Despite a large number of Homo fossils finds, chimpanzee fossils ( genus Pan ) were not described until 2005.

This would indicate that both humans and members of the Pan clade were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene.

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

This, along with the general public's increasing lack of familiarity of Greek mythology at the time led to the figure of Pan becoming generalised as a ' horned god ', and applying connotations to the character, such as benevolence that were not evident in the original Greek myths which in turn gave rise to the popular acceptance of Murray's hypothetical horned god of the witches.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted by prosecutors in the United States and United Kingdom for their involvement in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

The historian Justin mentions an image of " the Lycaean god, whom the Greeks call Pan and the Romans Lupercus ," nude save for the girdle of goatskin, which stood in the Lupercal, the cave where Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf.

Other nymphs, always in the shape of young maidens, were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally the huntress Artemis.

The ancient gods with tails of animals who stood for primitive bodily insticts, were considered to protect the flocks and herds, and some of them survived in the cult of Dionysos ( Satyrs and Seilinoi ) and Pan ( the goat-god ).

Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of pan pipes, which were thenceforth known as syrinx.

This was not an insignificant decision ; in 1988, Syracuse University was severely criticized for allowing a basketball game be played hours after 35 of their students were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Roman satyrs were conflated in the popular and poetic imagination with Latin spirits of woodland and with the rustic Greek god Pan.

* Libyan Aegipanes ( goat-pans ), which according to Pliny the Elder lived in Libya, had human heads and torsos, and the legs and horns of goats, and were similar to the Greek god Pan.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

Fall contracted with Edward Doheny of Pan American Corp. for the construction of storage tanks in exchange for drilling rights ; it was later discovered that significant personal loans were made contemporaneously by Doheny to Fall.

The closest she ever came to preserving her stage performances were her famous television appearances as Peter Pan.

However, the two deities were also considered separate by many, for instance, the epic poet Virgil, in his Aeneid, made mention of both Faunus and Pan independently.

This would indicate that both humans and members of the Pan clade were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene.

Callaghan was cremated and his ashes were scattered in a flower bed next to the Peter Pan statue at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Washington Post journalist Phillip Pan wrote that the two self-immolators who died were not actually Falun Gong practitioners.

Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year.

Between 1978 and mid-2001, nine major carriers ( including Eastern, Midway, Braniff, Pan Am, Continental, America West Airlines, and TWA ) and more than 100 smaller airlines went bankrupt or were liquidated — including most of the dozens of new airlines founded in deregulation's aftermath.

If ( x, y ) are the Cartesian coordinates of a point, then (− x, y ) are the coordinates of its reflection across the second coordinate axis ( the Y axis ), as if that line were a mirror.

Due to the limited number of runes, some runes were used for a range of phonemes, such as the rune for the vowel u which was also used for the vowels o, ø and y, and the rune for i which was also used for e.

Among those from whom he procured portrait commissions were Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba ( universally known simply as the " Duchess of Alba "), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos.

Ramón y Cajal proposed that neurons were discrete cells that communicated with each other via specialized junctions, or spaces, between cells.

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

Muñoz Marín and his followers, among which were included Felisa Rincon de Gautier and Ernesto Ramos Antonini, held an assembly in the town of Arecibo founded the Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo (" Clear, Authentic and Complete Liberal Party "), claiming to be the true Liberal Party.

Five great teams were able to ensemble together four 10 handicap players in order to make a 40 handicap team: Coronel Suárez, 1975, 1977-1979 ( Alberto Heguy, Juan Carlos Harriott, Alfredo Harriot and Horacio Heguy ); La Espadaña, 1989-1990 ( Carlos Gracida, Gonzalo Pieres, Alfonso Pieres y Ernesto Trotz Jr .); Indios Chapaleufú, 1992-1993 ( Bautista Heguy, Gonzalo Heguy, Horacio Heguy Jr. and Marcos Heguy ); La Dolfina, 2009-2010 ( Adolfo Cambiaso Jr., Lucas Monteverde, Mariano Aguerre y Bartolomé Castagnola ); Ellerstina, 2009 ( Facundo Pieres, Gonzalo Pieres Jr., Pablo Mac Donough and Juan Martín Nero ).

The Court first sat on 30 January 1922 at the Peace Palace, The Hague, covering preliminary business during the first session ( such as establishing procedure and appointing officers ) Nine judges sat, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Ruy Barbosa and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washington Naval Conference.

On the first vote, Rafael Altamira y Crevea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, Ruy Barbosa of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven of Cuba and Lord Finlay of the United Kingdom were elected by a majority vote of both the Council and Assembly on the first ballot taken.

He discovered in the hieroglyphic text the phonetic characters " p t o l m e s " ( in today's transliteration " p t w l m y s "), that were used to write the Greek name " Ptolemaios ".

* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.

Throughout the 333 years of Spanish occupation, there were grammars and dictionaries written by Spanish clergymen such as Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala by Pedro de San Buenaventura ( Pila, Laguna, 1613 ), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala ( 1835 ) and Arte de la lengua tagala y manual tagalog ( read the article about Sa Aking Mga Kabata )

The characters in these early, baroque zarzuelas were a mixture of gods, mythological creatures and rustic or pastoral comedy characters ; Antonio de Literes's popular Acis y Galatea ( 1708 ) is yet another example.

* February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion, to fight British pirates that reportedly disembarked on the coasts of Petén ( today Belize ) and were sacking the nearby towns.

" y father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were Maryland.

By 1 ( unity ) Boole denoted the " universe of thinkable objects "; literal symbols, such as x, y, z, v, u, etc., were used with the " elective " meaning attaching to adjectives and nouns of natural language.

The Izoceño-Guaraní of Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia is a tribe of hunters who were influential in establishing the Capitania del Alto y Bajo Isoso ( CABI ).

These were the first sophisticated stone castles in Wales ; his castles at Criccieth, Deganwy, Dolbadarn, Dolwyddelan and Castell y Bere are among the best examples.

It differed from RED in that the group of letters was changed and announced every nine days, whereas in RED they were permanently fixed as the English vowels ' a ', ' e ', ' i ', ' o ', ' u ' and ' y '.

There were also long and short versions of y, representing the rounded vowel in Greek borrowings, which however probably came to be pronounced even before Romance vowel changes started.

The aztec gods and goddess were mainly taken from the sources of Francisco Javier Clavijero, Alfredo Chavero, Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, Manuel Orozco y Berra and Bernardino de Sahagún, where depending on the source the suffixes of the Aztec names are exchanged " Lli ", " Li ", " Tl ", " Tli ", " Tlli " as occasionally the initials of the Aztec names are changed " Ch ", " C ", " Qu ", " X ", " K ", " Z ".