It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

The paired Müllerian glands inside the male cloaca secrete a fluid which resembles that produced by mammalian prostate glands and which may transport and nourish the sperm.

The male Colostethus subpunctatus, a tiny frog, protects his egg cluster which is hidden under a stone or log.

The salamanders left odour marks around their territories which averaged in size and were sometimes inhabited by a male and female pair.

Into this book he incorporated his view of " the violent male type ", which he described as a " man who had to be right ", a man who " instantly attracts women " and who he said were the men who " run the world ".

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

However, there are certain limitations: they may not administer the sacraments and related functions whose celebration is reserved to bishops, priests, deacons, or seminarians ( the male clergy ), namely, Holy Orders ( they may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, or lectors-the minor ministries which are now open to the non-ordained ).

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

alt = Black-and-white photograph of a statue consisting of an inscribed, round pedestal on top of which sits a seated, nude, male figure of which only the legs and lower torso are preserved

The ( male ) speaker deplores the ruin of his life, and in tones at times reminiscent of Hamlet, craves oblivion, for which the sea serves as a constant metaphor.

For the Hellenes, high on the cliff a temple was built, which became a worship site devoted to Aphrodite, in her particular local presence as Aphrodite Amathusia along with a bearded male Aphrodite called Aphroditos.

The male gametocyte produces a large number of gametes and the zygote gives rise to an oocyst which is the infective stage.

Sea lion whiskers worn in male ’ s ears represented a trophy, which meant he was a good hunter.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

The vision in the third year of Belshazzar concerning a ram and a male goat ( 8: 1-27 ) which, we are informed, represent Medea, Persia ( the ram's two horns ), and Greece ( the goat ).

" The peculiarity of this change of gender led the later rabbis to reason that this means Jonah was comfortable in the roomy male fish, so he didn't pray, but that God then transferred him to a smaller, female fish, in which the prophet was uncomfortable, so that he prayed.

However, such fights are usually discouraged by visual displays, in which the males bulge their necks, roll their eyes and hold their horns in a vertical position while slowly pacing back and forth in front of the other male.

Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.

Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.

It's very obviously a satire on this male behaviour and a cautionary tale [...] That's not how he views women and relationships, as demonstrated by the rest of the plays.

The play was then presented as a " Big Brother type social experiment ", in which the Lady plays Katherina and allows Sly ( as Petruchio ) to dominate where the action goes, all the while attempting to gauge how the male mind works under a given set of circumstances.

The male plays no part in raising the young and may even kill them.

The plots of many Absurdist plays feature characters in interdependent pairs, commonly either two males or a male and a female.

Eguchi ( 2011 ) continues to say, " I wonder how “ sissyphobia ” particularly plays into the dynamic of domestic violence processes in the straight-acting and effeminate-acting male same-sex coupling pattern " ( p. 53 ).

alt = A male and female figure skater spin around each other on the ice while a band plays in the background.

Daringly suggestive comedy scenes involving women became especially common, although of course Restoration actresses were, just like male actors, expected to do justice to all kinds and moods of plays.

His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals — depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals ' quest for acceptance — namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room ( 1956 ), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America.

The female plays no role in parental care ; the male takes care of its young.

In the female, there is erectile tissue analogous to the male yet less substantial that plays a large role in sexual stimulation.

Cheng Dieyi was a Beijing opera singer or Dan ( male actor who plays female roles ) who had fallen in love with his male singing partner.

As the male plays no part in nesting and care of the young, a man who does not work may be called a " male paucar ".

Indian plays in those days used to have an all male cast and male leads often played female roles ( as evidenced in the first Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra ).

The male plays no part in building the nest or raising the young.

In the 1947 film, Rita Hayworth played Terpsichore, opposite male lead Larry Parks who played a producer of stage plays.

* Anne-Yolaine Diarra is a French djembefola in the Strasbourg group Sokan, where she plays with three male djembefolas from Burkina Faso.

The horn-shaped rhyta are carefully woven in composition with the erect male organs of the satyrs, but this blatantly sexual and somewhat humorous theme appears to be a late development, in keeping with Athenian humor, as is expressed in the plays of Aristophanes.

It ranged from those with no children, through students in various stages of pregnancy, to one 44-year-old male with four children, three of whom were teenagers.

In a flash she was away to the back, paying no attention to three angry shouts from the male throats.

In other words, no merely male creature can resist that corps de ballet.

In the film, there are no male actors and the four leading actresses dubbed themselves in the Castilian version.

Although " android " is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, " android " technically refers to the male form, while " gynoid " is the feminine form.

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

The latter was claimed by Charles of Anjou, but in 1283 Parlement decided that the County of Toulouse should revert to the crown, if there were no male heirs.

* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

Agnes of Kyburg, who had no male relations, sold the family's lands to King Rudolf I von Habsburg.

In a typical case of running amok, a male who has shown no previous sign of anger or any inclination to violence will acquire a weapon, traditionally a sword or dagger, but presently a variety of weapons are used, and in a sudden frenzy, will attempt to kill or seriously injure anyone he encounters.

There were 46, 029 households, out of which 8, 467 ( 18. 4 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13, 569 ( 29. 5 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3, 855 ( 8. 4 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 1, 368 ( 3. 0 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

There are no remaining descendants in male line from any other of Napoleon's brothers.

The two parents are commonly identified as Sky ( usually male ) and Earth ( usually female ) who in the primeval state were so tightly bound to each other that no offspring could emerge.

Because all of the five children he fathered with his first and fourth wife were daughters, he would have no lawful male heir to his throne.

Thus, he implicitly emphasized that it is God-made (" God has joined together "), " male and female ," lifelong (" let no one separate "), and monogamous (" a man ... his wife ").

Because reported AIDS cases in Africa and other parts of the developing world include a larger proportion of people who do not belong to Duesberg's preferred risk groups of drug addicts and male homosexuals, Duesberg writes on his website that " There are no risk groups in Africa, like drug addicts and homosexuals ," However, many studies have addressed the issue of risk groups in Africa and concluded that the risk of AIDS is not equally distributed.

" Emon " 衛門 、 右衛門 is a component of male given names, such as Goemon, though no longer as popular as in the past.

Still without a son and in danger of being left with no male heir, facing substantial opposition to Eleanor from many of his barons and her own desire for divorce, Louis had no choice but to bow to the inevitable.

Since Mountbatten had no sons, when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946 and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey in the County of Southampton on 28 October 1947, the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth, and to their heirs male respectively.