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The statue you will find there was originally kept in a wooden box at Market Square, and it was moved to the temple by its keeper after Tam Kung appeared to him in a dream.
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When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.
" He also illustrates the concept by saying, " If I point to a statue of Caesar and ask you ' Who is that?
' When you say such you do not mean that the stone itself is Caesar, but rather, the name and honor you ascribe to the statue passes over to the original, the archetype, Caesar himself.
According to Lucian of Samosata in the later 2nd century, " they have laid hands on your person at Olympia, my lord High-Thunderer, and you had not the energy to wake the dogs or call in the neighbours ; surely they might have come to the rescue and caught the fellows before they had finished packing up the statue.
The statue was knocked over, but has never fallen, I sent you a picture of it.
-No, I expect you to die "; Random Task / Odd Job chopping off the head of a statue ; the final fight between Austin and Random Task against a wall modelled on fight between Bond and Odd Job against a wall inside Fort Knox ; Powers stating to Random Task " Who throws a shoe, honestly?
In Rocky Balboa, when Rocky told Paulie that he is going to make a comeback, Paulie suggested " you mad because they took down your statue?
Philo considers Caligula's plan to erect a statue of himself in the temple of Jerusalem to be a provocation, saying, " Are you making war upon us, because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity, but that we will fight on behalf of our laws, and die in defence of our national customs?
For instance, according to Kramer's DAD theory ( 1992, 1997a, 2003, 2011, 2012 ) a statue of a god in an idolic community literally is god and if you steal it you will be in big trouble.
We now transfer to you, Mr. Minister, this great statue and trust that it may forever stand the pledge of friendship between France and the Great Republic of the United States.
" He also said, " View this statue, as I will, as a surrogate recipient of the tribute that's deserved by all of you who shared the dream, who made it come true and gave all the proud neighborhoods of San Diego the vibrant heart they needed.
It is said that after her mother's funeral, Catherine picked up a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and kissed it ; saying " Now you will be my mother.
In Comber's Square, you cannot fail to see the statue of Major General Rollo Gillespie.
One popular tourist guidebook assumes that a visitor will want to get his or her picture taken with the statue (" after you pose with the bull [...]").
55 BC: As Romans deliberated sending a force to restore Ptolemy XII to the throne of Egypt, lightning struck the statue of Jupiter on the Alban Mount ; the oracles were consulted and one found to read " If the King of Egypt comes to you asking for assistance, refuse him not your friendship, yet do not grant him any army, or else you will have toil and danger ".
All the family, fathers, sons, and brothers, used to serve in the fleets of the Republic ( Republic of Venice ); but the hero of our race was Arneri Piruzović, whose statue you see there, who fought, bled, and died at the Siege of Candia, whose memory was honoured by the Republic, and whose surviving family was liberally pensioned ; so his name of our race.
Le Père Duchesne faces the statue of Napoleon on top of the Vendôme column, before toppling him: " So, you low-life bugger, we'll take you down like we did your scoundrel Napoleon III | nephew!
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Then he announced to the world: " The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously ", and then replaced in the main square of Bolzano the statue of Walther von der Vogelweide, a Germanic troubadour, with that of Drusus, a Roman general who conquered part of Germany.
A giant 15-meter ( 50 ft ) tall gold-plated statue of him stands on a rotating pedestal in Ashgabat, so it will always face into the sun and shine light onto the city.
There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.
: Here is where we will place the statue.
The goddess Mariamman statue will be garlanded with Neem leaves and flowers.
Cups will be filled up with the beer flowing from the statue and given out to people passing by.
The statue will house over one lakh ( one hundred thousand ) smaller Buddha statues, each of which, like the Buddha Dordenma itself, will be made of bronze and gilded in gold.
The statue alone is being built at a cost of US $ 47 million, by Aerosun Corporation of Nanjing, China, while the total cost of the Buddha Dordenma Project is well over US $ 100 million. The interior will accommodate 100, 000 8-inch-tall and 25, 000 12-inch-tall gilded Buddhas respectively.
Recently, the Gujarat government has announced its plans to build a 182 m tall statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel near the main dam, which will be the world's tallest statue.
Icarius correctly understood that this was a sign of her will to leave with Odysseus, let them go and erected a statue of Aidos ( Modesty ) on the spot.
There is a new statue of Lorca on the Avenida de la Constitución in the city centre, and a new cultural centre bearing his name is currently under construction and will play a major role in preserving and disseminating his works.
