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Xolotl was the sinister god of monstrosities who wears the spirally-twisted wind jewel and the ear ornaments of Quetzalcoatl. [6] His job was to protect the sun from the dangers of the underworld. As a double of Quetzalcoatl, he carries his conch-like ehecailacacozcatl or wind jewel.
The Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) was a New York University research facility founded in 1965 by Edward Goldsmith and Jan Moor-Jankowski. The Tuxedo , New York -based outfit was a prominent vendor of primates and primate parts in the New York metropolitan area .
The Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, often simply the Musée Fragonard, is a museum of anatomical oddities located within the École Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 7 avenue du Général de Gaulle, in Maisons-Alfort, a suburb of Paris.
The Greeks and Romans, at least from the Hellenistic period onward, used Neolithic stone axeheads for the apotropaic protection of buildings. [6] A 1985 survey of the use of prehistoric axes in Romano-British contexts found forty examples, of which twenty-nine were associated with buildings including villas, military structures such as barracks, temples, and kilns.
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is a mystery novel by James Lovegrove.It is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that involves H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. [1] It is the first book in the Cthulhu Casebooks series.
In later centuries it came to be called commonly, but incorrectly, the Legio Fulminatrix, the Thundering Legion. History. Under the Republic The Twelfth ...
The first issue introduced the first three T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents: Dynamo, No-Man and Menthor. United Nations soldiers storm a mountain laboratory of a UN scientist, Professor Emil Jennings, driving off the forces of the Warlord. The scientist dies, but leaves behind several inventions — super weapons to combat the Warlord's worldwide attacks.
HMS Tonnant (lit. ' Thundering ') was an 80-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy.She had previously been Tonnant of the French Navy and the lead ship of the Tonnant class.The British captured her in August 1793 during the Siege of Toulon but the French recaptured her when the siege was broken in December.