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I felt like a statue and I didn't like the feeling.

Rondo sits through most of the session like a statue, unblinking and stiff.

It's hard to look like a statue when your costume is blowing around.

Miraculously, it stands up like a statue in the shape of a beehive.

The man nudged the woman, who was sitting next to him like a statue.

His exuberance is a total contrast to Mike, who stands next to him reverently, like a statue.

Sometimes she can become too focused, spending far too long marking individual essays, or rooted like a statue in her chair.

Next, I'm introduced to what looks like a statue mold of a duck's vagina, again, while the duck herself stands by.

She painted herself white and stood like a statue on a crate in Harvard Square, waiting for people to give her change.

By the time Paul makes his move, Esther, alone and elevated, the camera whirling below her, looks like a statue on a pedestal.

It has only partly emerged into life, like a statue still half-stuck in the marble, or a faun forever frozen in place.

She was older than him and hard like a statue with thighs that showed each muscle and a "Betty and Veronica" cartoon face.

Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Violinist Camilla Urso "stood on the stage like a statue on fire," in the words of writer Theodore Tilton.

All that remained 101 years later was the rusted metal shell of the scow that clung to the rocks like a statue — until last week.

"During the day this species is entirely immobile, perching upright like a statue, closing its eyes, and blending in with the branches it hides in," Cancellare said.

"I was frozen into immobility like a statue, because a well-known producer with whom I've come to discuss modern Russian writers, was in a bathrobe," she said.

Beneath the gray sky and spitting rain, he wore a red hat and stood like a statue in the parking lot, a hand on his black rolling suitcase.

This habit of standing like a statue and then attempting to use slick head movement was also exploited in Michael Chandler by Eddie Alvarez in their jab-heavy second fight.

The bottom floor, which documents slavery, features artifacts like an auction block and works like a statue of Thomas Jefferson standing in front of a wall of bricks listing the names of slaves he owned.

" The shock of what happened next is still with Mtsitouridze 21980 years later: "I was frozen into immobility like a statue, because a well-known producer with whom I've come to discuss modern Russian writers, was in a bathrobe.

The majority leader spent hours sitting up like a statue — with his hands folded neatly in his lap and a blank expression on his face — as he stared down the Democrats who were making the case to remove Trump from office.

In the days before their first fight, Joshua, built like a statue, was seen as the future of the division, and the rotund Ruiz was supposed to be a mere stepping stone on his path to a big-money fight against another top heavyweight, either Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury.

What is impressive is that I have seen Sakuraba legitimately knocked out in the ring far more times than I am comfortable with, and Nakamura's knees are almost more convincing than some of the blows Sakuraba has actually been KO'd by Even Yoshihiro Takayama, who sells like a statue, looked good taking it.

And though Kaliningrad is currently an established manufacturing, shipping, and fishing hub, the Russian government, along with the Russian Orthodox Church and civilian authorities, has recently doubled down on efforts that began in 2014 to eliminate remaining traces of the region's German past and prop up Russian structures like a statue of medieval Russian prince and hero Alexander Nevsky.

Although it was interesting to watch him and try to predict what he'll do next — it appears he likes to randomly stand completely still for about 30 seconds, kind of like a statue, so people watching see him in profile — one of the most interesting parts of this whole project isn't in the project itself but rather in the conversations that happen just outside the storefront window.

Streets in Lakeview are generally named after military leaders, battles, forts, and the like. A statue of General Mouton was erected in downtown Lafayette.

Northwest of the city of Agioi Theodoroi, in 1961, archaeologists unearthed the ruins of ancient Krommyona. Important discoveries were made like a statue of Apollo, many black-figured vases, geometric and lakoeideis graves. According to Stravona, the entire coastal region of the Saronic and the Eleusinian Gulf was named Krommyona. Krommyona until the 6th century.

