The significance of Ziusudra's name appearing on the WB-62 king list is that it links the flood mentioned in the three surviving Babylonian deluge epics of Ziusudra ( Eridu Genesis ), Utnapishtim ( Epic of Gilgamesh ), and Atrahasis ( Epic of Atrahasis ) to river flood sediments in Shuruppak, Uruk, Kish et al.

The Epic of Ziusudra does not make it absolutely clear whether the flood was a river flood or something else, although it does state that mankind, along with all of the antediluvian cities, will be destroyed.

The Babylonian myth of Utnapishtim ( meaning " He found life ", presumably in reference to the gift of immortality given him by the gods ) is matched by the earlier Epic of Atrahasis, and by the Sumerian version, the Epic of Ziusudra.

* R. M. Best, Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic, Eisenbrauns, 1999, ISBN 0-9667840-1-4.

This is significant since Ptah is a parallel for Noah in that, as the Blacksmith-God of Thebes ( Hephaistos-Vulcan ), he is the equivalent of the Phoenician Craftsman-God Khousor, which is Ugaritic Kṯr, Kothar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, " The-Very-Skillful-and-Intelligent-One ," which is the same character as the Sumero-Akkadian Noahs: Utnapishtim ( in the Gilgamesh Epic ), Atra-Ḫasīs, and Ziusudra ( Khousor = Ptah at Ugarit ).

On September 21, 2004, Atari released in stores the " Editor's Choice Edition " of Unreal Tournament 2004 which adds 3 vehicles, 4 Onslaught maps, and 6 character skins to the original game, and also contains several mods developed by the community as selected by Epic Games.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, or the Bhagavata Purana would obviously not contain this element ).

In addition to this " superficial element of Doric dialect ", the style of Ibycus features mainly dactylic rhythms ( reflecting the Epic traditions he shared with Stesichorus ), a love theme and accumulated epithets.

* Fresco Cycle of Bolivar's Epic by Fernando Leal, at Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico

The 1996 pilot to the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures also features Pellucidar, as well as the character Jana from the book Tarzan at the Earth's Core.

* In Apogee's arch-rival, Epic MegaGames ' Jill of the Jungle, episode 1 includes a news bulletin taking a swipe at Keen, who it claims has been forced into retirement by " those cool Epic heroes ".

A review article by Andrew R. George says that its builder may have " reigned in the fourteenth, twelfth, eleventh or ninth century " but argues that The reference to a ziqqurrat at Babylon in the Creation Epic ( Enûma Eliš · VI 63: George 1992: 301-2 ) is more solid evidence, however, for a Middle Assyrian piece of this poem survives to prove the long-held theory that it existed already in the second millennium BC.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

In 2002, British author Pete Davies wrote American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age, about the 1919 Army Convoy on the Lincoln Highway.

In the Epic Cycle that revolved around the Trojan War, Tithonus, who has travelled east from Troy into Assyria and founded Susa, is bribed to send his son Memnon to fight at Troy with a golden grapevine.

In 1981, while singing in a local New York bar, Lauper met David Wolff, who took over as her manager ( and at some point became romantically involved with her ) and got her signed with Portrait Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.

In The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, author Daniel Yergin notes that the Carter Doctrine " bore striking similarities " to a 1903 British declaration, in which British Foreign Secretary Lord Landsdowne warned Russia and Germany that the British would " regard the establishment of a naval base or of a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.

Also it is stated by Ved Vyasa in Mahabharata, the main Epic which portrays Lord Krishna as principal hero, that venerable sage Maharishi Narada once visited Lord Krishna at Brindavan.

The Surf City Beach Patrol ( SCBP ) won the Surf City Epic, Lavallette, Ortley Beach, Island Beach State Park, the Midway Beach, and " Islands " Tournaments in 2008, narrowly missing out on victories at Sandy Hook ( 2nd ) and the Ship Bottom ( 2nd ) " State Tournament " losing by only a combined 4. 5 points.

Several significant general aviation companies are based at Bend Airport, including Precise Flight, which develops oxygen systems, speed brakes, landing lights and other modifications for general aviation aircraft, Epic Aircraft and Cessna.

On August 28, 2009 they headlined the NME / Radio One tent at Reading Festival ( and August 30 at Leeds Festival ), playing a string of their old hits, such as " Epic " and " MidLife Crisis ".

In July 2009, " Epic " come in at No. 46 in Australian radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 Of All Time, as voted by the Australian public.

