Scrape flesh off bone, remove sinews, and grind into flakes.
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Among the muscles and sinews of a leg, he discovered something strange.
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Social conservatives could be the people who help reweave the sinews of society.
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No one else can see the sinews and vessels of our planetary body.
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Often that sense of comfort is felt through nerves and sinews tied directly to childhood.
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This flexibility is essential for making something physical out of the fractious sinews of the subconscious.
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He advocated stiffening the sinews, summoning up the blood, and lending the eye a terrible aspect.
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Let me begin a simulation on the month ahead:Aquarius: Uranus is only new moons and sinews.
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Nevertheless, the sinews of the film reflect the continuing influence of the pioneering man named Priest.
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Then they caught their breath, strained their sinews and got ready to do it all again.
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But before long, it will start to mix into the white paint, elongating into finer and finer sinews.
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There was no musical fat or plushiness here, as if the work had been shaved down to its sinews.
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The definition of an immersive experience, "A Prayer Before Dawn" is a survival story whittled to sweat and sinews.
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I watch the innards and sinews of the celluloid beast yanked and twisted into something small and even more ferocious.
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Perhaps Ms. Sui could consider doing a Gallic warrior thing — woolly pelts, studded breastplates, boots laced with sinews — for fall.
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Eat away at our muscle and bones,borough through sinews and blood vessels,until it reaches and stops our hearts.
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While Iran pulls at the Shias' religious sinews, Saudi Arabia appeals to their sense of Arab nationalism—and suspicion of Persians.
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Trading is an information war: superior insights on global production, prices, inventories and shipping capacity are the sinews of merchants' profit.
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At some point, the joints and sinews have to seize up, the muscles have to sag, the voice has to break.
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As he spoke, the sinews of his neck occasionally twitched, making his squarish frame seem like a TNT box about to detonate.
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Criticism as practiced by creative writers, however, is for Oates a less strident enterprise, since a writer worries about exposing creative sinews.
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His clothing was made from leather, hide, braided grass and animal sinews, which would have kept him warm in the cold, wet climate.
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But it is far too easy to imagine how a misfiring global economy could place unbearable pressure on the world's strained geopolitical sinews.
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"Only the United States can organize the diplomatic, reconstruction, military and political sinews of a strategy for the international community," Jeffrey told Reuters.
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Money, as Cicero observed, is the sinews of war, and human beings have been at war with M. tuberculosis for a long time.
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The glossy surfaces look like chewing gum stretched thin, or distorted tongues, or sinews pried apart, now offered up to us as seats.
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This I believe to be the most painful wound there is, as the sinews of the arm contract, tearing as if on a rack.
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In the end, helping ordinary North Koreans to end their isolation would do more than anything to undermine the regime's myths and enervate its sinews.
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She doesn't just sing with her voice but with her whole body, from her larynx to her sinews, veins, and nerves, and especially from her heart.
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Simon Tate: The first mention of there being an Anglo-American "special relationship" is in Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946.
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Jeff Buhler, the series showrunner, promised to "keep the bones of the novella intact" and he does, but the writers fail to add supporting muscles or sinews.
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His clothing, made from leather, hide, braided grass and animal sinews, provides a unique window into the past because other clothing from that time has never been recovered.
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Bright red with shiny metal ends, they are jumbled on a black surface in a pile that reminded me of a human heart with its valves and sinews.
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I didn't need to see what the rest of the images would inevitably reveal: sinews torn, bones splintered, flesh bloody and swollen, great yellow claws mangled beyond repair.
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While earlier prostheses often tried to replicate body appearance, or to follow the inner structural plan of the original appendage -- its shape, muscles, sinews-- Schlesinger saw no need to do that.
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Major League Soccer is beginning to seem rather miserly in comparison to its Chinese counterpart, its financial sinews looking withered and scrawny next to the bulging might of the Super League.
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As America sends another carrier strike group and Chinese submarines slink out of their bases, the European Union (EU) stiffens the sinews, summons up the blood and proceeds to…issue a stiff statement.
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The halls of national government were ... We know that there are things that are terribly detrimental things to democracy, the sinews, the blood and muscle of our country, that are happening right now.
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As we rapidly approach the 70th anniversary of "The Sinews of Peace" speech, perhaps it is time for renewed interest in a foreign policy speech, a foreign policy vision, which encapsulates the best of Churchill.
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"Long-range air intercept weapons — coupled with the right fighter — could cut the sinews that allow the United States to conduct sustained air operations," defense editor Dave Majumdar wrote on The National Interest late last year.
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Opponents of Brexit say it will torpedo what remains of the United Kingdom's post-imperial clout, make its population poorer and strain to breaking point the sinews that bind England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland together.
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"We did do a Two-Face version where you got inside and you saw the sinews and you saw them in the teeth and that," said Underdahl of another one of the more grisly Tony Stark designs.
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They ignored the fact that she chose to honor poetry by performing societal inquiries in verse lines that always remembered, in their sinews, the exaltations and laments of such noble elders as John Keats, Langston Hughes and Emily Dickinson.
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With no sets, a narrow playing space along the front of the stage, merely the simplest costumes and some sprinklings of gold glitter, the Philharmonic, Mr. Gilbert and the director Louisa Muller have stripped the work to its sinews.
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United matched City here, for 45 minutes or so, but only through gritting its teeth and straining its sinews; it could not live with the club that has existed, as the saying goes, forever in its shadow for sheer class.
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Far from spurning or avoiding modernity, Muslims are "drenched in it," as de Bellaigue points out, and in tracking the sinews of enlightenment through the last two centuries of Islamic thinking, this brilliant and lively history deserves nothing but praise.
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In the same way that the velocity varies from point to point in the churning sink, the concentration of black paint will vary from point to point within the mixing paint: more concentrated in some places (the thicker sinews) and less in others.
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In China's three big population centres—the areas around Beijing in the north, Shanghai in the east and Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, in the south—life and work have started to follow the sinews of the high-speed rail system.
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After three years of Brexit discussion, it is still unclear on what terms the United Kingdom will leave the European Union with options ranging from a last-minute exit deal or delay to an acrimonious divorce that would knot the sinews of trade.
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Would that we could be frozen in this moment forever, the moment Layman is in right now, more myth than man, his bones and sinews infused with the divinity of perfection, his potential to make magic as infinite at the evening sky.
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At their best, sports like soccer are the digital age's most reliable suppliers of an old-fashioned brand of entertainment, the special-effects-free kind, in which human beings use only their sinews and synapses to deliver thrills and spills, action and comedy.
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The word tithe has appeared in seven New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 30 in the Op-Ed column "The Next Culture War" by David Brooks: Social conservatives could be the people who help reweave the sinews of society.
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He picks dancers not just for their technical abilities, but also for their responsiveness, and dance personality—in the case of Sarah Lamb, a tiny, pale blonde streak with titanium in her sinews who might have been a competitive gymnast if dancing hadn't claimed her first.
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"We should just remember that there are very strong sinews that join the businesses together, that make the idea of taking the division too far today completely impractical," he told reporters after M&S reported a 17% fall in first half profit, hurt by falling clothing sales.
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Even deeper, in the sinews of America's inner workings, the conversation around voting rights and social order seems primed to turn the clock back 100 years, political gridlock is now taken for granted, and the long-term effects of the Great Recession lie tick-tocking in wait.
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"China's state-owned power companies are pursuing an aggressive overseas expansion strategy, investing in the construction and operation of energy networks in some countries and as equity investors in others," says Xu Yi-chong, a politics professor at Griffith University, Australia and author of Sinews of Power, a book about State Grid.
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Although Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said a "cyber-Armageddon" scenario is unlikely any time soon, new technological developments have the potential to allow terrorists to move from low-tech killings aimed at gaining attention and creating fear to high-tech sabotage aimed at disrupting the sinews and social tissue of society.
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To reach that simple truth, find your way past the movie back to what the midcentury fight world knew, back to what Robinson knew in his sinews and bones, ingrained there by 200 professional fights, including six monumentally tough shifts on the shop floor of the ring with the flesh-and-blood Jake LaMotta.
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"PH-266" (1949) is predominately green, with black wisps that give the green the appearance of being darkened by saturation; a shiny red form tears through the center of the image and rusty brown sinews branch out from it; yellow and salmon-hued forms cling to the action from the edge of the frame.
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And that is why I believe that if we bend our sinews to the task now, there is every chance that in 2050, when I fully intend to be around, though not necessarily in this job, we will look back on this period, this extraordinary period, as the beginning of a new golden age for our United Kingdom.
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In his earliest Dismal Man writing, Hearn was rewarded for going intensely purple (a crime scene contains "masses of crumbling human bones, strung together by half-burnt sinews, or glued one upon another by a hideous adhesion of half-molten flesh, boiled brains and jellied blood mingled with coal"), and that quality lingered in his prose for years.
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I took advantage of a family trip to England to visit some of the relatively unsubscribed but often weird Cold War sites there, a journey that was given all the more relevance because my visit took place shortly before the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill's utterance of the phrase "iron curtain" in his "Sinews of Peace" speech on March 5, 1946, an event that many historians mark as the beginning of the Cold War.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
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This is nowhere more apparent than in his Whitman-esque vision of a father and his two young daughters taking a naked swim in a country "fresh water pond": The man's back was turned south, and he was very like a certain David, wide shouldered, small waist, round buttocks, iron legs, all muscle and sinews, and the worked look of his skin told him to be in his first forties ……… Man faced about breast facing south, and he magnificent, with smooth dark hair, coming to a point on a low fore- head, a firm mouth, the upper lip a little short, showing milkwhite teeth, and the eyes a deepest dark.
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She writes, too, that Merry's sword, with the special power to sever the Witch-king's "undead flesh" and in particular to overcome the "spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will", has in fact to cut through real, but invisible, sinews and flesh.
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Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688–1783. New York.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. p.
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The traditional Chinese medicine is called xi xian cao, and is used to "dispel wind-dampness, to strengthen sinews, and for wind- heat-damp pain obstructions".
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As the fitful breeze swept through their thewless sinews they emitted doleful tones, like the howling of the storm in the rigging of a vessel at sea.
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Chesterfield Inlet (Inuit: Igluligaarjuk)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is an inlet in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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The whaling settlement at Pauline Cove. The Yukon mainland is visible in the background. Herschel Island (; Inuit: Qikiqtaruk)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing.
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Rémillard, 196. Taillibert based the building on plant and animal forms, aiming to include vertebral structures with sinews or tentacles, while still following the basic plans of Modern architecture.
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Native Point (Inuktitut: TunirmiutIssenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 or Tuneriut) is a peninsula in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Other museum highlights include "The Sinews of Peace" room and the "Winston's Wit & Wisdom" room. "The Sinews of Peace" tells the story of how and why Churchill came to visit Westminster College. Featured in this exhibit are the lectern and chair used by Churchill during his speech and the ceremonial robes he wore. In "Winston's Wit & Wisdom" visitors sit in a simulated British club while listening to an audio presentation of Churchill stories.
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Gambell (, )Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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The Belcher Islands (Inuit: Sanikiluaq)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 are an archipelago in the southeast part of Hudson Bay.
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"Sinews of Peace" heralded the beginning of the Cold War. The National Churchill Museum comprises three distinct but related elements: the Church of St Mary Aldermanbury, the museum, and the "Breakthrough" sculpture.
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Through the end of the war, Paw Paw remained active in the Mississippi Squadron maintaining Union control of the vast river system which acted as the nerves and sinews of the South.
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In 1992 Drive Like Jehu released the single "Hand Over Fist"/"Bullet Train to Vegas" through Merge Records and the song "Sinews" on the Cargo/Headhunter compilation album Head Start to Purgatory.
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A late-5th-century BC commentary on Orphic theogony, preserved by the Derveni Papyrus, quotes a poetic fragment calling the rivers the "sinews of Achelous".West 1983, pp. 92,115. According to D'Alessio, pp.
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Southampton Island (Inuktitut: Shugliaq)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a large island at the entrance to Hudson Bay at Foxe Basin.
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Happy Valley-Goose Bay (Inuit: Vâli)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Baillie Island (Inuit: Utkraluk)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is located off the north coast of Cape Bathurst in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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The Digges Islands (Inuit: Saaqqayaaq-Qikirtasiit)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 are members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.
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Cape Bathurst (Inuit: Awaq)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a cape and a peninsula located on the northern coast of the Northwest Territories in Canada.
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Nonnus' account regarding the sinews is vauge and not altogether sensible since as yet Zeus and Typhon have not met, see Fontenrose, p. 75 n. 11 and Rose's note to Nonnus, Dionysiaca 510 pp. 40–41 n. b.
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Women made needles from the wingbones of seabirds. They made thread from the sinews of different animals and fish guts.Gross & Khera pg. 33 A thin strip of seal intestine could also be used, twisted to form a thread.
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Hopedale (Inuit: Agvituk)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a town located in the north of Labrador, the mainland portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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The design of the statue shows a near naked young man shouting while holding a plate containing a flame above his head, his sinews and muscles strain at full effort. The flaming plate symbolizes youth taking forth light into the future.
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Hymn to Apollo (3) 304: πῆμα; Hesiod, Theogony 329: πῆμ᾽. And both were intimately connected to Typhon, and associated with the Corycian cave.According to Apollodorus, 1.6.3, Typhon set Delphyne as guard over Zeus' severed sinews in the Corycian cave; see Ogden, 2013a, p.
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Survey party transporting an umiak using a sled on Bernard Harbour in 1915 Bernard Harbour (Inuit: Nulahugiuq)Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 is a bay on the mainland of Nunavut, Canada.
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In 2003 Reis re-released Yank Crime on his Swami Records label, including on it the songs from the band's "Hand Over Fist" / "Bullet Train to Vegas" single and the original version of "Sinews" that had appeared on the compilation Head Start to Purgatory.
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Eventually, the people continued the journey and reached Osage River. Again, the group experienced a division. Disagreements over the division of animal sinews (used as threads and strings) caused this split.La Flesche, Francis (2010): Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche.
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Book III The internal organs, including generative system, veins, sinews, bone etc. He moves on to the blood, bone marrow, milk including rennet and cheese, and semen. Book IV Animals without blood (invertebrates) – cephalopods, crustaceans, etc. In chapter 8, he describes the sense organs of animals.
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The Ottawa Islands (Inuit: Arviliit or Arqvilliit in Inuktitut meaning "place where you see bowhead whales")Issenman, Betty. Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254 are a group of currently uninhabited islands situated in the eastern edge of Canada's Hudson Bay.
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This also gave to the leather a reddish-brown luster. The sheets of parchment were traditionally sewn together with sinews (tendons) taken from the animal's loins (flanks), rather than from the animal's heels (the latter being prescribed by Maimonides).Qafih, Y. (1985), chapter 3, p. 334 (note 20).
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The catapult was versatile, and could effectively launch any projectile that fit in its launch bucket. The Romans also developed an automatic repeating catapult called the scorpion. This was smaller than other catapults but had more moving parts. The rope coils were often made of twisted bovine sinews, horsehair or women's hair.
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Grimm insists that this charm, like the De hoc quod Spurihalz dicunt charm (MHG: spurhalz; "lame") that immediately precedes it in the manuscript, is "about lame horses again" And the "transitions from marrow to bone (or sinews), to flesh and hide, resemble phrases in the sprain-spells", i.e. the Merseburg horse-charm types.
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Typhon carried the disabled Zeus across the sea to the Corycian cave in Cilicia where he set the she-serpent Delphyne to guard over Zeus and his severed sinews, which Typhon had hidden in a bearskin. But Hermes and Aegipan (possibly another name for Pan)Gantz, p. 50; Fontenros, p. 73; Smith, "Aegipan".
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In February 1915, France, Britain and Russia held the first joint financial conference of the First World War.Kathleen Burk, Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914-1918 (G. Allen & Unwin, 1985), p.45. Thereafter, the Allied Powers agreed to cooperate closely in financial matters to help finance the ongoing war with Germany.
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Bowstrings have been constructed of many materials throughout history, including fibres such as flax, silk, and hemp. Other materials used were animal guts, animal sinews, and rawhide. Modern fibres such as Dacron or Kevlar are now used in commercial bowstring construction, as well as steel wires in some compound bows.Paterson Encyclopaedia of Archery pp.
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The number of > persons present was stated at from five to eight thousand, and some said ten > thousand. Punctually at the time appointed, half-past one, the racing > commenced. The bold Fen-men soon appeared, whose iron frames, lion sinews, > elasticity of action and body, astonished all beholders. They were a fine > specimen of the bold peasantry of England.
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She existed on shell fish and the fat of the seal, and > dressed in the skins and feathers of wild ducks, which she sewed together > with sinews of the seal. She cannot speak any known language, is good- > looking and about middle age. She seems to be contented in her new home > among the good people of Santa Barbara.
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"'Giants of an Earlier Capitalism': The Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals." Business History Review 62#3 (1988): 398–419. in JSTOR London's financial system proved strikingly competent in funding not only the English forces, but its allies as well.John Brewer, The sinews of power: War, money, and the English state, 1688–1783 (1989) pp 167-78.
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The largest group is correspondence of Flavius Cerialis, prefect of the ninth cohort of Batavians and that of his wife, Sulpicia Lepidina. Some correspondence may relate to civilian traders and contractors; for example Octavian, the writer of Tablet 343, is an entrepreneur dealing in wheat, hides and sinews, but this does not prove him to be a civilian.
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Additionally, the Clementine-Spencer Churchill Reading Room houses an extensive research collection about Churchill and his era. Outside the church stands the "Breakthrough" sculpture, formed from eight sections of the Berlin Wall. Churchill's granddaughter, artist Edwina Sandys, designed the sculpture in order to commemorate both the "Sinews of Peace" speech and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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After the Hōgen Rebellion, the Taira cut the sinews of Tametomo's left arm, limiting the use of his bow, and then he was banished to the island of Ōshima in the Izu Islands. Tametomo eventually killed himself by slicing his abdomen, or committing seppuku. He is quite possibly the first warrior to commit seppuku in the chronicles.
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Westminster College Gymnasium is a historic athletic building on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The building is famous for being the site of Winston Churchill's March 5, 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech, in which he coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" to characterize the growing Cold War. In 1968, the gymnasium was designated a National Historic Landmark.
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It is of no use trying to give technical teaching to our citizens without elementary education; uneducated labourers—and many of our labourers are utterly uneducated—are, for the most part, unskilled labourers, and if we leave our work–folk any longer unskilled, notwithstanding their strong sinews and determined energy, they will become overmatched in the competition of the world.Hamerow, p 159.
