As a fiery god of destruction and war, Nergal doubtless seemed an appropriate choice for the red planet, and he was equated by the Greeks either to the combative demigod Heracles ( Latin Hercules ) or to the war-god Ares ( Latin Mars ) -- hence the current name of the planet.

He became known for his scientific wrestling ability and endurance, as well as a " fiery Latin temper " that emerged during matches.

Ignatius is a male given name of presumed Latin or Etruscan origin, believed to mean " fiery one " ( compare the word " ignite "). It may refer to:

The New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall derived the term ' ignimbrite ' from ‘ fiery rock dust cloud ’ ( from the Latin igni-( fire ) and imbri-( rain )), formed as the result of immense explosions of pyroclastic ash, lapilli and blocks flowing down the sides of volcanoes.

The word is believed to have originated from the Latin: carbunculus, originally a small coal ; diminutive of carbon -, carbo: charcoal or ember, but also a carbuncle stone, " precious stones of a red or fiery colour ", usually garnets.

However, despite her European background, she was often cast as fiery Latin femme fatales in films that made full use of her exotic and glamorous persona, such as La Cucaracha ( 1934 ) the first live-action short film made in three-strip Technicolor.

Not much is known about her beyond her fiery temperament.

Though his fiery temperament was not ideally suited to teaching, Wolf's musical gifts, as well as his personal charm, earned him attention and patronage.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's fellow piano student Matvey Pressman adds, He enthralled you by his power, and he captivated you by the elegance and grace of his playing, by his tempestuous, fiery temperament and by his warmth and charm.

Both while he was alive and after his death ( the first edition of his works, for the most part elaborate sermons, was printed at Lyon in 1501 ), Bernardino's legacy was far from benign: of fanatical moralizing temperament, he preached fiery, intransigent sermons against many classes of people.

War Admiral inherited his father's fiery temperament and talent, but he did not resemble him physically.

The fiery and irascible Starr temperament and intent in the upcoming circulation war was humorously illustrated by a cover story in the monthy magazine " Arkansas Times " showing Starr squatting atop a Gazette newspaper box with a dagger between his teeth to show his seriousness.

She was particularly noted for her fiery temperament and dramatic intensity on stage.

The book reflects her fiery, forthright temperament and acerbic wit.

Lillee was known for his fiery temperament, ' never-say-die ' attitude and popularity with the fans.

A firebrand is a piece of burning wood, but also used to denote a person with a fiery temperament.

A fiery redhead, both in hair colour and temperament, Frost was a no-nonsense and efficient UNIT operative who nonetheless had problems maintaining personal relationships.

His straightforward ways have often put the detective duo at odds with even their fellow police, but while Twitch is considerably more reasonable than his larger partner, ( and often pokes fun at Sam's fiery temperament and statements ) he shows a deep trust and respect for him as well.

James Foster has been known to display a fiery temperament.

An offensive wingback, he is also known for his fiery temperament that leads to altercations with adversary players and referees numerous times.

Reynolds was a shrewd business man, a hard worker, and a good treasurer, but was of too sanguine and fiery a temperament to be a politician of the first rank.

Another uses her delicious dishes to soothe her husband ’ s fiery temperament.

He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese.

Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described Vaughan as " the leading light in American blues " and developed " a uniquely eclectic and fiery style that sounded like no other guitarist, regardless of genre ".

There has been speculation that the Mayans of Central America may have described the nebula within their " Three Hearthstones " creation myth ; if so, the three would correspond to two stars at the base of Orion, Rigel and Saiph, and another, Alnitak at the tip of the " belt " of the imagined hunter, the vertices of a nearly perfect triangle with Orion's Sword ( including the Orion Nebula ) in the middle seen as the smudge of smoke from copal incense in a modern myth, or, in ( the translation it suggests of ) an ancient one, the literal or figurative embers of a fiery creation.

Time magazine described her personality as " fiery ", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was " volcanic ".

The objects were variously described as fiery, and glowing red, white, or orange.