Andromeda stands amid seashells and coral. Coral is mentioned by Ovid, but as being formed from Medusa's locks at a later stage in the story. Ovid describes Andromeda as looking like a statue, and having been crying; Titian's depiction matches both. Perseus had been given his curved sword by Mercury, and his shield by Minerva.

The album cover is the first to feature art model Saul Fox, who the band had met and befriended in 1993. On the cover, he is seen posing like a statue without a shirt and covered with pigeons, representing The Birdman. The rest of the packaging follows this theme. The photography was done by Andrew MacNaughtan.

" He stood before them like a statue and the men who held the two policemen helpless paused for an instant. He went on: "You are brave today because you outnumber the white men, but what will you do tomorrow? There are railroads on all sides of you. The soldiers will pour in from every direction by thousands and surround you.

Les Brown and his Band of Renown play themselves in the extended senior prom scenes. Love instructs the bartender to make an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater, "mix it nice" and pour it into a tall glass. The bartender asks if he can take a sip; after doing so, he freezes like a statue. While the drink started as fictional, it is now listed on some cocktail websites.

Henry and Mortimer return and lead Matt off to see the world. A month passes, and the fathers have rebuilt the wall. They meet and speak sadly of their children; Luisa is like a statue and does nothing but sit and dream; Matt still hasn't returned. They then sing about the uncertainties of raising children, as compared with the reliability of vegetable gardening ("Plant a Radish").

See Clarke, p.19, for a photograph of a gargoyle. A rhinoceros had not been seen in Europe since Roman times: it had become something of a mythical beast, occasionally conflated in bestiaries with the "monoceros" (unicorn), so the arrival of a living example created a sensation. In the context of the Renaissance, it was a piece of classical antiquity which had been rediscovered, like a statue or an inscription.

Vespasian was a general under Claudius and Nero. He fought as a commander in the First Jewish-Roman War along with his son Titus. Following the turmoil of the Year of the Four Emperors, in 69 AD, four emperors were enthroned: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and, lastly, Vespasian, who crushed Vitellius' forces and became emperor. Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Vespasian, I. He reconstructed many buildings which were uncompleted, like a statue of Apollo and the temple of Divus Claudius ("the deified Claudius"), both initiated by Nero.

Her visits were excitedly awaited by the hotel staff, who would prepare long in advance. Taylor was honored at the 1983 Friars Club dinner at the hotel. Brooke Shields has stated that her very first encounter with the paparazzi was in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf at the age of 12, stating that she "stood like a statue wondering why they were all hired to photograph me", and that she "debuted at the Waldorf". During her childhood in the 1980s and 1990s, Paris Hilton lived with her family in the hotel.

Meenakshi stares at Krishna waiting to confess her love, though Krishna stands like a statue there till the train leaves. Seeing his son leading a lazy, dull and unexcited life against the way he lived makes Krishna's mother Yashoda (Jayasudha) send him away to bring Meenakshi as his wife. With Srinu and Sarma pressurizing him, Krishna goes with his friends to attend the marriage. While Neelakanta is afraid Meenakshi would elope with Krishna this night, Krishna confronts Neelakanta, confesses his love for Meenakshi, and assures he would not elope with her.

Le Gros based the facial expressions on examples for the passions developed by Charles Le Brun. While the figure of Religion appears like a statue, the old woman melts into the wall decoration, the man tips over the edge of the architectural framework towards the spectator and the snake, an anecdotal detail very typical for Le Gros, hisses directly at the viewer. This work has always been compared to Théodon's counterpart Triumph of Faith over Idolatry, carved in a much more classicising, rigid style. The rivalry between the two Frenchmen was to play out repeatedly over the next few years.

" Puffs from the Peace Pipe, p.10. On one of his visits to The Wigwam of Major Israel McCreight, Buffalo Bill asked Iron Tail to illustrate in pantomime how he played and won a game of poker with U S. army officials during a Treaty Council in the old days. "Going through all the forms of the game from dealing to antes and betting and drawing a last card during which no word was uttered and his countenance like a statue, he suddenly swept the table clean into his blanket and rose from the table and strutted away. It was a piece of superb acting, and exceedingly funny.

