The holders of the puppet strings turn out to be a " psychotic American corporation ," Mayflower Industries, run by husband and wife Darwin ( Richard E. Grant ) and Minerva Mayflower ( Sandra Bernhard ) and a blade-slinging butler, Alfred ( Donald Burton ).

Immediately afterwards, Hawk meets CIA head George Kaplan ( James Coburn ) and his CIA agents: Snickers ( Don Harvey ), Kit Kat ( David Caruso ), Almond Joy ( Lorraine Toussaint ), and Butterfinger ( Andrew Bryniarski ), who take him to Darwin and Minerva Mayflower.

* Sandra Bernhard as Minerva Mayflower

The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.

For the second season, " Mother " was played by Minerva Urecal.

Rosemary Harris played his wife, Minerva.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

* 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to him in a dream, announcing she had been disarmed by Jupiter, and would no longer be able to protect him.

In 1920 the short-lived company Minerva Films was founded in London by the actor Leslie Howard ( also producer and director ) and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel.

" Minerva was worshipped throughout Italy, though only in Rome did she take on the warlike character shared by Athena.

Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.

* The Minerva head has been associated with the Chartered Society of Designers since its inception in 1930 and has been redefined several times during the history of the Society by notable graphic designers.

UNCG also has a Minerva statue, donated by the Class of 1953.

" Minerva is still venerated by seniors and their ' torch bearers ' during a pre-graduation ritual called " Torch Night " there.

* The symbol of Hornsby Girls High School, Australia, is the " Torch of Knowledge " and words of the school song include " Minerva by our southern seas her sacred groves replanted, with whispering gums to woo the breeze that flows o ' er lands enchanted ; with ageless hills she rimmed her bower, her sunlit shrine of learning, and here we keep through shine and shower the Torch of Knowledge burning ..." ( NOTE on Australianisms: gums here means " gum trees " ( eucalyptus ), not a part of the mouth ).

* The Minerva head has been associated with the Chartered Society of Designers since its inception in 1930 and has been redefined several times during the history of the Society by notable graphic designers.

* Minerva is displayed on the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government.

* The Minerva Roundabout in Guadalajara, Mexico, located at the crossing of the López Mateos, Vallarta, López Cotilla, Agustín Yáñez and Golfo de Cortez avenues, features the goddess standing on a pedestal, surrounded by a large fountain, with an inscription which says " Justice, wisdom and strength guard this loyal city ".

* Republic of Minerva, another libertarian project that succeeded in building a small man-made island on the Minerva Reefs south of Fiji in 1972 before being invaded by troops from Tonga, who formally annexed it before destroying the island.

To give two examples, the marble statue of Cristo della Minerva ( church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome ) was covered by added drapery, as it remains today, and the statue of the naked child Jesus in Madonna of Bruges ( The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium ) remained covered for several decades.

An 18th-century example of topical song intended as a feminist protest song is " Rights of Woman " ( 1795 ), sung to the tune of " God Save the King ", written anonymously by " A Lady ", and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795.

Athena ( Minerva ) is the subject of the $ 50 1915-S Panama-Pacific commemorative coin.

The Roman name for Athena is Minerva.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

The people of Ono-i-Lau in the Lau Islands archipelago claim that Minerva Reef is part of their traditional fishing ground.

His face is presented along with other ancient figures such as Solomon, the Greek god Zeus and the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.

She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl usually named as the " owl of Minerva ", which symbolizes her ties to wisdom.

Extrapolating from her Roman nature, it is assumed that in Etruscan mythology, Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and commerce.

* Minerva is featured in the University at Albany's logo.

The catalog of books and other materials in the University Library at the University at Albany campus is called the " Minerva Catalog ".

Minerva is also mentioned in UAlbany's Alma Mater:

* Minerva is the goddess of Kappa Kappa Gamma and can be seen, with her owl, on their crest.

* Minerva is the symbol of the University of Porto.

* A statue of Minerva is located in the center of La Sapienza University, the most important university of Rome.

* Minerva is displayed in front of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library as " Alma Mater.

* Above the entrance to the University of Vienna main building, there is a sculpture work titled " The Birth of Minerva ".

* Minerva is the name of a language school in Ruse, Bulgaria.

* Minerva is the name of a female residence at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

* Minerva is displayed to the East of University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Elliot University Center as a statue.

* The SUNY Potsdam campus in Potsdam, NY is home to multiple statues of Minerva and a cafe named after her.

* Minerva is featured on the seals and logos of many institutions of higher learning:

There is a tradition within the Lincoln Rugby Union team where it is thought that they are Knights of Minerva, with each match being fought and won in her honour.

Minerva is pictured in the university's logo.