Most temples of Lord Shiva will have a statue of Vīrabhadra.
Akass tells Tintin that in order to kill him, he will have liquid polyester poured over him, so that he may be turned into a statue, be " signed " by César, and authenticated by a ( presumably corrupt ) art expert.
At the western end of town, there is a statue of Pierre Wibaux that he commissioned in his will to look over the sloping landscape.
On this feast day, people will pin money on a Blessed Virgin Mary statue as a symbol of prosperity.
The definition of a statue is not always clear-cut ; equestrian statues, of a person on a horse, are certainly included, and in many cases, such as a Madonna and Child or a Pietà, a sculpture of two people will also be.
Tradition in New Orleans also holds that by burying a small statue of St. Joseph upside down in the front yard of a house, that house will sell more promptly.
In 1475 the Condottiero Colleoni, a former Captain General of the Republic of Venice, died and by his will left a substantial part of his estate to the Republlic on condition that a statue of himself should be commissioned and set up in the Piazza San Marco.
At his favourite restaurant in Kalpazankaya ( the counterfeiter's rock ) one will also find his bronze statue enjoying the view with a glass of rakı freshly filled everyday by the restaurant owners.
A statue by Charles l ' Eplattenier which was erected by the station is at present being renovated and will be placed on Rue Numa-Droz in the autumn of 2012.
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He is horrified to find a giant, hollow wicker man statue which he is then locked inside.
Wearing space suits, they enter a library, and find a statue, as well as writings with the coordinates of all of the Spacer worlds.
The routine ends as Astaire, now dancing with a statue, is interrupted by Rogers ' entrance, a scene which, as in The Gay Divorcee and Roberta, typifies the way in which Astaire inadvertently incurs the hostility of Rogers, only to find her attractive and wear down her resistance.
His grave is marked with a statue of Klods-Hans ( English: Clumsy Hans ), a Hans Christian Andersen character who left home to find his way in the world — much as Hersholt himself had done.
Adolf Furtwängler proposed to find, in a statue of which the head is at Bologna, and of which the body is at Dresden, a copy of the Lemnian Athena of Phidias.
At the request of a visitor named Mr. Smith, archaeology professor and adventurer Indiana Jones tries to find a small statue in the archives of his workplace Barnett College.
Fearing that she might be Kerner's next target, Indiana travels to New York in order to warn her and to find out more about the mysterious statue.
Guybrush must also find out where the statue of Elaine is hidden.
He must find a statue with what looks like a ladder on his head and push a button above the statue's head, causing a ladder to descend.
He had received word that a bronze statue of the Greek god Demeter was pulled up by fishing nets and left on the beach, but by the time he had arrived the statue was taken and would eventually find a home in the Museum of Izmir, north of Bodrum.
While she did not find the hoard of three million gold coins reportedly buried there, the excavators unearthed a seven-foot headless marble statue.
He manages to move the statue to find a passage leading down into a dungeon, where he finds Agnes, alive and holding the body of her baby.
Amongst the Bird Brothers ' cluttered antiques they find a statue of Saint John holding a cross.
This planned yet unproduced sequel would have seen Jack Colton and his partner Joan Wilder take their two teenage children to Thailand where they would find themselves blackmailed into stealing a priceless statue.
Despite her similar protests upon her return, the Graysons find various inventive reasons to avoid renaming it, or for removing the 4 meter tall heroic statue sitting atop an 8 meter column depicting her martyred self outside the main entrance to Grayson's Parliament building –— much to her embarrassment.
Much later on in the story, when the winter has come to an end and Aslan is preparing an army to take on the White Witch, Lucy and Susan find Tumnus as a statue in the Witch's castle and he is restored by Aslan, following all of the other Narnians to the battle as the Witch is defeated and killed.
It goes that a Koli fisherman dreamt that he would find a statue in the sea.
One can find a statue of this woman in a garden that sits below Gusukuyama.
She awoke to find herself clutching the statue, which radiated an eerie purple glow.
Along with a few statues of Krishna and other Hindu deities, you will also find a life-size statue of Jesus Christ, above the large waterfall, as well as Saint Francis of Assisi and the Madonna and Child.
In Dreamcatcher, Mr. Gray drives to Derry to find the Standpipe, only to discover a memorial featuring a cast-bronze statue of two children and a plaque underneath, dedicated to the victims of the 1985 flood and of It.
Wandering through the tunnels, they hear the distant roar of an animal, and find a shrine containing the statue of a giant, fur-covered creature with a single horn and wicked-looking claws.
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