26 In the Argonautica, Jason and the Argonauts defeated him by way of a single plug near his foot which, once removed, allowed the vital ichor to flow out from his body and left him inanimate. Pygmalion was a legendary king and sculptor of Greek Mythology, famously represented in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the 10th book of Ovid’s narrative poem, Pygmalion becomes disgusted with women when he witnesses the way in which the Propoetides prostitute themselves. Despite this, he makes offerings at the temple of Venus asking the goddess to bring to him a woman just like a statue he carved and fell in love with.

Oregon History Project -- Oregon Biographies While her previous book included fictional stylistic elements but conformed on a narrative level to known facts, The Conquest was notably unfettered by adherence to the historical record. Dye's portrayal of Sacagawea ascribed to her imagined features (no portrait or description survives), and postulated that her role was integral to the expedition's success, to the extent that she should be commemorated equally with Lewis and Clark: > Sacajawea's hair was neatly braided, her nose was fine and straight, and her > skin pure copper like a statue in some Florentine gallery. Madonna of her > race, she had led the way to a new time.

TVNoord, 2012 Van Giffen learned that the closer he excavated towards the church, the older the objects proved to be. Eager as he was to find even older evidence, he had the church propped and tried to dig under it but soon had to abandon his attempt due to instability of the church. All in all Van Giffen's endeavors revealed that Ezinge was constantly inhabited since 600 BCE and probably earlier, making it one of the oldest towns in Europe. Roman (import-) pottery and artefacts, like a statue of Jupiter,TVNoord, 2012 were found, indicating (economic-) relations with cultures far away and a magic wand, indicating pagan beliefs.

On the Gobrecht dollar, with its high relief, the depiction of Liberty appears like a statue on a plinth; the flatter Seated Liberty decreased relief appears more like an engraving. Art historian Cornelius Vermeule tied the appearance of the obverse to neoclassicism, noting the resemblance of Gobrecht's Liberty to the marble statues of ancient Rome. The neoclassical school was popular in the first half of the 19th century, and not only among official artists; Vermeule noted, "it becomes almost painfully evident that similar sources were consulted both by the engravers of United States coins in Philadelphia and by the cutters of tombstones from Maine to Illinois". The reverse retained the shield upon the eagle's breast.

Penguin, 1972, p. 223. (published 1594), although he mistakenly locates the lake in Iceland: > Admirable, above the rest, are the incomprehensible wonders of the > bottomless Lake Vether, over which no fowl flies but is frozen to death, nor > any man passeth but he is senselessly benumbed like a statue of marble. All > the inhabitants round about it are deafened with the hideous roaring of his > waters when the winter breaketh up, and the ice in his dissolving gives a > terrible crack like to thunder, whenas out of the midst of it, as out of > Mont-Gibell, a sulphureous stinking smoke issues, that wellnigh poisons the > whole country. Lake Vether is also mentioned in Samuel Johnson's essay for The Idler No. 96, on Hacho of Lapland.

Larry Slobodkin enthusiastically shared his personal vision of science as a form of art. Thus, he asked a class of undergraduate students to look closely at the mounted skeleton of a cat he brought into the room with him - but to first look at it as an example of visual flow like a statue and only then as an example of adaptation. His quick and sophisticated wit, infusing both his conversation and teaching, was legendary. During a lecture at the University of Michigan, held in a basement-level auditorium where the podium was flanked by a door to the building's loading dock, he described the musical genius that blessed successive generations of the Bach family to illustrate principles of heredity.

On one of his visits to The Wigwam of Major Israel McCreight in Du Bois, Pennsylvania, Buffalo Bill asked Iron Tail to illustrate in pantomime how he played and won a game of poker with U. S. army officials during a Treaty Council in the old days. "Going through all the forms of the game from dealing to antes and betting and drawing a last card during which no word was uttered and his countenance like a statue, he suddenly swept the table clean into his blanket and rose from the table and strutted away. It was a piece of superb acting, and exceedingly funny." Iron Tail continued to travel with Buffalo Bill until 1913, and then the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West until his death in 1916.

