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.

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.

According to Suetonius, Domitian worshipped Minerva as his protector goddess with superstitious veneration.

Would that I were as sure of being immortal and never growing old, and of being worshipped like Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day will bring evil to the Argives.

The great towns are wholly given up to the abominations of the circus and the theatre, where decency is wholly set at nought, and Minerva, Mars, Neptune and the old gods are still worshipped ( vi.

She was worshipped by the Romano-British as Sulis Minerva, whose votive objects and inscribed lead tablets suggest that she was conceived of both as a nourishing, life-giving mother goddess and as an effective agent of curses wished by her votaries.

Among the most important gods worshipped in Treveran territory were Mercury and Rosmerta, Lenus Mars and Ancamna, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Apollo, Intarabus, and Minerva.

As the patron goddess of Rome and the Roman Empire she was called Regina (" queen ") and, together with Jupiter and Minerva, was worshipped as a triad on the Capitol ( Juno Capitolina ) in Rome.

The goddess occurs in early Safaitic graffiti ( Safaitic han -' Ilāt " the Goddess ") and the Nabataeans of Petra and the people of Hatra also worshipped her, equating her with the Greek Athena and Tyche and the Roman Minerva.

The Romano-British population undoubtedly worshipped at pagan temples such as that excavated at Coleshill a few miles outside the modern city boundary, which was possibly dedicated to Minerva or Mars, and that identified at Letocetum where Icknield Street crosses Watling Street between Birmingham and Lichfield, also apparently dedicated to Minerva.

He declared that the most widely venerated god in Gaul was Mercury, the Roman god of trade, but that they also worshipped Apollo, Minerva, Mars and Jupiter.

Sulis Minerva, the Romano-British goddess worshipped at Bath ).

The first " outsider " Etruscan king, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, founded a Capitoline temple to the triad Jupiter, Juno and Minerva which served as the model for the highest official cult throughout the Roman world.

Minerva remains decorated throughout the school year ; then during the morning of the last day of classes and after singing around the Sycamore tree, the senior class takes turns kissing the feet of Minerva, believed to be good luck and bring success and prosperity to all graduation seniors.

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

Andrea Bregno sculpted a few of them, including those of a Cardinal Alano in San Prassede, Ludovico Cardinal d ' Albert at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and Bishop John de Coca at the Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a basilican church in Rome, Italy.

The church is located in the Piazza della Minerva one block behind the Pantheon in the Pigna rione of Rome, Italy within the ancient district known as the Campus Martius.

Jupiter, Juno and Minerva were honored in temples known as Capitolia, which were built on hills and other prominent areas in many cities in Italy and the provinces, particularly during the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods.

Minerva Airlines was an airline based in Italy.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

But the existence of the ghost of Aunt Minerva proved otherwise ( though she may have " moved in " just recently ).

Even though Minerva was a pagan goddess, and the Union College founders devout Protestants, there was still plenty of room for a belief that men could come together as brothers in a community ruled by reason, virtue, and natural law ( or, as the case may be, the Law of God ).

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.

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

Even though the secret services of Ceauşescu (' Securitate ') attribute her a dissident status, in 1989 the Minerva Publishing House is publishing in the most popular mass collection " Biblioteca Pentru Toţi " (" Library for all people ") an anthology of her poems.