A well-known story in the collection One Thousand and One Nights describes a genie who had displeased King Solomon and was punished by being locked in a bottle and thrown into the sea.

Indeed, in the period immediately after his death, Mozart's reputation rose substantially: Solomon describes an " unprecedented wave of enthusiasm " for his work ; biographies were written ( first by Schlichtegroll, Niemetschek, and Nissen ; see Biographies of Mozart ); and publishers vied to produce complete editions of his works.

The original concept of Reed – Solomon coding describes encoding of k message symbols by viewing them as coefficients of a polynomial p ( x ) of maximum degree k − 1 over a finite field of order N, and evaluating the polynomial at n > k distinct input points.

The Haftarah describes the people's blessing of King Solomon at the end of the dedication of the First Temple.

* 1629 — Joseph Solomon Delmedigo describes in a book an accurate sealed-glass thermometer which uses brandy

" The 10th century BCE is the period the Bible describes as the reign of King Solomon.

Although it is often assumed that the text describes Solomon as standing on this platform, the text could equally be read stood next to.

Nevertheless, King Solomon built a " high place " for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem, which the Bible describes as " this detestation of Moab ".

Some scholars believe the description is of a far later date than Moses, and that it reflects the structure of the Temple of Solomon ; others hold that the passage describes a real pre-monarchic shrine, perhaps the sanctuary at Shiloh, while traditional scholars contend that it describes an actual tabernacle used in the time of Moses and thereafter.

Solomon describes the closing bars as " the final image – of a tender, songful, profound nostalgia, a vantage point from which we can review the purposes of the entire journey.

The Testament of Solomon is an Old Testament pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which Solomon mostly describes particular demons whom he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity. The date is very dubious, though is considered the oldest work surviving particularly concerned with individual demons.

It describes how Solomon was enabled to build the Temple by commanding demons by means of a magical ring entrusted to him by the Archangel Michael.

There follows a short conclusion in which Solomon describes how he fell in love with a Shunammite woman and agreed to worship Remphan and Moloch.

The album describes the story of a casket-maker by the name of Solomon who could not die and thus jumped into a freezing river and awakening in the 1990s, transformed into Blaze, and eventually into Colton Grundy.

* " Walkabout long Chinatown ", a folksong which the government describes as the " national song " of the Solomon Islands

In the third act, as Lulla Rosenfeld describes it in her commentary to Adler's memoir, Kaus " gives way to madness with the wild cry, ' Solomon Kaus now rides his fiery steed!

Lulla Rosenfeld, in her commentary to Jacob Adler's memoir, describes the central character as part of a tradition running at least from Solomon Ettinger's Serkele ( 1825 ) to Clifford Odets Awake and Sing ( 1935 ).

An account by Solomon Cohen dated January 1148 AD describes the Almohad conquests:

Solomon describes resentment as the means by which man clings to his self-respect.

The icon possesses in addition emblematic verbal components: the Virgin as the Throne of Wisdom is a trope of Damiani or Guibert de Nogent, based on their typological interpretation of the passage in the Books of Kings, that describes the throne of Solomon ( I Kings 10: 18 – 20, repeated at II Chronicles 9: 17 – 19 ).

Solomon cites the Xerox corporation's use of Dilbert strips and characters in internally distributed ' inspirational ' pamphlets:

According to Longman and Dillard, the book includes two ' characters ', Qoheleth / Solomon and the narrator.

When in the mines the characters also contemplate what must have occurred to prevent King Solomon from ever returning to retrieve the massive amounts of diamonds, gold and ivory tusks that were found buried in his great ' Treasure Chamber '.

Other popular characters included by Farmer as members of the Wold Newton family are: Solomon Kane ; Captain Blood ; The Scarlet Pimpernel ; Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty ; Phileas Fogg ; The Time Traveller ( main character of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ); Allan Quatermain ; A. J.

As well as the major characters played by Hall, Hoffman, Macy, Moore, Reilly and Walters, there are cameo performances from Alfred Molina as ' Quiz Kid ' Donnie Smith's employer Solomon Solomon, Luis Guzmán as Luis, one of the adult contestants on " What Do Kids Know?

In addition to his supernatural battles in this series, Marvel's Dracula often served as a supervillain to other characters in the Marvel Universe, battling the likes of Blade, Spider-Man, Werewolf by Night, the X-Men, and the licensed Robert E. Howard character Solomon Kane.

:: An evolution of the Great Human Empire founded by Solomon Petresun, appearing as playable characters for the first time in the Tribes series.

There, she first played Virginia at the Gaiety Theatre in Solomon and Stephens's Paul and Virginia, followed by the title characters in Solomon's Polly and Grundy and Solomon's Pocahontas.

The term " comic book death " is usually not applied to characters such as DC's Solomon Grundy and Resurrection Man or Marvel's Mr. Immortal, who have the ability to come back to life as an established character trait or power ; rather it is usually applied when one would normally expect death to be permanent but the character is later resurrected through a plot device not previously established.

Other interpreters point out that neither the books of Samuel nor Jewish tradition documents sanctioned romantic or erotic physical intimacy between the two characters, which the Bible elsewhere makes evident when between heterosexuals, most supremely in the Song of Solomon.

* Solomon ( Σολομών ), a usually rich Jew from Thessaloniki, one of the less known characters, he speaks in his own fashion, sometimes uttering a very fast repeating sound often compared to a gatling, earning him, by Karagiozis, the nickname " heavy arms ", despite his frail build.

Depicting 21 characters including Jesse, King David, King Solomon, The Virgin Mary and Child.

Conan's success as a comic hero resulted in adaptations of other characters of Robert E. Howard: Kull, Red Sonja, Solomon Kane.