John B. Minor in 1859 John B. Minor in October 1884 University of Virginia Law Students, 1893 Of his monumental Institutes of Common and Statute Law, Senator Daniel said: "It cannot be surpassed as a vade mecum of the law; it is like a statue, solid, compact, clean cut; it contains more law in fewer words than any work with which I am acquainted." The first and second volumes were published in 1875, and the fourth volume in 1878, while the third, which had long been used in pamphlet form by his pupils, was first published in complete form in 1895. In 1870, the professor began a summer course of law lectures, and his is believed to have been the first summer law school in the country. This became widely popular, enrolling more than a hundred students.

Vice-captain Neil Harvey was passed over in favour of Richie Benaud, but remained Australia's premier batsman Colin McDonald was captain of Victoria and an effective opener with a short backlift who had made centuries against South Africa and the West Indies and had stood up to Tyson in 1954-55.p69, Graveney and Giller He made as fighting 32 and 89 in "Laker's Test", but failed in the rest of the 1956 series. In 1958-59 McDonald's 519 runs (64.87) made him the first batsmen to top 500 runs in an Ashes series since Len Hutton in 1950-51 and the first Australian to do so since Don Bradman in 1948. His opening partner was Jim Burke a stonewaller who took 578 minutes to make 189 against South Africa in 1957-58 Cape Town and was the butt of the Sydney Hill barrackers; "Burkey, you're so like a statue, I wish I were a pigeon"Tyson, p. 126. He didn't make many runs in 1958-59 though he tended to hang around and retired at the end of the season rather than face the increasingly number of fast bowlers.

