In Revelation 9: 7-11, Abaddon is described as " The Destroyer ", the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions ' teeth, wings, and the tail of a scorpion that torment people for five months.

The tenth century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda says that from their chests up Sirens had the form of sparrows, below they were women, or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces.

Frahm ’ s depictions of the women's faces are less successful, often tending towards plastic doll-like expressions.

This is shown by the fact that women's faces are hairless, and since women are the weaker sex, it would surely be more appropriate for them to be given such a protection.

This allows the women's portraits to fit into the same size frame as the men's without reducing the relative scale of the women's faces.

Balconies with curtains or one-way glass: more strict congregations will add a curtain to the balcony so that men cannot see even women's faces.

Additionally, it has also been shown that women have a preference for the scent of men with more symmetrical faces, and that women's preference for the scent of more symmetrical men is strongest during the most fertile period of their menstrual cycle.

Although not all members of the mob would wear women's clothes, those that did, often in white gowns, would also blacken their faces or otherwise wear masks.

The use of blackened faces and women's clothing was a well-established part of the Ceffyl Pren.

Thomas Edison inspires Homer to begin inventing. Homer gets to work and develops a few inventions, such as an alarm that beeps every three seconds when everything is alright, a shotgun which shoots make-up onto women's faces, an electric hammer, and a reclining chair which has a built-in toilet.

Using a similar fighting style to Maki, Kai faces her in a tag-team match during a women's wrestling tournament.

The women's most distinguishing feature is they always put white makeup on their faces.

Wolf writes that women should have " the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically ".

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

But one night Dookiyoon moved in the direction of the women's lodge, where Shades of Night had gone to purify herself.

Historically, women's bicycle frames had a top tube that connected in the middle of the seat tube instead of the top, resulting in a lower standover height at the expense of compromised structural integrity, since this places a strong bending load in the seat tube, and bicycle frame members are typically weak in bending.

Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.

The women's movement had a strong influence, much of it emanating from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

They found that increased women's rights were are associated with less civil wars and that legal polygamy had no effect after women ’ s rights were controlled for.

The women's competition was added to the Olympic program in the 1928 games, although they had been competing at some national and regional levels previously.

However, by 1920 all Western European and North American democracies had universal male suffrage ( except Switzerland ) and many countries began to consider women's suffrage.

Even before Léon, some liberals had advocated equal rights for women including women's suffrage.

Though women's meetings had been held in London for the last ten years, this was an innovation in Bristol and the north-west of England, which many there felt went too far.

The Association of German Women's Organizations ( BDF ) was established in 1894 to encompass the proliferating women's organizations that had sprung up since the 1860s.

By the time the book on female sexuality was published, it appeared that Kinsey seemed to feel that women and men are more alike in the biology of their sexuality than he had previously thought, and that both men's and women's sexuality seemed shaped, not merely repressed, by social and cultural forces.

Lesbian-feminism was a youth-oriented movement: its members were primarily college educated, with experience in New Left and radical causes, but they had not seen any success in persuading radical organizations to take up women's issues.

The Beguines were mainly a women's movement and had previously been recognized by the Church since their foundation in the thirteenth century as mystics.

In 2009, however, the ruins of a synagogue with pottery dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple were discovered under land in Magdala owned by the Legionaries of Christ, who had intended to construct a center for women's studies.

An attempt was made to bring two Māori men to teach the skills of dressing and weaving flax, but this failed when it was discovered that weaving was considered women's work and the two men had little knowledge of it.

The United States also has had very competitive crews, and in recent years these crews have become even more competitive given the surge in women's collegiate rowing due to Title IX.

" Among radical feminists, the view became widely held that, thus far, the sexual freedoms gained in the sexual revolution of the 1960s — in particular, the decreasing emphasis on monogamy — had been largely gained by men at women's expense.

South Australia granted restricted women's suffrage in 1861, and in 1895 became the second place in the world to grant universal suffrage ( after New Zealand ), and the first where women had the dual rights to vote and to stand for election.

