One day, fifty years after Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother, a slave steals a golden cup from the lair of an unnamed dragon at Earnaness.

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

Several scholars have explored the so-called " golden age " of the Maritimes in the years just before Confederation.

According to Greenpeace, golden rice has not managed to do anything about malnutrition for 10 years during which alternative methods are already tackling malnutrition.

The years before the First World War were the golden age of the inshore fisheries.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

Twenty-two years later, to the day, some six years after Judah's death, the " golden spike " was driven, completing the Transcontinental Railroad.

The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932.

A golden era of 95 years comes to an end for Norway as civil wars between the members of Harald Fairhair's family line rage for the remainder of the century.

Despite the transcontinental success and millions in government subsidies, the Union Pacific faced bankruptcy less than three years after the golden spike as details surfaced about overcharges Crédit Mobilier had billed Union Pacific for the formal building of the railroad.

The group seems to have adopted the name Section d ' Or to distinguish themselves from the narrower definition of Cubism developed in parallel by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, and to show that Cubism, rather than being an isolated art-form, represented the continuation of a grand tradition ( indeed, the golden ratio had fascinated Western intellectuals of diverse interests for at least 2, 400 years ).

Further design modifications were made by Kreisel over the next ten years, and in the 1970s and 1980s by engineer John P. D ' Arcy ; record producer Daniel Levitin served as a consultant and " golden ears " for the design of the crossover network ( used to partition the frequency spectrum so that the subwoofer would not attempt to reproduce frequencies too high for its effective range, and so that the main speakers would not need to handle frequencies too low for their effective range ).

The old " golden logo " returned as Feyenoord's official logo, which was presented at the 2007 new years brunch.

One hundred and fifty years later, in the times of Mauregato, the hymn O Dei Verbum rendered St. James as " the golden head of Spain, our protector and national patron " and a mention is made of his preaching in the Iberian Peninsula during the first decades of Christianity.

Images of the newly built Eiffel Tower in 1889 and 1890 gave impetus to the postcard, leading to the so-called " golden age " of the picture postcard in years following the mid-1890s.

To accomplish its goal of parity ( raising crop prices to where they were in the golden years of 1909-1914 ), the Act had to eliminate surplus production.

The WWF did incredible business on the shoulders of McMahon and his all-American babyface hero, Hulk Hogan, for the next several years, creating what some observers dubbed a second golden age for professional wrestling.

The golden age of spa tourism lasted about a hundred years.

Jennifer Jones ( March 2, 1919-December 17, 2009 ) was an American Oscar-winning actress during the Hollywood golden years.

For a few years, the castes of Pao are highly successful in their respective endeavors and the planet experiences a short golden age.

They were not ' golden years ' by any means, but in two elections ( 1944 and 1948 ), Cubans has the opportunity to express their desire for a rule of civil liberties, primacy of Cuban culture, and achievement of economic independence.

Journalist Brenda Stoter Boscolo remarks upon this in an article on the Dutch site Joop. nl " attempts through the years to give Piet another color never took hold, but through the years the custom to wear large golden earrings did disappear " The children put their shoes in front of the fireplace, hoping to find a gift in it the next morning.

Smith reported having a vision in 1823 that eventually led him to the discovery of golden plates that documented a group of ancient Israelites journey to the Americas, 960 years of their descendants history and their dealings with the god of the Israelites.

" They select Rick Jones, hitherto unknown in the Ultimate Marvel universe, who is found glowing golden in his back yard.

The first is Queen Joan, the wife of Alexander II of Scotland and daughter of King John of England ( Richard I's brother and successor ) who is buried in the grave yard ( supposedly in a golden coffin ).

Alley fences were made of solid boards higher than one's head, but not so high as the golden glow in a corner or the hollyhocks that grew in a line against them.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Grazie had a small, slick head and her hair and skin were the color of golden toast.

His ashes were deposited in a golden urn on the Rhoetean promontory at the entrance of the Hellespont.

However the large number of copper-zinc alloys now known suggests that at least some were deliberately manufactured and many have zinc contents of more than 12 % wt which would have resulted in a distinctive golden color.

Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".

No official celebrations were therefore held until 1917 — the golden anniversary of Confederation — and then none again for a further decade.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

A treatise on poetry by Diomedes Grammaticus is a good example, as this work ( among other things ) categorizes dactylic hexameter verses in ways that were later interpreted under the golden line rubric.

From pre-dynastic Egypt, daggers were adorned as ceremonial objects with golden hilts and later even more ornate and varied construction.

There were a few minor stars yet to come, but the golden age of geometry was over.

Although there was no " golden time " of " toleration " of Catholics, which Father Garnet had hoped for, James's reign was nevertheless a period of relative leniency for Catholics, and few were subject to prosecution.

These " golden " exports were supported by more than US $ 40 million of specialized banana company investment in the Honduran infrastructure and were safeguarded by United States pressure on the national government when the companies felt threatened.

Although the Syrian hamster or golden hamster ( Mesocricetus auratus ) was first described scientifically in 1839, researchers were not able to successfully breed and domesticate hamsters until 1939.

His sandals, called pédila by the Greeks and talaria by the Romans were made of palm and myrtle branches, but were described as beautiful, golden and immortal, made a sublime art, able to take the roads with the speed of wind.

As long as differences in wealth and status among families were minimal, the first coming together in groups was accompanied by a fleeting golden age of human flourishing.

Others contend that there never was a golden age of jury trials, but rather that juries in the early nineteenth century ( before the rise of plea bargaining ) were " unwitting and reflexive, generally wasteful of public resources and, because of the absence of trained professionals, little more than slow guilty pleas themselves ," and that the guilty-plea system that emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century was a superior, more cost-effective method of achieving fair outcomes.

The 17th and 18th centuries include what is known as a golden age of libraries ; during this some of the more important libraries were founded in Europe, such as the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the British Museum Library in London, the Mazarine Library and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, the Austrian National Library in Vienna, the National Central Library in Florence, the Prussian State Library in Berlin, the Załuski Library in Warsaw and the M. E.

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

According to Smith, he returned the golden plates to Moroni after they were translated and as of 1838 the angel Moroni still had the plates in his possession.

Prohibition created a golden opportunity for organized crime syndicates to smuggle alcohol, and as a result the syndicates were able to gain considerable power in some major cities.

The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died ( Francesco Petrarch Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani ).