The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

They were once essentially diurnal, but have adapted to more nocturnal behavior with pressure from humans.

The family gets its name from the Ancient Roman belief that the animals were ghosts or spirits (' lemures '), because many species are nocturnal.

Livy informs us that the rapid spread of the cult, which he claims indulged in all kinds of crimes and political conspiracies at its nocturnal meetings, led in 186 BC to a decree of the Senate – the so-called Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, inscribed on a bronze tablet discovered in Apulia in Southern Italy ( 1640 ), now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna – by which the Bacchanalia were prohibited throughout all Italy except in certain special cases which must be approved specifically by the Senate.

Due to their nocturnal, forested existence, they were poorly known within their range as well.

His family did not live in the presidential palace with him and his nocturnal escapades were reported by publications such as Le Monde, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune.

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 ".

Two smaller, secretive, nocturnal carnivores, the rooikat ( caracal ) and the vaalboskat ( also called the vaalkat or African Wild Cat ) were once common on the mountain.

In a 1998 study by Robby C, the number of boys reporting nocturnal emissions drastically increased as their testosterone doses were increased, from 17 % of subjects with no treatment to 90 % of subjects at a high dose.

Kinsey found that males experiencing their first ejaculation through a nocturnal emission were older than those experiencing their first ejaculation by means of masturbation.

Saint Augustine held that male nocturnal emissions, unlike masturbation, did not pollute the conscience of a man, because they were not voluntary carnal acts, and were therefore not to be considered a sin.

In European folklore, nocturnal emissions were believed to be caused by a succubus or incubus copulating with the individual at night, an event associated with sleep paralysis and possibly night terrors.

It was once thought that the main pollinators were bats ; however recent evidence suggests that two nocturnal arboreal mammals, the kinkajou and the olingo, may be the primary pollinators.

Because of their secret, nocturnal, and unscripted nature, the orgia were subject to prurient speculation and regarded with suspicion, particularly by the Romans, who attempted to suppress the Bacchanals in 186 BC.

There is some suggestion that the earliest primates were nocturnal, arboreal insectivores.

Impacts in the Chicago urban center were exacerbated by an urban heat island that raised nocturnal temperatures by more than .< ref > Urban heat islands are caused by the concentration of buildings and pavement in urban areas, which tend to absorb more heat in the day and radiate less heat at night into their immediate surroundings than comparable rural sites.

" Nor was " private " the same as " secret ": Romans were suspicious of secretive religious practices, and Cicero cautioned that nocturnal sacrifices were not to be performed by women, except for those ritually prescribed pro populo, on behalf of the Roman people, that is, for the public good.

Cockroaches are nocturnal, the few that you see by day were likely forced out by overcrowding ; a possible sign of severe infestation.

The Portuguese name Freira means " nun "; the inhabitants of Curral das Freiras ( Nun's Valley ) near the breeding site claimed that the nocturnal wailing of the petrels in the breeding season were the calls of the suffering souls of the nuns.

Its eyes were very large ( perhaps suggesting a partially nocturnal lifestyle ), and slightly forward facing, giving Troodon some degree of depth perception.

Large orbits in genera such as Tetonius, Shoshonius, Necrolemur, and Microchoerus indicate that these taxa were probably nocturnal.

`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

They were deciphered in 1893 by the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in a scholarly race with his rival, the Germano-Russian linguist Wilhelm Radloff.

The entrants ranged from serious manufacturers like Peugeot, Panhard or De Dion to amateur owners, and only 25 were selected for the main race.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

Others were either mixed race or married to ethnic Russians.

In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country ; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighbouring tribe.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt " improved the breed " and the " LM " team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

0. 99 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In 1964, the Birds, piloted by Hank Bauer in his first year of managing the ballclub, were involved in a tight pennant race against the Yankees and White Sox.

1. 64 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

However, at the time, " race music " and its white cousin, " hillbilly music ", were not considered to be worthy of consideration as art, rather as a low-cost product to be sold and soon forgotten.

5. 32 % of the population were Hispanic of any race.

Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12, 209 persons ( 10. 8 %).

7. 60 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

But essentially Chicanos, like some Mexicans, are American Indians who were influenced by the Spanish culture through conquest, while Latino or Hispanic refers to race / genetics.

2. 1 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.