The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, lives comfortably in an apartment building when strangely the building's concierge, M. Michel, a confidante, dies from a fever.

In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte

The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly ; three teeth ( one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood ); a single, retractable ear ; and a misshapen body.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

Paul of Tarsus, also known as Saul, is the main character of the second half of Acts.

* Ark, the main character of the video game Terranigma

Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.

The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album which featured original song numbers in character.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

Yahweh, as the main character in the book, takes the initiative in conquering the land, and it is Yahweh's power that wins battles ( for example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh is fighting for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability ).

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

The forward pass is one of main distinguishers between gridiron football ( American football and Canadian football ) in which the play is legal and widespread, and rugby football ( union and league ) from which the North American games evolved, in which the play is illegal.

The main types of football that are played are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, Rugby league, and Rugby union.

Frites are the main ingredient in the Canadian dish of Québécois descent known in both Canadian English and French as poutine, comprising fried potatoes covered with cheese curds and gravy, a dish with a growing number of variations.

Simon Fraser University ( commonly referred to as SFU ) is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey.

From there the communications traffic was routed to the US border by a microwave radio relay link, and in Brunswick, Maine the route joined the main US network and branched to Montreal to connect with the Canadian network.

Dating back to the late 19th century, the main center of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America, and has been the setting for a variety of modern Chinese Canadian culture and literature.

The main symbol of the monarchy is the sovereign herself, described as " the personal expression of the Crown in Canada ," and her image is thus used to signify Canadian sovereignty and government authority — her effigy, for instance, appearing on currency, and her portrait in government buildings.

This rocky and hilly eastern shore forms the western edge of the Canadian Shield in Quebec and as such the main habitat is boreal forest of the Eastern Canadian Shield taiga ecoregion.

The Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences ( CFCAS ) is Canada's main funding body for university-based research on climate, atmospheric and related oceanic work.

Even after the advent of commercial television and radio, the CBC has remained one of the main elements in Canadian popular culture through its obligation to produce Canadian television and radio programming.

It is home to many plants, such as Canadian Yew, which are far from their main range.

Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government, and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.

The island as a whole coincidentally resembles a stylized maple leaf, the main Canadian symbol.

The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three divisions of the German Sixth Army.

Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC ( November 14, 1891February 21, 1941 ) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin.

The Royal Canadian Mint's $ 20 silver coin, launched on July 18, 2007 has evoked one of the darkest moments in the history of polar exploration and rankled Canada's main Inuit organization.

National Steel Car Corporation of Malton, Ontario was formed in 1938 and renamed Victory Aircraft Limited in 1942 when the Canadian government took over ownership and management of main plant.

Its southern terminus is at Interstate 40 in Dandridge, Tennessee ; its northern terminus is on Wellesley Island ( near Fishers Landing, New York ) at the Canadian border, where the Thousand Islands Bridge connects it to Highway 401, the main Ontario freeway connecting Detroit via Toronto to Montreal.

While the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted in 1982, it was not until 1985 that the main provisions regarding equality rights ( section 15 ) came into effect.

The Canadian National Railway owned Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad main line passes through the city, while the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad provides regional service in the area.

His main focus was to restore Quebeckers ' pride in their identity by knowledge of history, both the heroic acts of New France and the French Canadian and self-government rights obtained through a succession of important political victories: 1774, the Quebec Act recognized the rights of the Quebec province and its people with respect to French law, Catholic religion and the French language ; in 1848, responsible government was finally obtained after decades of struggle, along with the rights of the French language ; in 1867, the autonomy of the province of Quebec was restored as Lower Canada was an essential partner in the creation of a new Dominion through Confederation Confederation canadienne, Montreal, Quebec 10 / 10, 1978 ( 1918 ).