MINERVA, a Roman goddess, was the protector of intellectual and manual skills. The oldest form of her name, Menerva, may derive from the Indo-European root *men-, which is expressive of mental processes. Various Etruscan transcriptions of the name,...

An Italic goddess who may have reached the Roman pantheon via the Etruscan (→ Menrva). She is the protective deity of craftsmen and teachers, and her chief feast—the so-called Quinquatrus (19–23 March)—was solemnized mainly by...

Minerva, known also as Pallas Athena in Greek mythology, was a Roman goddess. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, and the inventor of music. [1] This article focuses on Minerva in early...

288p - Real estate - The hoarding beside the patch of land at St Botolph's in the City of London, where Minerva wants to construct its eponymous tower, proclaims the group is building for the future. But when, exactly, is what its shareholders...

MEXICO CITY Minerva Cuevas KURIMANZUTTO For her most recent exhibition in her hometown, "La venganza del elefante" (The Elephant's Revenge), Minerva Cuevas took on the role of a nineteenth-century explorer; she sought out and presented objects and images, some from that...

... flies only at Sunset Park? The Post reports today that the Department of City Planning is promoting a rezoning of South Slope/Sunset Park to curtail out-of-scale development on the side streets around Fourth Avenue, while at the same time allowing larger developments--up to 12...

Design review boards are the "queer eye for the straight guy" of civic policy, and approve or disapprove of the aesthetic of community buildings http://www.inman.com/inmanstories.aspx?ID=49869 ">(Inman News) Life on Vashon Island, just a commute over the Puget Sound or an Internet line to...