In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

He also suggested that since the book does not mention the death of Paul, a central character in the final chapters, it was likely penned before his death.

Bayezid ( spelt Bayazid ) is a central character in the Robert E. Howard story Lord of Samarcand.

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

Northern Ontario is home to a wide array of mines, while the fishing industry has long been central to the character of the Atlantic provinces, though it has recently been in steep decline.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

Bet stood as the central character of the show from 1985 until departing in 1995, often being dubbed as " Queen of the Street " by the media, and indeed herself.

The central character is NDR, a robot who begins to modify himself with organic components.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

Actually the film draws its central character, Allan Gray, from Le Fanu's Dr. Hesselius ; and the scene in which Gray is buried alive is drawn from " The Room in the Dragon Volant ".

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

As filmed in 1932, with Tom Mix in the starring role, the central character differed in that Destry did wear six-guns in that version.

" Film critics sometimes use the term " pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters ( often including a central female character ) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences.

Although opinions differ as to his character there is no dispute over his great achievements: he helped to save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest ; he broke the westward thrust of the Ottomans, liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish occupation ; and he was one of the great patrons of the arts whose building legacy can still be seen in Vienna today.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics ' approval.

In contrast to the " effeminate " view of the central character that usually accompanied a female casting, she described her character as " manly and resolute, but nonetheless thoughtful ... thinks before he acts, a trait indicative of great strength and great spiritual power ".

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.

Nessus is also a central character of the Fleet of Worlds series of Ringworld companion novels ( Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, Betrayer of Worlds, and Fate of Worlds ), that opens about 200 years before Ringworld and ends following Ringworld's Children.

People celebrating Vappu in central Turku.

The “ Friendship of Nations ” Square, with its central monument celebrating 400 years of Udmurtia's union with Russia, is a focal point of the esplanade and a hip place for youth recreation.

Together with the two reliefs on the inside of the central archway, they came from a large frieze celebrating the Dacian victory.

Thereafter she traveled throughout central China on a boat, writing poems celebrating nature.

In the 1970s the Shah of Iran adopted it as a political symbol, using it " as a central image in his own propaganda celebrating 2500 years of Iranian monarchy.

The celebrating was short-lived, as central government Armée Nationale Congolaise ( ANC ) troops took control of the town and arrested Kalonji, by December 1961.

A project that raised the ire of many on the left, and which became a central issue of the Historikerstreit, were two proposed museums celebrating modern German history, to be built in West Berlin and Bonn.

He last saw Hitler on 20 April 1945, Hitler's birthday, in the Führerbunker in central Berlin.

On July 10, 2011 in parallel to Ronnie Dio's birthday in Cortland, NY was held a day-long event featuring many central New York local bands and talent for a benefit to the Stand Up and Shout Cancer foundation for cancer research and Dio Memorial concert.

The Chinese use sacrificial tripods symbolically in modern times, such as in 2005, when a " National Unity Tripod " made of bronze was presented by the central Chinese government to the government of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to mark its fiftieth birthday.

The Chinese use sacrificial tripods in modern times, such as in 2005, when a " National Unity Tripod " made of bronze was presented by the central Chinese government to the government of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to mark its fiftieth birthday.

For his twenty-first birthday, in 1962, Prince William was granted the use of the Royal Arms, differenced with a label argent of five points, the outer pair and central point bearing lions gules, the inner pair crosses gules.

The middle section of the Long Corridor passes in a southward bend around the central building complex on the lake side of Longevity Hill, The main hall in this complex is the Cloud-Dispelling Hall ( Pai Yun Dian ), where the Empress Dowager Cixi used to celebrate her birthday.

Conrad eventually teleports to the central Master Brain and throws the oracle in front of it.

In the middle of the story, the Black Lantern Corps ' central power battery teleports to just outside Coast City, bringing forth the demon Nekron, ( the black personification of Death and longtime enemy of the Green Lantern Corps ) the undead Guardian Scar, and Black Hand.

It is revealed that the " sanctuary " ( which is referred to as Avalon ) is in fact Cable's former base of operations Graymalkin ( now retrofitted with Shiar technology ), and the " greater power " to be the mutant Magneto, who was presumed dead after the fall of Asteroid M. Cable teleports X-Force away from Avalon using the station's bodyslide technology, while he retrieves the sentient computer program Professor from the central core and activate the auto-destruct function.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

By making comparisons across cultural traditions ( time-based ) and cultural regions ( space-based ), anthropologists have developed various kinds of comparative method, a central part of their science.

The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

DSL can be used as an access method for an ATM network, allowing a DSL termination point in a telephone central office to connect to many internet service providers across a wide-area ATM network.

Lumbar puncture procedure, which is performed in many infectious disorders of the central nervous system is contraindicated in this condition ( as it is in all space-occupying lesions of the brain ) because removing a certain portion of the cerebrospinal fluid may alter the concrete intracranial pressure balances and causes the brain tissue to move across structures within the skull ( brain herniation ).

Manu's central philosophy was tolerance and pluralism, and was cited across Southeast Asia.

Toward the end of the 1st millennium AD, the formation of states began across central Chad in the sahelian zone between the desert and the savanna.

Cameroon's central location in the network means that efforts to close the gaps which exist in the network across Central Africa rely on the Cameroon's participation in maintaining the network, and the network has the potential to have a profound influence on Cameroon's regional trade.

The line is intended to carry the increasing amount of goods that enter Europe, at the Croatian port of Rijeka and are then transported to destinations across central and eastern Europe.

Broad shallow seas advanced across central North America ( the Western Interior Seaway ) and Europe, then receded late in the period, leaving thick marine deposits sandwiched between coal beds.

Large crucifixes high across the central axis of a church are known by the Old English term rood.

* Integrate data from multiple source systems, enabling a central view across the enterprise.

Originating in Guatemala, the Rio Lempa cuts across the northern range of mountains, flows along much of the central plateau, and finally cuts through the southern volcanic range to empty into the Pacific.

) It has two heads, the oblique head originating obliquely across the central part of the midfoot, and the transverse head originating near the metatarsophalangeal joints of digits five to three.

The result is a flow of cold air southeastward across Japan that brings freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls to the central mountain ranges facing the Sea of Japan, but clear skies to areas fronting on the Pacific.

In the central and northern portions of this range, there are several peaks between 2, 000 and 2, 500 meters, and here the belt of mountains is about across.

By then a string of dynastic states, including the earliest Hausa states, stretched across western and central Sudan.

This new Sony Centre, designed by Helmut Jahn, is an eye-catching monolith of glass and steel featuring an enormous tent-like conical roof, its shape reportedly inspired by Mount Fuji in Japan, covering an elliptical central public space up to 102 metres across, and thus differing substantially from Hilmer & Sattler's original plan for the site.

Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long even before the Incas, who were just one among many groups who already spoke forms of Quechua across much of Peru.

The climate across Scandinavia varies from tundra ( Köppen: ET ) and subarctic ( Dfc ) in the north, with cool marine west coast climate ( Cfc ) in northwestern coastal areas reaching just north of Lofoten, to humid continental ( Dfb ) in the central portion, and marine west coast ( Cfb ) in the south and southwest.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district ( CBD ) and the North Shore.

It is native to a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere from easternmost Europe across central and eastern Asia to India, western North America, and south to northern Mexico.