The eponymous wizard Shazam does not appear in the series ; teenage Billy instead speaks directly to the elders that empowered him via a communication device ( who appear as animated characters: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.

Charles Solomon of the Los Angeles Times praised the series for " preserving the look " of the comic strip, and for " a good sense of the characters ' personalities ".

However, a subsequent preview from San Diego Comic-Con International instead revealed Superman as a manatee named Supermanate, Batman as a mouse, Wonder Woman as a wombat named Wonder Wombat, Flash as a fish, Green Lantern as a warthog, Aquaman as a mandrill named Aquamandrill, Captain Marvel as a pig, Robin as a robin egg with legs, Cyborg as a bug named Cybug, Darkseid as a duck, Joker as a fish, Catwoman as a cat, Mister Mxyzptlk as a chicken, Solomon Grundy as a rabbit, Two-Face as a bull, Bizarro as a dog, Captain Cold as a shark, Sinestro as a hippo, and Lex Luthor as a liger named Lex Liger, but will also feature other DC characters as animals including Animal Man as a monkey and other animal versions of him, Beast Boy as a monkey and other animal versions of him, B ' wana Beast as a bear named B ' wana Bear, Black Manta as a manta ray, Brainiac as a yak named Braini-Yak, Gorilla Grodd as a gorilla, Martian Manhunter as a vulture, Nightwing as a bat, Batgirl as a fox, Supergirl as a rabbit, Wonder Girl as a pig, Raven as a raven, Black Canary as a canary, Green Arrow as a hawk, Huntress as a leopard, Power Girl as a pig, Lobo as a wolf, Harley Quinn as an octopus, Poison Ivy as a snake, Mr. Freeze as a polar bear, Penguin as a penguin, Riddler as a chameleon, Scarecrow as a tiger, Killer Croc as a crocodile, Cheetah as a cheetah, Captain Boomerang as a kangaroo, Hawkman as a hawk, Captain Atom as a flea or an elephant, and other DC heroes and villains as animals including monkeys, dogs, cats, horses, dolphins, bears, pigs, rabbits, birds, fish, bugs, etc.

The book includes a response to Norman Solomon, who attempted to depict Scott Adams as a proponent of downsizing in his 1997 book, The Trouble with Dilbert.

In 1997, Solomon published The Trouble With Dilbert, in which he said that the popular comic strip Dilbert is a capitalist tool which promotes the evils of corporate America.

This does not conform with the picture given elsewhere in the bible, where sacrifices are offered by a wide range of people ( e. g. Manoah the judge, Samuel and Elijah the prophets, and kings Saul, David and Solomon, none of whom are priests ) and the general impression is that any head of family could make a sacrifice.

Muslims further maintain that Solomon remained faithful to a one and only God throughout his life ; constructed the Temple of Solomon, which became one of the key houses of worship ; reigned justly over the whole of Israel ; was blessed with a level of kingship which was given to none after him ; and fulfilled all of his commandments, being promised nearness to God in Heaven at the end of his life.

Kings begins with the death of David, to whom Yahweh, the god of Israel, has promised an eternal dynasty, and the succession of his son Solomon.

According to Solomon's " wives turned his heart after other gods ", their own national deities, to whom Solomon built temples, thus incurring divine anger and retribution in the form of the division of the kingdom after Solomon's death.

In one tale, Asmodeus brought a man with two heads from under the earth to show Solomon ; the man, unable to return, married a woman from Jerusalem and had seven sons, six of whom resembled the mother, while one resembled the father in having two heads.

Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.

His early influences included blues and R & B singers Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton, as well as Elvis Presley, whom Jones idolized and with whom he would later become good friends.

) The father of Adoniram, whom Solomon set over the tribute (); i. e., the forced labour ( R. V., " levy ").

Ethiopia's traditions, recorded and elaborated in a 13th century treatise, the " Kebre Negest ", assert descent from a retinue of Israelites who returned with the Queen of Sheba from her visit to King Solomon in Jerusalem, by whom she had conceived the Solomonic dynasty's founder, Menelik I.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

It was founded in 1797 by Col. John Preston — for whom it was named — along with Solomon Stratton, Matthias Harman and Andrew Hood.

Before there were mayors in California, there were burgesses, the first of whom was Solomon Sibbitt.

Although Ginsberg referred to many of his friends and acquaintances ( including Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke ), the primary emotional drive was his sympathy for Carl Solomon, to whom it was dedicated ; he met Solomon in a mental institution and became friends with him.

It is directly addressed to Carl Solomon, whom Ginsberg met during a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital in 1949 ; called " Rockland " in the poem, it was actually Columbia Presbyterian Psychological Institute.

Burke's second wife was Delores Clark Burke Perkins ( born 1937 ), with whom he had 7 children, including Eleanor Alma ( born December 27, 1958 ), Melanie ( born March 1960 ), Solomon Vincent, Jr. ( born October 15, 1961 ), Carolyn ( born September 1962 ), John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( JFK ), Gemini ( born September 1, 1964 ), and Lillian ( born August 1966 ).

Burke's fourth wife was Frances Sunday ( born 1951 ), whom he married in about 1970 ; she was married to him ( but separated ) when he died, and had three children with him: King Solomon Haile Selassie Burke ( born August 7, 1972 ), Queen Sunday Victoria Burke ( born February 24, 1974 ), and Queen Elizabeth Burke-Maynard ( born March 12, 1975 ).

" The great scholars of the Renaissance with whom he corresponded include Shmuel ben Moshe di Modena, Joseph Katz, Solomon Luria, Moses Isserles, Obadiah Sforno, and Moses Alashkar.

They were Solomon Kullback, Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov, each of whom went on to distinguished service for decades.

Many societies have traditional sages or culture heroes to whom aphorisms are commonly attributed, such as the Seven Sages of Greece, Confucius or King Solomon.