At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

In light of all this, one would require special reasons for saying that the paths of the heavenly bodies were other than circular.

He had a purring voice and poker player's immobility of features which somehow conveyed the feeling that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

In a confused, soaked and stumbling shift of bodies and lifting arms, the two men were dragged into the same skiff.

Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.

The trade bodies which came in the wake of the A.L.A.M. were more representative, for they never adopted a policy of exclusion.

Most children love the animated puppet faces and their flexible bodies, and they prefer to see them as though the puppets were in action, rather than put away in boxes.

Most of their original objections about `` shells '' were overridden by the relief that these hideous ( to them ) bodies were mercifully concealed.

Since the deciding bodies he had chosen were more concerned with the former, the prizes went to scientists and not to engineers, technicians or other inventors.

* 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.

The Kirkintilloch Burning Disaster in 1937 fulfilled the second part of the prophecy, when the bodies of ten victims were carried by rail to Achill.

The heavenly bodies, he asserted, were masses of stone torn from the earth and ignited by rapid rotation.

Constitution of the Athenians, 4th century BCThere were three political bodies where citizens gathered in numbers running into the hundreds or thousands.

Of these three bodies it is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power — although courts, unlike the assembly, were never simply called the demos ( the People ) as they were manned by a subset of the citizen body, those over thirty.

No bodies were ever found.

Apollinaris further taught, following Tertullian, that the souls of men were propagated by other souls, as well as their bodies ( see traducianism ).

Some of the American bodies were dragged through the streets – a spectacle broadcast on television news programs.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

Shortly after this era, boxing commissions and other sanctioning bodies were established to regulate the sport and establish universally recognized champions.

By the end of 1346, reports of plague had reached the seaports of Europe: " India was depopulated, Tartary, Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia were covered with dead bodies ".

The Honourable East India Company presented Nelson with £ 10, 000 (£ as of ) in recognition of the benefit his action had on their holdings and similar awards were made by the cities of London, Liverpool and other municipal and corporate bodies.

If they decide to keep it, what about the growing list of other recently discovered similar bodies ( Sedna, Quaoar.

Chris Morgan and Brian Holland, both with drug offense histories, had abruptly departed for Oceanside, California, four days after the bodies were discovered.

They interviewed Echols on May 7, two days after the bodies were discovered.

" When the bodies proved to have been discovered near where Aaron indicated, Bray asked Aaron for further details, and Aaron claimed that he had witnessed the murders committed by Satanists who spoke Spanish.

The coffins were later discovered by occupying American Forces, who re-interred the bodies in St. Elisabeth's Church in Marburg in 1946.

The four moons were discovered sometime between 1609 and 1610 when Galileo made improvements to his telescope, which enabled him to observe celestial bodies more distinctly than had ever been possible before.

While eight of the planetary bodies discovered before 1950 remain " planets " under modern definition, some celestial bodies, such as Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta ( each an object in the Solar asteroid belt ) and Pluto ( the first-discovered trans-Neptunian object ), that were once considered planets by the scientific community are no longer viewed as such.

File: Justus Sustermans-Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1636. jpg | Galileo Galilei ( 1564-1642 ): discovered the uniform acceleration rate of falling bodies, improved on the refracting telescope, discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, described projectile motion and the concept of weight ; known for championing of the Copernican theory of heliocentricism against Church opposition.

The positions of the bodies in the tent when it was discovered eight months later suggested that Scott was the last of the three to die.

The bodies of Scott and his companions were discovered by a search party on 12 November 1912 and their records retrieved.

In March 2009, results of the DNA testing were published, confirming that the two bodies discovered in 2007 were those of Tsarevich Alexei and one of his sisters.

However, in the 1920s it was discovered that if the urine contained the hCG, a hormone found in the bodies of pregnant women, the rabbit would display ovarian changes.

As soon as they discovered that the Earth is spherical they devised the concept of the celestial sphere, an imaginary spherical surface rotating with the heavenly bodies ( ouranioi ) fixed in it ( the modern one does not rotate, but the stars in it do ).

Chased by the robots, THX and SRT find a computer center, from which THX learns that LUH has been " consumed ", possibly for organ reclamation ( since bodies discovered earlier had, as SRT put it, their " insides ... gone ") and her name reassigned to fetus 66691 in a growth chamber.

And they discovered "( the bodies ) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ", " their shrouds having fallen to pieces, lying propped up against a wall ... Then the King, after providing new shrouds, caused the place to be closed once more ".

During the night, they were murdered by members of Charles Manson's " family " and their bodies discovered the following morning by Tate's housekeeper, Winifred Chapman.

Thomas Cole discovered their bodies later in 1911 during the his successful drove along the stock route.

Over time it is further discovered that these bodies do not age, after a physical 25 years, and can regenerate nearly any non-fatal injury, including dismemberments and blindings.

The new bodies are completely free of infection and seem resistant to it ( though later it is discovered that this has as much to do with the absence of hostile bacteria or viruses on the Riverworld ).

On 10 February 1567, the bodies of Henry and his valet were discovered in the orchard of Kirk o ' Field, in Edinburgh, where they had been staying.

The mass grave near Ekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three daughters was revealed in 1991, but the bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and one of his sisters — either Anastasia or her older sister Maria — were not discovered there.

The account of the " Yurovsky Note " indicated that two of the bodies were removed from the main grave and cremated at an undisclosed area in order to further disguise the burials of the Tsar and his retinue, if the remains were discovered by the Whites, since the body count would not be correct.