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 ).

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.

She was buried in the cemetery of Santa Maria sopra Minerva which lies near the Pantheon.

She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry.

The goddess he worshipped the most zealously however was Minerva.

The reverse depicts the Roman goddess Minerva, who was Domitian's favoured deity, and appeared on numerous coin types throughout his reign.

Veneration of Serapis and Isis, who were identified with Jupiter and Minerva respectively, was especially prominent.

Part of the curriculum of this studium was relocated in 1288 at the studium of Santa Maria sopra Minerva which in the 16th century world be transformed into the College of Saint Thomas ().

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.

Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners on 1 December 1828.

Minerva, who was supporting the Greeks, at this moment sent sea-serpents to strangle Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus.

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 was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, equivalent to the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva.

Minerva was the daughter of Jupiter.

As Minerva Medica, she was the goddess of medicine and doctors.

As Minerva Achaea, she was worshipped at Luceria in Apulia where votive gifts and arms said to be those of Diomedes were preserved in her temple.

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

In 207 BC, a guild of poets and actors was formed to meet and make votive offerings at the temple of Minerva on the Aventine hill.

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.

* Minerva is the name and the patroness of the most ancient student-association of Leiden and was established in 1819.

* A small Roman shrine to Minerva ( the only one still in situ in the UK ) stands in Handbridge, Chester.

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.

New York State Route 28N, the Roosevelt Marcy Memorial Highway, is a north-south highway in Minerva and is the only road of significant note in the town.

The Minerva Shrine in the Roman quarry is the only rock cut Roman shrine still in situ in Britain.

In addition, Theophilus misquotes Plato several times, ranking Zopyrus among the Greeks, and speaking of Pausanias as having only run a risk of starvation instead of being actually starved to death in the temple of Minerva.

The 1894 James Lick Pioneer Monument features a seal where Minerva and the bear have " escaped " the seal and are sculpted in the round, leaving the remaining elements on Minerva's shield in the space normally occupied only by the face of Medusa.

The city of Eureka, California, uses the same seal, being the only U. S. location to use the state seal as its seal ; Minerva and the bear appear on the seal of the city of Long Beach.

With the fledgling colony of South Australia only three years old, Alexander Lang Elder ( 1815-1885 ) arrived in Port Misery ( now Port Adelaide ) in 1839 aboard the family-owned Minerva to launch a new arm of the Scottish based merchant and shipping business.

Sulis was not the only goddess exhibiting syncretism with Minerva.

Laden with precious metals, Minerva sails there only to find that the invitation was a trap ; the French capture them and seize their gold and silver.

While many other medieval churches in Rome have been given Baroque makeovers that cover Gothic structures, the Minerva is the only extant example of original Gothic church building in Rome.

Since islands can, under international law, only be claimed if they are at least 30 cm above the high tide point, some have even attempted to build sovereign islands, like real-estate millionaire Michael Oliver's attempt at building a libertarian city-state called the Republic of Minerva in the southern Pacific Ocean.

The Minerva cast includes the trunk of the body ( sometimes extending down only so far as the rib cage ) as well as the patient's head, with openings provided for the patient's face, ears, and usually the top of the head and hair.

Foaly is among the most intelligent characters in the series ( rivaled only by Opal Koboi, Minerva Paradizo and Artemis himself ), with several inventions to his credit.

However, the ambush is successful enough that the colony is only split into 2 pieces, forcing the Minerva to descend into the atmosphere to fire its Tannhauser positron blaster cannon to break up the colony as much as possible before the ship has to start proper reentry procedures.

The Order gained control of the convent once again in 1815 only to be expropriated by the Italian government in 1871, and in 1873 the Collegium Divi Thomae de Urbe was forced to leave the Minerva.

Her only real friend was her doll, Minerva.

During his stay in Assisi, he did not visit the famous Giotto frescoes in the Basilica of San Francesco d ' Assisi, but only visited the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a converted Roman temple there.

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

* A statue of Minerva adorns the library at the United States Military Academy

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

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

* The annual prize for the best Politics student in Liverpool Hope University in the UK is called the Minerva Prize, both because of the association with wisdom and knowledge and because there is a statue of Minerva on the dome of Liverpool Town Hall, the seat of local politics in the city.

* A statue of Minerva stands in the entrance to Main Building at Wells College in Aurora, NY.

* The Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, features a Roman marble statue of Minerva in its 4th floor atrium.

* Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo has a statue of Minerva in their lobby.

* A statue of Minerva appears on top of the Minerva Building at Dumfries Academy, Dumfries, Scotland.

* Minerva is displayed as a statue in the Minneapolis Central Library in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

* Minerva is displayed as a statue in Pavia, Italy, near the train station, and is considered as an important landmark in the city.

* A statue of Minerva stands atop the dome of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland.

* A seven foot statue of Minerva stands at the highest point in Brooklyn, overlooking New York Harbor, located in Green-Wood Cemetery.

* A bronze statue of Minerva lies in monument square Portland, Maine.

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.

Other features include a statue of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, located to the east of Elliott University Center.

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.

In one of his letters, Cicero refers to a statue of Minerva as " Appias ".

The rite is analogous to, or a borrowed precedent for, a similar ritual at Rome originally held in the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter, near a statue of Minerva.