The ' Mask of Agamemnon ', discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Upon discovering the Shaft Graves, with their skeletons and more regal gold ( including the Mask of Agamemnon ), Schliemann cabled the king of Greece.

Some art objects obtained from the graves are the Silver Siege Rhyton, the Mask of Agamemnon, the Cup of Nestor, and weapons both votive and practical.

* c. 1600 BC – 1550 BC —" Mask of Agamemnon " Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made.

The so-called ' Mask of Agamemnon ', a 16th Century BCE mask discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae, Greece.

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A Mycenaean funeral mask identified as the " Mask of Agamemnon " by Heinrich Schliemann

The Mask of Agamemnon is an artifact discovered at Mycenae in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann.

The Mask of Agamemnon was named by Schliemann after the legendary Greek king of Homer's Iliad.

The Mask of Agamemnon was found on the 30th.

The Mask of Agamemnon differs from three of the other masks in a number of points: it is three-dimensional rather than flat, the facial hairs are cut out, rather than engraved, the ears are cut out, the eyes are depicted as both open and shut, with open eyelids, but a line of closed eyelids across the center, the face alone of all the depictions of faces in Mycenaean art has a full pointed beard with handlebar mustache, the mouth is well-defined ( compared to the flat masks ), the brows are formed to two arches rather than one.

* Behind the Mask of Agamemnon, July / August 1999

Some scholars, noting that the " Mask of Agamemnon " is significantly different from the others found at the site, contend that Schliemann had some of the features added to make the mask appear more heroic to viewers of his day.

* The " Mask of Agamemnon " found at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann.

* Mask, including a bib which protects the neck.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

In addition, he released a song called "( I Could Only ) Whisper Your Name " for the soundtrack of The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, which is his most successful single in the United States to date.

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

Following the release of The Wind Waker came The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition, which included the original The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and a demo of The Wind Waker.

GameSpot noted that Majora's Mask suffered from a frame rate which appeared choppier and inconsistencies in the audio.

In 1989, Nicks set to work with Fleetwood Mac on a new album, Behind the Mask, which was released in 1990 to moderate commercial success in the US.

As producer, Zappa granted Beefheart unrestrained artistic freedom in making 1969's Trout Mask Replica, which ranked fifty-eighth in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

BBC disc jockey John Peel said of the album: " If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work.

In addition, Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man, heralded for its deconstruction of the concept of the comic book, initiated a " Second Crisis " in which characters such as the original Crime Syndicate of America from Earth-Three came back to life thanks to the Medusa Mask owned by the Psycho-Pirate, who remembered the original Crisis.

Merlin traces his way back to his first confrontation with Jasra, where he finds himself at a magical fort, the Keep of the Four Worlds, a nexus of magical energies which has recently fallen under the control of a mysterious blue-masked sorcerer calling himself " Mask ", who seems to have a vendetta against Merlin.

Luke ends up in the crystal cave himself-and Merlin, after yet another uncanny encounter with a shape-shifting werewolf ( which escapes, minus an ear and with severe burns ) and that appears to be backed by Mask.

Merlin calls in Mandor to imprison the t ' yiga, which turns out ( a ) to have been sent with orders to act as a bodyguard to Merlin, by an unknown sponsor, and ( b ) reveals that Jurt is in league with Mask, and is trying to gain power from the Keep of the Four Worlds in the same way that Brand did, and become a Living Trump.

Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural, it contains 10 stories, the first four of which, " The Repairer of Reputations ", " The Mask ", " In the Court of the Dragon " and " The Yellow Sign ", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.

Donkey Kong 64 was the first game to require the Expansion Pak, which provides 4 MB more RAM for enhanced graphics and more expansive environments ( the only other game to require the Expansion Pak for any gameplay whatsoever was The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask ; all others were optional with the exception of Perfect Darks limited gameplay ).

** The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called " Ten Years Later ", ( Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847 ): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known.

Unlike Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask requires the Expansion Pak, which provides additional memory for enhanced graphics and more on-screen characters.

While most masks in Ocarina of Time are limited to an optional side-quest, they play a central role in Majora's Mask, which has twenty-four masks total.

Examples include the Postman's Hat, which grants Link access to items in mailboxes, and Kafei's Mask, which initiates a long side-quest to receive the Couple's Mask.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

Myrna Loy was the similarly named Fah lo See in 1932's The Mask of Fu Manchu.

The original novel, written by Dashiell Hammett, was first published in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1929.

The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as " Computer Game / Firecracker " ( 1978 ) and " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), the latter written and sung by Sakamoto.

Ocarina of Times follow-up, Majora's Mask, was released in April 2000.

Majora's Mask was also included in the Collector's Edition., and is now available on the Virtual Console.

In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Link is able to inhabit the body of the Zora Mikau, who was killed by Gerudo pirates, and can use his fins as boomerangs.

She was cast in the play The Mask of Virtue in 1935, and received excellent reviews, followed by interviews and newspaper articles.

Upon the death of her father, Cyril Perfect, while she was touring for Behind the Mask, Christine made the decision to retire from touring altogether.

She was preparing to work again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey for the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature in In Her Shoes.

Though he achieved success with Mask in 1985, Bogdanovich's 1990 sequel to The Last Picture Show, called Texasville was a critical and box-office disappointment.

Mask was released with a song score by Bob Seger against Bogdanovich's wishes ( he favored Bruce Springsteen ), and Bogdanovich has often complained that the version of Texasville that was released was not the film he had intended.

A director's cut of Mask, slightly longer and with Springsteen's songs, was belatedly released on DVD in 2006.

He was cast in a series of B-adventures such as Mask of the Avenger ( 1951 ).

Drummer John French had now joined the group and it would later ( notably on Trout Mask Replica ) be his patience that was required to transcribe Van Vliet's creative ideas ( often expressed by whistling or banging on the piano ) into musical form for the other group members.

Critically acclaimed as Van Vliet's magnum opus, Trout Mask Replica was released as a 28 track double album in June 1969 on Frank Zappa's newly formed Straight Records label.

" In 2003, the album was ranked fifty-eighth by Rolling Stone in their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: " On first listen, Trout Mask Replica sounds like raw Delta blues ", with Beefheart " singing and ranting and reciting poetry over fractured guitar licks.

" Huey of Allmusic cited the Doc at the Radar Station as being " generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica ", " even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present ".

One track on Trout Mask Replica, " The Blimp ( mousetrapreplica )", features Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton talking on the telephone to Zappa superimposed onto an unrelated live recording of the Mothers of Invention ( the backing track was later released in 1992 as " Charles Ives " on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol.

Cartoonist and writer Matt Groening tells of listening to Trout Mask Replica at the age of 15 and thinking " that it was the worst thing I'd ever heard.