The great seal of the United States was obviously inspired by the Christian faith.

Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.

** Leiden University, Minerva is presented in the centre of the great seal of the most ancient University in the Netherlands ( 1575 ).

Mary, who had her own great seal, granted estates until 1393, but merely confirming Sigismund's acts.

In 1259, he was appointed to the council of the king, who made him keeper of the great seal, chancellor of France, one of the great officers in the household of the king.

She was most likely given by her father, a tribal chief of the Polabian Obotrites, as a peace offering in a marriage to seal the peace, and she is thought to have brought with her a great dowry, as a great Slavic influence is represented in Sweden from her time, mainly among craftsmen.

Raeder's strong authoritarian tendencies came to the fore as soon he assumed command of the Reichsmarine in 1928 when he sent out a circular making clear that dissent would not be allowed while at the same time carrying out the " great seal hunt " of 1928-29 when Raeder forced most of the senior admirals into early retirement in order to promote men who were loyal to him.

Relying on his general warrant to return to England, given under the great seal, Essex sailed from Ireland on 24 September 1599, and reached London four days later.

As they prepare to leave, the Knight warns them to not take the Grail past the great seal in the temple's floor, but Elsa disobeys, causing the temple to collapse.

The obverse of the great seal is used as the national coat of arms of the United States.

In the current ( and several previous ) dies of the great seal, the 13 stars above the eagle are arranged in rows of 1-4-3-4-1, forming a six-pointed star.

The only official explanation of the symbolism of the great seal was given by Charles Thomson upon presenting the final design for adoption by Congress.

On March 25, 1780 a second committee to design a great seal was formed, which consisted of James Lovell, John Morin Scott, and William Churchill Houston.

Robert II depicted on his great seal

Once the Commons agreed to move forward with a petition of right, and on its contents, Coke moved that the Commons " join with the Lords " in the petition and then have it " exemplified under the great seal ".

Biographer Ezra Squier Tipple wrote: " If to speak with authority as the accredited messenger of God ; to have credentials which bear the seal of heaven ... if when he lifted the trumpet to his lips the Almighty blew the blast ; if to be conscious of an ever-present sense of God, God the Summoner, God the Anointing One, God the Judge, and to project it into speech which would make his hearers tremble, melt them with terror, and cause them to fall as dead men ; if to be and do all this would entitle a man to be called a great preacher, then Asbury was a great preacher.

: And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun was as black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon was like blood.

: And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Appointment to the office is by letters-patent under the great seal.

On 1 November 1625 he was made lord keeper of the great seal ; in this capacity he delivered the Charles I's reprimand to the Commons on 9 March 1626, when he declared that " liberty of counsel " alone belonged to them and not " liberty of control.

Lord Coventry held the great seal for nearly fifteen years ( 1625 – 40 ), and was enabled to collect a large fortune.

One social-class factor which plays a large part in educational policy today is the fact that a great many school and college teachers are upward mobile from urban lower-class and lower-middle-class families.

Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

The Alexandrists were a school of Renaissance philosophers who, in the great controversy on the subject of personal immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by Alexander of Aphrodisias.

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

The Great Man approach to history was most fashionable with professional historians in the 19th century ; a popular work of this school is the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ) which contains lengthy and detailed biographies about the great men of history, but very few general or social histories.

He then followed the advice he found in Hippocrates ' teaching and travelled and studied widely including such destinations as Smyrna ( now Izmir ), Corinth, Crete, Cilicia ( now Çukurova ), Cyprus, and finally the great medical school of Alexandria, exposing himself to the various schools of thought in medicine.

Giovanni d ' Andrea was born at Rifredo, near Florence, and studied Roman law and canon law at the University of Bologna, the great law school of the age, where he distinguished himself in this subject so much that he was made professor at Padua, and then at Pisa before returning to Bologna, where he remained from the season of 1301-02 until his death, save for brief seasons at Padua 1307-09 and 1319.

Some " calumnious fictions " were written about Herodotus in a work titled On the Malice of Herodotus, by Plutarch, a Theban by birth, ( or it might have been a Pseudo-Plutarch, in this case " a great collector of slanders "), including the allegation that the historian was prejudiced against Thebes because the authorities there had denied him permission to set up a school.

Even one or two great basketball players could make a high school team a powerhouse, and nearly every Indiana town dreamt of such glory.

The BCO Society serves the dual purpose of filling in, to some extent, the great void created by the lack of a school or academy of music in the city of Mumbai.

Teacher Aaron Sofocleous praised his music skills and encouraged his chaotic style, even if one school report noted " He has great ability, but must guard against a tendency to show off ".

The great differences between that school's interests and methods on the one hand and those of the neoclassical school ( from which modern mainstream economics largely derives ) on the other, explain why Weber's influence on economics today is hard to discern.

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

Thus followed the line of Lomonosov and the contributions of the Russian school became more frequent through his disciples, and in the nineteenth century we have great geographers as Vasily Dokuchaev who performed works of great importance as a " principle of comprehensive analysis of the territory " and " Russian Chernozem " latter being the most important where introduces the geographical concept of soil, as distinct from a simple geological strata, and thus founding a new geographic area of study: the Pedology.

In order to facilitate the study of theology in dioceses that were distant from the great centres of learning, he ordered in his Bull Super specula Domini that some talented young men should be sent to a recognized theological school to study theology with the purpose of teaching it afterwards in their own dioceses.

Traditionally, Received Pronunciation was the " everyday speech in the families of Southern English persons whose men-folk been educated at the great public boarding-schools " and which conveyed no information about that speaker's region of origin prior to attending the school.

In 1991, UCLA's film school organized a festival of great but forgotten American films, and included Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia in the program.

Though the French Géographie Sociale had been a great influence especially on Hartke's ideas, no such distinct school of thought formed within the French human geography.

Work and school schedules do not need to unnecessarily reinvent themselves, at great expense, year after year.

Because of his influence, Cimarosa obtained a scholarship at the musical institute of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained for eleven years, chiefly studying with great masters of the old Italian school ; Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini, and other musicians of repute are mentioned among his teachers.

Certainly, Pacini recognized Rossini's strengths and his dominance during this period: " Everyone followed the same school, the same fashions, and as a result they were all imitators of the great luminary ....

In one case, a school removed a student's webpage that included a copy of this program, mistaking it for the original DeCSS program, and received a great deal of negative media attention.

Under him Vienna became the centre of culture in Germany and the great school of Minnesingers.