I felt like a statue and I didn't like the feeling. from Vice
Rondo sits through most of the session like a statue, unblinking and stiff. from Vice
It's hard to look like a statue when your costume is blowing around. from Vice
Miraculously, it stands up like a statue in the shape of a beehive. from Vice
The man nudged the woman, who was sitting next to him like a statue. from New Yorker
His exuberance is a total contrast to Mike, who stands next to him reverently, like a statue. from Vice
Sometimes she can become too focused, spending far too long marking individual essays, or rooted like a statue in her chair. from Vice
Next, I'm introduced to what looks like a statue mold of a duck's vagina, again, while the duck herself stands by. from Vice
She painted herself white and stood like a statue on a crate in Harvard Square, waiting for people to give her change. from The New York Times
By the time Paul makes his move, Esther, alone and elevated, the camera whirling below her, looks like a statue on a pedestal. from The New York Times
It has only partly emerged into life, like a statue still half-stuck in the marble, or a faun forever frozen in place. from The New York Times
She was older than him and hard like a statue with thighs that showed each muscle and a "Betty and Veronica" cartoon face. from The New York Times
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Violinist Camilla Urso "stood on the stage like a statue on fire," in the words of writer Theodore Tilton. from Hyperallergic
All that remained 101 years later was the rusted metal shell of the scow that clung to the rocks like a statue — until last week. from The New York Times
"During the day this species is entirely immobile, perching upright like a statue, closing its eyes, and blending in with the branches it hides in," Cancellare said. from Gizmodo
"I was frozen into immobility like a statue, because a well-known producer with whom I've come to discuss modern Russian writers, was in a bathrobe," she said. from Buzzfeed News
Beneath the gray sky and spitting rain, he wore a red hat and stood like a statue in the parking lot, a hand on his black rolling suitcase. from The New York Times
This habit of standing like a statue and then attempting to use slick head movement was also exploited in Michael Chandler by Eddie Alvarez in their jab-heavy second fight. from Vice
The bottom floor, which documents slavery, features artifacts like an auction block and works like a statue of Thomas Jefferson standing in front of a wall of bricks listing the names of slaves he owned. from The New York Times
" The shock of what happened next is still with Mtsitouridze 21980 years later: "I was frozen into immobility like a statue, because a well-known producer with whom I've come to discuss modern Russian writers, was in a bathrobe. from Vox
The majority leader spent hours sitting up like a statue — with his hands folded neatly in his lap and a blank expression on his face — as he stared down the Democrats who were making the case to remove Trump from office. from Politico
In the days before their first fight, Joshua, built like a statue, was seen as the future of the division, and the rotund Ruiz was supposed to be a mere stepping stone on his path to a big-money fight against another top heavyweight, either Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury. from Business Insider
What is impressive is that I have seen Sakuraba legitimately knocked out in the ring far more times than I am comfortable with, and Nakamura's knees are almost more convincing than some of the blows Sakuraba has actually been KO'd by Even Yoshihiro Takayama, who sells like a statue, looked good taking it. from Vice
And though Kaliningrad is currently an established manufacturing, shipping, and fishing hub, the Russian government, along with the Russian Orthodox Church and civilian authorities, has recently doubled down on efforts that began in 2014 to eliminate remaining traces of the region's German past and prop up Russian structures like a statue of medieval Russian prince and hero Alexander Nevsky. from New Republic
Although it was interesting to watch him and try to predict what he'll do next — it appears he likes to randomly stand completely still for about 30 seconds, kind of like a statue, so people watching see him in profile — one of the most interesting parts of this whole project isn't in the project itself but rather in the conversations that happen just outside the storefront window. from Hyperallergic
Streets in Lakeview are generally named after military leaders, battles, forts, and the like. A statue of General Mouton was erected in downtown Lafayette.
Northwest of the city of Agioi Theodoroi, in 1961, archaeologists unearthed the ruins of ancient Krommyona. Important discoveries were made like a statue of Apollo, many black-figured vases, geometric and lakoeideis graves. According to Stravona, the entire coastal region of the Saronic and the Eleusinian Gulf was named Krommyona. Krommyona until the 6th century.
Andromeda stands amid seashells and coral. Coral is mentioned by Ovid, but as being formed from Medusa's locks at a later stage in the story. Ovid describes Andromeda as looking like a statue, and having been crying; Titian's depiction matches both. Perseus had been given his curved sword by Mercury, and his shield by Minerva.
The album cover is the first to feature art model Saul Fox, who the band had met and befriended in 1993. On the cover, he is seen posing like a statue without a shirt and covered with pigeons, representing The Birdman. The rest of the packaging follows this theme. The photography was done by Andrew MacNaughtan.
