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The arrival of a U.S. colonel and his aides in Hercules C130 military transport planes, however, proved to be a raging success.
Since his picture of Hercules was so small, Raphael may have painted them for his patron as a parodic verso.
Legend has it that the city was founded by Hercules, but archaeologists are able to trace its roots back to pre-Roman times.
Next were two Air Force Hercules followed by two flights of Hornets, four in each flight.
The international team set out from Hercules inlet on the edge of the Antarctic ice cap at the beginning of December.
The horn Hercules broke from Achelous' head when he was a bull is made into the horn of plenty by Achelous' water nymphs.
Hercules killed the animal by choking it with his bare hands and thereafter wore its skin.
A Hercules aircraft honed in on the boat's locator beacon and an oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat to rescue the man.
The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length.
The Coleoptera also includes some of the largest insects, like the living Hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules.
He is so impressed, he persuades him to make a trip to Berlin, where he can guarantee lucrative employment as a Hercules on the cabaret circuit.
A bronze figure of Hercules supports an ormolu bowl surmounted by a triple row of plumes, from which rise the three candle branches.
Every few minutes the growl of a giant UN Hercules transport plane scatters coal-black carrion crows from the trees.
On the upper shelf is the figure of Hercules after the statue in the Palazzo Farnese.
On its obverse side is the image of two worlds between two columns, representing the Pillars of Hercules.
Lifeline Sudan flies in Hercules in broad circles over the area days before food drops.
He'd begun to slim down just before he was cast in Hercules and had to quickly put that process into reverse.
There must be some place for warmth in this cold world, she thought, and watched the fireflies dance around a moss-grown statue of Hercules.
Unless you were blessed with the power of Hercules, it's quite obvious you can't turn the ring with your bare hands.
He was smooth and rosy-skinned, cherubic-faced, with a thatch of curly yellow hair, but his body was as hugely thewed as a Hercules.
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Gros's last picture, Hercules and Diomedes, a tribute to David, was very badly received by the critics.
Cleaning out the Augean stables was one of the labours of Hercules and the incoming Greek government faces similar challenges.
Hercules had avoided cleaning the Augean stables by diverting the course of two rivers through the building.
He flew about 20 hazardous missions on board a Hercules aircraft, transporting men and equipment behind enemy lines.
Their journey begins in early December at Hercules Inlet on the frozen Antarctic coast.
Organizers said Hercules is one of the largest krewes in Louisiana with 700 riders on 32 double-decker floats.
Like the myth of Hercules, the legend of Samson is a tale recounted in many cultures.
Using two barges, The Wimbrown VII and the Hercules as their operating Bases, SEALs patrolled the sea searching for minelayers thought to be illegally mining the local waters.
These products were disseminated by hand and by airdrops from US Hercules.
The Hercules aircraft used by the RAAF are slow by modern standards, but the big four prop engine planes are reliable workhorses used, of course, the world over.
Two lifeboats, a rescue helicopter, an RAF Hercules plane and two Navy war ships spent 30 hours scouring the seas and coast but his body was never found.
One can't help thinking of Hercules cleaning up the Augean stables.
The public debut of the Hercules Group is a day that not many in Matamoros are likely to forget.
Some vessels and jewellery are adorned with traditional pagan motifs, such as hunting and Bacchic scenes, or Hercules wrestling the giant Antaeus.
The centerpiece depicts the empress enthroned under a baldachin and surrounded by figures of Hercules, Minerva, Mars, and other gods celebrating her military achievements.
Some works are examined thematically, such as his Madonnas, Allegories, the lost Leda and the Swan, and recently discovered sketches for the unexecuted sculpture Hercules.
As the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra he was immortal, but he received a terrible, poisonous wound from an arrow which was shot by Hercules.
A Hercules aircraft homed in on the boat's locator beacon and a merchant oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat and was rowing the man to safety, said Jessup.
In size they range from 0.25 to 0.3 mm to over 150 cm for the giant Goliath and Hercules beetles, which in size are the largest living species of insects.
Nessus, a centaur, offered to help Hercules get Deianira across the river.
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He was posted directly to RAF Lyneham to join the Hercules fleet.
Hercules left the expedition when his cup-bearer was taken by a nymph.
