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A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2, 000 original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat.
The exact position of a spear, often omitted, is also not fully determined, whether held in the crook of Athena's right arm or supported by one of the snakes in the aegis, as N. Leipen restores it, following the " Aspasios " gem.
While under the aegis of the 366 WG, the 34th's B-1Bs were part of one of the Air Force ’ s composite wings, which also included C / D and E model F-15 Eagles, C / D model F-16 Fighting Falcons, and R model KC-135 Stratotankers.
In addition to its in-house development work, the Foundation has also brought several already-existing but complementary free software projects under its aegis, most of which have a separate, active group of developers.
By the same token, in spite of Piper's lack of explicit stipulation, it is appropriate to contend that " Omnilingual " ( 1957 ) — which concerns a near-future scientific expedition to Mars under the aegis of an international Earth government — is also a Paratime story.
This also gave Istat statutory responsibility for the coordination and standardization of official statistics collected or published under the aegis of the national statistical system SISTAN, whose membership includes the statistical offices of ministries, national agencies, regions, provinces, communes, chambers of commerce, and similar bodies.
There, he grew up under the aegis of his uncle from whom he imbibed communist ideologies and was also introduced to the works of Subramanya Bharathy.
There are also a number of other volumes that do not come under the aegis of the actual series, but were published by HMSO and may usefully be read as adjuncts to it as they cover matters not considered in great detail or in one case at all in the main series.
No. 486 Maintenance Squadron and Air Movements Training and Development Unit ( AMTDU ) were also under its aegis at Richmond.
Międzymorze (; also known in English as Intermarium or Intermarum ) was a plan, pursued after World War I by Polish leader Józef Piłsudski, for a federation, under Poland's aegis, of Central and Eastern European countries.
The Provost also acts to help improve the quality and efficiency of central services organized at Harvard under the aegis of the Vice Presidents.
Cherry became Assistant Director of Design for Vauxhall in 1971, when Bedford Trucks also fell under his aegis.
( This article regards only Operations RESTORE HOPE and PROVIDE RELIEF which were not part of the UNOSOM mission but of UNITAF, separate from UNOSOM but also under the UN aegis.
Under the aegis of the Layered Arts Collective, which band members co-founded, they also present musical lectures where in addition to performing they speak about the history of brass bands and hip-hop.
In 2004, Synergy Group also bought VIP Ecuador as part of a strategy to create a continent-wide airline under the aegis of Avianca.
Both kings used the epithets Soter Epiphanes and the reverse of Athena Alkidemos ( fighting Pallas Athene ), the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenios also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her aegis on the reverse.
He also issued bilingual bronzes with aegis / laurel wreath and palm.
In the first half of the 2nd century BCE, Eresos also drew closer to the other cities of Lesbos under the aegis of the Lesbian koinon, a quasi-federal organisation which had existed on the island in various forms since the early 6th century BCE, but became more active in times when a common danger was perceived.
The seven Scottish gliding clubs whilst remaining under the aegis of the BGA have also formed the Scottish Gliding Association to liaise with the local and national authorities in Scotland.

aegis and appears
Augustus is shown with an aegis thrown over his shoulder as a divine attribute in the Blacas Cameo ; the hole for the head appears at the point of his shoulder.
In 1948 Eduardo Hernández Moncada was the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra ( Mexico ) ( OSN )— created in 1947 under the aegis of the National Institute of Fine Arts — and within the programs Moncayo ’ s name appears on the list of musicians as the orchestra pianist.

aegis and Egyptian
The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension.

aegis and mythology
In Greek mythology, aegis is the shield used by the Greek god Zeus.

aegis and .
householders who had been unable to pick up the burden of short-term high-interest mortgages found they could borrow for twenty-five years at 4 per cent, under government aegis.
There is an Anglican Communion Office in London, under the aegis of the Archbishop of Canterbury, but it only serves a supporting and organisational role.
Such conditions came under the aegis of psychiatry at the end of the 19th century and current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize several specific forms of the disorder.
Negotiations to resolve the conflict peacefully have been ongoing since 1992 under the aegis of the Minsk Group of the OSCE.
An aegis (; ) is either a large collar or cape worn in ancient times to display the protection provided by a high religious authority, or a bag-like garment containing a protective shield signifying the same.
The wearing of the aegis and its contents show sponsorship, protection, or authority derived from yet a higher source or deity.
Now, the more modern concept of doing something " under someone's aegis " means doing something under the protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or benevolent source.
"... and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen.
Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who " busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods — a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast — a severed head rolling its eyes.
Some of the Attic vase-painters retained an archaic tradition that the tassels had originally been serpents in their representations of the aegis.
When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.
In the Iliad when Zeus sends Apollo to revive the wounded Hector of Troy, Apollo, holding the aegis, charges the Achaeans, pushing them back to their ships drawn up on the shore.
In this context, Graves identifies the aegis as clearly belonging first to Athena.
Güterbock, is the most likely source of the aegis.
The goddess Bast sometimes was depicted holding a ceremonial sistrum in one hand and an aegis in the other – the aegis usually resembling a collar or gorget embellished with a lioness head.
The figure is that of Isis and she is wearing an aegis.
In addition to the materialism of the empiricists, under the same aegis of Reason, rationalism produced systems that were diametrically opposed now called idealism, which denied the reality of matter in favor of the reality of mind.
Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.
Under the aegis of the Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law was completed under Benedict XV, who promulgated the Code, effective in 1918.
By the end of 1934, Himmler took control of the camps under the aegis of the SS, creating a separate division, the SS-Totenkopfverbände.

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