" He stood before them like a statue and the men who held the two policemen helpless paused for an instant. He went on: "You are brave today because you outnumber the white men, but what will you do tomorrow? There are railroads on all sides of you. The soldiers will pour in from every direction by thousands and surround you.
Les Brown and his Band of Renown play themselves in the extended senior prom scenes. Love instructs the bartender to make an Alaskan Polar Bear Heater, "mix it nice" and pour it into a tall glass. The bartender asks if he can take a sip; after doing so, he freezes like a statue. While the drink started as fictional, it is now listed on some cocktail websites.
Henry and Mortimer return and lead Matt off to see the world. A month passes, and the fathers have rebuilt the wall. They meet and speak sadly of their children; Luisa is like a statue and does nothing but sit and dream; Matt still hasn't returned. They then sing about the uncertainties of raising children, as compared with the reliability of vegetable gardening ("Plant a Radish").
See Clarke, p.19, for a photograph of a gargoyle. A rhinoceros had not been seen in Europe since Roman times: it had become something of a mythical beast, occasionally conflated in bestiaries with the "monoceros" (unicorn), so the arrival of a living example created a sensation. In the context of the Renaissance, it was a piece of classical antiquity which had been rediscovered, like a statue or an inscription.
Vespasian was a general under Claudius and Nero. He fought as a commander in the First Jewish-Roman War along with his son Titus. Following the turmoil of the Year of the Four Emperors, in 69 AD, four emperors were enthroned: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and, lastly, Vespasian, who crushed Vitellius' forces and became emperor. Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Vespasian, I. He reconstructed many buildings which were uncompleted, like a statue of Apollo and the temple of Divus Claudius ("the deified Claudius"), both initiated by Nero.
Her visits were excitedly awaited by the hotel staff, who would prepare long in advance. Taylor was honored at the 1983 Friars Club dinner at the hotel. Brooke Shields has stated that her very first encounter with the paparazzi was in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf at the age of 12, stating that she "stood like a statue wondering why they were all hired to photograph me", and that she "debuted at the Waldorf". During her childhood in the 1980s and 1990s, Paris Hilton lived with her family in the hotel.
Meenakshi stares at Krishna waiting to confess her love, though Krishna stands like a statue there till the train leaves. Seeing his son leading a lazy, dull and unexcited life against the way he lived makes Krishna's mother Yashoda (Jayasudha) send him away to bring Meenakshi as his wife. With Srinu and Sarma pressurizing him, Krishna goes with his friends to attend the marriage. While Neelakanta is afraid Meenakshi would elope with Krishna this night, Krishna confronts Neelakanta, confesses his love for Meenakshi, and assures he would not elope with her.
Le Gros based the facial expressions on examples for the passions developed by Charles Le Brun. While the figure of Religion appears like a statue, the old woman melts into the wall decoration, the man tips over the edge of the architectural framework towards the spectator and the snake, an anecdotal detail very typical for Le Gros, hisses directly at the viewer. This work has always been compared to Théodon's counterpart Triumph of Faith over Idolatry, carved in a much more classicising, rigid style. The rivalry between the two Frenchmen was to play out repeatedly over the next few years.
" Puffs from the Peace Pipe, p.10. On one of his visits to The Wigwam of Major Israel McCreight, Buffalo Bill asked Iron Tail to illustrate in pantomime how he played and won a game of poker with U S. army officials during a Treaty Council in the old days. "Going through all the forms of the game from dealing to antes and betting and drawing a last card during which no word was uttered and his countenance like a statue, he suddenly swept the table clean into his blanket and rose from the table and strutted away. It was a piece of superb acting, and exceedingly funny.
26 In the Argonautica, Jason and the Argonauts defeated him by way of a single plug near his foot which, once removed, allowed the vital ichor to flow out from his body and left him inanimate. Pygmalion was a legendary king and sculptor of Greek Mythology, famously represented in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the 10th book of Ovid’s narrative poem, Pygmalion becomes disgusted with women when he witnesses the way in which the Propoetides prostitute themselves. Despite this, he makes offerings at the temple of Venus asking the goddess to bring to him a woman just like a statue he carved and fell in love with.
Oregon History Project -- Oregon Biographies While her previous book included fictional stylistic elements but conformed on a narrative level to known facts, The Conquest was notably unfettered by adherence to the historical record. Dye's portrayal of Sacagawea ascribed to her imagined features (no portrait or description survives), and postulated that her role was integral to the expedition's success, to the extent that she should be commemorated equally with Lewis and Clark: > Sacajawea's hair was neatly braided, her nose was fine and straight, and her > skin pure copper like a statue in some Florentine gallery. Madonna of her > race, she had led the way to a new time.
