A mythological monster, the Tarasque, is said to have lived there at the beginning of the 1st century.

A festival is held every year on the last Sunday of June to remember Tartarin and the Tarasque.

A festival is held in Tarascon every year on the last Sunday of June to remember Tartarin and the unrelated Tarasque.

The Tarasque is a fearsome legendary dragon from Provence, in southern France, tamed in a story about Saint Martha.

The story of the Tarasque is also very similar to the story of Beauty and the Beast and King Kong.

Image: Media STT 20091022 133649 med. jpg | A carved early Gothic column capital at the Church of St. Trophime in Arles, 14th century, depicting the Tarasque ; it is one of several carvings here that show legends of local folklore as well as biblical figures.

The Tarasque is featured on the coat of arms of the city of Tarascon.

A festival is held every year there on the last Sunday of June to remember the Tarasque, as well as Tartarin, the main character of Alphonse Daudet's Tartarin de Tarascon.

The Western Gallery probably dates to about 1375, and is devoted to religious figures and scenes popular in Provence ; from south to north: the stoning of St. Stephen ; Samson slaying the lion and yielding to Delilah ; Saint Martha and the Tarasque ; Mary Magdalene kissing Christ's feet ; the Annunciation in a Gothic setting ; the Coronation of the Virgin ; and the Pentacost.

Its closest town is Tarascon, where the Festival of the Tarasque monster is held every year on the last Sunday of June.

Tarasque at a Corpus Christi procession in Valencia

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

But this is a public park and it's a city ordinance that the statues cannot be crawled on ''.

In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

* Some ancient Egyptian statues of Anubis read ,"... I am death ... I eat ambrosia and drink blood ..." which hints that ambrosia is a food of some sort.

However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

Each of the statues is, in all its details, in expression, attitude and delicacy of finish, strikingly elegant.

It often is represented on the statues of Roman emperors, heroes, and warriors as well as on cameos and vases.

It is often represented on the statues of Roman emperors, heroes, and warriors, and on cameos and vases.

* The house in which Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 is preserved as Casa Buonaparte, and his associations with the town are everywhere emphasized by street-names and statues.

Delphi is famous for its many preserved athletic statues.

It is known that Olympia originally housed far more of these statues, but time brought ruin to many of them, leaving Delphi as the main site of athletic statues.

It is one of the best known statues from antiquity.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

It has also been argued the only connection between the statues and the later Olmec heads is their size.

Imhotep's historicity is confirmed by two contemporary inscriptions made during his lifetime on the base or pedestal of one of Djoser's statues ( Cairo JE 49889 ) and also by a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's unfinished step-pyramid.

Tappe-i-Maranjan is a nearby hill where Buddhist statues and Graeco-Bactrian coins from the 2nd century BC have been found.

The kowtow is often performed in groups of three before Buddhist statues and images or tombs of the dead.

Middle Kingdom art, " known for its gold work and statues ", moved from realism to idealization ; this is exemplified by the schist statue of Amenemhatankh and the wooden Offering Bearer.

* The SUNY Potsdam campus in Potsdam, NY is home to multiple statues of Minerva and a cafe named after her.

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.

Marini is particularly famous for his series of stylised equestrian statues, which feature a man with outstretched arms on a horse.

It is notable for its beautiful and unique sculptures, especially the " Twelve Virgins " at the Northern Gate, the depictions of Otto I the Great and his wife Editha as well as the statues of St Maurice and St Catherine.

Azuchi Castle on the shores of Lake Biwa is said to have been the greatest castle in the history of Japan, covered with gold and statues on the outside and decorated with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by his subject Kano Eitoku on the inside.