A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

As act two opens, the two groups are now in bitter rivalry over who is the normal group (“ A-1 March ”) Another stranger, a French woman in a feathered coat appears.

Most often she appears as an ugly, frightening hag, but she can also appear as a stunningly beautiful woman of any age that suits her.

* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

The Golden Apple appears as a gift from Aphrodite with the ability to make any mortal woman fall in love with the man holding it and to make a mortal man and woman soul mates if they simultaneously touch it.

Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, a fly, and possibly an elderly woman.

This calm young woman appears to accept her role as the Mother of God not with resignation but with confidence.

He eventually marries a local woman named Ardora, with whom he fathers a son, Lex Luthor, Jr. After its debut, Lexor appears sporadically in various Superman comics as Luthor's base of operations, where he wages assaults on Superman.

The series also elaborates on the characters and events in the book, and is an early example of characterizations which recur throughout Miyazaki's later work: a girl who is in touch with nature, a warrior woman who appears menacing but is not an antagonist, and a boy who seems destined for the girl.

In between combats the Morrígan appears to him as a young woman and offers him her love, and her aid in the battle, but he rejects her offer.

Later she appears to him as an old woman bearing the same three wounds that her animal forms sustained, milking a cow.

* 1896 – A picture showing the unclad ( bare ) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

A more explicit expression of the same appears in the later The Shield of Time where a time-traveling young American woman from the 1990s pays a brief visit to a university campus of the 1960s and is not enthusiastic about what she sees there.

For instance, it has been suggested that Luke is using Mary's genealogy and Matthew is using Joseph's, but Darrell Bock states that this would be unprecedented, " especially when no other single woman appears in the line ".

The G-Spot's existence, and existence as a distinct structure, is still under dispute, as its location can vary from woman to woman and appears to be nonexistent in some women, and it is hypothesized to be an extension of the clitoris and therefore the reason for vaginal orgasms.

She also appears as an old woman in Richard III.

Inside what appears to be the White Hot Room or possibly just Emma's own mind, a woman resembling Jean Grey appears to Emma and helps her break free of Regan's influence with what appears to be a miniature version of the Phoenix energy raptor, thus letting her assist Logan, who has been robbed of a lock of Jean's hair that was in his possession.

Although it is generally associated with autism, a 69-year old woman appears to have been made hyperlexic because of a " cerebral infarction in the left anterior cingulate cortex and corpus callosum ".

* In Ghostbusters II a woman named Elaine appears on Dr Peter Venkman's show " World of the Psychic " and claims an alien told her that the world would end on February 14, 2016.

A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium ... They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings.

He was allegedly found alive eight months later in the custody of William Cantwell Walters, but another woman claimed that the boy was her son, Bruce Anderson, whom she had entrusted in Walters ' custody.

They were found alive two weeks after the killings by an elderly woman shown in the photo.

Her actress – vain, scared, a woman who goes too far in her reactions and emotions – makes the whole thing come alive.

9And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.

Another fairy woman, Bé Chuille, who had been banished to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé Danann, fell in love with Art, but, when she learned his father Conn was still alive and a widower, agreed to marry him instead, on the condition that Art be banished from Tara for a year.

One of the misconceptions of mitochondrial Eve is that since all women alive today descended in a direct unbroken female line from her that she was the only woman alive at the time.

He pointed out that as the law stood, he himself could have been found guilty of a crime in not carrying out the lawful punishment and, as no woman had been burnt alive in the kingdom for over fifty years, so could all those still alive who had held an official position at all of the previous burnings.

The New Zealand Police confirmed that the woman was alive before being covered in an accelerant and set alight.

It was thought to be evil for a woman to give birth to twins ; the woman would be burnt alive and the twins were taken and left for dead in the bush ( the desert ).

Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).

A woman, however, may not be sealed to more than one man while she is alive.

The same is true for women ; however, if a woman was sealed to a man while she was alive, all of her husbands must be deceased before she can be sealed by proxy to them.

It holds the distinction of being the first U. S. military ship to be named in honor of a woman and for a vessel named while the person was still alive ( see also List of U. S. military vessels named after living Americans ).

