In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the " Mister of the animals ", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.

Perhaps this meal was like the 1932ish Baghdad tea, where she stares " unbelievingly ", horrified by the first hint of the future, when her host Dr Jordan, Director of Antiquities, pausing while playing Beethoven, says " Our Jews are perhaps different from yours.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

" You don't think she would have remembered this from the first time ", ' We should consult Absolem " and " your majesty ".

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

When Charlotte's friend Ellen Nussey visited Haworth in 1833, she reported that Emily and Anne were " like twins ", " inseparable companions ".

Anne expressed her grief for his death in her poem " I will not mourn thee, lovely one ", in which she called him " our darling ".

Lisa commented that Marge's retelling of Mozart's history sounded like the film " Amadeus ", which Lisa described as inaccurate and then she pointed out Salieri was a respected composer.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

Meanwhile, she says, the " feminist movement ", a largely white middle and upper class affair, did not articulate the needs of poor and non-white women, thus reinforcing sexism, racism, and classism.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

" This one does ", says she.

First stating " I'm sure they exist ", she later went on to say, chuckling, " Well, I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist ", and finally: " You know, why isn't there a body?

When she started to illustrate, she chose first the traditional rhymes and stories, " Cinderella ", " Sleeping Beauty ", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ", " Puss-in-boots ", and " Red Riding Hood ".

" We believe that the ability to perceive other people's actions as meaningful is critical for altruism ", said lead study investigator Dharol Tankersley.

He thought that certain uses of the verb " to be ", called the " is of identity " and the " is of predication ", were faulty in structure, e. g., a statement such as, " Elizabeth is a fool " ( said of a person named " Elizabeth " who has done something that we regard as foolish ).

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

Into this book he incorporated his view of " the violent male type ", which he described as a " man who had to be right ", a man who " instantly attracts women " and who he said were the men who " run the world ".

For Lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is " alpha ", because it is very plain and simple — the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue — and therefore this is the first sound that children make.

Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

In English-language works, it is sometimes said that Arians believe that Jesus is or was a " creature ", in the sense of " created being ".

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

Such an act may be referred to as an " act of hubris ", or the person committing the act may be said to be hubristic.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Shortly before its final " flowering ", the changes in a single minute of the Blight's life are said to exceed those of 10, 000 years of human civilization.

Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

" I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list ", he said.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.

", but the Caliph said no.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is " a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue ", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.

Lincoln " was remarkably fond of children ", and the Lincolns were not considered to be strict with their children.

Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.

On October 16, 1854, in his " Peoria Speech ", Lincoln declared his opposition to slavery, which he repeated en route to the presidency.

The goal was to demonstrate the superior power of " free labor ", whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts.

On April 15, Lincoln called on all the states to send detachments totaling 75, 000 troops to recapture forts, protect Washington, and " preserve the Union ", which, in his view, still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states.

Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief and appointed Henry Wager Halleck in March 1862, after McClellan's " Harrison's Landing Letter ", in which he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort.

While the Democratic platform followed the Peace wing of the party and called the war a " failure ", their candidate, General George B. McClellan, supported the war and repudiated the platform.

" On Aristotle's Politics ", in The City and Man, Chicago ; Rand McNally.

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In contrast to " rhizopods ", where most of their morphologies can be mapped to modern classification systems, " actinopods " appear to be extensively polyphyletic.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

Alaksandu could be Paris-Alexander of Ilion ", whose name is Greek.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

The epithet " Smintheus " has historically been confused with σμίνθος, " mouse ", in association with Apollo's role as a god of disease.

He was also called Agyieus ( ; Ἀγυιεύς, Aguīeus, from ἄγυια, " street ") for his role in protecting roads and homes ; and as Nomius ( ; Νόμιος, Nomios, literally " pastoral ") and Nymphegetes ( ; Νυμφηγέτης, Numphēgetēs, from Νύμφη, " Nymph ", and ἡγέτης, " leader ") in his role as a protector of shepherds and pastoral life.

The epithet Iatromantis ( ; Ἰατρομάντις, Iātromantis, from ὶατρός, " physician ", and μάντις, " prophet ") refers to both his role as a god of healing and of prophecy.

In later writers, the word, usually spelled " Paean ", becomes a mere epithet of Apollo in his capacity as a god of healing.

The terrible god is called " The Archer ", and the bow is also an attribute of Shiva.

In historical times, the priests of Delphi were called Labryaden, " the double-axe men ", which indicates Minoan origin.