A number of enigmatic Carved Stone Balls have been found at the site and some are on display in the museum.

A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine review begins with the words: " This is music of such enigmatic beauty that thirty-five years after its release, Astral Weeks still defies easy, admiring description.

Other species — most of the New World quails ( also known as the toothed quails ), the enigmatic Stone Partridge ( Ptilopachus petrosus ) of Africa, guineafowl and eared pheasants ( Crossoptilon )— are all notable for their daily excursions on foot which may take them many miles in a given day.

Rolling Stone said " their music is frequently as beautiful as it is brooding, and in the space between lies its enigmatic, enduring appeal ".

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating an enigmatic precept, " we must cultivate our garden ", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, " all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds ".

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

The assertions of flow are coupled in many fragments with the enigmatic river image:

Cavalier-Smith created the phylum Percolozoa for the extended group, together with the enigmatic flagellate Stephanopogon.

Brando was also considered a sex symbol, one of the earliest in the film industry to achieve widespread attention due to his enigmatic and sexy persona and the reports of his dalliances and relationships with various major Hollywood celebrities.

Apart from this enigmatic bird, the fossil record of the Ostriches continues with several species of the modern genus Struthio which are known from the Early Miocene onwards.

The magazine was known for its political coverage beginning in the 1970s, with the enigmatic and controversial gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Claire discovers, after falling in love with the enigmatic fugitive, that he is the son of a scientist ( played by Max von Sydow ), and has absconded with the prototype of a secret research project.

Small squares of colours and coloured bands stand out against the black background of Composition X as star fragments ( or filaments ), while enigmatic hieroglyphs with pastel tones cover a large maroon mass which seems to float in the upper-left corner of the canvas.

Many Patton contemporaries, including those who knew him personally or served with him, have applauded Scott's characterization of Patton for accurately capturing the essence of the man – war-loving, egotistical, overbearing, obsessive, conflicted, and enigmatic, yet unrivalled in his ability to inspire and lead large forces of men in a desperate and ultimately victorious struggle against a determined enemy.

Hyolitha are enigmatic animals with small conical shells known from the Palaeozoic Era.

Others apparently lived in close association with the enigmatic genus Eldonia.

At his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, reporters try to gain insights into this remarkable, enigmatic man from those who knew him, with little success.

In Agatha Christie's, " Appointment with Death " ( 1938 ), the mysterious and enigmatic Petra is the setting for a murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot.

The enigmatic Minoan Phaistos Disc of 1800 – 1600 BC has been considered by one scholar as an early example of a body of text being reproduced with reusable characters: it may have been produced by pressing pre-formed hieroglyphic " seals " into the soft clay.

An enigmatic person who has been hailed as a liberator against the Danes and denounced as a tyrannical ruler, brutally suppressing three uprisings in Dalarna-which had once been the first region to support his claim to the throne-one in Västra Götaland, and one in Småland, Gustav worked to raise taxes, end Feudalism and bring about a Swedish Reformation, replacing the pregoratives of local landowners, noblemen and clergy with centrally appointed governors and bishops.

They resemble a mix between praying mantids and phasmids, and molecular evidence indicates that they are most closely related to the equally enigmatic group, Grylloblattodea, with which they have now been grouped together in the order Notoptera.

" In the decades prior to its exposure as a forgery in 1953, scientists increasingly regarded Piltdown as an enigmatic aberration inconsistent with the path of hominid evolution as demonstrated by fossils found elsewhere.

Known for his enigmatic personality and relationship with the public, Van Vliet made few public appearances after his retirement from music ( and from his Beefheart persona ) in 1982.

Richard Dadd ( 1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886 ) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail.

The enigmatic Lady of Elx, an ancient bust, of a high artistic quality, of a woman found in southeastern Spain, has been tied with Atlantis and Tartessos, though the statue displays clear signs of being manufactured by later Iberian cultures.

Some of the canons of The Musical Offering are represented in the original score by no more than a short monodic melody of a few measures, with a more or less enigmatic inscription in Latin above the melody.