Although women's races had been held in North America for some time and at the 1932 Winter Olympics in a demonstration event, the ISU did not organize official competitions until 1936.

Since the strongest teams in men's volleyball at the time belonged to the Eastern Bloc, the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics did not have as great an effect on these events as it had on the women's.

This case, which came to be known as the Persons Case, had important ramifications not just for women's rights but also because in overturning the case, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council engendered a radical change in the Canadian judicial approach to the Canadian constitution, an approach that has come to be known as the " living tree doctrine ".

But it soon failed as the local Nez Perce tribe's men considered beaver trapping to be women's work, the tribe was migratory and apparently women thought they already had enough to do.

However he was apparently able to get into the women's ' quarters or harem of a house to sketch what became The Women of Algiers ; few later harem scenes had this claim to authenticity.

The group reached this conclusion after examining the health, educational, economic, and legal conditions that affect women's lives.

The " FA Cup " is run by and named after the Football Association and usually refers to the English men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held.

In 2006, considerable controversy arose after the decision to cut 10 varsity teams ( including both men's and women's teams ) was deemed necessary by the Board of Visitors to comply with Title IX restrictions.

Nancy Tystad Koupal notes an apparent loss of interest in editorializing after Aberdeen failed to pass the bill for women's enfranchisement.

Anthony joined with Stanton in organizing the first women's state temperance society in America after being refused admission to a previous convention on account of her sex, in 1851.

In women's competition, the same applies after five innings.

after a mission went sour and an innocent woman was killed, now designs women's clothing at Vanya's in New York.

The women's suffrage movement took hold after the civil war, during the Reconstruction era ( 1865 – 1877 ).

Wilson, after first sidestepping the issue, became a major advocate for the women's suffrage.

Consciously modeled after the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments became the founding document of the American women's movement, and it was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention, July 19 and 20, 1848

She described her actions during and after the Civil War, and used the sacrifices of countless women throughout modern history as evidence of women's equality to men.

McKay then developed a great rivalry with Lynn Adams, and after McKay moved back to Australia, Adams dominated women's racquetball for the better part of the 1980s.

Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake city, United States, at 15 years and 277 days old.

Although commonplace today, the effect bewitched audiences in the era before widespread recorded sound — after the initial 1918 run-through, Holst's daughter Imogen ( in addition to watching the charwomen dancing in the aisles during " Jupiter ") remarked that the ending was " unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women's voices growing fainter and fainter ... until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence ".

* If the plural is not one that is formed by adding s, an s is added for the possessive, after the apostrophe: children's hats, women's hairdresser, some people's eyes ( but compare some peoples ' recent emergence into nationhood, where peoples is meant as the plural of the singular people ).

The Duke pretends not to heed the women's petition, and only after revealing that Claudio has not, in fact, been executed, relents.

In 1888 Britain's first nationwide coalition of groups advocating women's right to vote, the National Society for Women's Suffrage ( NSWS ), split after a majority of members decided to accept organizations affiliated with political parties.

The royal family was ripped away from their Palace at Versailles, the day after the 5 October 1789 women's march on Versailles.

Following Bender's victory at the Olympic Games ( which he won after disguising himself as a woman to enter the women's division ), he sings " Hail, hail Rob-on-i-a, a land I didn't make up!

There was much looting of common household goods from clergy houses and monasteries, and some street robberies of women's jewellery by the crowd ; after the images were smashed and the property occupied, " men fed their stomachs in a carnivalesque indulgence of beer, bread, butter and cheese, while women carted off provisions for the kitchen or bedroom ".

Micheaux constructed Within Our Gates to educate his audience about racism, uplift, peonage, women's rights, and the urban " new Negro " emerging after the Great Migration.

Anthropologists ( such as Bea Medicine ) have documented important social and cultural connections between quilting and earlier important pre-reservation crafting traditions such as women's quill-working societies and other crafting traditions that were difficult to sustain after hunting and off-reservation travel was restricted by the US government.