Athena wished to make the resulting infant Erichthonius immortal and to raise it, so she gave it to three sisters, Herse, Aglauros and Pandrosos, in a willow basket and warned them to never open it.

They decided they wished to remain an all-male fraternity, and gave Bettie a silver fruit basket instead as a symbol of their special relationship with her.

The basket of the tower which gave it the epithet Nürnberger Ei ( Egg of Nuremberg )

At the end of her courses, she gave each midwife a basket of goods that would help them apply the correct measures while assisting a birth.

He invited the company to supper and then took them via wagon ride to the ferry to meet Merry, and gave Frodo a parting gift of a whole basket full of mushrooms.

Instead of climbing into the litter basket so he could leave with the helicopter, Pitsenbarger elected to remain with the Army troops under enemy attack and he gave a " wave-off " to the helicopter which flew away to safety.

Then, when the clock struck 4: 48, Danilo Pinncok managed a basket that gave them the first lead in the game 13-12.

However, according to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket.

A common introductory example is a woman who tells a policeman that she lost her basket of eggs, and that if she took three at a time out of it, she was left with 2, if she took five at a time out of it she was left with 3, and if she took seven at a time out of it she was left with 2.

Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.

A 2nd-century Lacquerware | lacquer-painted scene on a basket box showing famous figures from Chinese history who were paragons of filial piety ; Zhang Heng became well-versed at an early age in the Five Classics | Chinese classics and the philosophy of China's earlier sages.

Much later, the Roman writer Vitruvius ( c. 75 BCE – c. 15 BCE ) related that the Corinthian order had been invented by Callimachus, a Greek architect and sculptor who was inspired by the sight of a votive basket that had been left on the grave of a young girl.

When Damala's mistress ( who injected him with heroin between acts of plays he was appearing in ) had an illegitimate daughter by him in 1889, she left the baby in a basket ( with a note ) on Sarah Bernhardt's doorstep.

Aglauros and Herse disobeyed her and opened the basket which contained the infant and future king, Erichthonius, who was somehow mixed or intertwined with a snake.

A painting by Konstantin Flavitsky of Bithiah | Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses, who is in a basket.

Many of the stories although have true origins are only folklore and give many of the towns attractions their names, such as Maggie's Leap being named after a local girl called Maggie, who leapt over the impressive chasm to her death while fleeing soldiers with a basket of eggs.

A Malaysian variant of an Indonesian story explains that the first complete system of silat was created by a woman who was carrying a basket of food on her head when birds tried to steal the food from her.

In the graphic novel Aqua Leung, the main protagonist is a prince who is whisked out of a castle under attacked in a basket like device and then found by a couple and raised on land so that his father's enemies do not find him.

In the 1996 – 97 NCAA season, Duncan was helped by the addition of future NBA player Loren Woods, a 7 ' 1 " player who eased the pressure on Duncan close to the basket.

They were given names: the girl he called Fuegia Basket ( so named because the replacement for the stolen boat was an improvised coracle that resembled a basket ), the boy Jemmy Button ( he was purchased by FitzRoy with buttons ) and the one man who did not escape he named York Minster ( named after the large rock near which he was captured ).

There is a Russian proverb: " If you call yourself gruzd, then get into the basket ," which encourages people who boast about themselves too much to actually do some work.

A widely used example of cross selling on the web with market basket analysis is Amazon. com's use of " customers who bought book A also bought book B ", e. g. " People who read History of Portugal were also interested in Naval History ".

A caryatid supporting a basket on her head is called a canephora (" basket-bearer "), representing one of the maidens who carried sacred objects used at feasts of the goddesses Athena and Artemis.

It was Klotz himself who sank the winning basket for a 100-99 score that ended the Globetrotters ' 2, 499-game winning streak.

