Diogenes Laertius, a fourth source for information about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument.

* 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias.

She had small roles in Eva, a Romanian drama film that premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival as well as in Julian Schnabel's Palestinian drama, Miral that was screened at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and played the role of Winnie the Giant Tortoise in the 2010 environmental animated film Animals United.

Adwaita ( sometimes spelled with two d's ) was an Aldabra Giant Tortoise brought to India by Lord Wellesley who handed it over to the Alipur Zoological Gardens in 1875 when the zoo was set up.

Brown left and was replaced by David Pajo ( formerly of Slint ) for 1996's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, which showed up on many year-end best of lists, and the 20 minute Djed was described by critic John Bush as proof that " Tortoise made experimental rock do double duty as evocative, beautiful music.

As the western part of Santo Domingo was neglected by the Spanish authorities, French buccaneers settled there, first on the Ile de la Tortue ( Tortuga, Tortoise ), then on Grande Terre ( mainland ).

The " Tortoise " fountain near the parterre was also made by T. W.

This was followed by The Tortoise and the Hares, a comparative biography of Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps, Hugh Dalton and Herbert Morrison.

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In Classical times it was not the Tortoise ’ s plucky conduct in taking on a bully that was emphasised but the Hare ’ s foolish over-confidence.

The Hare and the Tortoise and a very few of the beasts saw it far off from a high bare hill that was at the edge of the trees, and they hurriedly called a meeting to decide what messenger they should send to warn the beasts in the forest.

The argument attempts to show that even though Achilles runs faster than the Tortoise, he will never catch up with her because, when Achilles reaches the point at which the Tortoise started, the Tortoise has advanced some distance beyond ; when Achilles arrives at the point where the Tortoise was when Achilles arrived at the point where the Tortoise started, the Tortoise has again moved forward.

The fable was adapted into a Silly Symphonies cartoon also titled The Tortoise and the Hare by Walt Disney Productions in 1935 which was followed in 1941 by the Merrie Melodies sequel Tortoise Wins by a Hare and two others of decreasingly relevant significance.

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Cetus are found among two areas: the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ) and the White Tiger of the West ( 西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ ).

In Chinese astronomy some of them are located in the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ), while the rest were placed among the Southern Asterisms ( 近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu ) by Xu Guangqi, based on knowledge of western star charts.

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

During the 1990s, instrumental music flourished among indie-rock groups and with the popularity of post rock groups like Tortoise, Mogwai and Cul de Sac.

Artists such as Stereolab, John Frusciante, The Mars Volta, Deerhunter, Wilco, Laika, Mouse on Mars, Bowery Electric, I Am Spoonbender, Tortoise, and Fujiya & Miyagi working under the post-rock and electronica rubrics have often cited bands in the krautrock canon as being among their more significant influences.

Animals that are often shown at Base Camp Discovery include the Boa Constrictor, Egyptian Tortoise, Painted Turtle, Box Turtle, Diamondback Terrapin, Corn Snake, Blue and Gold Macaw, African Gray Parrot, Indian Runner Duck, and Eastern Screech Owl, among many others.

The main chapters alternate with dialogues between imaginary characters, usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by Lewis Carroll in " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ".

Three of its most famous publications, arguably, are Lewis Carroll's " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles " ( 1895 ), Bertrand Russell's " On Denoting " ( 1905 ), and Alan Turing's " Computing Machinery and Intelligence " ( 1950 ), in which he first proposed the Turing test.

Tortoise deaths on the highway declined by 93 % during the first four years after the introduction of the fences, proving that even makeshift wildlife crossings ( storm-drainage culverts in this case ) have the ability to increase highway permeability and protect sensitive species.

The epithet berlandieri is in honor of the Belgian naturalist Jean Louis Berlandier, who worked for the Mexican government on one of the first biological surveys of Texas .< sup ></ sup > As such, some sources refer to it as Berlandier's Tortoise.

* Spiel des Jahres: Hare and Tortoise ( first year given )

As one first enters the Garden, one walks through a dry Zen meditation garden ( Karesansui ) containing a large grass-covered mound, representing Tortoise Island, a symbol of longevity, and a Three Buddhas arrangement of stones.

The first tortoise in space, and one of the first animals of any kind in deep space was a Russian Tortoise, sent by the Soviet Union ( along with wine flies, mealworms and other biological specimens ) on a circumlunar voyage from September 14 to September 21, 1968.

The puppets were his creations, and over the course of the first series, viewers saw Inigo bring to life Hartley Hare and the Tortoise ( aka George ) played by Nigel Plaskitt ; and Topov the monkey, Pig and Octavia the ostrich, all played by Heather Tobias.

Hare and Tortoise is a German-style board game designed by David Parlett in 1974 and first published by Intellect Games.

It is the first film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, being followed by Glory to the Filmmaker !, and Achilles and the Tortoise.

Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1990.

He isn't impressed with the stories in their new state, and usually stops before the story is finished, ( except The Tortoise and the Hare in the Non-Competitive Fun Run ), to explain " how it really ends ", which usually involves him going into the story, and abruptly ending it ( For example, in " Vertically-Challenged Native American Riding Hood and the endangered wolf " He ends the story by saying " I go in there, I shoot the wolf, send grandma to an old folks home, get Little Red Riding Hood out of that hood, and shack up and eat wolf steaks .").

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* Jeff Parker, experimental jazz and rock guitarist in the Chicago-based post-rock group Tortoise

The work of Talk Talk and Slint helped inspire post-rock ( an experimental style influenced by jazz and electronic music, pioneered by Bark Psychosis and taken up by acts such as Tortoise, Stereolab, and Laika ), as well as leading to more dense and complex, guitar-based math rock, developed by acts like Polvo and Chavez.

He briefly played bass in Interpol, and performs under the moniker PAJO and occasionally with his band Papa M. Pajo has also been a member of Dead Child, Tortoise, Palace, The For Carnation, and the short-lived Billy Corgan-fronted rock band Zwan.

The work of Talk Talk and Slint helped inspire both post rock, an experimental style influenced by jazz and electronic music, taken up by acts such as Tortoise, as well as leading to more dense and complex, guitar-based math rock, developed by acts like Polvo and Chavez.

* Tortoise Matsumoto ( born 1966 ), a lead singer of a Japanese rock band Ulfuls

Kurunegala enjoys a pleasant location overlooked by huge rocky outcrops some of which have been given names of the animals they resemble: Elephant rock, Tortoise rock etc.

Other independent bands such as Tortoise, Broadcast, and Labradford would also release material on Duophonic.

Built to Spill played the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, along with Yo La Tengo, Tortoise and The Jesus Lizard, as part of the " Write the Night " series, which allowed fans to choose which songs the bands play.

Howard Greynolds of Overcoat Records was responsible for bringing the two bands together having previously been responsible for Tortoise and Will Oldham recording together.

They are known for constant touring ( with bands such as Tortoise, Pan Sonic, The Fucking Champs, and Tool ), cryptic album artwork, and continual thematic re-invention.

The former was a mostly instrumental exploration into experimental noise collages, reminiscent at times of post-rock bands such as Do Make Say Think and Tortoise, or electronic acts like Squarepusher.