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 ).

Darwin and Minerva force Hawk to put together the crystal powering the machine, but Hawk intentionally leaves out one small piece.

Above the entrance door the statue of Louis XIV was pulled out of its niche and smashed in 1793, during the Reign of Terror at the height of the French Revolution ; it was replaced in the nineteenth century with the present Helmeted Minerva and the device in its original form, now rare to see " Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, ou la Mort "

The second Marquess envisaged a sculpture gallery at the house, which never came to fruition ; four marbles by Joseph Nollekens were carried out to his commission, in expectation of the gallery ; the ' Diana, signed and dated 1778, is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Juno, Venus and Minerva, grouped with a Roman antique marble of Paris, are at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Holding his power by universal male suffrage, and having frequently, from his prison or in exile, reproached previous oligarchical governments with neglecting social questions, he set out to solve them by organising a system of government based on the principles of the " Napoleonic Idea ", i. e. of the emperor, the elect of the people as the representative of the democracy, and as such supreme ; and of himself, the representative of the great Napoleon I of France, " who had sprung armed from the French Revolution like Minerva from the head of Jove ", as the guardian of the social gains of the revolutionary period.

One scholar points out that the legend dealing with two women, Minerva and Arachne, is on the same side of the mirror as the queen's reflection while the male legend is on the side of the king.

Calvin's magnum opus, penned early in his life, " came like Minerva in full panoply out of the head of Jupiter ," and even through its enlargements and revisions it remained basically the same in its content.

In 1967, soon after Ronald Reagan's inauguration as governor, the < i > Sacramento Bee </ i > ran an editorial cartoon showing an overweight Minerva and bear, representing bloated state government, doing toe-touching exercises as Reagan, dressed as an athletics coach, calls out, " Squeeze, Cut, Trim -- Squeeze, Cut, Trim.

This is the hospital where Arthur Weasley is sent after he was attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini, in the Ministry of Magic and Minerva McGonagall is hospitalised from severe stunning when Hagrid is forced out of Hogwarts.

Minerva started out manufacturing standard safety bicycles in 1897, before in 1900 expanding into light cars and " motocyclettes ", particularly motorized bicycles which were a forerunner of motorcycles.

Just before the outbreak of the war, a group of businessmen from Verviers bought out Minerva.

Lio's activities during a college protest are noticed, and he is forced to leave the country out of fear for his life, though he continues to write to Minerva.

The sisters spend several weeks dealing with the police bureaucracy trying to locate their father before it is suggested that there is a way that Minerva can get her father out of prison.

Minerva points out that her mother is waiting outside and would " appreciate his hospitality " too.

While in law school, Minerva discovers that Lio has been killed by Trujillo supporters even though he was out of the country.

When Minerva graduates from law school, Trujillo is present to pass out the diplomas.

The development agreement between Croydon Council and Minerva is based on a two-phase development enabling Allders to stay on site until their new store was completed and fitted out.

The reefs were named after the whaleship Minerva, was wrecked on what became known as South Minerva after setting out from Sydney in 1829.

While presenting an attractive area to wait out harsh weather occurring farther south, the Minerva reefs are not a good place to be when the weather is bad locally.

The Moon turns out to have previously orbited Minerva, a planet that exploded to form the asteroid belt 50, 000 years ago.

Dharmakirti is the last flaming of the torch before it blows out, the owl of Minerva taking wing at dusk: the creativity of synthesis as a fading institutional base goes on the defensive.

Zoom is driven out of his self-imposed imprisonment by Cheetah ( a. k. a. Dr. Barbara Minerva ) in an attempt to both harness superspeed and induct him into the growing Secret Society.

In Belgium, the Minerva company, later known for luxury cars, started out manufacturing standard safety bicycles in 1897, before expanding into light cars and " motocyclettes " from 1900.

Minerva ( Etruscan: Menrva ) was the Roman goddess whom Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena.

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

Like Athena, Minerva was born from the head of her father, Jupiter ( Greek Zeus ).

* Minerva is featured on the seals of many schools and colleges: on that of Union College in Schenectady, NY, the motto is ( translated from the French ) " Under the laws of Minerva, we are all brothers.

* The Seal of California depicts the Goddess Minerva having sprung full grown from the brain of Jupiter.

* 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.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

Silver plate with goddess Minerva from the Hildesheim Treasure, 1st century BC

Cogidubnus / Togidubnus is known from a reference to his loyalty in Tacitus's Agricola, and from an inscription commemorating a temple dedicated to Neptune and Minerva found in nearby Chichester.

Minerva has been a part of campus from the first diploma bearing her likeness in 1894 to the statue erected near the center in 2003.

), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".

The most ancient buildings currently visible are from the 3rd century BC, notably the Castrum ( military camp ); of a slightly later date is the Capitolium ( temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva ).

The film culminates in a showdown at Leonardo's castle, between the remaining CIA agents, the Mayflowers, and the team of Hudson, Five-Tone, and Baragli, to stop the Mayflowers from successfully operating the machine, during which Kit Kat and Butterfingers are betrayed and killed by Minerva.

The Town of Newcomb was established in 1828 from parts of the Towns of Minerva and Moriah.

Hague competed in the old Marcy League, which included teams from Bolton Landing, Chestertown, Horicon, Pottersville, Keene Valley, Indian Lake, Minerva, Newcomb, Long Lake, and Wells.

* 1939 oral history memoir from Minerva Fessing Oatfield ( an acquaintance of Abigail Scott Duniway ), on the Library of Congress website

There was also a short-lived hovercraft service ; Minerva and Mercury linked Hull Pier and Grimsby Docks from February to October 1969, but suffered frequent mechanical failures.

* George Călinescu, Istoria literaturii române de la origini până în prezent (" The History of Romanian Literature from Its Origins to Present Times "), Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1986

The interior, a basilica with nave and two aisles, contains columns said to come from a temple of Minerva and a fine mosaic pavement of 1166, with interesting representations of the months, Old Testament subjects and others.

In the center is Minerva, personifying the United States, standing with left hand resting of fasces and right hand holding a shield blazoned with the shield from the coat of arms of the United States.

* Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden of Virtue ( c. 1502 )