The two travel to California to see John Watson, an enigmatic scientist who purports to know the cause of the dolphins ' disappearance and who eschewed his original name in favour of " Wonko the Sane " due to harbouring the belief that the entire world's population save himself has gone mad.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient — as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori ( who was Byron's personal physician ).

Its famous players at the time were Tom Faulkner, Joe Harris, John Harris, George Jackson and the enigmatic batsman Durling.

* This episode marks the first appearance of the enigmatic Mr. Morden, the human representative of the Shadows and a character who would later have a connection to future B5 commander John Sheridan.

In, Kingman's enigmatic personality ( which former Mets teammate John Stearns once compared to a tree trunk ) began to assert itself, as he dumped ice water on a reporter's head during Spring training.

In a somewhat enigmatic reply he placed his own claims on a level with those of John the Baptist — in other words, he based them on popular support.

To help dispel the rumor, John Helliwell explained the actual meaning of the title: " We wanted a phrase that bore some relationship with what we were doing but was enigmatic at the same time.

The vision concerns the end of the world, and appears to be a rendering of the Apocalypse of John, though written in a somewhat less enigmatic or mystical manner.

* Black Holes — A 3D digital journey into the mystical and enigmatic Black Hole, narrated by John de Lancie

This enigmatic gesture is regarded as quintessentially Leonardesque, occurring in the Last Supper and St John the Baptist.

St. John is dressed in pelts, has long curly hair, and is smiling in an enigmatic manner which is reminiscent of Leonardo's famous Mona Lisa.

This is specifically exhibited in the fourth season finale " Restless ", an enigmatic pastiche of characters ' dream sequences.

Known as " the Mole ", he is rumored to have the enigmatic ability to come back from the dead, and he has requested the services of Sweetscent.

Looking back, Nat Turner remains an " enigmatic and controversial figure ", according to former University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Stephen B. Oates, given that Turner fought for the just anti-slavery cause but he proceeded in acts of violence against women and children that would today be considered as war crimes or terrorism.

The phrase translates as " and in Arcadia I am ", frequently rendered as " I too am in Arcadia " or " Even in Arcadia I am ", although the meaning of the phrase is enigmatic and the subject of much academic discourse.

The philentomas were traditionally placed with the Muscicapidae ( flycatchers ) when these were still used as a " wastebin taxon ", largely as an expedient because these enigmatic birds have long defied ornithologists as regards their systematic placement ; they remain little-studied and their placement here is just as provisional as it was in the Muscicapidae but even if they do not really belong here, they are at least not very distant to the Prionopidae.

In a Times of India review film critic Subhash K Jha described her role as " fey and insubstantial ", but further stated that " she turns these character traits to her own advantage to create a girl who is at once enigmatic and all-there, a bit like the film itself which is both mysterious and voluptuous ".

", which may attribute the whole key to the understanding of the " Fama " to the enigmatic character described as " R. C.

Travel between the stars is accomplished through the use of " wormgates ", large wormhole generators controlled by the enigmatic F ' sherl-Ganni Gatekeepers.

About 60 more human fossils, among them the enigmatic " Meganthropus ", have since been found here.

Through the respect he has gathered by his " forecasts ", he can convince the priests to give the enigmatic Leitha into his care.

Figwit's physical appearance and demeanor are the source of much of his popularity: he has been noted for his " lithe and graceful " movement, " enigmatic broodiness ", " haughty demeanor ", and " pouty " looks.

Glaresis is a genus of beetles, sometimes called " enigmatic scarab beetles ", in its own family, the Glaresidae.

They were simply noted as an " enigmatic monster ... from one of the moons of Ymgarl ", now " spread throughout space " and " threatening to become a real menace ".

David is then brought to the camp's " church ", run by the enigmatic Ingrid ( Meg Foster ).

Trouser Press describes Funky Little Demons as " straight-ahead dance music with the correct materials ", though " no longer enigmatic risk-takers, the Wolfgang Press have become just another white post-new wave soul band.

The enigmatic " Madge " is a " what ", not a " who ".