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The neoclassical eye, trained to appreciate svelte line and idealised refinements of nature, did not savour the rude vigour and immediacy of Roubiliac: the legs of the figure of Hercules, supporting the bust of Sir Peter Warren in Roubliac's monument in Westminster Abbey ( 1753 ), J. T.

* Hercules monument ( Kassel ), the landmark of Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A monument to the four gods depicting Juno, Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, possibly once the base of a Jupiter Column, was discovered on the heights of Schoenberg at the point where two Roman roads once crossed.

The monument is referenced by Herman Melville ( as Ishmael ) in Chapter XXXV ( The Mast-Head ) of Moby-Dick, " Great Washington, too, stands high aloft on his towering main-mast in Baltimore, and like one of Hercules ' pillars, his column marks that point of human grandeur beyond which few mortals will go.

Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

The main heavy transport aircraft is the Lockheed C-130H Hercules and it will not change soon.

In television, Campbell is known for his lead role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., his portrayal of Autolycus ( the King of Thieves ) in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and notably for his role as Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus (" the King of Thieves ") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

The latter is an important mission to the Falkland Islands government as the Hercules verifies that all fishing vessels are licensed ; at £ 1, 000 per licence per season this is an extremely lucrative source of income.

Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek demigod Heracles, who was the son of Zeus ( Roman equivalent Jupiter ) and the mortal Alcmene.

In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.

In later Western art and literature and in popular culture, Hercules is more commonly used than Heracles as the name of the hero.

Hercules is known for his many adventures, which took him to the far reaches of the Greco-Roman world.

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

Aside from his superhuman powers, Iceman is also a fair hand-to-hand combatant, and received combat training at Xavier's School as well as coaching from the Black Widow and Hercules while serving with the Champions of Los Angeles.

Transport to the island is provided by C-130 Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield's gravel runway.

He is shown to have been a student of Philoctetes and takes his advice to let Hercules travel with him.

In the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys series, the contest is altered somewhat with Aphrodite and Athena entering but Artemis is the third goddess contestant instead of Hera ( offering the one who chooses her the chance to be renowned as a great warrior ).

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

The modern port is still sometimes called the " Port of Hercules ".

: dictus autem Monoecus vel quod pulsis omnibus illic solus habitavit (" either because Hercules drove off everyone else and lived there alone "), vel quod in eius templo numquam aliquis deorum simul colitur (" or because in his temple no other of the gods is worshipped at the same time ").

Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.

The two most featured pantheons are the Asgardians ( of whom Thor is a member ) and the Olympians ( of whom Hercules is a member ).

* True Story, written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a parody of the Odyssey describing a journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the moon.

Twelve huge C-130 Hercules transports, complete with U. S. crews and maintenance teams, took off for New Delhi to fly Indian troops and equipment to the battle zone.

In a desperate effort to rescue the project, two huge steam-driven dipper dredges, Hercules and Sampson, were put to work clearing the channel.

The first time was in Avengers: Under Siege when a huge grouping of Masters of Evil, led by Baron Helmut Zemo, attacked the Avengers and destroyed the Mansion and beat Hercules into a coma among other things before being repulsed.

In addition to the ring, later episodes added new equipment for Hercules and his friends to use: a " moon stone " beam in his belt ( and a matching belt that Newton frequently wore ) that could be used to summon him from Mount Olympus, an invulnerable sword and shield ( both with the same " H " symbol as his ring and belt ), and a set of pipes to summon Pegasus, his winged steed.

Mnemosyne advised Hercules to gain the " stone of creation " in which its purest light will render Dahak powerless.

After obtaining the stone of creation, Hercules and Zarathustra confronted Dahak and bind him in chains using the stone to prevent Dahak's escape.

Many lighthouses were built around the Mediterranean and around the shores of their expanding empire, including the Tower of Hercules at A Coruña in northern Spain, a structure which still survives to this day.

Avanti was founded when several ex-Cadence employees bought the startup ArcSys, which had previously merged with ISS, gaining Avanti its DRC / LVC tool Hercules ( including 3D silicon structure modeling ), then bought Compass Design Automation, which had fully integrated IC Design Flow and ASIC Libraries, especially its place and route tool, which Avanti reworked to create Saturn and Apollo II ; and it also bought TMA which brought their pioneering TCAD and Proteus Optical proximity correction tools.

The Blue Angels use a United States Marine Corps C-130T Hercules, nicknamed " Fat Albert ", for their logistics, carrying spare parts, equipment, and to carry support personnel between shows.

* 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

The day after the tsunami a C-130 Hercules carrying mobile morgues, medical staff and supplies to the area helped with recovery efforts.

* August 24 – An American military C-130 Hercules aircraft carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes into Yau Tong Bay in Hong Kong shortly after takeoff.

* July 4 – In Operation Entebbe, three Israeli Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft carrying about 100 Israeli commandos land at Entebbe International Airport at Entebbe, Uganda, to rescue the 106 passengers of Air France Flight 139 still being held hostage in a transit hall there by Palestinian and West German hijackers.

* April 24 – A U. S. Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying out an anti-narcotics mission over Peru is attacked by Peruvian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22s.

* March 17 – Armenian forces shoot down an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force C-130E Hercules carrying Iranian embassy personnel from Tehran to Moscow near Ballica in the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, killing all 32 people on board.

* July 15 – A Belgian C-130 Hercules carrying a Belgian crew of four and 37 young members of the Royal Netherlands Army crashes at Eindhoven Airport in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and catches fire.

A TLZ can be used for the landing of an aircraft ( in terms of the Royal Air Force, this could be a Hercules carrying supplies or troops or any of their other helicopters, such as the Merlin, Puma or the Chinook ).

The Hercules was reportedly carrying a number of troops on an urgent mission to reach Pristina Airport before a column of Russian forces arrived.

Atlas agreed, but Hercules reneged and walked away, carrying the apples.

On September 12 the Hercules plane left the Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport, carrying a cargo of three Ericsson GSM network systems.