Crowds gasped as the team of seven leapt from a droning Hercules 3,000 feet above them, while youngsters rushed for autographs from the jumping daredevils.
Nine RAF personnel and one soldier died when their Hercules transport plane was hit by ground-to-air fire, causing an explosion in one of its fuel tanks.
The group captain said the crew, support personnel and passengers on board the Hercules were playing a vital role, helping to deliver democracy to the Iraqis.
The whole experience lasted six minutes, from leaving the Hercules to hitting to the ground in, or around, the drop zone marked out in front of the screaming young fans.
Earlier, it was known as Mons Calpe, a name of Phoenician origin and one of the Pillars of Hercules.
Well known city centre venues would include Kelly's Cellars, Maddens and the Hercules bar.
The Temple of Hercules Victor of the late 2nd century BC is the earliest surviving exception in Rome.
In Thor's case, the identification with the god Hercules is likely at least in part due to similarities between Thor's hammer and Hercules' club.
In her remarks, the Hercules Group was synonymous with peace and safety.
The caves of Hercules, a few kilometres from the city, are a major tourist attraction.
It is believed that Hercules slept there before attempting one of his twelve labours.
The first attributes the founding of the city to the mythological Hercules.
Here they were found by the heavily armed flagship of the London whaling fleet, the Hercules, under admiral William Goodlad.
Pulplike olefin fibers are produced by a high pressure spurting process developed by Hercules, Inc. and Solvay, Inc.
From 1790 to 1800, William Blake lived in North Lambeth, London, at 13 Hercules Buildings, Hercules Road.
Instead, the pampered pets basked in names such as Zendique Zebedee, Cullykhan Hercules, Filensio Pandora Charm and Alderstar Andro.
In various Mediterranean ports during the classical period, Phoenician temples sacred to Melkart were recognized as sacred to Greek Hercules.
The uncanny three dimensional quality of the Great Hercules and Four disgracers are milestones of technical refinement.
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Instead of climbing the great mountain, Hercules used his superhuman strength to smash through it.
Suddenly in 1823, the ship's Captain decided to sail to Genoa and offer the Hercules for charter.
We stopped for coffee in an isolated wayside caf and saw, on the adobe wall, a bright turquoise Hercules beetle.
Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others.
On the Spanish coast at Los Barrios are Torres de Hercules which are twin towers that were inspired by the Pillars of Hercules.
Landscape prints were also popular, with those of Rembrandt and the experimental works of Hercules Seghers usually considered the finest.
Henderson Island was rediscovered on 17 January 1819 by British Captain James Henderson of the British East India Company ship Hercules.
In Inferno XXVI Dante Alighieri mentions Ulysses in the pit of the Fraudulent Counsellors and his voyage past the Pillars of Hercules.
With the assistance of his banker and Captain Daniel Roberts, Byron chartered the brig Hercules to take him to Greece.
Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
At the time of its dedication, sacrifices to gods like Apollo, Diana, and Hercules were made.
The oration also moves away from the religious ideology of the Tetrarchy, with its focus on twin dynasties of Jupiter and Hercules.
Hand-reared sacred ibis Tutan, kookaburra Maidi, red-legged seriema Sergio, ageing eagle owl Ludwig and burrowing owls Bilbo and Hercules are among the birds to have perished.
The Airbus A400M increases the airlift capacity and range compared with the aircraft it was originally set to replace, the older versions of the Hercules and Transall.
Lockheed Hercules transport night flights brought supplies, weapons, vehicles, and fuel, and airlifted out the wounded up until the end of the conflict.
These two mountains taken together have since then been known as the Pillars of Hercules, though other natural features have been associated with the name.
At present, Canada possesses an aging fleet of C-130 Hercules tactical transports and five converted Airbuses, which we often misemploy as strategic load carriers.
According to some Roman sources, while on his way to the garden of the Hesperides on the island of Erytheia, Hercules had to cross the mountain that was once Atlas.
Subsequently, Gibraltar became known as one of the Pillars of Hercules, after the Greek legend of the creation of the Strait of Gibraltar by Heracles.
The Cutty Sark, designed by Hercules Linton was the fastest vessel of its time, capable of even outrunning the more advanced steam ships that had begun to take to the seas.
