The origins and development of this honour were obscure: Roman historians placed the first triumph in the mythical past.

The impetus for the development of the art were the development of the art of woodblock printing and the release of the popular Chinese novel Suikoden, a tale of rebel courage and manly bravery illustrated with lavish woodblock prints showing men in heroic scenes, their bodies decorated with dragons and other mythical beasts, flowers, ferocious tigers and religious images.

Hydro-Québec has played a " nearly mythical role " in Quebec's economic development since its establishment, with its sustained capital investments, by fostering local engineering expertise and by its capacity to generate large quantities of renewable electricity at low prices.

A mythical covert government agency of the United States code-named Majestic 12 is often imagined to be the shadow government which collaborates with the alien occupation and permits alien abductions, in exchange for assistance in the development and testing of military " flying saucers " at Area 51, in order for U. S. armed forces to achieve full-spectrum dominance.

The mythical theme of the suckling of the adult Heracles by Hera, though being of Greek origin, is considered by scholars as having received its full acknowledgement and development in Etruria: Heracles has become a bearded adult on the mirrors of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

Like many of Powers ' novels, Last Call features a detailed magic system, here based on divinatory tarot, and draws on mythical or historical events and characters, in this case Bugsy Siegel and the development of Las Vegas casinos as well as the legend of the Fisher King.

Originally invented by URW employee Dr Peter Karow, Ikarus ( German spelling of the mythical figure Icarus ) got its name from the frequency with which it crashed in the early days of its development.

It also began development work on the Legend of the Burning Sands, a " sequel " of sorts to the Legend of the Five Rings world, set in a mythical " dark arabia " setting featuring pseudo-Egyptians, pseudo-Mongols, and a melange of 1001 Arabian Nights and The Adventures of Sinbad.

He supported the construction of irrigation canals that were crucial for the development of agriculture in the arid areas of Xia, especially around the capital Xingqing 興慶 ( modern Yinchuan 銀川 ).

Not unlike the earlier games, Emperor focuses on the building and development of a city in ancient times, this time Ancient China, from the Xia Dynasty ( 2033 BC ) to the Song-Jin Dynasties ( 1234 AD ).

The students — Peter Unold, Claus Leth Gregersen and Allan Ove Kjeldbjerg — started development in November 1995 ; the first playable version was released in January, 1996, with bugfixing and small enhancements until April.

The Teifi semi tone developed by Allan Shiers is a development from traditional mechanisms and nips up the string with two forks similarly to a concert harp.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

The project didn't see development until the early 1960s, when a treatment or ' format ' for a similar idea was submitted to Universal Studios by Rocky & Bullwinkle writers Allan Burns and Chris Hayward.

Two reports were the basis for developing the AIS-The role, scope and development of recreation in Australia ( 1973 ) by John Bloomfield and Report of the Australian Sports Institute Study Group ( 1975 ) chaired by Allan Coles.

Lovecraft examines the roots of weird fiction in the gothic novel ( relying heavily on Edith Birkhead's 1921 survey The Tale of Terror ), and traces its development through such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe ( who merits his own chapter ), and Ambrose Bierce.

Lester Allan Pelton ( September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908 ) was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydropower and hydroelectric power in the old West and world-wide.

Prior to the development of rapid DNA sequencing methods in the early 1970s by Frederick Sanger at the University of Cambridge and Walter Gilbert and Allan Maxam at Harvard, a number of laborious methods were used.

At that point he received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York ( September 1968 to June 1969 ) to work with Allan Kaprow, the “ happener ,” who was a Professor of Art at the State University of New York, Stoneybrook, on teacher education and the development of creative curriculum that crossed disciplinary and artistic boundaries.

According to the Free Press, The Blade took exception to an editorial cartoon criticizing The Blade stance on downtown development plans by Rave Cinemas and Hollywood Casino Toledo ; The Blade cited the cartoon among the grounds for its lawsuit: " On or about August 21, 2011, Pounds ... permitted Toledo Free Press to publish a cartoon that depicted a characterization of John R. Block and Allan Block together with The Blade as casting an eclipsing shadow on jobs, tax revenue, investment and development in Toledo, Ohio.