The current record is held by Craig Breedlove's wife Lee Breedlove, who piloted her husband's Spirit of America-Sonic 1 J79 jet-powered car to a record velocity of 308. 506 mph ( 496. 492 km / h ) in 1965, making her the fastest woman alive,.

This allegation is disputed, since documentary maker Gayle Ferraro found the woman alive and well, confirming the original Grameen story.

Leaving the church, Block speaks with a young woman who has been condemned to be burnt alive for supposedly consorting with the Devil.

) Also in 1965, Breedlove's wife, Lee, took the seat in Sonic 1, making four passes and achieving, making her the fastest woman alive, and making them the fastest couple, which they remain.

It seems absurd that while an ancient pen-pusher, hardly able to walk, should still be alive, a beautiful woman, in the midst of a splendid career, should die at the age of forty two.

It was unusual for a woman in first-century Judaism to be accepted by a teacher as a disciple.

The priestess retained her role when the temple was rededicated to Apollo, giving her a prominence unusual for a woman in the male-dominated culture of classical Greece.

It is generally acceptable for a woman to wear traditionally male clothing, while the converse is unusual.

Elizabeth was called " the most beautiful woman in the Island of Britain " with " heavy-lidded eyes like those of a dragon ", suggesting a perhaps unusual criterion by which beauty in late medieval England was judged.

It was unusual for a Cherokee man to marry a European-American woman.

Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Massachusetts, seems to have been a woman of unusual mental gifts and independence of character.

It is not unusual for hostility against a woman of high social status to be expressed in terms of a spurious accusation that she engages in intimate relations with her Cralmac servants.

This absorption of a woman into the traditionally male world of political journalism and commentary was unusual, and Sauvé managed to be taken seriously, even having her own television show, Opinions, which covered " such taboo subjects as teenage sex, parental authority, and student discipline.

It focuses on a woman whose unusual behavior leads her husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment and the effect this has on their family.

He was surprised to learn she knew so much about poetry, philosophy and politics, considered unusual for a woman at the time.

During her visit to Paris, she caused great attention while dining at a public restaurant: this was unusual for a royal woman at this time, and it was also the only time she ever did that.

In Crossed Over, she played Beverly Lowry, a woman who forms an unusual friendship with the only woman executed while on death row in Texas, Karla Faye Tucker.

Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller, directing Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ), the haunting Oscar-winning Rebecca ( 1940 ), which is about the unusual romance between a young woman ( Joan Fontaine ) and an emotionally-distant rich widower ( Laurence Olivier ) – overshadowed by a vindictive housekeeper ( Judith Anderson ), Suspicion ( 1941 ) about a woman in peril from her own husband ( Cary Grant ), Saboteur ( 1942 ) and Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer.

In this was she was ensured a regular salary even if modelling did not work out, an unusual opportunity for a woman of her time.

The White Devil, a retelling of the intrigues involving Vittoria Accoramboni, an Italian woman assassinated at the age of 28, was a failure when staged at the Red Bull Theatre in 1612 ( published the same year ), being too unusual and intellectual for its audience.

Another unusual script, " Execution ," about a mysterious French woman who bedevils the Nazis trying to hang her, had previously aired on Oboler's wartime propaganda series Plays for Americans.

Hanks ' character comments that it is not a real name as, at the time, it was a rather unusual name for a woman.

In 1790, she published a collection of poems and plays under her own name, a highly unusual occurrence for a woman at the time.

** A 1996 Supernatural B-Horror movie where Rumpelstiltskin is trapped as a rock of Jade for 500 years until a woman is compelled to purchase it from an unusual antique shop.

In 1979, he married a Han Chinese woman and in 1983 they had a daughter, which is not unusual as several Gelug high lamas ( Gelek Rinpoche in the US and Dagyab Rinpoche in Germany, among others ) have chosen a layman's lifestyle, both inside China and in exile ; also, the 6th Dalai Lama, also a Gelugpa, renounced his monk vows and led not only a layman's but a playboy's lifestyle, but still is highly revered by Tibetans.

This portrayal of an " older woman " with an active social and sex life was most unusual for television at the time.

Julia Pastrana, a woman of unusual appearance