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 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.

Their works, varying from martini glasses to tiles and cloth patterns, are labelled as “ Inspired by Bombay Sapphire ”.

Inspired from his trip South, Alston began his " family series " in the 1940s.

Inspired by Voltaire's sense of the breadth of history, Hume widened the focus of history, away from merely Kings, Parliaments, and armies, to literature and science as well.

Inspired by Babbage's difference engine plans, Per Georg Scheutz built several difference engines from 1855 onwards, one of which was sold to the British government in 1859.

In the year 2009, the was Sam Fransikachea Visvaxiponnachea Dekhin, Jezu-Noketra Bhaxen Porzollum-ia, which translates from Konkani into English as ' Inspired by the faithfulness of Saint Francis, let us shine like Jesus, the Star ', probably based on the year's pastoral theme of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão Noketram Bhaxen, Sonvsarant Porzollum-ia which translates into English as ' Shine like Stars, in the World '.

Inspired by a New York Times article about a gathering of former showgirls from the Ziegfeld Follies, they decided upon a story about ex-showgirls.

Inspired by Mullan's book, Edwards named the monument A Hero Who Could Fly and used the following quote from the Irish author on the monument:

: The fluidity and wit of the witches is evident in the ever-changing acronym: the basic, original title was Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell [...] and the latest heard at this writing is Women Inspired to Commit Herstory.

Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company, it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003.

Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation ( NMDF ) on May 15, 1991.

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

Inspired by the Beats of the 1950s, who declared themselves independent from the authoritarian order of America, the Haight-Ashbury community rested on a rejection of American commercialism.

* Various Artists-Music from and Inspired by the Film Highlander II: The Quickening ( 1990 )

Inspired by the imported pottery from the eastern Mediterranean, in about 6000 BC they created the first pottery to be made in France.

Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the sixteenth century, the first Englishmen to settle permanently in America hoped for some of the same rich discoveries when they established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.

In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time ; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander ( the Inspired Woman ) and satirized by Lucian ( Gallus 18 seq .).

Inspired in part by a visit to Palestine during which he was struck by the historic parallels between the British and Roman occupations of the region, the book draws on materials from early British history and mythology and the history and myths of the Mediterranean region to explore the possibility of small cultures resisting the power of empire.

Inspired by the principles of the French Revolution, its members were mainly drawn from the middle class and intellectuals.

Inspired by Cubist and surrealist exhibitions from abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia.

Inspired by a scene from one of his nightmares, Kevin has brought another Sun along with him, and just as the dog is about to release itself, he takes its picture, trapping it once more in the " Polaroid world ".

Inspired by Menegroth in Doriath, and seeking a hidden place from which to be safe from the forces of Morgoth, Finrod established it in the early years of the First Age, in the Caverns of Narog beneath the forested hills of Taur-en-Faroth on the western bank of Narog.

Inspired by Harry Harlow's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between neurotic behavior and isolation from a care-giving mother, Prescott further proposed that a key component to development comes from the somesthetic processes ( body touch ) and vestibular-cerebellar processes ( body movement ) induced by mother-child interactions, and that deprivation of this stimulation causes brain abnormalities.