William Herschel observed the Orion Nebula in 1774, and described it later as " an unformed fiery mist, the chaotic material of future suns ".

* Sheriam Bayanar is Saldean and described as slightly plump with high cheekbones, tilted green eyes, and has fiery red hair.

Their father, Col. William R. Hamilton, was described as a hot-tempered, fiery soldier " with a ramrod for a backbone ".

She is Saldean and described as slightly plump with high cheekbones, tilted green eyes, and has fiery red hair.

Her character became known for her fiery red hair, and was described by Prime Minister James Callaghan as " the sexiest thing on television ".

Belly vocalist Tanya Donelly's voice has been described as having a " fiery spark " with a " sweet rasp in her throat ," with a style described as " down to earth.

He has been described as a " talented and fiery " lawyer.

Pitts was often described as a fiery and effective activist.

Growing up in the West Home in the same rural Yorba Linda region as Nixon, West attended a Sunday-school class taught by Nixon's father, Frank, whom she described as " a fiery persuasive teacher.

This is followed by a flashback described by a gardener to the night when angels, fiery chariots, and God, descended to earth, and resurrected Jesus.

Allmusic lyrically described it as " insistent ", calling the sound fiery and soulful.

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.

Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ), however, believed the Milky Way to be caused by " the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together " and that the " ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions.

In the critically acclaimed and influential 1950s TV series created by Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the Pit, depictions of supernatural horned entities, with specific reference to prehistoric cave-art and shamanistic horned head-dress are revealed to be a " race-memory " of psychic Martian grasshoppers, manifested at the climax of the film by a fiery horned god.

In this wartime power struggle, he was urged by some of his more fiery allies to have Lenin arrested.

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

The hardline guionistas, headed by the fiery left-leaning nationalist writer and publisher Juan Natalicio González, opposed democratic practices.

In the Catacombs of Rome, artists just hinted at the Resurrection by using images from the Old Testament such as the fiery furnace and Daniel in the Lion's den.

He writes: " In the same year, in the summer, a vapour like an oven's fire boiled up for days out of the middle of the islands of Thera and Therasia from the depths of the sea, and the whole place burned like fire, little by little thickening and turning to stone, and the air seemed to be a fiery torch.

In chapter 54, following Ragnarök and the rebirth of the world, Víðarr along with his brother Váli will have survived both the swelling of the sea and the fiery conflagration unleashed by Surtr, completely unharmed, and shall thereafter dwell on the field Iðavöllr, " where the city of Asgard had previously been ".

The opera, written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue, tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naive soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

Although moved by Carmichael's fiery rhetoric, she was disappointed by her colleagues ' black nationalist sentiments and their rejection of communism as a " white man's thing.

When three Jews, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( respectively renamed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego by their captors, to facilitate their assimilation into Babylonian culture ), refuse to take part, he has them cast into a fiery furnace.

In December 1531 a mob stormed the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, encouraged by Copenhagen's fiery mayor, Ambrosius Bogbinder.

Many of Smaug's attributes and behaviour in The Hobbit derive directly from the unnamed " old night-scather " in Beowulf: great age ; winged, fiery, and reptilian form ; a stolen barrow within which he lies on his hoard ; disturbance by a theft ; and violent airborne revenge on the lands all about.

* 4th century BC — Aristotle believes the Milky Way to be caused by " the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together " and that the " ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions ",

The basic elements of the narrative are present in the 14th-century Castilian tale by Don Juan Manuel of the " young man who married a very strong and fiery woman.

The fiery declarations of 1959 were followed by a lull while Hanoi focused on events in Laos ( 1960 – 61 ).

Not wanting any witnesses to report them to the police, the hillbilly fires at Wyatt as he speeds by the pickup, hitting the bike's gas tank and causing it to instantly erupt into a fiery explosion.

Locally the movement's activists were led by Fred Shuttlesworth, a fiery preacher who became legendary for his fearlessness in the face of violence, notably a string of racially motivated bombings that earned Birmingham the derisive nickname " Bombingham ".