student Apollonius of Rhodes, who favored epic and wrote the Argonautica, had a long and bitter feud, trading barbed comments, insults, and ad hominem attacks for over thirty years.

A central concept in 20th century art and theory, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, it is also used as a tactic by recent movements such as Culture jamming.

Tennyson's descriptions of nature are derived from observations of his own surroundings, collected over the course of many years. The dramatic narratives are not an epic either in structure or tone, but derive elegiac sadness from the idylls of Theocritus.

The principal theme of the epic is the justified elevation of Marduk to command over all the deities.

The continuous, back-and-forth nature of the struggle, which defined this period, is captured in the Oirat epic song " The Rout of Mongolian Sholui Ubashi Khong Tayiji ," recounting the Oirat victory over the First Khan of the Altan Khanate in 1587.

The Shahnameh is an epic poem of over 50, 000 couplets, written in early Modern Persian.

This epic on the whole is darker over all than most other epics, most of which have some sort of resolution and catharsis.

The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.

The film is loosely based on the Hindu epic Ramayana ; its narrative occurs over 14 days when a revolutionist named Beera, who lives in a forest, kidnaps a policeman's wife to avenge his sister's death.

In the latter half of the 19th century, a certain MP would exit the Serbian parliament each day, and tell of the debate over the Monetary Reform Bill in the style of epic poetry.

* 7th century-Kalidasa in his epic Meghaduta mentions the date of onset of Monsoon over central India and traces the path of monsoon clouds ,.

He was a key figure in Newport's epic win over Whineray's 1963 New Zealand All Blacks setting up position for Uzzell's drop goal and kicked a penalty to draw with Australia in 1966.

The 1986 Cox Plate was an epic two horse war over the final 800 metres before Bonecrusher triumphed over Our Waverley Star by a neck.

* The mention of Huns in his epic poem, Raghuvaṃśa, could be a veiled reference to the victory over them in 455 of Kumāragupta's son and successor, Skandagupta.

Following victory in Latvia over Dinaburg FC, Barry ousted Hungarian side Budapest Vasutas in one of several epic European nights at Jenner Park.

Only across a distance of time could the epic accounting begin.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

Lord, however, discovered that across many story traditions, fully 90 % of an oral epic is assembled from lines which are repeated verbatim or which use one-for-one word substitutions.

Shortly thereafter, Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato revolutionized how scholars looked at Homeric epic by arguing not only that it was the product of an oral tradition, but also that the oral-formulas contained therein served as a way for ancient Greeks to preserve cultural knowledge across many different generations.

Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert to Mogadore, Morocco.

For a now-legendary live performance of their live epic " Stranger Than Fiction ", a woman friend was recruited to crawl across the stage during the song, under pulsing strobe lights, with a bloodied axe apparently embedded in her skull.

* The sets from Weatherlight up to Apocalypse follow the epic story arc of the crew of the airship Weatherlight, their trek across several planes, and their ultimate role in defending Dominaria from the Phyrexian invasion.

From a starting point that combines Homer's Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy to create a personal epic of 20th century life, the poem uses materials from history, politics, literature, art, music, economics, philosophy, mythology, ecology and the poet's personal experiences and ranges across European, American, African and Asian cultures.

After an epic 14-month trek across the heart of Africa the Marchand Expedition arrived on 10 July 1898, but the de Bonchamps Expedition failed to make it after being ordered by the Ethiopians to halt, and then suffering accidents in the Baro Gorge.

The Indian epic poem Ramayana, written thousands of years ago in Sanskrit and an important Hindu text, recounts how Rama, with the help of an army of vanaras, built a bridge of stones across the sea to Lanka to rescue his wife Sita from the Asura king Ravana.

He became engaged in an initially disastrous campaign against Northumbria where following a series of epic defeats he was confined first to Môn and then just to Ynys Glannauc before being forced into exile across the Irish Sea to Dublin-a place which would come to host many royal refugees from Gwynedd.

The role of the Rangers of the North has been greatly expanded in The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, which includes numerous Dúnedain spread across the remnants of Arnor and features several prominent Rangers ( including some created expressly for the game ) as key characters in the first volume of its epic story.

Niehardt wrote to preserve and express elements of the pioneer past in books that range across a broad variety of genres, from travelogues to epic poetry.

He was one of the pilots that flew what will likely be the last-ever formation flight of B-17s across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to England ( via Canada, the Azores and Portugal ) in 1961, a trip that involved a near-miss with a submarine, a brawl with KGB agents, and just barely missing ending up in jail in Portugal, an epic trip he chronicled in his book Everything But the Flak.

In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith's plane, the Southern Cross, crossed the coast over Ballina after its epic journey across the Pacific Ocean.

The epic is well known among the Khmer people for its portrayal in Khmer dance theatre, called the Lkhaon, in various festivals across Cambodia.

In the early days of sound with Fox, Walsh directed the first widescreen spectacle, The Big Trail ( 1930 ), an epic wagon train western shot on location across the West.

What follows is an epic war across the Microverse with Rann and his allies against Karza.

They represent the earliest travels across the continent on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail ; the nation's struggle for independence on the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail ; epic migrations on the Mormon & Oregon Trails and the development of continental commerce on the Santa Fe Trail.

Doggedly pursued by the French under Soult, the British made an epic retreat across northern Spain, during which both armies suffered extremely from the harsh, winter conditions.

In 1947, Jack Kerouac made an epic journey across America, which he would later describe in his novel, On the Road.

Dozens of similar monuments were donated to cities and towns across the nation throughout the 1960s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles, who were inspired by the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments ; in doing so, they gained the support of the film's director Cecil B. DeMille.

The wagon train drive across the country was pioneering in its use of camera work and the stunning scenery from the epic landscape.