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Finally Typhon attempts to wield Zeus' thunderbolts, but they "felt the hands of a novice, and all their manly blaze was unmanned."Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.294–320 (I pp. 24–27). Now Zeus' sinews had somehow – Nonnus does not say how or when — fallen to the ground during their battle, and Typhon had taken them also.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.510–512 (I pp. 40–41).
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Dawson's recipes included medicines, some of which involved sympathetic magic. The Good Huswife's Jewell described "a tart to provoke courage in either man or woman", calling for the brains of male sparrows. Torn sinews are healed by taking "worms while they be nice", crushing them and laying them on to the sore "and it will knit the sinew that be broken in two".
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20-23, this poetic fragment may be from the same poem (or near contemporary versions of the same poem) as the fragment quoted in Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 221. For a discussion of the translation of ἶνας as "sinews" see D'Alessio, pp. 23ff. The same Oxyrhynchus Papyrus also quotes ancient verses which apparently equated Achelous and Oceanus,Fowler 2013, p. 12; Schironi, p.
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This is what breaks the heart – Never to see again the quarter moon through the willows, Evening crows in the ancient trees. 15\. My sinews were made into bowstrings, Hide stretched into drumheads. My bones were sold to a jewelry maker, Black horns made into ornaments for belts. My hooves were fashioned into fancy combs; Nothing was wasted, all was used.
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The system worked as follows. The incoming material, food, enters the body and is concocted into blood; waste is excreted as urine, bile, and faeces, and the element fire is released as heat. Blood is made into flesh, the rest forming other earthy tissues such as bones, teeth, cartilages and sinews. Leftover blood is made into fat, whether soft suet or hard lard.
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However it may have informed his uneasy relationship with the Balfour Mission.British Sinews of War, pp. 7–9 A fluent speaker of Persian (as well as German and French), Spring Rice was responsible for translating numerous Persian poems into English. Spring Rice's letters and poems were collected together by his daughter, Lady Arthur, and many are now held by The National Archives.
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Leonardo was a scientific observer. He learned by looking at things. He studied and drew the flowers of the fields, the eddies of the river, the form of the rocks and mountains, the way light reflected from foliage and sparkled in a jewel. In particular, he studied the human form, dissecting thirty or more unclaimed cadavers from a hospital in order to understand muscles and sinews.
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Hyginus, Astronomica 2.13.28 Others again make Aegipan the father of Pan, and state that he as well as his son were represented as half goat and half fish.Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 27 When Zeus in his contest with the Titans was deprived of the sinews of his hands and feet, Hermes and Aegipan secretly restored them to him and fitted them in their proper places.Pseudo- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.6.
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The Aeolian harp has a long history of being associated with the numinous, perhaps for its vibrant timbres that produce an ethereal sound. Homer relates that Hermes invented the lyre from dried sinews stretched over a tortoise shell. It was able to be played by the wind. The same is said of the lyre of King David, which was played by a wind sent from God.
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The Yanda were the most easterly aboriginal tribe to have accepted both circumcision and subincision into their initiatory rites. On ceremonial occasions, Yanda women adorned themselves with a distinctive ornament called a bowra, fashioned from two kangaroo teeth, fixed together with sinews and resins at the base. They consumed pituri by chewing on a compound of it made with the ashes of gidea leaves.
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" The final Huainanzi context is a well-known story about Duke Mu of Qin, Bole, Bole's sons, and Jiufang Gao 九方皋. > Duke Mu of Qin addressed Bo Le saying: "You are getting on in years. Is > anyone in your family who can take over for you and find me a good steed?" > Bo Le replied; "A good horse may be judged by his physique, countenance, > sinews, and bones.
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But eventually the expenses, and war weariness, caused second thoughts. At first, Parliament voted him the funds for his expensive wars, and for his subsidies to smaller allies. Private investors created the Bank of England in 1694; it provided a sound system that made financing wars much easier by encouraging bankers to loan money.John Brewer, The sinews of power: War, money, and the English state, 1688–1783 (1989) p 133.
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But eventually the expenses, and war weariness, but the second thoughts. At first, Parliament voted him the funds for his expensive wars, and for his subsidies to smaller allies. Private investors created the Bank of England in 1694; it provided a sound system that made financing wars much easier by encouraging bankers to loan money.John Brewer, The sinews of power: War, money, and the English state, 1688–1783 (1989) p 133.
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In Tochmarc Étaíne, Dian Cecht healed Mider after the latter lost an eye when struck with a twig of hazel.Tochmarc Étaíne. In the St. Gall incantations, there is a spell that mentions Dian Cécht: > I save the dead-alive. Against eructation, against spear-thong (amentum), > against sudden tumour, against bleeding caused by iron, against... which > fire burns, against.... which a dog eats, ...that withers: three nuts > that... three sinews that weave (?).
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At first, Parliament voted him the funds for his expensive wars, and for his subsidies to smaller allies. Private investors created the Bank of England in 1694; it provided a sound system that made financing wars much easier by encouraging bankers to loan money.John Brewer, The sinews of power: War, money, and the English state, 1688-1783 (1989) p 133.Clark, The Later Stuarts, 1660–1714 (1956) pp 174-79.
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Archaeological evidence for catapults, especially torsion devices, is rare. It is easy to see how stones from stone-throwers could survive, but organic sinews and wooden frames quickly deteriorate if left unattended. Usual remains include the all- important washers, as well as other metal supporting pieces, such as counterplates and trigger mechanisms. Still, the first major evidence of ancient or medieval catapults was found in 1912 in Ampurias.
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Large mammals were valued for their meat, furs, skins that could be turned into leather for clothing and shoes, bones that could be fashioned into pins, needles, beads and hooks and sinews that were chewed into bowstrings and strong thread.Bragdon, K. J. (1999). pp. 105-107, 171-175. Bears, with their large fat stores, were prized for the oils and greases that could be rendered from the flesh.
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Britain's war against the Americans, French and Spanish cost about £100 million. The Treasury borrowed 40% of the money it needed and raised the rest through an efficient system of taxation.Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) p. 81, 119John Brewer, The sinews of power: war, money, and the English state, 1688–1783 (1990) p 91 Heavy spending brought France to the verge of bankruptcy and revolution.
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The symbolic liver bird of Liverpool is commonly thought to be a cross between an eagle and a cormorant. In Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus (Ulysses) is saved by a compassionate sea nymph who takes the form of a cormorant. In 1853, a woman wearing a dress made of cormorant feathers was found on San Nicolas Island, off the southern coast of California. She had sewn the feather dress together using whale sinews.
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Many of the songs were already old by 1820, and the music was deeply American. In time, composer Virgil Thompson would find in the old shape-note hymns "the musical basis of almost everything we make, of Negro spirituals, of cowboy songs, of popular ballads, of blues, of hymns, of doggerel ditties, of all our operas and symphonies." Certainly their vernacular idiom was absorbed into the sinews and marrow of midwestern culture.
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The sites yield information as to how the Native Americans used the bison for food, clothing, and shelter. Plains Indians, in particular, depended on the bison for their survival. Every part of the animal could be used in some way: hides for clothes and shelter, bones for tools, sinews for bowstrings, and laces. Hooves could be ground for glue, and the brains could be used in the tanning process for the hides.
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The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1783 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), p.197. Parliament passed an updated Cruisers and Convoys Act in 1708, allocating regular warships to the defence of trade. In the War of Austrian Succession, the Royal Navy was able to concentrate more on defending British ships. Britain lost 3,238 merchantmen, a smaller fraction of her merchant marine than the enemy losses of 3,434.
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The Eskimo Bowyer makes a Cable-backed bow when he wraps cables around the bow, made of Reindeer sinews, twisted into cables about a half inch thick. The wide shaft of the bow, over two inches wide, relieved the tension in the wood when it is bent, and stores the energy which snaps back when the arrow is released. This is preferred to animal glue, which jells almost instantly in freezing air.Quidort, Darryl.
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Tidmarsh retired to his home in Glenelg. His wife of 35 years died in 1886. Twenty years later, after years of suffering "strained sinews" (perhaps tendinosis), Tidmarsh killed himself at home with a pistol shot to the head. Their only surviving son, Francis Frederick Tidmarsh, about whom little is recorded but was factory foreman after Burford's took over, founded his own soap and candle manufactory in Broken Hill some time around 1888.
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21–22, 391–392 line 853; Penglase, p. 164 (who calls Tarhunna by his Hurrian name Teshub); Lane Fox, pp. 286–287; Ogden 2013a, pp. 77–78 The storm-god’s initial defeat (Apollodorus, Nonnus), the loss of vital body parts (sinews: Apollodorus, Nonnus), the help of allies (Hermes and Aegipan: Apollodorus; Cadmos and Pan: Nonnus; Pan: Oppian), the luring of the serpentine opponent from his lair through the trickery of a banquet (Oppian, or by music: Nonnus).
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Aegipan, literally "goat-Pan," was a Pan who was fully goatlike, rather than half-goat and half-man. When the Olympians fled from the monstrous giant Typhoeus and hid themselves in animal form, Aegipan assumed the form of a fish-tailed goat. Later he came to the aid of Zeus in his battle with Typhoeus, by stealing back Zeus' stolen sinews. As a reward the king of the gods placed him amongst the stars as the Constellation Capricorn.
