In ancient Greek stories, the siren was a creature with the head and upper body of a human woman and the legs and tail of a bird. She was an especially dangerous creature for sailors, singing from rocky shores that hid dangerous reefs and luring the sailors onto them. When Odysseus return...
aNo rain 没有雨[translate] aCreatures who were half bird and half woman and who lured sailors to their deaths on sharp rocks 是半鸟和半妇女,并且在锋利的岩石诱使水手到他们的死亡的生物[translate]
and at one time they had been handmaids to Demeter's gallant Daughter [Persephone], before she was married, and sung to her in chorus. But now, half human and half bird in form, they spent their time watching for ships from a height that overlooked...
Of course, there’s a very marked community dimension, all the hallmarks of a hobby, then there are what we might call the affordances of the stick horse, but above all there’s the hybridity: these girls – half human, half horse – and with the added material aspect of the stick ...
The skybox texture used to represent City 17 from a bird's eye view is actually a nighttime satellite image of New York City, showing the Downtown and Wiliiamsburg areas of Brooklyn, a portion of Maspeth in Queens and parts of the Lower East Side of Manhattan (see Google Maps for ...
Under an old Sycamore, obscured by the deep shade and splayed out like a dead bird against the dark red fractured brick sidewalk is a bulging ziplock sandwich bag. I lean over to look more closely and see that it is a bag of buds. I don’t need to smell it to know that it is ...
Cool electrical effects run rampant through the game, as creatures from another world materialize before your very eyes. And they seemingly appear at random as well, so if you walk into a room, always "check your six", because you never know if one will pop up behind you. Luckily, the ...
Santoni says he was struck to see the vulnerability (脆弱)of a common “ backyard bird" , the dark-eyed co. It's one that many first-time birders become familiar with as they learn how to identify species based on their markings and other traits. Currently in Washington, you can count ...
of Greenland sharks and other deep sea creatures on theNOAA Ocean Explorationwebsite. Preparing Greenland shark meat for human consumption is a long process that we don't delve into on this page. To find out more about the process, you can watch this short video on YouTube fromFood ...
make a movie that, in a sense, makes a mockery of their life's work. It takes a certain artistic fortitude to do this, especially on the 25th anniversary of the individual’s crowning achievement. With this in mind, I've got nothing but respect for Michael Keaton suiting up as Birdman...