A further development of note took place circa 1857 with the construction of Bernera, a weatherboard homestead built by Allan Macpherson, son of a former Collector of Internal Revenue, William Macpherson.

Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom ( Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 ), argues that third world development must be understood as the expansion of human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP.

Haeckel portrays a concrete demonstration of his Biogenetic Law through his ‘ Gastrea ’ theory, in which he argues that the early cup-shaped gastrula stage of development is a universal feature of multi-celled animals.

Haeckel argues that certain features in embryonic development are conserved and palingenetic, while others are caenogenetic.

His ’ depiction of embryological development strongly differs from Haeckel ’ s depiction, for His argues that the phylogenetic explanation of ontogenetic events is unnecessary.

" A. S. Rautian, on the other hand, argues that the reproduction of ancestral patterns of development is a key aspect of certain biological systems.

John Darling's 1994 book Child-Centered Education and its Critics argues that the history of modern educational theory is a series of footnotes to Rousseau, a development he regards as bad.

Ellis argues that Webster anticipated some of the insights currently associated with Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

" Cumberland argues that the mature development (" perfection ") of human nature involves the individual human willing and acting for the common good.

Structuralistic literary criticism argues that the " literary banter of a text " can lie only in new structure, rather than in the specifics of character development and voice in which that structure is expressed.

' He argues that one of the main reasons for introducing rule utilitarianism was to do justice to the general rules that people need for moral education and character development and he proposes that “ a difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism can be introduced by limiting the specificity of the rules, i. e., by increasing their generality .” This distinction between a ‘ specific rule utilitarianism ’ ( which collapses into act utilitarianism ) and ‘ general rule utilitarianism ’ forms the basis of Hare ’ s two-level utilitarianism.

He argues that social capital is a necessary precondition for successful development, but a strong rule of law and basic political institutions are necessary to build social capital.

Lynn White Jr., in his book " Medieval Technology and Social Change ", argues the adoption of the stirrup for cavalry was the direct cause for the development of feudalism in the Frankish realm by Charles Martel and his heirs.

Richard Raiswell argues that the bulls of Eugene helped in some way the development of thought which perceived the enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese and later Europeans " as dealing a blow for Christendom ".

Yale sociology professor Joshua Gamson argues that the tabloid talk show genre, popularized by Oprah Winfrey in the 1980s provided much needed, high impact media visibility for sexual minorities and did more to make gay culture mainstream than any other development of the 20th century.

The political economy approach, developed by Alesian and Rodrik ( 1994 ) and Persson and Tabellini ( 1994 ), argues that inequality is harmful for economic development because inequality generates a pressure to adopt redistributive policies that have an adverse effect on investment and economic growth.

Alexei Monroe argues that Kraftwerk were particularly significant in the development of industrial music, as the " first successful artists to incorporate representations of industrial sounds into nonacademic electronic music.

Going farther, in his book Kicking Away the Ladder, Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang also argues, based on economic history, that all major developed countries, including the United Kingdom, used interventionist economic policies to promote industrialization and protected national companies until they had reached a level of development in which they were able to compete in the global market, after which those countries adopted free market discourses directed at other countries to obtain two objectives: open their markets to local products and prevent them from adopting the same development strategies that led to the developed nations ' industrialization.

The 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream argues that the depletion of oil will result in the demise of the sprawl-type development.

In his major work Late Capitalism, Mandel argues for three periods in the development of the capitalist mode of production.

The hygiene hypothesis argues that our lack of prior pathogenic exposure may in fact encourage the development of ailments including hay fever and asthma.

The University argues that the longer learning time, will increase the opportunity for development and guidance before students move to final examinations.

Amartya Sen argues that " the systematically inferior position of women inside and outside the household in many societies points to the necessity of treating gender as a force of its own in development analysis.

For example, Lourdes Benería argues that economic development in the Global South depends in large part on improved reproductive rights, gender equitable laws on ownership and inheritance, and policies that are sensitive to the proportion of women in the informal economy.