Registrar of Companies
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Registrar of Companies An official charged with the duty of registering all the companies in the UK. There is one registrar for England and Wales and one for Scotland. The registrar is responsible for carrying out a wide variety of administrative duties connected with registered companies, including maintaining the
register of companies and the
register of charges, issuing certificates of incorporation, and receiving annual returns.
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The mirror of hermaphroditus.(Salmacis and Hermaphroditus)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...s Ovidian epyllion Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, there is a linguistic, as opposed...translations of the myth of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from the Metamorphoses of Ovid...exclusive either/or, for she is like Hermaphroditus in Ovid's Metamorphoses both "am...
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Panormita's reply to his critics: the 'Hermaphroditus' and the literary defense. (poet Antonio Beccadelli)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...later king of Naples. Panormita's best known work, the Hermaphroditus, a corpus of eighty-one witty and often obscene Latin...of another renowned Sicilian, Theocritus.(2) But the Hermaphroditus brought increasingly vociferous critics as well, before...
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POET FROM HANCOCK TAKES THE EPIC APPROACH CLASSICAL REFERENCES HELP TO TELL A STORY OF MODERN-DAY DUALITY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/27/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Julia Older's book-length poem, "Hermaphroditus in America," as going on a mind...and healing over - is really what "Hermaphroditus in America" is all about. She uses...according to the poem. In the book, Hermaphroditus splits in two, forming Herman, the...
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Divine thief.(Language Corner)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 10/1/2003; ; 688 words
; ...also known as a skilled interpreter. Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes's illicit...nymph Salmakis had lured the unwilling Hermaphroditus into her fountain, she embraced him...remember how Salmakis encaged poor Hermaphroditus in her body. The German language...
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M. Zimmerman and R. van der PAARDT (eds.): Metamorphic Reflections.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Met. 5.571-641), Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (4.285-388), and Narcissus...between the Narcissus and the Salmacis/ Hermaphroditus episodes in terms of the 'total submersion...reflecting both aspects of the victim (Hermaphroditus), succumbing to the attractions...
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Swimming with translators.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Harvard Review; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Metamorphoses, Ovid tells the story of Hermaphroditus watched by the nymph Salmacis as he...well. It seems clear enough what Hermaphroditus is doing--"leading alternate arms...Note that Ovid does not write that Hermaphroditus is swimming, and yet a casual reader...
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Ancient & modern
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/13/2004; ; 598 words
; ...Commons does not deal with hermaphrodites. Bad mistake. Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. Ovid tells how the...prodigies of nature). The Greeks, on the other hand, turned Hermaphroditus into a deity, and a late 4th century BC mould for a terracotta...
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At $300 a pound, this coveted coffee is the cat's meow.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...it goes for $300 a pound and relies upon the paradoxurus hermaphroditus for its, uh, cachet. The rare coffee is heralded in this...urban legends" Web sites. But back to the paradoxurus hermaphroditus, which is actually a 4-pound, fairly agreeable, palm...
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Description of a new species of dinophilid polychaete, with observations on other dinophilids and interstitial polychaetes in new England
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT - Trilobodrilus hermaphroditus n. sp. is described from shallow subtidal sand in Massachusetts...1990:118) Trilobodrilus Remane, 1925 Trilobodrilus hermaphroditus, new species (Figures 1 to 7) "new species of Trilobodrilus...
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Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Brisson's interpretation, the poet Ovid's story of Hermaphroditus, offspring of Hermes (Mercury) and Aphrodite (Venus...285-399): "Ovid was the first to recount the myth of Hermaphroditus and the only writer to establish specific links between...
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Hermaphroditus
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Hermaphroditus In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus was the son of Hermes, messenger of the gods, and Aphrodite...forever. The gods granted her the wish one day when Hermaphroditus came to the fountain where she lived. As he was bathing...
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Hermes
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...the most was Aphrodite*, with whom he had two children, Hermaphroditus and Priapus. Hermes was also the father of Pan, the god...was half man and half goat. See also Apollo; Caduceus; Hermaphroditus; Pan; Persephone; Pleiades; Priam; Styx; Underworld...
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Aphrodite
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to Hephaestus. She loved Ares, by whom she bore Harmonia and, in some myths, Eros and Anteros. She was the mother of Hermaphroditus by Hermes and of Priapus by Dionysus. Zeus caused her to love the shepherd Anchises, by whom she bore Aeneas. Adonis...
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Pornography
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...later age that saw them as the embodiment of a kind of sexual libertinism condemned by Christianity. Antonio Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus (1425), for example, was burned in several Italian cities because its poetic dialogue between a penis and a vagina...
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Hermaphrodite
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Hermaphrodite in Greek mythology, a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, with whom the nymph Salmacis fell in love and prayed to be forever united. As a result Hermaphroditus and Salmacis became joined in a single body which retained characteristics of both sexes.
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