Agesilaus was of small stature and unimpressive appearance, and was lame from birth.

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

Another debate that gained a lot of attention at the birth of Jazz was how it would affect the appearance of African Americans, in particular, who were a part of it.

Halley's appearance in 12 BCE, only a few years distant from the conventionally assigned date of the birth of Jesus Christ, has led some theologians and astronomers to suggest that it might explain the biblical story of the Star of Bethlehem.

Bruce Karl Braswell from readings in the lexicon of Hesychius, associates the appearance of the Moirai at the family hearth on the seventh day with the ancient Greek custom of waiting seven days after birth to decide whether to accept the infant into the Gens and to give it a name, cemented with a ritual at the hearth.

Since the heat arrived after Sirius's appearance, it was said that Sopdet had given birth to it, thus Sopdu was seen as being a child of Sopdet, and thus also of Sah.

This is emphasized by the masked figure – never explicitly stated to be the Red Death, but only a reveler in a costume of the Red Death – making his initial appearance in the easternmost room, which is colored blue, a color most often associated with birth.

Despite discrepancies in birth dates and physical appearance, the town of Hico, Texas ( Brushy Bill's residence ), has capitalized on the Kid's infamy by opening the " Billy The Kid Museum ".

Official biographers claim that his birth at Baekdu Mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow across the sky over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.

Several medical conditions can result in a natural sex change in humans, where the appearance at birth is somewhat, mostly, or completely of one sex, but changes over the course of a lifetime to being somewhat, mostly or completely of the other sex.

The overwhelming majority of natural sex changes are from a female appearance at birth to a male appearance after puberty, due to either 5-alpha-reductase deficiency ( 5alpha-RD-2 ) or 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency ( 17beta-HSD-3 ).

In the preamble, " gender identity " is understood to refer to each person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the person's sense of the body ( which may involve, if freely chosen, modification of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical or other means ) and other experience of gender, including dress, speech and mannerism.

During this period the group made a cameo appearance in the film Mystery Men as the " Not So Goodie Mob ", with Cee-Lo crediting himself by his birth name, Thomas Callaway ( though he refers to himself as " Carlito Green " in the liner notes ).

For example, male zebra finches appear to prefer mates with the appearance of the female bird that rears them, rather than that of the birth parent when they are different.

The gospel describes how magi from the east were notified of the birth of a king in Judaea by the appearance of his star.

As a result, neither the appearance nor the information content of birth certificate forms is uniform across states.

Disfigurement is the state of having one's appearance deeply and persistently harmed medically, as from a disease, birth defect, or wound.

For instance they point to Matthew's account of the appearance of an angel in a dream, to Joseph ; the wise men from the east ; the massacre of the innocents ; and the flight to Egypt, which do not appear in Luke, which instead describes the appearance of an angel to Mary ; the worldwide census ; the birth in a manger, and the choir of angels.

The tissue in undescended testes becomes more markedly abnormal (" degenerates ") in microscopic appearance between 2 and 4 years after birth.

The listed birth date for Fred Chapman was November 24, 1872, which would have made the pitcher 14 years old when he made his appearance against the Blues and would have made him the youngest player to ever pitch in a Major League Baseball game.

It defined gender identity as " gender-related identity, appearance, or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth.

Zana is said to have had sexual relations with a man of the village named Edgi Genaba, and gave birth to a number of children of apparently normal human appearance.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

Ann was plainly disappointed in his appearance.

Mr. Herford's appearance was that of a frustrated gnome.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.

yet his changed appearance, surprisingly, was one of plumpness.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.

That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

His sudden unannounced appearance at the Borden home was strange in that he did not carry an iota of baggage with him, although he clearly intended to stay overnight, if not longer.

There was no way to know, no way to guess whether any one of them was surprised at Sarah's appearance, believing her to be drugged and senseless -- and just possibly dead.

Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

It was a vivid, sharp February morning that Johnnie first made his appearance in my back yard, bringing some stuff Dad had ordered.

Pythagoras believed that behind the appearance of things, there was the permanent principle of mathematics, and that the forms were based on a transcendental mathematical relation.

The appearance of fixed lines in this spectrum was successfully explained by these orbital transitions.

Poirot's first appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( published 1920 ) and his last in Curtain ( published 1975, the year before Christie died ).

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Casa Milà was a predecessor of some buildings with a similar biomorphic appearance: