Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion ...
One Night Stand is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis. The film stars Wesley Snipes , Nastassja Kinski , Kyle MacLachlan , Ming-Na Wen and Robert Downey Jr. The first draft of the screenplay was written by Joe Eszterhas , who had his name removed from the project following Figgis's rewrite.
List of last stands. An illustration of the Battle of Thermopylae by John Steeple Davis. A last stand is a military situation on which a normally-small defensive force holds a position against a more powerful opposing military force. The defending force usually takes heavy casualties.
The World’s Writing Systems, catalogue of 294 writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status. Deseret Alphabet. ScriptSource– a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world. v.
Omen IV: The Awakening. Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 American supernatural horror television film directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard and written by Brian Taggert, from a story by producer Harvey Bernhard and Taggert. The film is the fourth installment in The Omen series and the final installment of the original series.
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley Script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet to be identified. [3]
Scribal abbreviation " iħm xp̄m ⁊ dm̄ " for " ihesum christum et deum " in a manuscript of the Epistle to the Galatians. Scribal abbreviations, or sigla ( singular: siglum ), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse .
Action-adventure. Mode (s) Single-player. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening [b] is a 1993 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It is the first installment in The Legend of Zelda series for a handheld game console. Link's Awakening is one of the few Zelda games not to take place in the land of Hyrule ...