This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

Osiris ' soul, or rather his Ba, was occasionally worshipped in its own right, almost as if it were a distinct god, especially in the Delta city of Mendes.

A living, sacred ram, was kept at Mendes and worshipped as the incarnation of the god, and upon death, the rams were mummified and buried in a ram-specific necropolis.

At the temple of Mendes, figures of Osiris were made from wheat and paste placed in a trough on the day of the murder, then water was added for several days, until finally the mixture was kneaded into a mold of Osiris and taken to the temple to be buried ( the sacred grain for these cakes were grown only in the temple fields ).

The new cabinet appointed after the election was balanced ethnically between Temnes and Mendes.

Though a Broadway production starring Nathan Lane and Victor Garber and directed by Sam Mendes was announced for Spring 2000, the New York debut of the musical was delayed.

and Cabaret, Mendes was nevertheless only given the job after twenty others were considered and several " A-list " directors turned down the opportunity.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

Mendes ' dominant style was deliberate and composed ; he made extensive use of static shots and slow pans and zooms to generate tension.

Mendes is indecisive, saying the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it: " a mystery story, a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, a series of love stories ... it was about imprisonment ... loneliness beauty.

Mendes considers the voice to be Ball's, but even while the writer was " strongly influential " on set, he often had to accept deviations from his vision, particularly ones that transformed the cynical tone of his script into something more optimistic.

Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

Ball was also keen ; having seen Cabaret, he was impressed with Mendes ' " keen visual sense " and thought he did not make obvious choices.

Ball and Mendes revised the script twice before it was sent to the actors, and twice more before the first read-through.

Mendes did not want a big star " weighing the film down "; he felt Spacey was the right choice based on his performances in the 1995 films The Usual Suspects and Seven, and 1992's Glengarry Glen Ross.

Before filming, Mendes and Spacey analyzed Jack Lemmon's performance in The Apartment ( 1960 ), because Mendes wanted Spacey to emulate " the way moved, the way he looked, the way he was in that office and the way he was an ordinary man and yet a special man ".

" Mendes cut much of Barbara's dialogue, including conversations between her and Col. Fitts, as he felt that what needed to be said about the pair — their humanity and vulnerability — was conveyed successfully through their shared moments of silence.

Sam Mendes inaugurated his transatlantic " Bridge Project " directing The Winter's Tale with a cast featuring Simon Russell Beale ( Leontes ), Rebecca Hall ( Hermione ), Ethan Hawke ( Autolycus ), Sinéad Cusack ( Paulina ), and Morven Christie ( Perdita ).

Mendes won a Directors Guild of America Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for directing American Beauty.

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After playing for the Rough Riders in 2002 and winning the PDL title while scoring the equalizer in the Championship game against the Wilmington Hammerheads in N. C., Mendes moved up a division to play for the Rochester Raging Rhinos, where he became a consistent starter for the next two seasons.

Mendes continued his solid play anchoring the clubs backline during the early part of the 2007 season with New York Red Bulls.

The next season saw Mendes play less under the new manager of Paulo Sérgio were he only managed to play sixteen games in the whole season.

Mendes believed the trial drew focus away from the characters and turned the film " into an episode of NYPD Blue ".

During the film, Lester's physique improves from flabby to toned ; Spacey worked out during filming to improve his body, but because Mendes shot the scenes out of chronological order, Spacey varied postures to portray the stages.

Mendes realized during editing that the film was different to the one he had envisioned.

He trialled several versions of the opening ; the first edit included bookend scenes in which Jane and Ricky are convicted of Lester's murder, but Mendes excised these in the last week of editing because he felt they made the film lose its mystery, and because they did not fit with the theme of redemption that had emerged during production.

Hall was involved for one month during pre-production ; his ideas for lighting the film began with his first reading of the script, and further passes allowed him to refine his approach before meeting Mendes.

The immediate cause of her embassy was her brother's attempt to get the Portuguese to withdraw the fortress of Ambaca that had been built on his land in 1618 by the Governor Mendes de Vasconcelos, to have some of his subjects ( semi-servile groups called kijiko ( plural ijiko ) in Kimbundu and sometimes called slaves in Portuguese ) who had been taken captive during Governor Mendes de Vasconcelos ' campaigns ( 1617 – 21 ) returned and to persuade the governor to stop the marauding of Imbangala mercenaries in Portuguese service.

Historically, Fernão Mendes was later referred to as the Brave for his gallantry during the Battle of Ourique.

His father, José de Sousa Mendes, had been a Judge on the Supreme Court ; and his twin brother, César, would become Foreign Minister in 1932 – 33, during António de Oliveira Salazar's regime.

Both Cardozo's maternal grandparents, Sara Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, and his paternal grandparents, Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews of the Portuguese Jewish community affiliated with Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel ; their families emigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition.

" " Scarborough Fair " is used as a recurring musical motif, first heard in the film's opening credits and later reappearing during the end of the film as performed by Sérgio Mendes and Brazil ' 66.

Mendes was born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, and was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale by her mother after her parents ' divorce ; Mendes has said that her mother ( who was a stay-at-home mom until she became an accountant when Eva went to school ) " suffered so much to make my life OK " during her early years.

Mendes at the premiere of Trust the Man during the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

He had been assisted by several Jews of royalist sympathies, such as Mendes da Costa and Augustine Coronel-Chacon, during his exile.

Attempts, indeed, were made in 1761 and 1773 to form one, but none was established until the influx of Jews from New York during the Revolutionary War, with the arrival of Gershom Mendes Seixas, gave the community sufficient strength to carry out this cherished object.

After negotiations, Portsmouth accepted a bid from Tottenham thought to be around £ 15. 75 million ( including fees owed to Tottenham for the previous transfers of Younes Kaboul and Pedro Mendes and waiving a £ 4m sell-on clause that had also been negotiated during his transfer from Spurs to Portsmouth ) on 6 January 2009.

Don Joseph Nasi ( or Nassi ; also known as João Miques / Micas and Don João Migas Mendes in a Portuguese variant, Giuseppe Nasi in Italian, and as Yasef Nassi in Ottoman Turkish ; 1524, Portugal – 1579, Constantinople ) was a Jewish diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes / Benveniste, and a nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II.

Mendes scored his first goal for the club on New Years Day 2005, during a 5 – 2 league win over Everton.

On 23 August, during another match against City, Ben Thatcher clattered into Mendes with his elbow, the force of which knocked Mendes head-first into a billboard.

In the 2007 – 08 season, Mendes won his first and only footballing honour during his spell in English football.