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image and Cybele
Around the 5th century BCE, a fully Hellenised and influential image of Cybele, by Agoracritos, was set up in the Athenian agora.
n., freed a grounded ship bringing the image of Cybele to Rome.
* 205-204 BC: During the Second Punic War, upon consultation of the Sibylline Books, an image of Cybele was transferred from Pessinos ( or Pergamon ) to Rome.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica and Claudia Quinta were said to have received the image of Cybele at Ostia on her arrival in 204 BC.
The later version of Cybele was established by a pupil of Phidias, the sculptor Agoracritus, and became the image most widely adopted by Cybele's expanding following, both in the Aegean world and at Rome.

image and was
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a public image was as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.
Harvey said his objective was to create a better public image for welfare ''.
He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.
When he rose in the morning, the image was still there.
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.
Divination was based on spontaneous movements of this image.
This embodies the belief that the image was somehow the god or man himself.
It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).
This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.
The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.
Budge surmised that Abrasax was " a form of the Adam Kadmon of the Kabbalists and the Primal Man whom God made in His own image.
He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.
As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.
Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.
* In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank ; his image appears on the new issue of £ 5 notes.
image: Ap17 strolling. ogg | Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.
This matte contains the coverage information — the shape of the geometry being drawn — making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where the geometry was actually drawn and other parts of the image which are empty.
The book was very popular, and contributed to an image of the discoverer as a solitary individual who challenged the unknown sea, as triumphant Americans contemplated the dangers and promise of their own wilderness frontier.
Synchronization of the receiver disc rotation was handled through sync pulses broadcast with the image information.
An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.

image and moved
Blyton's second marriage was very happy and, as far as her public image was concerned, she moved smoothly into her role as a devoted doctor's wife, living with him and her two daughters at Green Hedges.
Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.
The NA is generally measured with respect to a particular object or image point and will vary as that point is moved.
Under Colonel Gregory Fontenot, the school moved from Fort Leavenworth's Flint Hall to Eisenhower Hall ( image below ) in October 1994.
This technique utilizes a single CCD with a Bayer filter but actually moved the physical location of the sensor chip on the focus plane of the lens to " stitch " together a higher resolution image than the CCD would allow otherwise.
More than any other factor, urban growth began to improve the image of the Acre, as new businesses and homes moved into the south end of town.
Economists argue that one of the factors behind the differing economic development in Africa and Asia is that in Africa, corruption has primarily taken the form of rent extraction with the resulting financial capital moved overseas rather than invested at home ( hence the stereotypical, but often accurate, image of African dictators having Swiss bank accounts ).
Before the Governor's departure, he and the colonists had agreed that a message would be carved into a tree if they had moved and would include an image of a Maltese Cross if the decision was made by force.
To focus an object 1 m away (), the lens must be moved 2. 6 mm further away from the image plane, to.
In the second image the " years " dimension has been moved into the view by dragging the tile into the sheet.
Chapter 13 describes how, in desperate attempt to call down rain, the image of Moloch was brought to the center of Carthage, how the arms of the image were moved by the pulling of chains by the priests ( apparently Flaubert's own invention ), and then describes the sacrifices made to Moloch.
Shedding their big-haired image as they moved into the 1990s, Poison took a more mature approach to their third album.
He had been powerfully moved by the image of a young girl braving a mob in an attempt to desegregate schools in Charlotte, N. C., and Partisan Review editor Philip Rahv had suggested he report on what was happening in the American south.
There are two major types of saccadic suppression ( or masking ), the first is flash suppression ( the inability to see a flash of light during a saccade-see Dodge 1900 ) and the second is saccadic suppression of image displacement which is characterized by the inability to perceive whether a target has moved or not during a saccade ( Bridgeman, G., Hendry, D., & Stark, L., 1975 ).
Equivalently, a surface is orientable if a two-dimensional figure such as 20px in the space cannot be moved ( continuously ) around the space and back to where it started so that it looks like its own mirror image 20px.
A surface S in the Euclidean space R < sup > 3 </ sup > is orientable if a two-dimensional figure ( for example, 20px ) cannot be moved around the surface and back to where it started so that it looks like its own mirror image ( 20px ).
In Nov 1995, Awesome Cyber Cards and also then known as marlo. com ( located at marlo. com until Oct 2010, now moved ), began developing the Internet greeting card, a digital Internet card including a fixed or suggested greeting as well as an image.
After that, the image moved around a few temples in Northern Thailand.
* Folding and view cameras use bellows to exclude light while allowing the lens to be moved relative to the film plane for focusing and, mainly in view cameras, to allow the lens to slide and tilt to control the image ( camera movements ).
But on the next image the bright area had moved away from the Sun and he immediately recognized this as being unusual and took it to his immediate superior, Dr. Guenter Brueckner, and then to the solar physics branch head, Dr. Tousey.
He moved to Fairchild Semiconductor in 1971, where he led the development of the first commercial CCD image sensors in the early 1970s, and in 1977 became head of the MOS division.
In the mid-1950s, further continental influences brought a more elegant image to light, lower-cut slip-ons, which moved from purely casual use to being paired with suits in the 1960s ( but still only in America ).
When the mirror above the lens is moved too high or too low, it moves out of the best focal distance for an evenly white image, resulting in a projected image with either blue or brown color fringing around the outside edge of the screen.

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