Sentences with phrase «by celts»

One of Europe's longest - established nations, Portugal's early history was marked by invasions, conquests and settlements by the Celts, Romans, Visigoths and the Moors.

At one time they were used in war but they were primarily used by the Celts and others to hunt wolves and other large animals.

In the breed's first incarnation, these dogs were used in warfare by the Celts to attack Roman riders during battle.

It was bred by Celts for use as war dogs and guard dogs.

The idea that Irish Wolfhounds, or Irish Greyhounds played a part in our breeds development is primarily due to the fact that some of these giant dogs were taken from the English and Romans by the Celts.

The earliest known sighthound was bred by the Celts and is the ancestor of the fastest dog on four legs — the greyhound.

The haunting images of the orphaned children of Sherwood forest even recall stories of black magic practiced by the Celts encountered by the first Roman invaders on the island.

The fibula (plural fibulae) is an ornamental clasp used by Romans, Greeks, Germanic peoples and also by Celts.

The rhizome roots of the plant were originally used by the Celts and early Russian populations for culinary purposes, and can still be foraged in many parts of the northern hemisphere.

It also comes from the woad plant (Isatis tinctoria), and was used by the Celts in Scotland to dye their faces.

Not exact matches

The boy at Celtic looks like a goalscorer, half a million was some shrewd piece of business by the fabulous Celts.

Centurion is basically about the true story of the Ninth Legion, getting cocky, and letting themselves get overrun by the local Picts (who are, in simple terms, Scottish Celts).

For example, it requires the placing of a massive, defenseless Roman estate North of the Wall, the innocent occupants of which must be evacuated by our hero knights — obviously no such estate would exist: the whole point of the Wall was to keep the Romans on the South side and the Celts on the North.

The Teacher - Student Data Link Project, administered by the Center for Educational Leadership Technology (CELT), would be an excellent resource to answer the state's questions.

The book is organized by culture: it begins with ancient China, followed by Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, Greece, Egypt, Africa, South America, Rome, Japan, and the communities of Celts and Vikings.

With her debut novel, The Daughters — the story of a soprano whose voice is stolen by a curse, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction — Celt introduced herself as a notable writer with a hauntingly lyrical voice.

Druids, by Barbara Galler - Smith and Josh Langston, kicks off a magnificent epic historical fantasy trilogy, set a thousand years ago when the Celts ruled Europe.

Its origins go back at least 2,000 years and possibly a lot longer, having been celebrated by the Irish Celts.

Our tour is focused on bringing you closer to the «real life» Spain, away from the large bustling cities, and into an assortment of medieval villages and larger towns of major historical and cultural interest that were influenced over the centuries by the numerous inhabitants of Spain including the Celt - Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, Moors, Sephardic Jews, and Christians.

One of them is that there were Celts, and they were expelled by the Romans and then the Romans were expelled, and London is left alone and free to take care of themselves.

Nearly 35 installations, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and videos are featured, many informed by Mori's extensive explorations of ancient cultures, including the Jōmon (14,000 — 300 BCE) of Japan and the Celts in Europe.

By the early 1960s Davie was drawing increasingly on myth and «magic symbolism», viewing himself less as an artist than as a medium, or shaman, borrowing signs and symbols from cultures as diverse as the Navajo Indians, the Caribbean islands, Aboriginal Australians, and the Ancient Egyptians, Celts and Picts.

For instance, Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts that electric vehicles will be «price competitive on an unsubsidized basis beginning in 2025,» indicating that by the end of the forecast period for CELT 2018, the region may be in the midst of a substantial shift towards electrification of the transportation industry.

As with annual energy consumption, ISO New England's forecasts for peak summer demand have steadily declined, with CELT 2018 forecasting that New England's peak demand for electricity will be below 2004 levels by 2027 (on a weather - normalized basis).

Looking forward in CELT 2018, ISO New England estimates that over the next decade, annual demand for electricity will decline by 0.86 percent per year, on average (see Figure 1).

In the latest CELT forecast of energy sales, ISO - NE increased its estimates of how much distributed solar would be in place by 2025 by 40 percent and its estimates of how much energy efficiency would be in place by 2025 by 10 percent, compared to last year's forecast.

They used a hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), unavailable to us new world types, and the spring divination thing got picked up by others, becoming imbolc for the Celts and Candlemas for the Christians eventually, all of which is tied up with the usual mix of fertility, purification and divination concerns, plausible in Europe where the green tips of things might just start pushing up through the soil along about now.