Then Thor snatched up a great stone out of the river and cast it at her, saying these words: ' At its source should a river be stemmed.

In modern times, comic book superheroes, such as Superman, Batman, and Thor are often described as wearing " capes " or " opera capes ", although most of these are long enough to count as opera cloaks.

In these sources, Thor bears at least fourteen names, is the husband of the golden-haired goddess Sif, is the lover of the jötunn Járnsaxa, and is generally described as fierce-eyed, red-haired and red-bearded.

The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Thor is frequently referred to — via a process known as interpretatio romana ( where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity )— as either the Roman god Jupiter ( also known as Jove ) or the Greco-Roman demigod Hercules.

Hitch described the alternative-reality reimagining as one where, " You have to approach it as though nothing has happened before and tell the story fresh from the start .... We had to get to the core of who these people were and build outwards, so Cap America was a soldier, Thor is either a nut case or a messiah ...

The Thor missile was also used to lift warheads into near-space to conduct high altitude nuclear explosion tests ; these shots were collectively called Operation Fishbowl.

But when Thor knew that, and thought that there was hope that the hone might be removed, he desired to reward Gróa for her leech-craft and make her glad, and told her these things: that he had waded from the north over Icy Stream and had borne Aurvandill in a basket on his back from the north out of Jötunheim.

Rand al ' Thor possessed one of these swords, a gift from his father.

He has superhuman strength and durability, and he can enhance these further by reinforcing his body with light energy ; on one occasion, he was able to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the thunder god Thor.

During these events Thor, upon finding Valkyrie's lifeless body, enters Valhalla to reclaim her soul.

Following these events, Thor moved into Stark Tower with Jane Foster.

The Tower's misadventures in trying to capture Rand al ' Thor and investigate the Black Tower further undermined her position ; Alviarin, using her knowledge of Elaida's role in these debacles, effectively blackmailed Elaida into compliance, to such an extent that for a time Alviarin was the de facto ruler of the Tower.

Some, including Noah Webster, have suggested that Tiras was worshiped by his descendants as Thor, the god of thunder, equating both these forms with the Θουρος ( Thouros ) mentioned by Homer as the " Ares ( Mars ) of the Thracians ".

They became the Dark One's most trusted lieutenants and were bound into his prison with him for three thousand years ; today most of these thirteen walk the Pattern in their own skins, others who have been killed by Rand al ' Thor have been placed in other bodies except for the ones taken with Balefire.

Some generic type replicas such as Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II, qualify as true replicas as these ships were built to investigate the craft and or culture of the original era.

Popular historian Thor Ewing suggested that some of these sites were not dedicated to a well known deity, but simply to a local animistic one, who was believed to inhabit that very spot.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

There might have been a pool of cool water behind any of these tree-clumps: only -- there was not.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

His objective was, essentially, to repair those aspects of orthodox astronomy responsible for its deficiencies in achieving these ends.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

I was drawn deeper and deeper into these concerns and responsibilities.

But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

With these and similar tales he was entertaining his English friends, all of whom he was seeing when he was not showing Blackman the sights of London and its environs.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

and this first section was somehow preserved ( there are always these annoying little mysteries about the actual facts of Malraux's life ) when the Gestapo destroyed the rest.

A Federal lawsuit ( joined by Green, Libertarian, and other parties ) enjoined the Board of Elections from discarding enrollment records of these disqualified parties, and also required modifications to allow voters to register themselves in non-ballot parties.

Since these are not affixes, they are commonly disqualified from being considered infixes.

" The scores for these films were disqualified from receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score due to too many composers being listed on the cue sheet.

The IRS considers these individuals to be presumptively disqualified.

For this reason, many deposed emperors were blinded, had their noses cut off, or their tongue split by their successors, as these permanent disfigurements disqualified them from ever reclaiming the throne.

According to Lenin, the author of these quotations, soviet rule “ is nothing else than the organized form of the dictatorship of the proletariat .” A code of rules governing elections to the soviets was framed, but the following classes were disqualified to vote: “ Those who employ others for profit ; those who live on incomes not derived from their own work — interest on capital, industrial enterprises or landed property ; private business men, agents, middlemen ; monks and priests of all denominations ; ex-employees of the old police services and members of the Romanov dynasty ; lunatics and criminals .”

Forty years later, Fuller still believes Dancer's Image was disqualified due to these events.

The 2008 Democratic presidential primaries in Florida and Michigan initially caused the delegates from these two states to be disqualified from being seated at the Democratic Convention due to the states moving their primaries against DNC Party rules.

Some crews dropped out or were disqualified in these last days as well.

Although, Lehto wouldn't have gained these points if it hadn't been for Christian Fittipaldi being disqualified for having an underweight car, which came home 6th.

SUWA also works through the courts to protect areas in Utah that it believes qualifies as Wilderness under the federal Wilderness Act of 1964 from uses which would cause these areas to be disqualified from Wilderness consideration.

In the KCSE exam of 1994, the school was disqualified from national ranking on these grounds.

No less than 317 of these were of persons aged under 21 and therefore disqualified from voting.

The Ligue de la Patrie Française (" League of French Patriots "), founded in January 1899, under the auspices of the academicians François Coppée and Jules Lemaitre, energetically seconded this campaign and demanded that these " disqualified " judges be discharged from the case.