The origins of this sport is claimed to be derived from the Athenians when Themistocles, marching his army against the Persians, chanced upon two cocks fighting and charged his army saying “ Behold, these do not fight for their household gods, for the monuments of their ancestors, for glory, for liberty or the safety of their children, but only because one will not give way to the other .” Inspired, his army defeated the Persians and after ordained by law, cockfighting was annually practiced as " an institution partly religious and partly political at Athens, and continued there for the purpose of improving the seeds of valour in the minds of the Athenian youth ".

Inspired by his work on Blake, Frye developed and articulated his unified theory ten years after Fearful Symmetry, in the Anatomy of Criticism ( 1957 ).

Inspired by MacManaway's blend of unionism and Protestantism, Paisley joined independent Unionist MP Norman Porter's National Union of Protestants, but left after Porter refused to join the Free Presbyterians.

Inspired by the success of the library, the Village of New Albany, Plain Township, and the New Albany-Plain Local School District partnered together in the development of the Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts, named after the late wife of John G. McCoy and mother of John B. McCoy.

Inspired by The X-Files and The Blair Witch Project, it followed a young man who took over his twin brother's paranormal Web site, Freakylinks, after his death.

Makers of recumbent trikes include KMX ; Hase ( who make the Kettwiesel delta, improbably named after the British children's programme Catweazle ); Inspired Cycle Engineering, who make the Trice range of tadpole trikes ; AVD, who build the record holding Burrows Windcheetah or Speedy, a design exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ); Australia's Greenspeed, one of the oldest manufacturers ; Michigan-based WhizWheelz, which makes 10 models, including a tadpole and a tandem ; Big Cat HPV which builds the eight Catrike models in Florida and Sidewinder Cycle which has a front wheel drive system with rear wheel steering builds 3 models all with Electric assist capability located in California.

Inspired by his ideas, Samuel Augustus Barnett and Henrietta Barnett founded the first university settlement in 1884, shortly after Toynbee's death ; it was named Toynbee Hall in his honour.

Inspired by the programme a group was formed and, after much campaigning and lobbying, the electricity supply was improved beyond all recognition.

Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg ; both worked at California Institute of Technology.

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's " Ask not what your country can do for you ; ask what you can do for your country " speech, he joined the United States Marine Corps after high school in September 1964 and was assigned to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, for twelve weeks of intensive recruit training.

Inspired to visit the quarter after reading about " Darkest London " in the works of John Henry Mackay, he was appalled by the poverty he witnessed in the predominantly Jewish East End.

Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, Bimal Roy made Do Bigha Zameen after watching, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

Inspired to discover the hidden treasure left by Fergus, Scrooge starts an expedition to find the missing pieces, unaware that his rival Flintheart Glomgold is also after the lost treasure of McDuck.

Inspired by Alan Stivell, a very large Breton scene grew up, especially after his Olympia concert in 1972.

Inspired after waking from a dream, Shusett said, " I have an idea: the monster screws one of them ," planting its seed in his body, and then bursting out of his chest.

Inspired to visit Africa by the diaries of David Livingstone, Holub travelled to Cape Town, South Africa shortly after graduation and eventually settled near Kimberley to practise medicine.

Inspired to become a filmmaker after watching John Ford's Stagecoach, he would insert elements of the Western in war films like Desperado Outpost ( 1959 ) and Westward Desperado ( 1960 ), and eventually even filmed his own samurai Western in East Meets West ( 1995 ).

Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, he made Do Bigha Zameen after watching, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

Inspired by seeing an exhibition of the work of French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, Ravilious took up photography shortly after moving with his wife to Devon during the 1970s.

Inspired by her trips to Japan, Isabel Stine modeled the gardens upon ( and named them after ) Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.

Inspired as a youth by the film The Public Enemy, Chase created the critically and commercially successful show by drawing heavily on his own personal life ; the character of Livia Soprano is modelled after his own mother.

In 2006 Gibson Guitars began producing an " Inspired By " Gibson Les Paul which was modeled after Sykes ' 1970s-era Les Paul Custom.

Inspired by the writings of philosopher Monique Wittig, the movement originated in France in the early 1980s, spreading soon after to the Canadian province of Quebec.

Inspired by low-budget sci-fi films, comic books, and fantasy pulp fiction of the 1950s, Diabolical Tales: Part I, Genesis of the Men From Within The Earth, is set in November 1952 just days after the first secret tests of the H-bomb.

Inspired to write this play in 1946 after seeing the effects of the occupation of France, the famously patriotic Coward wrote: " I began to suspect the physical effect of four years ' intermittent bombing is far less damaging to the intrinsic character of a nation than the spiritual effect of four years of enemy occupation.

Inspired by the birth of his daughter and chastened by a subsequent drug-related heart attack, George severs his relationship with the cartel and vows to leave the drug business forever.

Inspired by the birth of his daughter Julia, William Reeves proposed the idea to create a human baby.

Inspired by true events, Loggerheads tells the story of an adoption " triad "— birth mother, child, and adoptive parents — each in three interwoven stories in the days leading up to Mother ’ s Day weekend, and each in one of the three distinctive geographical regions of North Carolina — mountains, Piedmont and coastal plain.

Inspired by the taste of nearby spring water, residents amended the name to " Coperas Cove " ( the second " p " erroneously omitted and officially corrected in 1901 ).

Inspired by her role in the film, she went to crafting her second solo album, aptly titled B ' Day, released on September 4, 2006 in the United States to coincide her birthday.

Inspired by M. Fitzgerald ’ s account of ball lightning on 6 August 1868, in Ireland that lasted 20 minutes and left a 6 metre square hole, a 90 metre long trench, a second trench 25 meters long, and a small cave in the peat bog, Pace VanDevender, a plasma physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and his team found depressions consistent with Fitzgerald ’ s report and inferred that the evidence is inconsistent with thermal ( chemical or nuclear ) and electrostatic effects.

The second one, titled More Fast and Furious: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture The Fast and the Furious, features alternative metal, Post-grunge and Nu metal songs, as well as select tracks from BT's score.

Inspired by the success of the Pilot, Mikhail Britnev built a second similar vessel Boy (" Battle " in Russian ) in 1875 and a third Booy (" Buoy " in Russian ) in 1889.

Inspired by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he wrote two impassioned poems, the first entitled Waterloo, the second, Devastation du muse, both written in the heat of patriotic enthusiasm, and teeming with popular political allusions.

For almost four years, Alsou worked on her second English album ' Inspired '.

Inspired by Snoopy successfully stealing second, third, and home, Charlie Brown attempts the same thing in the bottom of the ninth inning, successfully stealing second and third.

Inspired by her daughter, who appeared on the album cover, the album featured lullabies and love songs for parents and their children.

Inspired by the huge leaves of the waterlily-' a natural feat of engineering ' - and tested by floating his daughter Annie on one leaf, he found the structure for his conservatory.

Inspired by her daughter Gaby, Donna Karan founded DKNY in 1989 in New York as a younger, more affordable diffusion line to run alongside her existing Donna Karan New York label.

Inspired by her mother, Miller Ruppe's daughter, Dr. Loret Miller Ruppe, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal from 1985 to 1987 and later organized conferences aimed at encouraging under-represented minorities and women to enter engineering.

Inspired by acts of heroism displayed by Herrera's 19-year-old daughter Rafaela ( including killing the British commander ), pro tempore garrison commander Lieutenant Juan de Aguilar y Santa Cruz led the defenders to victory in a battle that lasted six days.