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At the First October Meeting at Newmarket, Smolensko finished third in a £96 sweepstakes race to the colts The Corporal and Macedonian. He was injured during the race, straining "one of his back sinews." With Smolensko still recovering from his injury at Newmarket, his connections forfeited an 18 October match race with the colt Benedict, paying 80 guineas to Lord Foley. On 1 November at the Houghton Meeting, Smolensko beat Grosvenor's colt Redmond in a match race.
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The coastal Inuit hunted mostly seals and walruses and, depending on the region, narwhals and belugas; of course also the occasional caribou. The seals were used for food for men and dogs. Their oil was used for the kudliks, and their skin and sinews for seal boots (kamik), kayak coverings, ropes (also drag ropes for dog sleds) and dog whips. During the winter, the Inuit lived in igloos, which were erected separately or connected by tunnels.
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I would wish you to give of your abundance for the good of the poor and avoid walking in the wrong road. Then indeed may you reach the highest dignity, and the blue flies will disperse". After discussing this conversation with his uncle, Guan Lu then said: "Deng Yang's gait is that of one whose sinews are loosed from his bones, and his pulse is unsteady. When he would stand, he totters as a man without limbs.
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During the Nine Years War, the French adopted a policy of strongly encouraging privateers (French corsairs), including the famous Jean Bart, to attack English and Dutch shipping. England lost roughly 4,000 merchant ships during the war.Privateering and the Private Production of Naval Power , Gary M. Anderson and Adam Gifford Jr. In the following War of Spanish Succession, privateer attacks continued, Britain losing 3,250 merchant ships.Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688–1783.
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The Sabines themselves, Gellius says, thought the word was Greek in origin, from νεῦρα (neura), Latin nervi, meaning the sinews and ligaments of the limbs. Her name was regarded as Sabine in origin and is equivalent to Latin virtus, "manly virtue" (from vir, "man").Robert E.A. Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans (Cambridge University Press, 1970, 2009), p. 167. In the early 3rd century BCE, the comic playwright Plautus has a reference to Mars greeting Nerio, his wife.
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The bone was discovered in 1914. Dr James Ross collected a large iron pot from the place of Howes death and continued to use it. Frank and Philip Pitt had a volume returned that Howe had stolen and the book cover was secured with kangaroo skin and very neatly sewed with sinews. The Campbell Town museum once displayed a photograph of the original letter, written by Michael Howe, to Governor Thomas Davey in 1816, and signed by all the members of the gang.
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However "Zeus pelted Typhon at a distance with thunderbolts, and at close quarters struck him down with an adamantine sickle"Perhaps this was supposed to be the same sickle which Cronus used to castrate Uranus, see Hesiod, Theogony 173 ff.; Lane Fox, p. 288. Wounded, Typhon fled to the Syrian Mount Kasios, where Zeus "grappled" with him. But Typhon, twining his snaky coils around Zeus, was able to wrest away the sickle and cut the sinews from Zeus' hands and feet.
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Their lineage story dictates Zhou also took Yue to a "Buddhist hermit" who taught him said qigong style.This hermit is mentioned as teaching Yue strength-bestowing exercises in the second preface of the Sinews Transformations Classic, a forged qigong manual claimed to have been discovered, but actually written by a Taoist with the religious moniker of "Purple Coagulation Man of the Way" in 1624 CE (Shahar: pp. 162, 168–170).Liang, Shou-Yu, Wen-Ching Wu, and Denise Breiter-Wu.
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In one instance, main character Temmie Oakes says, "...You saw the sinews rippling beneath the cheap stuff of their sweaty shirts. Far, far too heady a draught for the indigestion of this timorous New England remnant of a dying people. For the remaining native men were stringly of withers, lean shanked, of vinegar blood, and hard wrung." Historian John Radzilowski notes that the theme of vivacious young immigrants replacing dying old white ethnic populations was common in America until the 1960s and 70s.
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The National Churchill Museum (formerly the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library), located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States, commemorates the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Sinews of Peace" address in the Westminster Historic Gymnasium. In it was the line: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." This sentence caused the oration to become known as the "Iron Curtain" speech.
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Summer travel also saw use of the travois, a simple type of sled that was pulled over the ground by a dog and used to transport a light load. In the winter snow shoes made walking in the deep snow practical. Winter transport in the Arctic made use of dog teams, and in warmer summer months, use of kayaks was common. Clothing was made of animal skins, which were cut with stone and bone tools and sewn with bone needles and animal sinews.
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The main ingredient is beef, taken from the animal’s upper thigh or shoulder, the fat and the sinews being removed. Before drying, the meat is treated with white wine and seasonings such as salt, onion and assorted herbs. The initial curing process, lasting 3 – 5 weeks, takes place in sealed containers stored at a temperature close to freezing point. The meat is regularly rearranged during this stage, in order to ensure that the salt and seasonings will be evenly distributed and absorbed.
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Rome's forces used typical Roman equipment including pila (heavy javelins) and hastae (thrusting spears) as weapons as well as traditional bronze helmets, body shields and body armor. On the other hand, the Carthaginian army used a variety of equipment. The Iberians fought with falcatas, while Celtiberians and Lusitanians would use straight gladii, as well as javelins and various types of spears. For defense, warriors from Hispania carried large oval shields and often wore a crested helmet made of animal sinews.
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The reason for this is explained later on; the tendons and sinews of the victims used for the frightening mannequin's joints are always best after the victim reaches climax. He reveals in the third episode to Ryo that Hotaruku is her mother, rapes Ruka while implying that they have done this act countless times before and is consequently killed by the mannequins. He is voiced by Cliff Kirk in the English dub. ; Kasumi : Master Komoshi's daughter, fiancée to Bungo and lover of Misa.
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On 19 May 1945, American Under- Secretary of State Joseph Grew went so far as to say that it was inevitable.Yefim Chernyak and Vic Schneierson, Ambient Conflicts: History of Relations between Countries with Different Social Systems, , Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987, p. 360 On 5 March 1946, in his "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill said "a shadow" had fallen over Europe. He described Stalin as having dropped an "Iron Curtain" between East and West.
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32 Issue 2, pp. 363–88John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 (1990)Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1989) pp. 80–84 The French Revolution polarised British political opinion in the 1790s, with conservatives outraged at the killing of the king, the expulsion of the nobles, and the Reign of Terror. Britain was at war against France almost continuously from 1793 until the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
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Cadmus then tells Typhon that, if he liked the "little tune" of his pipes, then he would love the music of his lyre – if only it could be strung with Zeus' sinews.Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.481–481 (I pp. 38–39). So Typhon retrieves the sinews and gives them to Cadmus, who hides them in another cave, and again begins to play his bewitching pipes, so that "Typhoeus yielded his whole soul to Cadmos for the melody to charm".Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.507–534 (I pp. 38–41).
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Leonardo made over 240 detailed drawings and wrote about 13,000 words towards a treatise on anatomy. Only a small amount of the material on anatomy was published in Leonardo's Treatise on painting. During the time that Melzi was ordering the material into chapters for publication, they were examined by a number of anatomists and artists, including Vasari, Cellini and Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of drawings from them. Leonardo's anatomical drawings include many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, and of muscles and sinews.
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The rowing verse: Row the race, boys swing together, Sinews tough as cords of leather, Strong, yet light upon the feather, Lift her, make her go! Get the catch at the beginning, Churn the tide in eddies spinning, Now a spurt, you gain! you’re winning! Melbourne Grammar, row! A fourth verse with its own chorus was added in the early 20th century with imperial connotations: 'Some, in strife of sterner omen, Faced the Empire’s stubborn foemen; Fought, as erst their sires - her yeomen; Won the deathless name.
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One time when the Feast of Tara is celebrated, with all the men of Ireland and the fiana present, Cormac observes the sad expression on his daughter's face. She whispers to him how the hatred for her husband has made her physically ill, thickening her blood and swelling her sinews. Overhearing Cormac's reaction to the sad news, Finn becomes aware of Gráinne's plight and announces their separation. The text ends with a number of difficult legal roscada exchanged between Cormac and Finn on the subject of divorce.
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Omand introduced the concept of "Sinews" (or "SIGINT New Systems") which allowed more flexible working methods, avoiding overlaps in work by creating fourteen domains, each with a well-defined working scope. The tenure of Omand also saw the planning and the creation of The Doughnut, GCHQ's modern headquarters. Located on a 176-acre site in Benhall, near Cheltenham, The Doughnut would be the largest building constructed for secret intelligence operations outside the United States. Operations at GCHQ's Chung Hom Kok listening station in Hong Kong ended in 1994.
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Egyptian archer on a chariot, from an ancient engraving at Thebes The bow and arrow is one of ancient Egypt's most crucial weapons, used from Predynastic times through the Dynastic age and into the Christian and Islamic periods. The first bows were commonly "horn bows", made by joining a pair of antelope horns with a central piece of wood. By the beginning of the Dynastic Period, bows were made of wood. They had a single curvature and were strung with animal sinews or strings made of plant fiber.
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Rope ends heat sealed with electric knife. The ends of some man-made fibers such as Dacron, Nylon, polyethylene, polyester, and polypropylene (but not aramid fibers) may be melted to fuse their fibers to prevent fraying. However, the rope and knotting expert Geoffrey Budworth warns against this practice for boat operators thus: > Sealing rope ends this way is lazy and dangerous. A tugboat operator once > sliced the palm of his hand open down to the sinews after the hardened (and > obviously sharp) end of a rope that had been heat-sealed pulled through his > grasp.
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Inuit and other circumpolar people utilized sinew as the only cordage for all domestic purposes due to the lack of other suitable fiber sources in their ecological habitats. The elastic properties of particular sinews were also used in composite recurved bows favoured by the steppe nomads of Eurasia, and Native Americans. The first stone throwing artillery also used the elastic properties of sinew. Sinew makes for an excellent cordage material for three reasons: It is extremely strong, it contains natural glues, and it shrinks as it dries, doing away with the need for knots.
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A tugboat operator once > sliced the palm of his hand open down to the sinews after the hardened (and > obviously sharp) end of a rope that had been heat-sealed pulled through his > grasp. There is no substitute for a properly made whipping. If a load-bearing rope gets a sharp or sudden jolt or the rope shows signs of deteriorating, it is recommended that the rope be replaced immediately and should be discarded or only used for non-load-bearing tasks. The average rope life-span is 5 years.
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Britain's war against the Americans, the French, and the Spanish cost about £100 million, and the Treasury borrowed 40-percent of the money that it needed.Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) pp. 81, 119 Heavy spending brought France to the verge of bankruptcy and revolution, while the British had relatively little difficulty financing their war, keeping their suppliers and soldiers paid, and hiring tens of thousands of German soldiers.John Brewer, The sinews of power: war, money, and the English state, 1688–1783 (1990) p.
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Spring Rice and Bennett agreed to support the subsequent Commercial Agreement on the condition that Spring Rice's friend, J. P. Morgan Jr., was appointed as the sole purchasing agent.Kathleen Burk, Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914–1918 (Routledge, 2014), p. 18 (Retrieved 25 July 2016). Spring Rice was able to keep the feeble commission alive, but voiced his concerns that British finances in the United States were reaching a critical point as chaotic credit arrangements by-passed the body set up by parliament to effectuate co-ordination.
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117: "No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will." The daggers had varying fates in The Lord of the Rings. When the Nazgûl attacked Aragorn and the hobbits on Weathertop, Frodo slashed at one of them with his dagger but only damaged its cloak. He broke the blade when he fell from a horse, and left it behind in Rivendell, taking Bilbo's sword Sting instead.
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Ursus manages to escape his captivity and kill the treacherous Setas, an old friend of Ursus' who he learns orchestrated the kidnapping of Attea years before. Ursus then makes his way to the great arena, just in time to rescue Doreide from being mauled to death by a massive bull. Ursus physically wrestles the bull to the ground in a spectacular battle of sinews, and then leads a slave revolt against the queen and her sycophants. In the battle, Doreide receives a blow to the head which miraculously restores her vision.
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To increase deer numbers, sections of forest were cleared by fire to increase grassy meadows where the fed.Bragdon, K. J. (1999). pp. 117-119. No part of the animal was wasted, with the skins processed into furs and leathers for blankets, clothing and shoes; feathers, bone beads and quills were used to make jewelry and decorate personal items; fats rendered into greases and oils for nutrition, cosmetics or medical salves; snakeskin was fashioned into belts; porcupine quills and small bones were used for sewing and the sinews were chewed into bowstrings and cordage.Bragdon, K. J. (1999). pp.
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According to Apollodorus, 1.6.3, Typhon set Delphyne as guard over Zeus' severed sinews in the Corycian cave; see Ogden, 2013a, p. 42; Fontenrose, p. 94. Python was also perhaps connected with a different Corycian Cave than the one in Cilicia, this one on the slopes of Parnassus above Delphi, and just as the Corycian cave in Cilicia was thought to be Typhon and Echidna's lair, and associated with Typhon's battle with Zeus, there is evidence to suggest that the Corycian cave above Delphi was supposed to be Python's (or Delphyne's) lair, and associated with his (or her) battle with Apollo.
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Behemoth and Leviathan, watercolour by William Blake from his Illustrations of the Book of Job. Behemoth is mentioned in a speech from the mouth of God in chapter 40 of the Book of Job, a primeval creature created by God and so powerful that only God can overcome him: 15 Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. 16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. 17 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
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He brings in such topics as spies, surveillance of Catholics, the 1605 Gunpowder Plot led by Guy Fawkes to overthrow the government, and the Poor Laws, and demonstrates similarities to the surveillance society of the 21st century.Edward Higgs, Identifying the English: a history of personal identification 1500 to the present (2011) John Brewer introduced the third approach with his depiction of the unexpectedly powerful, centralized 'fiscal- military' state during the eighteenth century.John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 (1990)Aaron Graham, The British Fiscal-military States, 1660-c. 1783 (2015).
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Lodge’s monumental abstract works, sometimes as large as 10’x16’, partially derive from 1950s abstract expressionism. She typically utilizes a painterly style where thick layers and ropes of acrylic paint are built up in an almost three- dimensional topography, reminiscent of veins or sinews upon the surface of skin. The texture is built up in three or four steps and certain areas may be reworked in the process. Lodge often uses metallic gold, significantly in works from the "Life Jackets" and "Walls of Eden" exhibitions, symbolic of incorruptibility and sacredness, and confronting its audience rather than receding.
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The women processed the buffalo, preparing dried meat, and combining it for nutrition and flavor with dried fruits into pemmican, to last them through winter and other times when hunting was poor. At the end of the fall, the Blackfoot would move to their winter camps. The women worked the buffalo and other game skins for clothing, as well as to reinforce their dwellings; other elements were used to make warm fur robes, leggings, cords and other needed items. Animal sinews were used to tie arrow points and lances to throwing sticks, or for bridles for horses.
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Greg Kennedy, Britain's War At Sea, 1914–1918: The War They Thought and the War They Fought (Routledge, 2016), p. 33. Spring Rice was also concerned by the large number of private brokers and agents, both with and without official authority, who were operating in the United States on behalf of the government and British businesses. As a result, Spring Rice had to request for the War Office to provide him with an official list of accredited agents, which was reluctantly compiled in late 1914.Kathleen Burk, Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914–1918 (Routledge, 2014), p.
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The monster described by Tammas has two heads; the equine head has an enormous gaping mouth that exudes a smelly toxic vapour, and a single giant eye like a burning red flame. A particularly gruesome detail is that the nuckelavee has no skin; black blood courses through yellow veins, and the pale sinews and powerful muscles are visible as a pulsating mass. Other reports state that the creature resembles a centaur; narratives are inconsistent in the finer details of the demon's description however. Traill Dennison only describes a man's head with a "mouth projected like that of a pig".
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The Franciscan mission disappeared from 1368, as the Ming dynasty set out to eject all foreign influences. The Chinese called Muslims, Jews, and Christians in ancient times by the same name, "Hui Hui" (Hwuy-hwuy). Christians were called "Hwuy who abstain from animals without the cloven foot", Muslims were called "Hwuy who abstain from pork", Jews were called "Hwuy who extract the sinews". "Hwuy-tsze" (Hui zi) or "Hwuy-hwuy" (Hui Hui) is presently used almost exclusively for Muslims, but Jews were still called "Lan Maou Hwuy tsze" (Lan Mao Hui zi) which means "Blue-cap Hui zi".
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Westminster College was the site of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous "Sinews of Peace" speech in 1946. Less than one year after the end of World War II, Churchill lectured about the state of world political affairs, notably regarding the growing tension in Europe during the prelude to the Cold War. left In 1969, Westminster College dedicated one of its most recognizable landmarks – the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury. Originally built in the City of London in the 12th century, it was destroyed during the Great Fire of London in 1666.
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Its winding massive sinews span 1348 feet. Preserving ancient earthworks, especially those of the Hopewell Culture, surrounded by larger, natural areas is a secondary mission of the Arc of Appalachia. The Arc of Appalachia, with other non-profit partners, has purchased and saved Junction Earthworks and Spruce Hill Earthworks near Chillicothe, Ohio, and has expanded the land holdings in the Fort Hill region by 200 acres. The Arc of Appalachia is currently endeavoring to expand Junction Earthwork through the purchase of an adjacent 73-acre earthworks complex known as Steel Earthworks, working in conjunction with The Archaeological Conservancy.
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He counselled resistance, exhorted their aid, and by cajolings and threats secured their signatures to a document by which they pledged themselves to leave the land before they would see their governor leave them. But if he proposed to give battle, he needed to secure the sinews of war. He chose a method consistent with his nature. On February 17, 1686, just as the royal commissioner was approaching the West Indian Waters, the governor authorized Captain Daniel Moy to take the company's ship, Charlotte Amalia, and cruise upon the Spaniards wherever they might be of thirty men; Captain Moy put to sea to make war upon the kingdom of Spain.
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John Gerard's Herball (1597) states that sage "is singularly good for the head and brain, it quickeneth the senses and memory, strengtheneth the sinews, restoreth health to those that have the palsy, and taketh away shakey trembling of the members." Gervase Markham's The English Huswife (1615) gives a recipe for a tooth-powder of sage and salt. It appears in recipes for Four Thieves Vinegar, a blend of herbs which was supposed to ward off the plague. In past centuries, it was also used for hair care, insect bites and wasp stings, nervous conditions, mental conditions, oral preparations for inflammation of the mouth, tongue and throat, and also to reduce fevers.
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As a little child Silas (Patrick Bach) was sold to a circus where he learned to pull stunts and tricks from early on. This comes in handy when he decides to rather live an adventurous life on his own than to be trained in the dangerous art of sword swallowing. Also being threatened by director Philipp (Diether Krebs) that the sinews of his feet would be cut just in order to prevent him from running away, it occurs to him it is now or never and off he goes. A farmer called Bartolin (Shmuel Rodensky) gives him shelter but underestimates the boy's skills and carelessly bets him his horse.
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On the recommendation of Dr Alexander Cunningham, a younger son of Sir William Cunningham of Caprington, Ayrshire, Lumisden became private secretary to Prince Charles Edward shortly after his arrival in Edinburgh. He accompanied the prince throughout the campaign, and was present at the battle of Culloden. On the eve of the battle the prince's aide-de-camp wrote to Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, asking him to take particular care of Lumisden and Thomas Sheridan, "as they carry the sinews of war". After the battle Lumisden obeyed the order to rendezvous at Fort Ruthven, where a message from Charles Edward on 17 April warned all to look after their own safety.
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St. Mary, Aldermanbury as rebuilt In 1961, Westminster College President Dr. Robert L. D. Davidson began formulating a plan to commemorate both Winston Churchill's life and the "Sinews of Peace." A LIFE magazine feature on war-ravaged, soon-to-be-demolished Christopher Wren churches in London prompted the suggestion to import one of the churches to serve as both a memorial and the College chapel.Yorkgits After further investigation, college officials selected St. Mary, Aldermanbury as the church to be saved. St. Mary, Aldermanbury was not only an ideal choice because of its relatively small size, but also because of its unique and nearly 1,000 year history.
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Renovated in 2006, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the "Sinews of Peace," the Churchill museum strives to bring Churchill to life for new generations born years after Churchill's death. The objective of the museum is to tell the story of Churchill's life, giving due proportion both to his successes and his failures, and to let visitors make their own determinations about the man and his place in history. This narrative is presented in the form of a "walkthrough" experience, organized chronologically. The exhibition begins with Churchill's birth and proceeds through the major events of his life, alongside an examination of the critical events of the 20th century.
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The city was a major trading center and a bustling port (the largest after San Francisco on the West Coast). It shipped out lumber, wheat and flour and brought in manufactured goods. Corbett's early business success made it possible for him to help provide the infrastructure that the sinews of commerce and industry required in a growing state and city, such as banking, transportation, railways, buildings, iron mining and steel, water, electricity and telegraph. The burgeoning city doubled in population every few years but its isolation from the rest of the world meant that Portland welcomed each new group of arrivals and helped newcomers.
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Drive Like Jehu never officially announced a breakup, but simply stopped playing together. Trombino became a successful record producer and audio engineer, working with bands such as Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World, while Kennedy left music to become a chemist. Froberg briefly played in Thingy before moving to New York City to pursue a career as a visual artist and illustrator, later reuniting with Reis in the Hot Snakes from 1999 to 2005. In November 2002 Reis re-released Yank Crime through his Swami Records label, including on it the tracks from "Hand Over Fist" / "Bullet Train to Vegas" and "Sinews" from Head Start to Purgatory.
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Huston, James A. online The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775–1953 U.S. Army, 1966 Military railways were built specifically for supporting armies in the field. During the Seven Weeks War of 1866, railways enabled the swift mobilization of the Prussian Army, but the problem of moving supplies from the end of rail lines to units at the front resulted in nearly 18,000 tons trapped on trains unable to be unloaded to ground transport.Creveld, p. 84 The Prussian use of railways during the Franco-Prussian War is often cited as a prime example of logistic modernizations, but the advantages of maneuver were often gained by abandoning supply lines that became hopelessly congested with rear-area traffic.
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Some modern synthetic fibers, such as nylon and polyester can make use of alternative methods such as fusion, which uses heat to melt the fibers to make a clean cut and permanent end; this technique cannot be used with non-melting fibers such as aramids. However, the rope and knotting expert Geoffrey Budworth warns against the practice of fusing thus: > Sealing rope ends this way is lazy and dangerous. A tugboat operator once > sliced the palm of his hand open down to the sinews after the hardened (and > obviously sharp) end of a rope that had been heat-sealed pulled through his > grasp. There is no substitute for a properly made whipping.
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Another Hebrew roll of law was bought from a Muslim in Ning-keang-chow in Shen-se (Shanxi), who acquired it from a dying Jew at Canton. The Chinese called Muslims, Jews, and Christians in ancient times by the same name, "Hui Hui" (Hwuy-hwuy). Crossworshipers (Christians) were called the "Huay who abstain from animals without the cloven foot", Muslims were called "Hwuy who abstain from pork", Jews were called "Hwuy who extract the sinews (removes the sciatic nerve)". Hwuy-tsze (Hui zi) or Hwuy-hwuy (Hui Hui) is presently used almost exclusively for Muslims, but Jews were still called Lan Maou Hwuy tsze (Lan mao Hui zi) which means "Blue cap Hui zi".
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When it is on a nanmu, catalpa, or camphor tree [all > tall, straight trees], the gibbon grasps the branches with its hands and > feet or wraps around them with its tail, moving nimbly among them. Even Yi > and P'engmeng [the famous mythical archers Houyi and his disciple] would not > be able to take accurate aim at it. When, however, the gibbon is on a > silkworm thorn, ramosissimus, thorny limebush, or matrimony vine [all short, > thorny bushes], it moves furtively and glances sideways, shaking and > trembling all the while. This is not because the gibbon's sinews and bones > have become stiff and lost their suppleness, but because it finds itself in > an inconvenient situation and cannot show off its ability.
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Iron Palm is the vernacular for the results of serious training centered mainly on the palm of the hand, although other parts of the hand may also be targeted, and covers many different conditioning methods. Most Iron Palm systems are considered internal, utilizing qigong exercises to train other aspects of development in addition to the external conditioning which ultimately alters the internal structures of the hand, such as the bones and sinews. However, martial artists who practice Iron Palm are not unified in their training and techniques. Some teachers treat their Iron Palm methodology as a valuable secret, and only share their specific techniques, training methods, and herbal remedies with a select fewreference needed.
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There came up a Portuguese horseman, by name Gonçalo Fernandes, who charged him spear in rest and wounded him sorely; the Turk grasped it [the spear] so firmly, that before he could disengage himself the Moor gave him a great cut above the knee that severed all the sinews and crippled him; finding himself wounded, he drew his sword and killed him.Whiteway, p. 81 Imam Ahmad's wife Bati del Wambara managed to escape with a group of the surviving Ottoman arquebusiers, 300 horsemen of her personal guard, and as much of the Imam's treasure as they could carry. The moment they left their camp, the victorious Ethiopian army poured in, slaughtering everyone they encountered except for women and children.
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It is mentioned briefly by many ancient authors, among them, Virgil, Vitruvius, Isidore of Seville, and Pliny the Elder who mentions it in his Historia Naturalis 31.6: Iuxta Romam Albulae aquae volneribus medentur, egelidae hae, sed Cutiliae in Sabinis gelidissimae suctu quodam corpora invadunt, ut prope morsus videri possit, aptissimae stomacho, nervis, universo corpori. The tepid waters of Albula, near Rome, have a healing effect upon wounds. Those of Cutilia, again, in the Sabine territory, are intensely cold, and by a kind of suction penetrate the body to such a degree as to have the effect of a mordent almost. They are remarkably beneficial for affections of the stomach, sinews, and all parts of the body, in fact.
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Superforce is the unofficial name given by Martin for a more or less formal group of people within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church (82). Martin claimed that this superforce is a sort of ecclesiastical version of a hostile corporate takeover team and that it was made up of churchmen of such rank and power within the Vatican and at key points of the hierarchic structure that they controlled the most vital organs and sinews of that structure, worldwide. The goal of this organisation consist in a fundamental shift in church teachings.Collins, Paul David, The Deep Politics of God Revisited: The Kunz Murder, March 31 2008 The book was translated into Spanish, Polish and German.
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Katherine Mary Briggs, The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature They were hard workers and expected to be paid a working man's wages, equal to those of an average putter (a mine worker who pushes the wagons). Their payment was left in a solitary corner of the mine, and they would not accept any more or less than they were owed. The miners would sometimes see the flickering bluecap settle on a full tub of coal, transporting it as though "impelled by the sturdiest sinews". Another being of the same type (though less helpful in nature) was called Cutty SoamesLabour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851: Northumberland and Durham, Staffordshire, the Midlands, Jules Ginswick, Routledge, 1983, , 9780714629605, pp.
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In 1980 she was asked to become Director of the UK branch of the Committee for the Free World, an organisation of intellectuals unified by a desire to stiffen the sinews of western resistance to communism, to argue against unilateral nuclear disarmament by the West, and to press for the installation of cruise missiles in Western Europe (in response to the communist deployment of SS-20 nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe). Alun Chalfont was the chairman and the committee included intellectuals such as Raymond Aron, Sybille Bedford, Max Beloff, Milovan Djilas, Joachim Fest, and Tom Stoppard. Its activities culminated in the conference 'Beyond 1984', which addressed the continuing threat of communism throughout the world. Her penultimate battle was against the author of her husband's biography.
