Among other adventures, Atalanta participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, which Artemis had sent to destroy Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at the harvest sacrifices.

Some stories say that a she-bear suckled and cared for Atalanta until hunters found and raised her, and she learned to fight and hunt as a bear would.

Atalanta joined Meleager and many other famous heroes on a hunt for the boar.

After the Calydonian boar hunt, Atalanta was rediscovered by her father.

According to one account of the hunt, when Hylaeus and Rhaecus, two centaurs, tried to rape Atalanta, Meleager killed them.

He participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, during which he insulted Atalanta and was killed by Meleager.

With Meleager is his beloved Atalanta ( both names given in the Etruscan spelling ), who will be parted by his death in a boar hunt presaged at the top of the composition.

:" After Atalanta participated in the hunt and received the pelt, her father claimed her as his offspring and wanted her to get married.

Conservatives drew on new organizational networks of think tanks, industry groups, and citizen-oriented organizations, and they began to deploy new strategies that affirmed the rights of individuals to their property, protection of extraction rights, to hunt and recreate, and to pursue happiness unencumbered by the federal government at the expense of resource conservation.

Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes — among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times — the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.

The egg hunt each year drew about 5, 000 egg hunters, children and adults.

As Lieutenant Governor Crosbie drew sharp criticism for wearing a sealskin coat to several official events during the Royals ' visit to Newfoundland in November 2009 and for saying that the coat was a statement in support of the annual seal hunt.

The officers drew rifles and split up to hunt the apes.

She went to Falme ( having been tricked into going there by Aes Sedai of the Black Ajah ) and then to Tear, where she was sent along with Nynaeve and Egwene to hunt the Black Ajah by then-Amyrlin Siuan Sanche, and was present when Rand drew Callandor and proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn.

But even without jacketed bullets, I had enough faith in my double to take it on an opening-day deer hunt that first year.

He first met Poirot in Belgium, 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery and later that year they joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara.

* In the Addams Family Musial, Lucas described Wednesday as Diana goddess of the hunt when he first saw her.

* 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

However, a hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, though any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, thus the Phillies missed the postseason for the first time since 2006.

* In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia series, the adult Pevensies, now kings and queens of Narnia, chase the White Stag on a hunt, as the Stag is said to grant its captor a wish.

Two extreme cases occurred in India: the first leopard, " the Leopard of Rudraprayag ", may have killed more than 125 people ; the second, the " Panar Leopard ", was believed to have killed more than 400, after injury by a poacher made it unable to hunt normal prey.

The first eighteen months of a cub's life are important ; cubs must learn many lessons, because survival depends on knowing how to hunt wild prey species and avoid other predators.

* Titled " Hunting at 60 mph ", the Playstation 3 game Afrika features a Cheetah hunting a gazelle as the game's first " big game hunt ".

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

Leia tries to reason with Jacen at first, but ultimately disowns him after he commits a series of atrocities, and tacitly agrees to Han and Jaina's plan to hunt down and kill him.

* Sulla displays a lion hunt for the first time in games at Rome.

The mother and pup must learn each other's voices in the first few days after the pup is born, before the dam goes on her next hunt.

The first use of packs specifically trained to hunt foxes was in the late 1600s, with the oldest fox hunt being, probably, the Bilsdale in Yorkshire.

The first organised hunt for the benefit of a group ( rather than a single patron ) was started by Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax in 1747.

Boone received his first rifle at the age of 12, and he learned to hunt from both local settlers and American Indians, beginning his lifelong love of hunting.

Boone first reached Kentucky in the fall of 1767 while on a long hunt with his brother Squire Boone Jr. Boone's first steps in Kentucky were near present-day Elkhorn City.

Golden Eagles invest much time and effort in bringing up their young ; once able to hunt on their own, most Golden Eagles survive many years, but mortality even among first-born nestlings is much higher, in particular in the first weeks after hatching.

In fact, the first whites to encounter the area were fur traders, then long hunters, who came to a large salt lick, known as French Lick, in present-day Nashville to trade with Native Americans and to hunt the abundant game.

Wealthy Londoners came to Enfield first to hunt, and then to build houses in the green, wooded surroundings.

The old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard reported going there on his first buffalo hunt.

Un-escorted visitors should first check with the local residents before attempting to trespass, camp, or hunt in the area.

After this hesitation, for which he is most ashamed, Jack's blood lust grows more and more irrational, to the point where he abandons the fire ( and causes the boys to miss a potential rescue ) in order to hunt.

With regard to host location, female mosquitoes hunt their blood host by detecting organic substances such as carbon dioxide ( CO < sub > 2 </ sub >) and 1-octen-3-ol produced from the host, and through optical recognition.

Set in UC 0087, eight years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam ( 0079 ), the series follows a rebel group called the Anti-Earth Union Group ( AEUG ) as they try to defeat the Titans, an elite task force of the Earth Federation designed to hunt down Zeon remnants but which ruthlessly kills anyone demanding equal rights for the space citizens in cold blood.

Their warm blood enabled them to hunt at night while dinosaurs slept ; they nurtured their young and gave them milk.

The Master has created machinery to industrialize harvesting of blood from captive humans, eliminating vampires ' need to hunt for food.

“ Shoot the first man that goes back on you after you have elected him intelligently ;” he said, “ see that you hunt him down and shoot him .” In another speech he declared “ Before I starve in this country I will cut a man ’ s throat and take whatever he has got … The Workingmen ’ s Party must win, even if it has to wade knee deep in blood and perish in battle .”

He appears as a member of Arthur's court in Culhwch ac Olwen, in which he wages war against Gwythyr ap Greidawl for the hand of his sister Creiddylad, takes part in the hunt for Twrch Trwyth and accompanies Arthur to retrieve the blood of Orddu, the witch of the uplands of hell.

In frequent cases of blood libel, Jews were said to hunt for children to murder before Passover so they could use their blood to make matzah.

Isaac's first lessons in the tradition of the hunt lead him to experience two pristine moments: his anointment in the blood of the buck and his vision of the giant spirit-buck.

Just as blood and fallen leaves are absorbed by the earth, the values of the hunt are absorbed by young Isaac.

When a blood hunt was to be declared, it was customary to send the victim a flower of amaranth a week in advance.

Childer are just about the only legitimate targets of diablerie ; when a blood hunt is decreed, the sire is authorized to kill his childe in this manner.

Vodka is a sprawling, epic story of Russia immediately after the end of the Soviet Union, and runs several storylines in tandem: the efforts of an American banker, Alice Liddell, to effect the first privatisation in Russian history ; the battle between Slav and Chechen gangs for control of Moscow's vodka market ; and the hunt for a serial killer who is killing children and draining their blood.

During his command of Fort Garland, he was assigned by Governor John Evans and Colonel Chivington to hunt down the Espinoza brothers, brigands and murderers who killed 32 Colorado citizens in cold blood and engaged in rape, robbery and other destructive acts.