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Jasper Heywood translated Troas, Thyestes, and Hercules Furens.
As part of a weekend of events, up to 200 military parachutists from several countries will jump from C130 Hercules aircraft on to Ginkel Heath Drop Zones outside Arnhem.
Those taking part included Hugh and Carmen Bear, Hercules and Bella, Beau and Belle Brummie, Sky Blue Sam, Swifty, Wolfie and Wendy, Nile the Crocodile and Wicktopus.
Prell also wrote of a coincidence in Byron's chartering the Hercules.
A range of evidence of Roman religious beliefs among the people of Eboracum have been found including altars to Mars, Hercules, Jupiter and Fortune.
According to Plato's account, the lost realm of Atlantis was situated beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in effect placing it in the realm of the Unknown.
Be not a Hercules furens abroad, and a poltron within thyself.
Why the Goddesses sit commonly crosse-legged in ancient draughts, Since Juno is described in the same as a veneficial posture to hinder the birth of Hercules?
In the interim he pursued one of his most adventurous series, the so-called Hercules project, exploring the persistence of fascism in its hydralike forms.
Its boundaries were known in antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules.
Canadian Air Force support includes three CC-130 Hercules, two CP-140 Aurora maritime aircraft and one CC-150 Polaris airlifter from 8 Wing Trenton.
In some versions, Heracles instead built the two great Pillars of Hercules to hold the sky away from the earth, liberating Atlas much as he liberated Prometheus.
Dan Gordon, keeper of biology, with a hercules beetle New exhibition being set up at The Great North Museum.
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On a clear night the asterism Cerberus, the three-headed dog, which Hercules holds in his hand, can be seen.
As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt.
Until quite recently, the general conclusion was that the solar apex was situated somewhere in the constellation Hercules.
It is an Augean stable we have to clean, but Hercules was one, and we are many.
The most striking type of star cluster is well exhibited in the constellation of Hercules.
The renowned Hercules always carried a quarterstaff, and was from thence called Claviger.
There had been further communications with the house of the redoubtable champion windle Hercules in Hampshire.
This is the dragon with which the kneeler, Hercules, is fighting, and whose head he presses down with his foot.
Hercules as a child again appears amid embossed foliations on the chanfron.
But what sort do they say that Hercules was, my bold-minded, lion-hearted father?
Nessus, before expiring, instructed Dejanira how to prepare a love potion for Hercules.
Because you are a Hercules, and I a titmouse, don't think I am overawed by your knitted eyebrows.
I think a modern in an antique dress, as just an object of ridicule, as a Hercules or Marius with a periwig and chapeau bras.
In the northern hemisphere one of the finest is that in the constellation Hercules, known as 13 Messier.
I think a modern in an antique dress as just an object of ridicule as a Hercules or Marius with a periwig and a chapeau bras.
Ten minutes ago, this ferocious Hercules had left her, sound and unscratched.
This enraged whiteley, who at that time was as powerful as a young Hercules.
The first labor that Eurystheus assigned to Hercules was to bring him the skin of the nemean lion.
It appears to be a procession in honour of Cybele, to whom Hercules is making a visit.
But ruy lopez, who appeared to have put forth the strength of a Hercules, cast upon the ground his heavy wooden stool.
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The name of the Centaur that was destroyed by Hercules for insulting his wife Deianira.
Achelous was a river god, and the rival of Hercules in his love for Deianira.
Next is descried the bay of Tarentum, town, if rumour is true, of Hercules.
There was likewise the sacred ibis of Egypt, and one of the Stymphalides which Hercules shot in his sixth labor.
The eighth labor of Hercules was to bring from Thrace the horses of Diomedes.
Hercules will always bow to Venus because she is Venus, though Venus be a suffragist.
A Hercules within, and the quadriga upon the gable of the same temple, both also of terra-cotta, are ascribed to this artist.
Erymanthus, a mountain in Arcadia that was the haunt of the boar killed by Hercules.
The fable of the labours of Hercules is the type of all human doing and success.
Fabre was a notable athlete, a Hercules in miniature, and he used to run and jump.
Hercules had come to the cattle-yard of Augeas and had found it clogged with the mire of generations.
What if Plautus, in the account of Hercules, mistaketh nativity for conception?