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Some popular historians consider Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of Chinese Buddhism to have had a major influence on Shaolin Kung Fu. The idea of Bodhidharma influencing Shaolin boxing is based on a qigong manual written during the 17th century. This is when a Taoist with the pen name 'Purple Coagulation Man of the Way' wrote the Sinews Changing Classic in 1624, but claimed to have discovered it. The first of two prefaces of the manual traces this succession from Bodhidharma to the Chinese general Li Jing via "a chain of Buddhist saints and martial heroes." The work itself is full of anachronistic mistakes and even includes a popular character from Chinese fiction, the 'Qiuran Ke' ('Bushy Bearded Hero') (), as a lineage master.
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It is written in an epic style, where characters engage in both verbal and physical struggle. The poem also has a political context, illuminated by the debates between Prime Minister John A. Macdonald (for the railway) versus Edward Blake (against). The physical tests throughout the poem are a battle between the forces of nature (the Canadian Shield is personified as a prehistoric monster) versus the combined might of the construction team headed by William Van Horne. In his introduction to Pratt's 1968 Selected Poems, literary critic Peter Buitenhuis says of the piece: :In this poem man has the chance to learn from his mistakes and to employ his sinews and his technology to throw his thin lines of steel across muskeg and mountain.
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The daughter of Cohen the Barbarian and a temple dancer. From her mother she inherited gold-tinged skin, white-blond hair, a voice that can make "Good morning" sound like an invitation to bed, and a very good figure. From her father, she inherited sinews you could moor a ship with, muscles as solid as a plank, and reflexes like a snake on a hot tin roof (from relevant pieces of description in Sourcery). She also acquired from Cohen suitable heroic instincts: a strong urge to immediately attack and kill anyone making a threatening move on her, an ability to use anything as a deadly weapon, and an ability to steal anything regardless of the safeguards (such as having been swallowed).
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In the 1490s he wrote about demonstrating muscles and sinews to students: > Remember that to be certain of the point of origin of any muscle, you must > pull the sinew from which the muscle springs in such a way as to see that > muscle move, and where it is attached to the ligaments of the bones. His continued investigations in this field occupied many pages of notes, each dealing systematically with a particular aspect of anatomy. It appears that the notes were intended for publication, a task entrusted on his death to his pupil Melzi. In conjunction with studies of aspects of the body are drawings of faces displaying different emotions and many drawings of people suffering facial deformity, either congenital or through illness.
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The text then abruptly jumps to enumerating anatomy of a developed human body, likely from lost chapters of the manuscript. It asserts, states Paul Deussen, that in a human adult, "the head has four skull bones, and in them there are on each side sixteen sockets; in the body there are 107 joints, 180 sutures, 900 sinews, 700 veins, 500 muscles, 360 bones and 45 million hairs".Paul Deussen (1966), The Philosophy of the Upanishads, Dover, , pages 285-286 Further, enumerates the Upanishad, the heart of an adult human male weighs 364 grams, tongue weighs 546 grams, bile in the body 728 grams, semen produced is 182 grams, fat 1,456 grams, and excrement generated is uncertain in amount because it depends on what and how much the body eats and drinks.
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They were tall and extremely warlike. They wore leather clothes, similar to a fur blanket; women would also wear a skirt that covered their bodies down to their knees. With a semi sedentary lifestyle, they grouped their leather tents by their water supply in the winter, and they would go on their raids inland in the summer. At the time of the arrival of the Europeans they stood out as great runners hunting, or rather capturing by running down Pampan deer, ñandúes, and even guanacos, although to facilitate their activity they had invented two devices (one that would become a classic in Argentina): the bolas, and the more primitive one consisting of a stone tied to a cord made with leather or sinews called by the Spaniards a stone-lost boleadora.
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From 1700 to 1850, Britain was involved in 137 wars or rebellions. It maintained a relatively large and expensive Royal Navy, along with a small standing army. When the need arose for soldiers it hired mercenaries or financed allies who fielded armies. The rising costs of warfare forced a shift in government financing from the income from royal agricultural estates and special imposts and taxes to reliance on customs and excise taxes and, after 1790, an income tax.John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 (1990) Working with bankers in the City, the government raised large loans during wartime and paid them off in peacetime. The rise in taxes amounted to 20% of national income, but the private sector benefited from the increase in economic growth.
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This report angered Dōkyō, who used his influence with the Empress to have an edict issued sending Kiyomaro into exile; he also had the sinews of Kiyomaro's legs cut, and only the protection of the Fujiwara clan saved him from being killed outright. The following year, however, Empress Shōtoku died. She was succeeded by Emperor Kōnin, who in turn exiled Dōkyō to Shimotsuke Province and not only recalled Wake no Kiyomaro from exile, but also appointed him as both kami (governor) of Bizen Province and Udaijin (junior minister of state). The following year, he petitioned the governor of Dazaifu to send officials to Usa to investigate allegations of "fraudulent oracles"; in his later report, Wake no Kiyomaro stated that out of five oracles checked, two were found to be fabricated.
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The eighth anuvaka of Taittiriya Upanishad's first chapter discusses what is Aum? The seventh anuvaka of Shiksha Valli is an unconnected lesson asserting that "everything in this whole world is fivefold" - sensory organs, human anatomy (skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow), breathing, energy (fire, wind, sun, moon, stars), space (earth, aerial space, heavens, poles, intermediate poles).Paul Deussen, Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, , page 227 This section does not contextually fit with the sixth or eighth lesson. It is the concluding words of the seventh anuvaka that makes it relevant to the Taittiriya Upanishad, by asserting the idea of fractal nature of existence where the same hidden principles of nature and reality are present in macro and micro forms, there is parallelism in all knowledge.
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The Sinews of Old England (1857) by George Elgar Hicks shows a couple "on the threshold" between female and male spheres. Terms such as separate spheres and domestic–public dichotomy refer to a social phenomenon within modern societies that feature, to some degree, an empirical separation between a domestic or private sphere and a public or social sphere. This observation may be controversial and is often also seen as supporting patriarchal ideologies that seek to create or strengthen any such separation between spheres and to confine women to the domestic/private sphere. The patriarchal ideology of separate spheres, based primarily on notions of biologically determined gender roles and/or patriarchal religious doctrine, claims that women should avoid the public sphere - the domain of politics, paid work, commerce and law.
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Indeed Miller's vision of exposing the WMD conspiracy and the CIA's plan to keep the Iraqi army is undermined by the film's wildcard – a nationalist Shia war veteran who turns the plot on its head before delivering the killer line to the Americans when he tells them: 'It is not for you to decide what happens here [in this country].'" Greengrass defended his film in an interview with Charlie Rose, saying, "The problem, I think, for me is that something about that event strained all the bonds and sinews that connect us all together. For me it's to do with the fact that they said they had the intelligence, and then it emerged later that they did not." Matt Damon also defended the film, telling MTV News, "I don't think that's a particularly incendiary thing to say.
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Sutherland is an expert in Canadian indigenous archaeology. In 1977, surveying what was to become Quttinirpaaq National Park, on Ellesmere Island, for Parks Canada, she found a piece of bronze that turned out to be half of a Norse silver weighing balance. In 1979, on Axel Heiberg Island, she found a piece of antler on which two different faces were carved: one with round-faced Dorset features, the other thin-faced and with heavy eyebrows. In 1999, she discovered among finds from a Dorset site near Pond Inlet, on northern Baffin Island, a piece of spun yarn or cordage that did not conform with the twine made of animal sinews used by the Inuit but did correspond to that used in the 14th century in Norse settlements in Greenland; however, it was spun from hair of the Arctic hare.
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The blitzed church in situ in London, 1964 Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri St. Mary Aldermanbury was a church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181"The Churches of the City of London" Reynolds, H: London, Bodley Head, 1922 and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Rebuilt in Portland stone by Christopher Wren,"The City of London Churches" Betjeman, J Andover, Pikin, 1967 it was again gutted by the Blitz in 1940, leaving only the walls standing. These stones were transported to Fulton, Missouri in 1966, by the residents of that town, and rebuilt in the grounds of Westminster College as a memorial to Winston Churchill."The London Encyclopaedia" Hibbert,C;Weinreb,D;Keay,J: London, Pan Macmillan, 1983 (rev 1993,2008) Churchill had made his Sinews of Peace, "Iron Curtain" speech in the Westminster College Gymnasium in 1946.
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Skins of hunted bears Polar bears have long provided important raw materials for Arctic peoples, including the Inuit, Yupik, Chukchi, Nenets, Russian Pomors and others. Hunters commonly used teams of dogs to distract the bear, allowing the hunter to spear the bear or shoot it with arrows at closer range. Almost all parts of captured animals had a use. The fur was used in particular to make trousers and, by the Nenets, to make galoshes-like outer footwear called tobok; the meat is edible, despite some risk of trichinosis; the fat was used in food and as a fuel for lighting homes, alongside seal and whale blubber; sinews were used as thread for sewing clothes; the gallbladder and sometimes heart were dried and powdered for medicinal purposes; the large canine teeth were highly valued as talismans.
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They surgically remove it up to the place where the tail begins in large domesticated animals, but in sheep they continue to scrape away the outer part of the fatty tail (rump) towards its inner side which knocks upon the thighs, with the fat of the kidneys and the flanks, all that which is high up at the top of the fatty tail (rump), at the place where it excretes excrement, extending as far as the bones of the fatty tail (rump). Now beneath it there is a marked difference in the thin membrane between the said suet and the suet in the fatty tail, as well as between the "threads" (i.e. blood vessels and nerves) which draw nourishment from the fat of the kidneys and the flanks. Now they scrape away all the fat (suet) which is between the sinews (Heb.
