Chariot races were held this day in the Circus Maximus, which included an odd race in which chariots were pulled by mules.
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Other sites of similar La Tene period burials within the Arras culture, often with chariot burials include: Cawthorn Camps, Pexton Moor, Seamer, Hunmanby, Burton Fleming, Danes Graves, Garton, Wetwang, Middleton on the Wolds, Beverley and Hornsea.
In particular the Rigveda has many equestrian scenes, often associated with chariots.
He brought with him a mighty angelic chariot lowering itself over the city of San Francisco.
Bibendum (the Michelin man) makes a brief guest appearance as the chariot wheel dealer in certain translations, including the original English translation.
He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on Ben-Hur (1925), the climactic charge in Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Caesar's Chariot was a former United Airlines Boeing 707 passenger jet which was chartered by English rock band Led Zeppelin for their 1977 concert tour of North America.
There is a very ancient fort in the village and Chaudhary Ishwar Singh Dhakla often said that this was the place where the wheel of Karna's chariot got stuck during his final fight against Arjun in Mahabharat.
It bares most similarities in style to the Chariot game on Three Wonders.
The film begins in a small village in Tirunelveli district where a few upper caste men hold a chariot festival.
While touring the African Neptune I saw a mural of King Neptune, holding his trident on his left hand, riding atop his chariot above the waves and guided by his sea-horses.
It was as the cave of the sea nymph, Thetis, where Apollo rested after driving his chariot to light the sky.
According to Húsdrápa, Freyr rode Gullinbursti to Baldr's funeral, while in Gylfaginning, Snorri states that Freyr rode to the funeral in a chariot pulled by the boar.
Maaseh Merkabah ("Account of the Chariot"), a collection of hymns recited by the "descenders" and heard during their ascent;
Among his other work, Pils painted part of the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Palais Garnier, in four panels titled "The Gods of Olympus", "Apollo in His Chariot", "Triumph of Harmony", and "Apotheosis of the Opera", completed the year of his death.
Klisanin has produced two albums with the New Orleans indie rock band Rotary Downs (Chained to the Chariot and Cracked Maps and Blue Reports).
Jawalakhel is famous for the annual chariot festival of Rato Machhendranath which ends with the Bhoto Jatra ceremony that takes place on the large open ground at the town center.
Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the Sun (a Greek motif), while the corners depict the 4 "turning points" ("tekufot") of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs—tequfah of Tishrei, tequfah of Tevet, tequfah of Nisan, tequfah of Tamuz.
Tarquin is said to have built the Circus Maximus, the first and largest stadium at Rome, for chariot racing.
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Many of the Roman symbols both of war and of civil office date from his reign, and he was the first to celebrate a triumph, after the Etruscan fashion, wearing a robe of purple and gold, and borne on a chariot drawn by four horses.
When Rama decided to attack Ravana he found it necessary to throw a bridge across the straits for the conveyance of his troops, he drove in his aerial chariot to the Himalayas, picked up what stones he needed and drove back.
The huge and heavy chariot carrying the statue of God Murugan is paraded along the streets of Nallur.
It spread to the whole of Greece, Greater Greece and even its furthest colonies, and the athletes from all its parts, coming together for the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games, competed naked in almost all disciplines, with the exception of chariot races, although there are depictions of naked chariot racers too.
The operation was later portrayed in the 1955 war film, Above Us the Waves, featuring John Mills, which was based on both Operation Source, and the earlier Chariot human torpedo attacks on the Tirpitz.
It is a mythologized image of a chariot of Didieji Grįžulo Ratai ("Grand Wheels of Grįžulas"(Ursa Major).
The term phaeton had earlier referred to a light, open four-wheeled carriage, which again referred to the disastrous ride of the mythical Phaëton, son of Helios, who set the earth on fire while attempting to drive the chariot of the sun.
In Byzantine Constantinople, two such chariot factions, blue and green, repeatedly made or broke the claims of candidates to the imperial throne.
Polynikes dies during the final stand in a barehanded attack on a Persian chariot officer along with the remaining Spartans.
There is a single depiction of a chariot race, as well as one amphora with Odysseus and Kirke.
Pushpaka Vimana, a flying chariot mentioned in the Hindu epic Ramayana
It is symbolically represented in the form of the Sun God Surya turning his Ratha (Chariot) drawn by seven horses, with Aruna as the charioteer, towards the northern hemisphere, in a north-easterly direction.
(The peacock logo of Air Lanka, the predecessor of SriLankan Airlines and successor of Air Ceylon, is a stylized version of Rawana’s air chariot.)
Ruscio is a small fraction near Monteleone di Spoleto which is the village where the celebrated Etruscan chariot was found, that is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
There is a curious similarity between this festival and the Hindu festival of the chariot of Jagannath.
Christophe-Patrice Lemaire took the ride when Sahpresa attempted to win her third Sun Chariot Stakes on 24 September.
Vāhanam of the day will be Gaja Vāhanam (గజ వాహనము), i.e., The Elephant Chariot.