Layard then began a political career, and Rassam continued field work ( 1852 – 1854 ) at Nimrud and Kuyunjik, where he made a number of important and independent discoveries, including clay tablets that would later be deciphered by George Smith as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest-known example of written literature.

While leading single " Right Here ( Departed )" scored Norwood her biggest chart success since 2002's " Full Moon ", the album failed to impact elsewhere, resulting into lackluster sales in general and the end of her contract with the label, following the appointment of Amanda Ghost at Epic Records and her split with rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation management.

In 1922 he was appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to J. R. R. Tolkien, with whom he shared, as author of The Epic ( 1914 ), a professional interest in heroic poetry.

Virgin Records heard the demos and signed the group in the UK, releasing their albums in Europe, while Epic Records released their albums in the United States and much of the rest of the world since Virgin did not have a US presence at the time.

* Norwegian Cruise Line will also be hosting some Nickelodeon Cruises on the Norwegian Jewel, Norwegian Gem and Norwegian Epic, the event is known as " Nickelodeon at Sea ".

After a gig at the Winchester Cathedral, a night club in Redwood City, CA, CBS Records executive David Kapralik signed the group to CBS ' Epic Records label.

After the album peaked at No. 155, the band attempted to break up, but the label, now having been absorbed by Epic Records, insisted Steppenwolf record one more album to satisfy their contractual obligations.

* The Slav Epic ( Painting-Petr Chelčický at Vodňany: Do not repay evil with evil )

According to one scholar, the Epic of Atrahasis tablet III iv, lines 6 – 9 identifies the flood as a local river flood: " Like dragonflies they bodies have filled the river.

Tablet III, ii lines 55 – 56 of the Atrahasis Epic state that " He severed the mooring line and set the boat adrift.

* Epic of Manas, a Kyrgyz epic poem with 500, 000 lines

In one of its dozens of iterations, the epic poem consists of approximately 500, 000 lines, and while Kyrgyz historians consider it to be the longest epic poem in history, the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar are both longer.

Scarlet and Epic share the same modular design and are the two current lines of DSMC Brains.

The Little Iliad is one of the better-attested epics in the Epic Cycle: nearly thirty lines of the original text survive.

Amulet ( 800 BC – 612 BC ) to ward off plague inscribed with a quotation from the Akkadian Erra Epic

** Drake: An English Epic ( 1905 – 1908 ), The Torch-Bearers ( 1917 – 1930 ) by Alfred Noyes

Harvest Records and Epic / Legacy released ELO's back catalogue from 2001 – 07.

The brief allusion to the Judgment in the Iliad ( 24. 25 – 30 ) shows that the episode initiating all the subsequent action was already familiar to its audience ; a fuller version was told in the Cypria, a lost work of the Epic Cycle, of which only fragments ( and a reliable summary ) remain.

* The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery ( abridged ), edited by Gary E. Moulton, 2003 – ISBN 0-8032-2950-X

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* 1997 – Epic Soundtracks, English musician ( Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls ) ( b. 1959 )

Epic poetry, from the Indian Vedas ( 1700 – 1200 BC ) and Zoroaster's Gathas to the Odyssey ( 800 – 675 BC ), appears to have been composed in poetic form to aid memorization and oral transmission, in prehistoric and ancient societies.

In the 1981 playoffs, the Chargers managed to outlast the Miami Dolphins in the divisional round, 41 – 38, in a game that became known as The Epic in Miami.

* AFI's 10 Top 10 – # 8 Epic film

* Epic theatre –

* December 3 – George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London.

" Epic " has been used as the theme for UK national commercial radio station talkSPORTs live Premier League coverage for the 2011 – 12 season.

* 1991 – Nominated for category Best Hard Rock Performance for " Epic "

* 1990 – Nominated for category Best Heavy Metal / Hard Rock Video for " Epic "

* George Smith ( assyriologist ) ( 1840 – 1876 ), English, first modern translator of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Hormuzd Rassam ( 1826 – 16 September 1910 ) (), was a native Assyrian Assyriologist, British diplomat and traveller who made a number of important discoveries, including the clay tablets that contained the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest literature.

1980 – 1999: EMI Capitol / Parlophone1998 – 2001: Hollywood Records2001 – 2004: Unsigned2004 – 2009: Epic Records2009: Sony BMG ( Red Carpet Massacre )