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The coastal and upland southerners that settled on the land brought with them slaves and established an agricultural economy. When the first history of Callaway County was compiled in 1884, the die had already been cast as far as the type of community Fulton was to be. The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton (February 26, 1847), the first mental health facility west of the Mississippi; the General Assembly agreed (February 28, 1851) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College; and Fulton was the seat of county government. Winston Churchill made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech at Westminster in 1946.
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Crucifixion window by Henry E. Sharp, 1872, in St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina In popular depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus (possibly because in translations of the wounds are described as being "in his hands"), Jesus is shown with nails in his hands. But in Greek the word "χείρ", usually translated as "hand", could refer to the entire portion of the arm below the elbow,In the Homeric Greek of the Iliad XX, 478–480, a spear-point is said to have pierced the χεῖρ "where the sinews of the elbow join" (ἵνα τε ξενέχουσι τένοντες / ἀγκῶνος, τῇ τόν γε φίλης διὰ χειρὸς ἔπειρεν / αἰχμῇ χακλκείῃ). and to denote the hand as distinct from the arm some other word could be added, as "ἄκρην οὔτασε χεῖρα" (he wounded the end of the χείρ, i.e., "he wounded her in the hand".
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They rank in the number of the gods > those alone whom they behold, and by whose instrumentality they are > obviously benefited, namely, the sun, fire, and the moon; they have not > heard of the other deities even by report. Their whole life is occupied in > hunting and in the pursuits of the military art; from childhood they devote > themselves to fatigue and hardships. Those who have remained chaste for the > longest time, receive the greatest commendation among their people; they > think that by this the growth is promoted, by this the physical powers are > increased and the sinews are strengthened. And to have had knowledge of a > woman before the twentieth year they reckon among the most disgraceful acts; > of which matter there is no concealment, because they bathe promiscuously in > the rivers and [only] use skins or small cloaks of deer's hides, a large > portion of the body being in consequence naked.
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Twine has been made of animal hair, including human, sinews and plant material, often from the vascular tissue of a plant (known as bast), but also bark and even seed down, e.g. milkweed. However, unlike stone or metal tools, most twine is missing from the archaeological record because it is made of perishable materials that rarely survive over time. Since often working with fiber is done by women, the disappearance of twine, baskets and textiles means that the importance of women's innovations and labour during the Upper Paleolithic (50,000–10,000 years ago) have been downplayed in the record. In fact, the discovery of ancient beads and the dating of sea travel to at least 60,000 years ago suggests that the "string revolution" might have occurred much earlier than the Upper Paleolithic. Paleolithic cord remnants have been discovered in a few places: Georgia's Dzudzuana Cave (30,000 years old), Israel's Ohalo II site (19,000 years old), and France's Lascaux Cave (17,000 years old).
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Running out again, Robert E. Lee started to establish a near-legendary reputation for blockade running by leaving astern blockader . Lieutenant Richard H. Gayle, CSN, assumed command in May 1863, relieving Lieutenant John Wilkinson; but Wilkinson was conning the ship again out of the Cape Fear River from Smithville, North Carolina on October 7, 1863, as recounted by Lieutenant Robert D. Minor, CSN, in a letter to Admiral Franklin Buchanan dated February 2, 1864, detailing the first venture to capture and liberate 2,000 Confederate prisoners at Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio. Robert E. Lee transported Wilkinson, Minor, Lieutenant Benjamin P. Loyall and 19 other naval officers to Halifax, Nova Scotia with $35,000 in gold and a cotton cargo "subsequently sold at Halifax for $76,000 (gold) by the War Department — in all some $111,000 in gold, as the sinews of the expedition." Thus Wilkinson was in Canada and Gayle commanding when Robert E. Lee's luck ran out on November 9, 1863, after 21 voyages in 10 months carrying out over 7,000 bales of cotton, returning with munitions invaluable to the Confederacy.
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The term maschalismos has widened to include the customs throughout the different cultures of the world in ritually mutilating their dead to prevent their wrath from affecting the living. In the Moluccas, a woman who has died in childbirth is buried with pins stuck through the joints, and an egg under the chin and or armpits; believing that the dead fly like birds and the presence of eggs will bring out maternal instincts which make the ghost not leave the eggs and thus stay with its former body. In Europe, it was sometimes common that suicides were buried with a stake driven through the heart, the body buried upside down, or the head cut off and placed between the legs. The Omaha, a tribe of American Indians, slit the soles of the feet of those killed by lightning; the Basuto and Bechuana slit the sinews and spinal cord of their dead; the Herbert River aborigines of Australia beat the body enough to break its bones and fill incisions made in the body with stones.
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God took dust from the cite of the TempleTargum Yerushalmi to Genesis 2:7; compare Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer 11, 20 and the four parts of the world, mingling it with the water of all the seas, and made him red, black, and white.Probably more correctly Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer 1 and Chronicles of Jerahmeel, 6:7: "White, black, red, and green—bones and sinews white; intestines black; blood red; skin of body or liver green"). Rabbi Yochanan interprets Adam's name as being an acrostic of אפר, דם, מרה (ashes, blood, gall).Sotah 5a Rabbi Meir has the tradition that God made Adam of the dust gathered from the whole world; and Rav says: "His head was made of earth from the Holy Land; his main body, from Babylonia; and the various members from different lands".Sanhedrin 38a et seq.; compare Genesis Rabba 8; Midrash Tehillim 139:5; and Tanhuma, Pekudei, 3, end There are, however, two points of view regarding man's nature presented in the two Biblical stories of man's creation; and they are brought out more forcibly in the aggadah.
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The author or poet of Soul and Body is unknown; however, as Michael Lapidge points out "several aspects of the poems' eschatology show signs of Irish influence," most significantly the overtly Christian reference to the soul's disapproval of its body's actions, as well as the ultimate destiny for mankind and his soul (425). Thomas D. Hill has come across two passages that support the theory of Irish influence, in reference to the soul’s claim that the body will pay for its sins according to each of its 365 joints. The first is from "The Old Irish Table of Penitential Commutations," which states the requirements for rescuing a soul from hell: 365 Paters, 365 genuflections, 65 "blows of the scourge every day for a year, and a fast every month," which "is in proportion to the number of joints and sinews in the human body" (410). Although Hill admits the passage is problematic, it does seem to support the idea that the torment awaiting the damned body will be proportional to its 365 joints.
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Thus the reason given for not familiarizing the guardians with poetry that pictured an afterlife of terrors was "lest the habit for such thrills make them more sensitive and soft than we would have them."Republic, Plato, Loeb vol 237, Bk III ii; 387 c; p. 207. The word translated as "soft" is malakoteroi, an image of softened metal that Plato used also of the effect of certain kinds of music: "when a man abandons himself to music to play upon him and pour into his soul as it were through the funnel of his ears those sweet, soft, and dirge-like airs of which we were just now speaking ... the first result is that the principle of high spirit, if he had it, is softened like iron and is made useful instead of useless and brittle. But when he continues the practice without remission and is spellbound, the effect begins to be that he melts and liquefies till he completely dissolves away his spirit, cuts out as it were the very sinews of his soul and makes of himself a 'feeble warrior'."Republic, Plato, Loeb vol 237, Bk III xviii; 411a; p. 291.
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In 1908, J. Nilsen Laurvik wrote: > In the sculpture of Barnard, as in the work of Rodin, we see the vital, > almost consuming energy that appears to bestir itself within the clay or > marble as it flows out in the undulating, rhythmic movements of thews > [sinews] and muscles, in the suggestions of the delicate yet withal powerful > bony structure of the body under its finely drawn covering of soft flesh and > smooth envelope of skin, as in the prostrate figure of the Two Natures, > where the shoulder blades and the delicate ridge and furrow of the backbone > are modeled with a supple, caressing, quivering touch as of life itself. > This is no less true of his well-known bronze figure Pan, which adorns the > northeastern corner of Columbia University campus. With the discerning, this > lazy creature of infinite good nature has already become a sort of a classic > in the art of our country—one of the very few so far, and one destined to > remain incomparable for some time to come. In its suavity and suppleness of > modeling it reveals Barnard's virtuosity in a striking manner.
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Philo of Byzantium provides probably the most detailed account on the establishment of a theory of belopoietics (belos = "projectile"; poietike = "(art) of making") circa 200 BC. The central principle to this theory was that "all parts of a catapult, including the weight or length of the projectile, were proportional to the size of the torsion springs". This kind of innovation is indicative of the increasing rate at which geometry and physics were being assimilated into military enterprises. From the mid-4th century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of arrow-shooting machines becomes more dense and varied: arrow firing machines (katapaltai) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC. An extant inscription from the Athenian arsenal, dated between 338 and 326 BC, lists a number of stored catapults with shooting bolts of varying size and springs of sinews.. The later entry is particularly noteworthy as it constitutes the first clear evidence for the switch to torsion catapults, which are more powerful than the more-flexible crossbows and which came to dominate Greek and Roman artillery design thereafter.. This move to torsion springs was likely spurred by the engineers of Philip II of Macedonia.
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