Cronus castrated his father with a sickle from Gaia.

It was originally named Drépanon from the Greek word for " sickle ", because of the curving shape of its harbour.

In the first legend, Trapani stemmed from the sickle which fell from the hands of the goddess Demeter while she was seeking for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades.

Apollonius named the island Drepane, Greek for " sickle ", since it was thought to hide the sickle that Cronus used to castrate his father Uranus, from whose blood the Phaeacians were descended.

A second worker equipped with a beet hook ( a short-handled tool between a billhook and a sickle ) followed behind, and would lift the beet and swiftly chop the crown and leaves from the root with a single action.

Coins minted at Cnossus from the fifth century showed the kneeling bull or the head of a goddess crowned with a wreath of grain and on the reverse — the " underside "— a scheme of four meander patterns joined at the centre windmill fashion, sometimes with sickle moons or with a star-rosette at the center: " it is a small view of the nocturnal world on the face of the coin that lay downward in the printing process, and is, as it were, oriented downward ".

# Distance of the vertical axis of star, hammer and sickle from the flagstaff is ⅓ of the flag height.

The difference is that the hammer and sickle has been removed from the flag.

Noninfection may be due to such factors as general health and proper immune functioning ; acquired immunity from previous exposure or vaccination ; or genetic immunity, as with the resistance to malaria conferred by possessing at least one sickle cell allele.

In the flash of a wink from Leonie that tells him he is the child's father, Morgan's eyes and smile light up his sedated face with a malicious twinkle before he returns to tending a flowerbed as the camera pulls out to a longshot of the entire circular flowerbed -- with the enclosed flowers arranged into a hammer and sickle.

* Kama yari ( 鎌槍, sickle spear ) gets its name from a peasant weapon called kama ( lit.

The 20-meter-long History as Seen from Mexico in 1936 was hugely political and socially conscious, featuring such modern symbols as the Nazi swastika, a hammer and sickle, and the equation E = mc².

Takachiho in a place called Himuka of Tsukushi, with him came many servants and gifts received from the sun god Amaterasu, among the gifts were a sickle, a sword and a mirror.

* Chicago cardiologist James B. Herrick makes the first published identification of sickle cells in the blood of a patient suffering from anemia.

When person recognized as strzyga dies Decapitating the corpse and burying the head separate from the rest of the body is said to prevent strzyga from rising back from the dead ; burying the body face down with a sickle around its head is said to work as well.

The hammer from the hammer and sickle is replaced by a Latin cross.

Under the leadership of Massimo D ' Alema, the party merged with other minor like-minded movements ( Labour Federation, Social Christians, Republican Left, Unitarian Communists, Reformists for Europe and Democratic Federation ), and took the current name, removing the hammer and sickle from its symbol and substituting it with the red carnation of the Party of European Socialists.

In 2005, Davis was the lead Democratic sponsor of a bill establishing a national cord blood bank which will widen the availability of blood transfusions for thousands of patients who suffer from diseases such as sickle cell anemia and diabetes.

The changes from the Byelorussian SSR was to not only remove symbols of communism ( the hammer and sickle and also the red star ) but it reversed the colors of the ornament pattern from white on red with red on white.

A Latin manuscript version of the Key of Solomon has a drawing that looks like a sickle, labeled Artavo.

This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire which is one of the sources for modern Wicca .. Confusingly, an Italian version of the Key of Solomon has a hook-shaped knife called an artauo ( a possible root for athame ) and a straight, needle-shaped blade called a bolino.

The tests currently available can detect mutations associated with rare genetic disorders like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and Huntington's disease.

* The Soviet flag, with its golden symbols of the hammer and sickle on a red field, was an inspiration to flags of other communist states, such as East Germany, People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Angola, Afghanistan and Mozambique.

It has been used to treat genetic disorders such as severe combined immunodeficiency, and treatments are being developed for a range of other currently incurable diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy.

Scientists have taken the logical step of trying to introduce genes directly into human cells, focusing on diseases caused by single-gene defects, such as cystic fibrosis, haemophilia, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia.

* Hemoglobin S ( α < sub > 2 </ sub > β < sup > S </ sup >< sub > 2 </ sub >)-A variant form of hemoglobin found in people with sickle cell disease.

* Hemoglobin SC disease-A compound heterozygous form with one sickle gene and another encoding Hemoglobin C.

In sickle cell hemoglobin ( HbS ) glutamic acid in position 6 ( in beta chain ) is mutated to valine.

Communist parties often use a hammer to represent the worker, a sickle to represent the farmer, or both a hammer and a sickle to refer to both at the same time.

Extra weight in pail pulls cord ( I ), which opens and lights automatic lighter ( J ), setting off skyrocket ( K ), which causes sickle ( L ) to cut string ( M ) and allow the pendulum with the attached napkin to swing back and forth, thereby wiping chin.

It is recognisable by its thickly furred double coat, sickle tail, erect triangular ears, and distinctive markings.

The tail should be expressive, held low when the dog is relaxed, and curved upward in a " sickle " shape when excited or interested in something.

* Cutting tools, such as the knife, scythe or sickle, are wedge-shaped implements that produce a shearing force along a narrow face.

In the " Fighting Dinosaurs " specimen, the Velociraptor lies on its side, to the right of the Protoceratops, with one of its sickle claws apparently embedded in the throat of its prey, while the beak of Protoceratops is clamped down upon the right forelimb of its attacker.

This suggests Velociraptor may have used its sickle claw to pierce vital organs of the throat, such as the trachea ( windpipe ), or one or more of the branches of the jugular vein or carotid artery, rather than slashing the abdomen.

The producers of the program created an artificial Velociraptor leg with a sickle claw and used a pork belly to simulate the dinosaur's prey.

Though the sickle claw did penetrate the abdominal wall, it was unable to tear it open.

The ship designs, in particular, were regarded by Heyerdahl as similar and drawn with a simple sickle – shaped lines, representing the base of the boat, with vertical lines on deck, illustrating crew or, perhaps, raised oars.

He hoped that the molecule could be made to function as a drug receptor and that it would be possible to inhibit or reverse the genetic errors such as those that occur in sickle cell anemia.

If these are not treated, HIV patients and those with suppressed immunity can become seriously ill. Children with sickle cell anaemia who are infected with Salmonella may develop osteomyelitis.

The second myth features Saturn, who eviscerated his father Uranus, god of the sky, with a sickle which, falling into the sea, created the city.