Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.

Gert McQueen, Elder and Redesman of the Ring of Troth, was successful in lobbying the U. S. Army Chaplain ’ s Corps to adopt guidelines for recognizing heathen religions and Theodish belief in particular.

By late 1983 it was clear that IBM's Token Ring would not be ready in time for the launch of the Mac, and might miss the launch of these other products as well.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

Ethernet and Token Ring was also supported, known as EtherTalk and TokenTalk respectively.

* In The Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir is described: " On a baldric he wore a great horn tipped with silver that now was laid upon his knees.

He also served as a Nazi spy in the United States and, in 1941, he was caught by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) in the largest espionage case in U. S. history: The Duquesne Spy Ring.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

Shoemaker Crater ( formerly Teague Ring ) in Western Australia was renamed in memory of Gene Shoemaker

The 2002 horror movie The Ring was in part filmed near the pass.

In 2001 Enya recorded " May It Be ", which was featured in the first installment of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring, and was her second consecutive single to enter the German charts at number one.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

A minimalist approach which was equal parts Val Lewton's theory of " less is more " ( usually employing the low-budget techniques utilized on The Blair Witch Project, 1999 ) has been evident, particularly in the emergence of Asian horror movies which have been remade into successful Americanized versions, such as The Ring ( 2002 ), and The Grudge ( 2004 ).

Cambridge Ring was developed at Cambridge University in 1974 but was never developed into a successful commercial product.

However shielded twisted pair was used in IBM's Token Ring implementation, and in 1984 StarLAN showed the potential of simple unshielded twisted pair by using Cat3 — the same simple cable used for telephone systems.

He was also one of the founders of the architectural association Der Ring.

In 1939 the full ' Ring was used for the last time in major racing events, as future Grands Prix would be held only on the Nordschleife.

The German GP could be hosted at the ' Ring again, and was for another three years from 1971 to 1973.

Safety was improved again later on, e. g. by removing the jumps on the long main straight and widening it, and taking away the bushes right next to the track at the main straight, which made that section of the ' Ring dangerously narrow.

Primarily due to its length of over, and the lack of space due to its situation on the sides of the mountains, the ' Ring was unable to meet the safety requirements, and was also unsuitable for the burgeoning television market.

The German motorcycle Grand Prix was held for the last time on the old ' Ring in 1980, also permanently moving to Hockenheim.

The playing of that piece is not allowed at any other time ( except if one happens to be listening to the entire 15 hours of The Ring Cycle ), and any offender is dragged into the showers to be drenched in cold water fully dressed.

Although the team does not officially retire jersey numbers, some are kept " unofficially inactive ", so it is uncommon to find any current players wearing the number of one of the " Ring of Honor " inductees.

As of 2006, Ethiopia only had one expressway — the Addis Ababa Ring Road.

In fact, in many occurrences the manipulation of horror presents cultural definitions that are not accurate, yet set an example to which a person relates to that specific cultural from then on in their life .< ref name = Carta > The visual interpretations of a films can be lost in the translation of their elements from one culture to another like in the adaptation of the Japanese film Ringu into the American film The Ring .< ref name = Holm > The cultural components from Japan were slowly " siphoned away " to make the film more relatable to an American audience.

M57, also known as the " Ring Nebula " and NGC 6720, has a diameter of one light-year and is at a distance of 2, 000 light-years from Earth.

Luthor is quickly overwhelmed by his greed, and sets out to steal the rings of his fellow inducted Lanterns, taking Scarecrow's yellow ring and attempting to steal Mera's red one, but is held back by the Atom ( wielding the ring-staff of the Indigo tribe ) and the Flash wearing a Blue Lantern Ring.

QEMU and Bochs also support running OS / 2 as they are full x86 system emulators and not virtualization software, and thus emulates the entire x86 architecture instead of relying on the host CPU, essentially allowing OS / 2 unrestricted access to Ring 2, albeit an emulated one.

The Titan Ringlet within Saturn's C Ring represents another type of resonance in which the rate of apsidal precession of one orbit exactly matches the speed of revolution of another.

Innocent XII appears as one of the narrators in Robert Browning's long poem " The Ring and the Book " ( 1869 ), based on the true story of the Pope's intervention in a historical murder trial in Rome during his papacy.

* Das Rheingold – inspired by the Nibelungenlied, the Rhine is one of the settings for the first opera of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.

Ring Lardner, Jr. was a screenwriter who was blacklisted after the Second World War as one of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriters who were incarcerated for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ).

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

W. H. Auden, in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit " one of the best children's stories of this century ".

The skeleton called the " Ring Lady " unearthed in Herculaneum, one of the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79.

Up to 16 computers could be networked in a " MIDI Ring " by connecting one computer's MIDI-OUT port to the next computer's MIDI-IN port.

Also, Nenya, one of the Three Rings of Power, was described as the Ring of Adamant, once again the Dark Tower Barad-dûr is described as being a tower of adamant crowned with iron.

Three were intended for the Elves, Seven for Dwarves, Nine for Men, and one, the One Ring, was created by Sauron himself in Mount Doom.

Near the end of his life he is believed to have left for Valinor on one of the last ships of Círdan, as he too was a Ring-bearer, having borne the One Ring during Frodo's captivity by the orcs.

Fredegar was one of the small group of Hobbits who knew that Frodo had the Ring.

In what some experts ( including The Ring writers ) consider one of the most brutal fights in history, Escalera had his eye, mouth and nose broken early, but was rallying back in the scorecards when Argüello finished him, once again in the thirteenth round.

The fight became known as the " fight of the decade " by The Ring and one of the greatest battles of all time.

The appearance of a Bora Ring varies from one culture to another, but it is often associated with stone arrangements, rock engravings, or other art works.