The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

*" Rinkagate ": Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was arrested and tried for allegedly paying a hitman to murder his homosexual lover, model Norman Scott, while walking his dog on Exmoor ; the hitman only shot the dog, Rinka.

Bliss found especially useful their " triangle of reference ": the physical thing or " referent " that we perceive would be represented at the right angle ; the meaning that we know by experience ( our implicit definition of the thing ), at the top angle ; and the physical word that we speak or write, at the left angle.

It has been suggested that this position can be lucidly brought out through the metaphor of " direction of fit ": beliefs — the paradigmatic products of reason — are propositional attitudes that aim to have their content fit the world ; conversely, desires — or what Hume calls passions, or sentiments — are states that aim to fit the world to their contents.

The exact meaning of his name is uncertain: the common translation is " Lord of the Earth ": the Sumerian en is translated as a title equivalent to " lord "; it was originally a title given to the High Priest ; ki means " earth "; but there are theories that ki in this name has another origin, possibly kig of unknown meaning, or kur meaning " mound ".

* nano " onions ": spherical particles based on multiple carbon layers surrounding a buckyball core ; proposed for lubricants ;

Four were independent productions distributed by United Artists, the " studio without a studio ": Gun Crazy ; Kiss Me Deadly ; D. O. A.

There are a few words with both masculine and feminine forms, generally words for relatives ( cousin: lehengusu ( m )/ lehengusina ( f )) or words borrowed from Latin (" king ": errege, from the Latin word regem ; " queen ": erregina, from reginam ).

In names for familiar relatives, where both genders are taken into account, either the words for each gender are put together (" son ": seme ; " daughter ": alaba ; " children "( meaning son ( s ) and daughter ( s )): seme-alaba ( k )) or there is a noun that includes both: " father ": aita ; " mother ": ama ; " father " ( both genders ): guraso.

In his sculpture therefore it would not be possible for him to project anything of what Jesus felt for his mother ; ;

Then, my mother blushed at this small lie ; ;

I realized, now, that she had been showing me, in what impressed me as being a very accurate way, something her mother had once said to her ; ;

Quite other feelings are evidenced by this style: Af Note the drop to pitch 1 ( the lowest ) on mother with no rise at the end of the sentence ; ;

My lawyer told me that his mother used a similar remedy for cuts and wounds ; ;

He showed me one of his fingers which had been practically amputated and which his mother had treated ; ;

At fifteen he didn't care that he had no mother, that he couldn't remember her face or her touch ; ;

her mother was forthright ; ;

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

In another version of this story, Hera, Hephaestus ' mother, had cast him off Olympus ; deeming him ugly and deformed.

An inquest determined that his death was suicide ; his mother and some others believed his death was accidental.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

His father was Aurelius Ambrosius, the praetorian prefect of Gaul ; his mother was a woman of intellect and piety.

Aeneas ' mother Aphrodite frequently comes to his aid on the battlefield ; he is a favorite of Apollo.

or maybe she liked men old enough to be her father ; ;

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

The father, accurately perceiving the child's needs, not only respected them as worthy of his attention, but immediately satisfied them by taking him on his lap along with the twins, saying, `` I have a big lap ; ;

His brother ran a mile to get the father ; ;

Artfully, as the days went by, he found occasion to tell her that his father had won the Navy Cross in the Korean War ; ;

Once again B'dikkat moved among them like a father ; ;

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.

Alcuin's own work only mentions such collateral kinsmen as Wilgils, father of the missionary saint Willibrord ; and Beornred, abbot of Echternach and bishop of Sens, who was more distantly related.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

R-Type is set in the 22nd century, and the player flies a futuristic fighter craft called the R-9a " Arrowhead ", named for its shape, and because it is the ninth model in the ' R ' series of fighter craft ( but it is the first of the series to actually be used in combat ; the previous models were all prototypes ).

The European Union has invested heavily in the regeneration of the area ; partly funding the futuristic, award-winning Peckham Library, a new town square and swathes of new housing to replace the North Peckham Estate.

The tower blocks quickly lost their ' futuristic ' look ; concrete turned from the crisp white the designers had imagined to a dull grey, stained by pollution.

The four vehicles include a futuristic race car with various hidden weapons driven by Jason ; this vehicle is concealed within the Phoenix's nosecone.

Junkers conceived futuristic flying wings for up to 1, 000 passengers ; the nearest this came to realization was in the 1931 Junkers G-38 34-seater Grossflugzeug airliner which featured a large thick-chord wing providing space for fuel, engines and two passenger cabins.

" The presence of futuristic technology in a Victorian era Western places the series in the steampunk genre ; it is one of the few such shows to have aired on prime-time television.

* 1985-1990 in the Film series Back to The Future, references to the Atomic Age and uses of Nuclear Energy are broadly explored ; for example the use of Plutonium in the time machine, the concept of " Mr. Fusion " ( a futuristic small scale fusion reactor for domestic use that can use garbage as fuel ) and references to the common 1950s conceptions of the Atomic Age.

In Premiere, Glenn Kenny gave the film four stars and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 2005 :" Insanely evocative ' 60s-style landscapes and settings share screen space with claustrophobic futuristic CGI metropolises ; everyone smokes and drinks too much ; musical themes repeat as characters get stuck in their own self-defeating modes of eternal return.

The MSRD includes material from the d20 Modern roleplaying game, Urban Arcana Campaign Setting, the d20 Menace Manual, and d20 Future ; this can cover a wide variety of genres, but is intended for a modern-day, or in the case of the last of these, a futuristic setting.

Her looks are often both nostalgic and futuristic ; aggressive and glamorous ; and push the limits of gender identity.

His work slowly acquired a greater political emphasis, with stories such as El Eternauta, Part II ( 1976 ), which describes a futuristic Argentina under a dictatorship ; his 1968 biography of Ernesto ' Che ' Guevara, a year after Che's death, was removed from circulation by the government and the originals destroyed.

" The volumes not written by McFarlane or his wife were penned by John Button, who wrote the series from 1938 to 1942 ; this period is sometimes referred to as the " Weird Period " as the writing is full of inconsistencies and the Hardy Boys ' adventures involve futuristic gadgetry and exotic locations.

Some authors have written in invented vernacular ; examples of such novels include the futuristic literary novels A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and Boxy an Star by Daren King.

At the time, computers ( still known as " electronic brains ") were all the rage ; if Bank of America could announce that they were using them, it would infer a feeling of futuristic infallibility.

The sickbay in this episode uses conventional sheets on the beds ; later episodes used the more " futuristic " metallic weave materials.

The next room was another film clip on your right which showed computer-generated clips of you above the earth, flying in a canyon above water and eventually flying in a futuristic city with fireworks exploding all around you ; the first theatrical-format 70mm computer animations ever produced.

alt = View of a futuristic looking room ; mantis-like enemies on powered armor-one firing a red beam-approach the player, whose weapon ( a large cannon ) is visible in the corner of the screen.

At that time, Pegaso offerings included the Ekus ( a light truck, actually a rebadging of the Volkswagen LT and MAN-VW G ranges ), Mider ( medium ), Troner ( heavy ), Trakker ( off-road ), and Podium ( omnibusses and coaches ) ranges ; a futuristic concept truck designed by Francisco Podadera, the Pegaso Solo 500, had been exhibited at the Barcelona Motor Show in 1989.

; Technology & Equipment: Lists many sorts of ( slightly ) futuristic gadgets such as power cells, weapons, armor, communicators, vehicles, tools, security systems, medical science, drugs, and others.