Achelous, an important Greek river deity, had one of his horns torn off by Hercules, in a mythological fight with the legendary hero.
Kurtzman first teamed with Orci on television on the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
He has gone on to direct many episodes for a variety of television series, including Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, seaQuest DSV, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed.
This early population was believed to have been of Greek origin, and hence Argei derived from Argivi (the Greek ethnonym "Argives"), specifically the companions of Evander and later those of Hercules who had decided to stay on and live there.
The 12 statues were figures from classical mythology: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Hercules, Pomona, Bacchante, Hebe, Flora Farnese, Leda, Mercury and Flora.
The genus name is derived from Bianor, the mythical son of Hercules.
Many poems in the collection allude to Christian and Latin texts as well as native British tradition, and the book contains the earliest mention in any Western post-classical vernacular literature of the feats of Hercules and Alexander the Great.
It is also believed that Hercules stayed and slept in this cave before doing his 11th labour, which was to get golden apples from the Hesperides Garden, which some ancient Greek writers said was located nearby at Lixus (ancient city).
The track width may have been determined by the distance between Murcia's and Consus' shrines at the southeastern end, and its length by the distance between these two shrines and Hercules' Ara Maxima, supposedly older than Rome itself and sited behind the Circus' starting place.
During the Vietnam War Logistic support and medical evacuations were supplied by the Hercules from RAAF Richmond.
Other American dynamite makers of that time period included the Hercules Corporation, Atlas, Trojan-US Powder, Austin, and several other smaller firms.
Near the Hochtor, Celtic and Roman coins have been found, and the highest European sanctuary with a small statue of Hercules.
He appears to have been the first to note that the ancient temple of Hercules was to be identified with the remains on the hill at Tas-Silg rather than those of Borg in-Nadur.
The houses are named after mythical creatures and gods, Apollo, Europa, Hercules, Midas, Pegasus, Theseus.
Brought up in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks.
The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus (billed as Rock Stevens) and Michael Lane.
Hercules, at Olympus, berates his father Zeus for not allowing him to leave the gods' abode to adventure on earth.
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He branded them Hylas after a Greek mythological youth associated with Hercules and the cruise of the Argonauts.
A series of rooms on the ground floor is decorated with scenes from the life of Hercules, while the apartment on the first floor follows the theme of the four seasons.
Among Byström's numerous productions the best are his representations of the female form, such as Hebe, Pandora, Juno suckling Hercules (infra), and the "Girl entering the Bath".
Two historic sites are nearby on top of the hill, the Roman Temple of Hercules that dates back to the 2nd century, and an Umayyad palace that dates back to the 8th century.
She appeared several times in both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess (TV series), each time playing a different role (Ramina, Princess Alexa, Arachne and Amensu in Hercules; Queen Cleopatra and Artemis in Xena).
A monument to the four gods depicting Juno, Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, possibly once the base of a Jupiter Column, was discovered on the heights of Schoenberg at the point where two Roman roads once crossed.
Mark has appeared in several films and such television series such as Stingers, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, The Secret Life of Us and Satisfaction.
Meighan Desmond (born 7 October 1977, in Kaitaia, New Zealand) is an actress, best known by her role as the Greek goddess Discord on the popular American TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and on its two spin-offs – Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.
The digs yielded some valuable statues, among them a “Hercules with the club”.
It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) for Hercules, a figure in Greek mythology.
Peter Francisco (c. 1760 – January 16, 1831), known variously as the "Virginia Giant" or the "Giant of the Revolution" (and occasionally as the "Virginia Hercules"), was an American patriot and soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
In the ancient past, Hercules visited the area, and fell in love with a beautiful girl named Pyrene, who happened to be a daughter of the King of Cerdagne.
Major's other work includes the 1998 short film Flying, a role as Gaela's daughter in a television production of Hercules and as Emily Watson in William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale.
After appearing in Neighbours from 1991 to 1993, Michaelson also appeared on the New Zealand television series Shortland Street, also Paradise Beach, The New Adventures of Flipper and Sabrina, Down Under and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys as Apollo.
It was built on the site of a former Portuguese cathedral which in turn stood on a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules.
It is one of two Hollywood-studio Hercules films scheduled for 2014, with Paramount Pictures and MGM's Hercules: The Thracian Wars.
a cult statue of Hercules had been destroyed, and in retaliation the pagan inhabitants massacred sixty Christians.
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189th Airlift Squadron, a unit of the Idaho Air National Guard that flies the C-130 Hercules
With its crew unaware that the Hercules had disturbed a flock of Canada geese, the Sentry lined up and started its departure roll, as it rotated No. 1 and No. 2 engine ingested the birds.
At 19:10 local time on 29 October 2009 (02:10 on 30 October UTC), a Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft of the United States Coast Guard was involved in a mid-air collision with a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter of the United States Marine Corps.
On 16 July 2013, aged 34, he moved abroad for the very first time, signing a two-year contract with Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin FC – he had just been banned from playing in his country while investigations were carried out to determine whether or not he was involved in match-fixing when he represented Hércules.
:In the early 1960s the Israeli Air Force wanted to upgrade to the C-130 Hercules which could lift larger payloads, but it was expensive and sales were embargoed by the United States.
This game plays a large role in Richard Herring's stand-up show, Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace.
Like the "clip movie" Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur, the fight with the hydra in Hercules and the Amazon Women would not be remembered by Iolaus because Hercules had Zeus turn back time.
The external and interior decoration is typical of the French Renaissance style, with Classical orders (ionic, doric, Corinthian), scenes from the legend of Hercules, such as the Lernaean Hydra and the Nemean lion, as well as more personal motifs, such as the cannons, swords, the collar of the Order of Saint Michael.
A total 4 guns were captured by the British, these were flown in via Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules during the conflict last weeks in order to repel British naval gun fire.
He also worked on non-sacred themes, in 1574 producing sculptures of Julius Caesar and Hercules for La Alameda.
Dousman Hotel, a hotel in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin named for Hercules L. Dousman
Wingfield was the son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, by Dorothy Beresford Rowley, daughter of Hercules Rowley, of Summerhill, County Meath.
Prior to joining the Washington University faculty, she was a senior research scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories in Hercules, California.
His win in the qualifying heats of that tournament in the Hercules Hold event, in a group containing Mark Felix who has a claim to having the strongest grip in the world, is the achievement he has stated he is most proud of.
Four enslaved servants were held by the Washingtons at the Franks house: Oney Judge, Austin (her brother), Moll, and Hercules.
The man tells Hercules that they are all men from his village and that the witch who guards the Fountain of Youth killed them for their youth and strength.
The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) was an IBM PC compatible graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. After the success of the monochrome Hercules Graphics Card which gained wide developer support, the market was changing with the release of new colour cards which were becoming increasingly affordable.
The transit center is a pulse (a timed and synchronized) transfer point for various local feeder bus lines from the adjacent areas of Hercules, Pinole, Rodeo, the northern Hilltop area of Richmond, Bayview-Montalvin, and Tara Hills.
In the very next year (1961), INS Vikrant (formerly HMS Hercules) was acquired by the Indian Navy.
He has also appeared in many movies and mini-series including, That Eye, The Sky, 20th Century Fox's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Joey, The Real Macaw, The Farm, Disappearance, Blurred, The Pact, was the voice as Napoleon in Napoleon (1995 film) and Hercules.
Jasper Heywood, SJ (1535 – 9 January 1598) was the English translator of three Latin plays of Seneca, the Troas (1559), the Thyestes (1560) and Hercules Furens (1561), and a Jesuit missionary.
In the first upper story, the so-called Herkulessaal (Hercules hall) is decorated with a statue of Hercules battling the Hydra from the 17th century.
José Roberto Figueroa Padilla, also known as Macho, (born 15 December 1959 in Coyoles, Olanchito) is a retired Honduran footballer who played as a forward, in Honduras for Motagua, Vida and in Spain for Real Murcia and Hércules.
In 1529 he was still living in Tours when Francis I commissioned him to make marble sculptures of Hercules and Leda, now lost, and in 1533 he was appointed Sculpteur du Roi (a non-exclusive appointment) as his father and uncles had been before him.
In later years, Freeman also worked extensively as a voice actress, playing Ma Crackshell on DuckTales, a Theban woman in Disney's Hercules, a matriarchal criminal called "Ma Mayhem" in the series Batman Beyond in the episode "The Eggbaby", and fortune teller Madame Xima in the video game Curse of Monkey Island.
The yacht belonging to the Prince of Monaco is usually berthed in La Condamine's large harbour, the Port of Hercules.
Firing Unit Integration Facilities had been replaced when the Improved Nike Hercules ground system (Western Electric System 1393 Radar Course Directing Central) was deployed and included an internal automated data link.
Norma has sung the French versions of songs on the soundtracks of French dubbed American films, including Sister Act 1 & 2, Lion King, Hercules etc.
Lars Olausson, Lockheed Hercules Production List - 1954-2008 - 25th ed.
Ptolemy’s parents descended from backgrounds that had strong endemic traditions in claiming their descent from Hercules (see Heracleidae).
It is set in the present day (the early 1930s), and plays on the contrasts and conflicts between the rural aristocracy and urban bohemians, between the hunting set and the artists - as one song describes it, "between Orpheus and Hercules".
Some early parks include the la Alameda de Hércules, in Seville, a promenaded public mall, urban garden and park built in 1574, within the historic center of Seville; the City Park, in Budapest, Hungary, which was property of the Batthyány family and was later made public.
In Greek mythology, the centaur Chiron was a "Wounded Healer", after being poisoned with an incurable wound by one of Hercules's arrows.
In the early 1970s, Sachs produced the revolutionary Wankel rotary engine powered Hercules motorcycle.