Clark's middle name is given variously as either Joseph or Jerome, the latter in allusion to creator Jerry Siegel.

It is said by St. Jerome and other Catholic Church Fathers that the Tau is an Old Testament allusion to the cross and crucifixion of Jesus mentioned in Ezekiel.

Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 AD ) who was acquainted with Polycarp, who had been mentored by John, makes a possible allusion to this book, and credits John as the source.

Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.

Moreover, in the first century A. D., the Greco-Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria — who was himself probably a practitioner of pankration — makes a statement that could be an allusion to preliminary contests in which an athlete would participate and then collect his strength before coming forward fresh in the major competition.

Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.

As she led more individuals out of slavery, she was named " Moses " by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, an allusion to the prophet in the Book of Exodus who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.

The writers of the show have stated that the dog's name is an allusion to the Harry Potter series as, like Harry, Claire Bennet has been adopted by a family who does not have any special abilities.

An allusion early in the book suggests that the cloned primers were intentionally disabled by the Victorian engineer who designed them, perhaps to foster a propensity for the Chinese children who use the clones to follow the leadership of the Victorian girls who use the original copies.

" Bacchylides continues this dancer allusion in praise of Aegina, and ends it by listing some famous men who were born on the island, namely Peleus and Telamon.

Fraser uses them to make an ironic allusion to Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington's brother Henry Wellesley and later-in one of the period's more celebrated scandals-married Wellesley's ex-wife.

The killing of Radio Raheem is also an allusion to the alleged murder of Michael Stewart who died following an arrest by the New York City Police Department.

This mythological account of his lover recalls Hesiod's account of Pandora who was decked out by the same goddesses ( the Graces, the Seasons and Persuasion ) so as to be a bane to mankind — an allusion consistent with Ibycus's view of love as unavoidable turmoil.

Some scholars identify Lycaon with Zeus Lycaeus, Zeus in his role as god of light, who slays Nyctimus ( the dark ), or is succeeded by him, in allusion to the perpetual succession of night and day.

The murder has apparently been carried out by Sherlock Holmes ( who signs his name Rache, an allusion to Doyle's first novella starring Holmes and Watson, A Study in Scarlet, in which the word Rache – German for revenge – is found written above the body of a murder victim ) and Doctor Watson.

A word used to denote a very old-fashioned individual ( bekkeselene !, line 398 ) might have been an allusion by Aristophanes to Herodotus ' account of an experiment by the Egyptian Pharaoh to determine humanity's original language, which Pharaoh concluded to be Phrygian on the grounds that the Phrygian word for bread ( bekkos ) was the first word spoken by some infants who had never been taught to speak.

( whose pilot aired in 2007 and series began in 2008 ), the character of Gary, who always appears with a small yellow bird on his shoulder, is an allusion to Robert Stroud.

While Asher was praised for bringing cases of factitious disorder to light, critics objected variously that a literary allusion was inappropriate given the seriousness of the disease ; that its use of the Anglicized form " Munchausen " showed poor form ; that the name linked the disease with Münchhausen himself, who did not have it ; and that the name's connection to works of humor and fantasy, and to the essentially ridiculous character of the fictionalized Baron, was disrespectful to patients suffering from the disorder.

Changes to the text include a new, albeit silent scene just prior to the Battle of Wakefield where York embraces Rutland before heading out to fight ; an extension of the courtship between Edward and Lady Grey, and the edition of two subplots ; one concerning a mistress of Edward's who he accidentally kills in battle ( an allusion to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster ), the other involving an attempt by Warwick to seduce Lady Grey after her husband's death at the Second Battle of St. Albans ( this is later used as a rationale for why Warwick turns against Edward ).

There is one allusion Birth of Tragedy, 24 to Christian priests as a ' vicious kind of dwarfs ' who are ' subterranean ' ..."

The term “ Isneg ” derives from a combination of “ is ” meaning “ recede ” and “ uneg ” meaning “ interior .” Thus, it means “ people who have gone into the interior .” In Spanish missionary accounts, they, together with the Kalinga and other ethnic groups between the northern end of the Cagayan Valley and the northeastern part of the Ilocos, were referred to as “ los Apayaos ,” an allusion to the river whose banks and nearby rugged terrain were inhabited by the people.

It is speculation that Borges adapted the last name from Twain ; and as Twain did not have a first name for the bandit, Borges used Lazarus, many believe as an allusion to the Bible character of the same first name who was raised from the dead by Jesus, symbolizing a second life ( which, in a purely ironic way, Borges ' Lazarus Morrell provided for the slaves he freed ).

: Evidence: The play could not have been written any earlier than January 1596, as it contains an allusion to the Sultanate of Mehmed III, who didn't become sultan until that date.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

The leap year was called Sextile, an allusion to the " bissextile " leap years of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, because it contained a sixth complementary day.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

This was dubbed the " Cactus Curtain ", an allusion to Europe's Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain in East Asia.

Katherine Duncan-Jones accepts a 1600 – 1 attribution for the date Hamlet was written, but notes that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing Hamlet in the 3000-capacity Globe, were unlikely to be put to any disadvantage by an audience of " barely one hundred " for the Children of the Chapel's equivalent play, Antonio's Revenge ; she believes that Shakespeare, confident in the superiority of his own work, was making a playful and charitable allusion to his friend John Marston's very similar piece.

During his presidency James K. Polk was known as " Young Hickory ", an allusion to his mentor Andrew Jackson, and " Napoleon of the Stump " for his speaking skills.

The brief allusion to the Judgment in the Iliad ( 24. 25 – 30 ) shows that the episode initiating all the subsequent action was already familiar to its audience ; a fuller version was told in the Cypria, a lost work of the Epic Cycle, of which only fragments ( and a reliable summary ) remain.

" In the bonus material on the DVD, screenwriter Nicholas Meyer and actor William Shatner both explain that this was an allusion to the German myth that Shakespeare was in fact German.

It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

Yet again, today it is almost certain that this legend was used as a metaphor, in allusion to the old Slavic pagan ceremony known as the " postrzyżyny ": During that ceremony hair cutting was performed to every boy at the age of seven.

When the recording was presented on the Orange and Blue album, Campbell-Lyons's liner notes treated it seriously and with allusion to Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.

He was interested in all manner of mythological, biblical, and literary allusion.

To cognate research or any other allusion about just mentioned groups of fellow – citizen was until 1989 totally avoided by communist historiography.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

In its origin it was an allusion to the Jewish belief that God remained actively working in the Universe even after its creation and does not necessarily mean soul creation.

One such specimen, IGM 100 / 980, was nicknamed " Ichabodcraniosaurus " by Norell's team because the fairly complete specimen was found without its skull ( an allusion to the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane ).

Groves decided a one sentence allusion to a " poisoning " effect in the production reactors due to fission byproducts, which stopped the reaction, was sensitive, and he had it removed.

The allusion is to a tenacious, thorny desert plant with a thick hide that conceals a sweet, softer interior, suggesting that even though the Israeli Sabra are rough and masculine on the outside, they are delicate and sensitive on the inside.