In short, wherever there were Heraclid, or Herculeans, an Hercules has been supposed.
But his astonishment could hardly have been greater than was that of Hercules, the next moment.
Hercules then asked whereabouts the Old One was most likely to be met with.
Hercules was next sent to Augeas, King of Elis, who had immense droves of cattle.
But they do not worship Hercules, alleging as a reason that he ravaged their country.
In the handsome engraving herewith are shown the male and female of the Hercules beetle of Brazil.
Hercules would never have been so successful if she'd been that of hesperia.
Their queen, Hippolyta, was vanquished by Hercules, who took from her the girdle of Mars.
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Like FCS, the FRES will have to be more mobile than a tank-light enough to fit on a C-130 Hercules or an A-400M mediumlift transport aircraft.
It was the river alpheus that Hercules turned through the Augean stables.
Hercules and Mars they appease with beasts usually allowed for sacrifice.
Augeas, having broken the bargain, was deposed and slain by Hercules.
The infant Hercules, in green basalt, found on the Aventine.
The famous Hercules was one, and so was Achilles, and Philoctetes likewise, and Aesculapius, who acquired immense repute as a doctor.
A FLEA settled upon the bare foot of a Wrestler and bit him, causing the man to call loudly upon Hercules for help.
Ah, this gentleman is a Hercules killing Cacus, a Perseus freeing Andromeda.
Of Hercules, him of the many labours, it is said that he was lewd and luxurious.
I'll nap again till the whistle blows, and then I'll go down to the arms factory and have it out with Hercules.
And what should Hercules espy there, but an old man, fast asleep!
His countenance was that of an Ogre on the shoulders of a Hercules.
Take away the tied tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its charm would be gone.
It was during a misunderstanding conducted with crowbars with a fellow we used to call Hercules.
They are the great nebula in Orion, and the star cluster in Hercules.
He was gigantic in stature and limbed like the Farnesian Hercules.
Sir Hercules took leave of his lady, who retired to Tunbridge Wells.
But his natural gift was to be a mountebank, a clown, a circus Hercules.
It was like Hercules going into the nemean forest to cut himself a club.
In the Temple of Hercules, there was another picture by Zeuxis.
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Lady Hercules was evidently much pleased, and she assumed the patroness.
The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world.
The ancient Greeks believed Gibraltar was on the edge of the world and to sail beyond the Pillars of Hercules was sure to lead to certain death.
There was also time for a snorkel beneath the Pillars of Hercules, limestone formations in the cliffs.
Pillars of Hercules involved the athlete standing between two hinged pillars, gripping handles that prevent the pillars from falling to the side.
Pillars of Hercules Farm, in Fife, allows you to pick your own salad as well as buy fresh fruit and vegetables.
But the rock was too heavy, and too firmly wedged, to be moved by any one man, were he Hercules himself.
Alcides, a common name for Hercules, who was descended from Alcaeus.
After him I saw mighty Hercules, but it was his phantom only, for he is feasting ever with the immortal gods, and has lovely Hebe to wife, who is daughter of Jove and Juno.
It is full of inscriptions in the dead languages, which fact makes me think Hercules could not have traveled much, else he would not have kept a journal.
On this he built himself a fleet, gathered a great following, and fled beyond the sea, for he was menaced by the other sons and grandsons of Hercules.
Hercules was touched with the little man's dauntless courage, and could not help acknowledging such a brotherhood with him as one hero feels for another.
The Hercules we meet has already finished his labours and has seemingly nothing left to accomplish so spends his days travelling around Greece as a mercenary.
Perseus and Judith, Hercules and Thusnelda, they have done or suffered something, and though they are immortal, immortality has come to them after experience, not before.
Analogies have been plentiful since Blatter's announcement, but the tale of Hercules and his task of cleaning the Augean stables appears particularly relevant.
These were commanded by Tlepolemus, son of Hercules by Astyochea, whom he had carried off from Ephyra, on the river Selleis, after sacking many cities of valiant warriors.
Surprised at the shrill piping of so many little voices, Hercules, after putting out the conflagration of his hair, gazed all round about, but could see nothing.
At that moment the twenty thousand archers twanged their bowstrings, and the arrows came whizzing, like so many winged mosquitoes, right into the face of Hercules.