Smith is credited with creating or popularizing the following basketball techniques: The " tired signal ," in which a player would use a hand signal ( originally a raised fist ) to indicate that he needed to come out for a rest, huddling at the free throw line before a foul shot, encouraging players who scored a basket to point a finger at the teammate who passed them the ball, in honor of the passer's selflessness, instituting a variety of defensive sets in one game, having the point guard call out the defense set for the team, and creating a number of defensive sets, including the point zone, the run-and-jump, and double-teaming the screen-and-roll.

During the 1960s, despite internal opposition from those who believed that it would reduce the macho image of the brand, Triumph produced two scooters ; the Triumph Tina, a small and low-performance 2-stroke scooter of about 100 cc with automatic clutch and a handlebar carry basket, and the Triumph Tigress, a more powerful scooter available with either a 175 cc 2-stroke single or a 250 cc 4-stroke twin engine for the enthusiast.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

He put the basket down distastefully, muttering softly and thoroughly disgusted with himself and his plan that had seemed so foolproof.

In one account, she put an end to her life, as it was believed, by the bite of a snake ( an asp ) conveyed to her in a basket of figs.

They may also be put in a basket filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a bird's nest.

It is believed that after the Crucifixion, Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary put a basket full of eggs at the foot of the cross.

Before mystai could enter the Telesterion, they would recite, " I have fasted, I have drunk the kykeon, I have taken from the kiste (" box ") and after working it have put it back in the kalathos (" open basket ").

The troops put the infant lord in a basket and hung the basket in a tree to encourage them.

She resolved to kill the child, knowing it was Gwion, but when he was born he was so beautiful that she couldn't, so she had him put into a hide covered basket and thrown into the lake, river, or sea, depending on which version of this tale it is.

John Murphy and William Moore put Shaw's body in a laundry basket and Moore dumped it half a mile away from the murder scene.

Indians assisted us over the portage with our heavy articles on their horses, the waters is divided into Several narrow chanels which pass through a hard black rock forming Islands of rocks at this Stage of the water, on those Islands of rocks as well as at and about their Lodges I observe great numbers of Stacks of pounded Salmon neetly preserved in the following manner, i e after Suffiently Dried it is pounded between two Stones fine, and put into a species of basket neetly made of grass and rushes of better than two feet long and one foot Diamiter, which basket is lined with the Skin of Salmon Stretched and dried for the purpose, in theis it is pressed down as hard as is possible, when full they Secure the open part with the fish Skins across which they fasten tho the loops of the basket that part very Securely, and then on a Dry Situation they Set those baskets the Corded part up, their common Custom is to Set 7 as close as they can Stand and 5 on the top of them, and secure them with mats which is raped around them and made fast with cords and Covered also with mats, those 12 baskets of from 90 to 100 w. each form a Stack.

He found a wooden folding chair and put a basket on the seat and wheels on the legs.

* After the Perry basket and a Celtics timeout, Havlicek got the ball with five seconds left and hit a bank shot to put the Celtics up 111 – 110.

Some of the senior managers in British Rail at the time were unwilling to put all their eggs in one basket, and so initiated a parallel project to design a train based on conventional technology as a stopgap.

* He put a snake in a flower basket and told her that it was a gift from him to her Lord, but when she opened it actually became a gift-a garland.

The child passes the task if she answers that Sally will look in the basket, where she put the marble ; the child fails the task if she answers that Sally will look in the box, where the child knows the marble is hidden, even though Sally cannot know, since she did not see it hidden there.

It is told that Gwyddno Garanhir (" Long-shank ") possessed a hamper ( mwys ) which would multiply food: if one was to put food for one man in the basket and open it again, the food was found to be increased a hundredfold.

Rufus was ordered to fill a basket with candles, he did so, but as he put the candles in, he started to daydream about being a performing clown, juggling the candles that then turned into objects and animals.

For women, much of this newly available time has been put to productive economic activities like basket weaving and pottery making for use and sale.

On poles without mechanisms for switching easily, a basket can be removed by soaking it in hot water to soften the glue, or via downward impacts, and a new one put on with hot glue.

Once the patient is ready to be moved, the first step is the casualty lifting, to put him on a stretcher or litter ( rescue basket ).