TVNoord, 2012 Van Giffen learned that the closer he excavated towards the church, the older the objects proved to be. Eager as he was to find even older evidence, he had the church propped and tried to dig under it but soon had to abandon his attempt due to instability of the church. All in all Van Giffen's endeavors revealed that Ezinge was constantly inhabited since 600 BCE and probably earlier, making it one of the oldest towns in Europe. Roman (import-) pottery and artefacts, like a statue of Jupiter,TVNoord, 2012 were found, indicating (economic-) relations with cultures far away and a magic wand, indicating pagan beliefs.
On the Gobrecht dollar, with its high relief, the depiction of Liberty appears like a statue on a plinth; the flatter Seated Liberty decreased relief appears more like an engraving. Art historian Cornelius Vermeule tied the appearance of the obverse to neoclassicism, noting the resemblance of Gobrecht's Liberty to the marble statues of ancient Rome. The neoclassical school was popular in the first half of the 19th century, and not only among official artists; Vermeule noted, "it becomes almost painfully evident that similar sources were consulted both by the engravers of United States coins in Philadelphia and by the cutters of tombstones from Maine to Illinois". The reverse retained the shield upon the eagle's breast.
Penguin, 1972, p. 223. (published 1594), although he mistakenly locates the lake in Iceland: > Admirable, above the rest, are the incomprehensible wonders of the > bottomless Lake Vether, over which no fowl flies but is frozen to death, nor > any man passeth but he is senselessly benumbed like a statue of marble. All > the inhabitants round about it are deafened with the hideous roaring of his > waters when the winter breaketh up, and the ice in his dissolving gives a > terrible crack like to thunder, whenas out of the midst of it, as out of > Mont-Gibell, a sulphureous stinking smoke issues, that wellnigh poisons the > whole country. Lake Vether is also mentioned in Samuel Johnson's essay for The Idler No. 96, on Hacho of Lapland.
Larry Slobodkin enthusiastically shared his personal vision of science as a form of art. Thus, he asked a class of undergraduate students to look closely at the mounted skeleton of a cat he brought into the room with him - but to first look at it as an example of visual flow like a statue and only then as an example of adaptation. His quick and sophisticated wit, infusing both his conversation and teaching, was legendary. During a lecture at the University of Michigan, held in a basement-level auditorium where the podium was flanked by a door to the building's loading dock, he described the musical genius that blessed successive generations of the Bach family to illustrate principles of heredity.
On one of his visits to The Wigwam of Major Israel McCreight in Du Bois, Pennsylvania, Buffalo Bill asked Iron Tail to illustrate in pantomime how he played and won a game of poker with U. S. army officials during a Treaty Council in the old days. "Going through all the forms of the game from dealing to antes and betting and drawing a last card during which no word was uttered and his countenance like a statue, he suddenly swept the table clean into his blanket and rose from the table and strutted away. It was a piece of superb acting, and exceedingly funny." Iron Tail continued to travel with Buffalo Bill until 1913, and then the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West until his death in 1916.
John B. Minor in 1859 John B. Minor in October 1884 University of Virginia Law Students, 1893 Of his monumental Institutes of Common and Statute Law, Senator Daniel said: "It cannot be surpassed as a vade mecum of the law; it is like a statue, solid, compact, clean cut; it contains more law in fewer words than any work with which I am acquainted." The first and second volumes were published in 1875, and the fourth volume in 1878, while the third, which had long been used in pamphlet form by his pupils, was first published in complete form in 1895. In 1870, the professor began a summer course of law lectures, and his is believed to have been the first summer law school in the country. This became widely popular, enrolling more than a hundred students.
Vice-captain Neil Harvey was passed over in favour of Richie Benaud, but remained Australia's premier batsman Colin McDonald was captain of Victoria and an effective opener with a short backlift who had made centuries against South Africa and the West Indies and had stood up to Tyson in 1954-55.p69, Graveney and Giller He made as fighting 32 and 89 in "Laker's Test", but failed in the rest of the 1956 series. In 1958-59 McDonald's 519 runs (64.87) made him the first batsmen to top 500 runs in an Ashes series since Len Hutton in 1950-51 and the first Australian to do so since Don Bradman in 1948. His opening partner was Jim Burke a stonewaller who took 578 minutes to make 189 against South Africa in 1957-58 Cape Town and was the butt of the Sydney Hill barrackers; "Burkey, you're so like a statue, I wish I were a pigeon"Tyson, p. 126. He didn't make many runs in 1958-59 though he tended to hang around and retired at the end of the season rather than face the increasingly number of fast bowlers.