This was not the first Edify speech recognition integration. Some work had been done around this with OS/2 version of EWF in support of a deal with Sears. That resulted in every Sears store in the US and Canada having an OS/2 EWF box somewhere on the premises. That box with an NMS ...
The figures of Hellenistic sculpture (the impetuously striving Nike of Samothrace, the giants of the Pergamum Altar of Zeus frieze perishing in combat, Laocoön straining with his last strength) are permeated with anxiety and tinged with the tragic outlook of the epoch. Characteristic of the ...
I imagine), and paintings and carvings of the satyrs that accompanied the god on his travels – men with goat or horse legs and animal ears. Women called the maenads (‘the mad ones’) were also part of the divinity’s troupe, and were believed...
The animal to be sacrificed would also be dressed up for the occasion. Normally this might include some gold on the horns (if it had any), a frilly collar and a crown of leaves taken from the plant or tree most sacred to the divinity in question. ...
O′RTHIA (Orthia, Orthias, or Orthôsia) a surname of the Artemis who is also called Iphigeneia or Lygodesma, and must be regarded as the goddess of the moon. Her worship was probably brought to Sparta from Lemnos. It was at the altar of Artemis Orthia that Spartan boys had to und...
Boulders bigger than a house, some black, some gray, others with dark lines running through them blocked our way, so we went around them and came to a flat where smaller boulders had been arranged to make an altar on a mound. Rocks at the bottom were burnt. Those higher up were encrus...
if a foreign divinity should be brought to them by a foreign king. This oracle was now fulfilled. Eurypylus on seeing the victims led to the altar was cured of his madness and perceived that this was the place pointed out to him by the oracle; and the Aroëans also, on seeing the...
He has also emphasized that in this region, “no one has seen, before or after this discovery, an altar of approximately 8m x 9m in size.” Prof. Mazar has also noted that “the earlier installation could have been used in a cultic context, but does not resemble an altar.” I’m ...
They then pour wine on the altar and over the sacrificial victim and call upon the god. Then they cut the victim’s throat and, after slaying it, they sever the head from the body. (2) They flay the carcass of the beast, then invoke many curses on its head, which they carry away...
altar of Baal (false god in Asia Minor, some Hebrews had fallen into idolatry of this god) and to raise an altar dedicated to God. After defeating the Midianites, he was considered a military hero, and Israel wished to make him king, but surprisingly Gideon turned down this offer; all ...