Unfortunately ( as the two find out when they pay a visit on Lycus ), Philia has been promised to the renowned warrior Miles Gloriosus, who is on his way to claim her.

When Miles Gloriosus arrives to claim his courtesan-bride, Pseudolus hides Philia on the roof of Senex's house ; told that she has " escaped ," Lycus is terrified to face the Captain's wrath.

Unfortunately, it turns out that Miles Gloriosus has just returned from Crete, where there is of course no actual plague.

* Miles Gloriosus: ( Latin for " boastful soldier ," the archetype of the braggart soldier in Roman comedies ) A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.

By the time Miles Vorkosigan is 20, in The Vor Game, Beta Colony has begun to develop garments which protect the wearer from nerve disruptors.

Miles has just graduated from the Imperial Academy, and is at home at Vorkosigan Surleau with his parents.

Even worse, the " super-soldier " has been sold to the paranoid and sadistic Baron Ryoval, whom Miles has recently offended.

Miles is assigned to the Barrayaran Embassy on Earth as Third Military Attaché, and meets his clone, who has been trained as an assassin.

After Miles has to resign from ImpSec, he finds himself temporarily promoted to Imperial Auditor and investigating the sudden mental impairment of ImpSec chief Simon Illyan.

After she discovers that he has been taking bribes, she tells him that she is leaving, but before she does, he is accidentally killed in such a way as to point a finger of suspicion at Miles.

For instance, the clever slave has important roles in both L ’ Avare and L ’ Etourdi, two plays by Molière, and in both drives the plot and creates the ruse just like Palaestrio in Miles Gloriosus.

The poem has been adapted to film twice, on both occasions by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as Gawain and the Green Knight in 1973 and again in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, featuring Miles O ' Keeffe as Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight.

* Lawrence Miles has referenced the Hellfire Club across several works.

A reinterpretation of the ground plan and finds assemblage by Dr Miles Russell of Bournemouth University has suggested that, given the extremely close parallels with Domitian's imperial palace in Rome, its construction may more plausibly date to after AD 92.

Other early alternatives such as John Stiles and Richard Miles are now rarely used, and Mary Major has been used in some American federal cases.

Sam Spade and Miles Archer are hired by a Miss Wonderly to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who has allegedly run off with Wonderly's younger sister.

In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, Miles Bennell, a local doctor, has a number of patients accusing their loved ones of being impostors.

Though Miles ' work is closely associated with Blue Note, and has earned iconic status and frequent homage, Miles was only a casual jazz fan, according to Richard Cook ; Blue Note gave him several copies of each of the many dozens of albums he designed, but Miles gave most to friends or sold them to second-hand record shops.

Shaffer has appeared in a number of motion pictures over the years, including a small role ( Artie Fufkin of Polymer Records ) in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, Blues Brothers 2000, a scene with Miles Davis in the Bill Murray film Scrooged and as a passenger in John Travolta's taxicab in Look Who's Talking Too.

It has 2 properties: the Price-Sanders Scout Reservation in Charlotte with the Dr. Franklin Miles Camp and Camp Gannett, and Camp Flying Eagle in Manatee.

Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. S. Burton ( a name he used when tramping ), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

The Boultings used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Malleson.

Burton " ( an alias Orwell had used on tramping expeditions ), " Kenneth Miles " and " H. Lewis Allways " had been considered, was renamed " George Orwell.

The Town Hall was used as a theater in the 1940s, with Harry Miles running the movie projector.

Evans used to listen to Earl Hines, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, George Shearing, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, and Nat Cole among others.

Early minicomputer-based typesetting software introduced in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as Datalogics Pager, Penta, Atex, Miles 33, Xyvision, troff from Bell Labs, and IBM's Script product with CRT terminals, were better able to drive these electromechanical devices, and used text markup languages to describe type and other page formatting information.

During the 1950s, Ray Harryhausen, protege of master King Kong animator Willis O ' Brien, used stop-motion animation to create special effects for the following notable science fiction films: It Came from Beneath the Sea ( 1955 ), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers ( 1956 ) and 20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 ).

The hairy man gives Tristran a new outfit, a silver chain like the one used to imprison Una, and a candle-stub which allows one to travel great distances quickly while it burns, which he explains by referencing the nursery rhyme " How Many Miles to Babylon?

The Strand advertises that it has " 18 Miles of Books ", and is well-known among New Yorkers for its collection of publishers ' overstock, used, rare, and out-of-print books, as well as the chaos on and around its shelves.

Many bassists have also used the wah-wah effect, for example Michael Henderson on Miles Davis's album On the Corner ( 1972 ).

The Club Sobeys name was previously used for a similar loyalty program offered at the chain's Atlantic Canada locations during the 1990s, prior to securing the regional rights to Air Miles through the Oshawa Group merger.

Keiko O ' Brien, wife of Deep Space Nine's Chief of Operations Miles O ' Brien, was used in a nearly successful attempt to kill the Prophets.

Miles was Midshipman First Class at the Academy, in the class of 1907, and asked Zimmerman to assist him in composing a song for that class, to be used as a football march.

According to Jaguar developer Andrew Whittaker, two other Sinclair employees, Bruce Gordon and Alan Miles, who went on to form Miles Gordon Technology, also used some of the designs in the SAM Coupé.

The English grandmasters Anthony Miles and Jonathan Speelman have successfully used this opening.

Pete Brown wrote a lot of lyrics, but the only one the band used was " Smoked a lot of sky, drank a lot of rain " which is featured in " Million Miles Away ".

Miles was the name used to market the aircraft of British engineer Frederick George Miles, who with his wife ( Blossom ) and his brother, George Herbert Miles designed numerous light civil and military aircraft and a range of curious prototypes.

Titanine supplied Miles with aviation coatings used in the production of the Miles Gemini aircraft, in the Chancery Division.