Julius Pollux (Greek: Ἰούλιος Πολυδεύκης, Ioulios Polydeukes; fl. 2nd century) was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naucratis, Ancient Egypt. Emperor...
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The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group, after San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain, the location of the palace of La Granja at which...
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of 8.8 m (29 ft). Pollux was built for Trelleborgs Ångfartygs Nya A/B of Trelleborg and, after 17 years service, was sold in 1900 to Rederi A/B Avena...
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Southern Cross Expedition (redirect from British Antarctic Expedition 1898–1900)
For his expedition's ship, Borchgrevink purchased in 1897 a steam whaler, Pollux, that had been built in 1886 in Arendal on the south east coast of Norway...
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Timandra, Phoebe and Philonoe, and the stepfather of Helen of Troy and Pollux. Tyndareus had a brother named Hippocoon, who seized power and exiled Tyndareus...
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Charaxes pollux, the black-bordered charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Charaxes pollux can be found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia,...
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generally date from the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD). Temple of Castor and Pollux (494 BC) Temple of Saturn (501 BC) Temple of Vesta (7th century BC) Temple...
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Grafrath was sired (fathered) by Kastor (1), the son of the championship dog Pollux (1), and whelped by Lene (Sparwasser). Horand had a grey-yellow sable coat...
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Draught water buffalo in the Foro Romano, 1900; on the left are the three columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux....
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Harrison 1922, p. 183; Harrison reports that according to the Onomasticon of Pollux (iv 130), Zeus and his attendants were suspended above the action in a crane...
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Triangle will be high in the southwest. Aldebaran, Arcturus, Capella and Pollux are other first-magnitude stars which may be seen, although they will be...
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take the town all failed, the siege was eventually broken on 28 February 1900. Both Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were present at the siege, the...
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Theseus returned to Athens, the Dioscuri (Helen's twin brothers Castor and Pollux) had taken Helen back to Sparta; they had taken captive Aethra as well as...
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versions of tug of war, while dielkystinda had no rope, according to Julius Pollux. It is possible that the teams held hands when pulling, which would have...
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(1910–1928), V50 (1928–1944) HSwMS Castor (1909–1928), V51 (1928–1940) HSwMS Pollux (1909–1928), V52 (1928–1940) HSwMS Vega (1911–1928), V53 (1928–1941) HSwMS Vesta...
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("slightly red"): it has a B-V color index of +1.23, roughly midway between Pollux (B-V +1.00) and Aldebaran (B-V +1.54). η Boötis, or Muphrid, is only 3.3...
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HSwMS Polaris HSwMS Perseus HSwMS Regulus HSwMS Rigel HSwMS Castor HSwMS Pollux HSwMS Vega HSwMS Vesta 2. class HSwMS Hugin Perseus class HSwMS Perseus (T101)...
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Rome The Apotheosis of Claudius Castor and Pollux...
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an artist from the Bauhaus, and features mythological twins Castor and Pollux. Since then the Organising Committee of the host city has been given the...
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complex of Roman baths was built here, as the statues of the twins Castor and Pollux taming the horses decorating the fountain in the square testify. The Quirinal...
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"star wreath", it formed this asterism with Procyon, Sirius, Castor and Pollux. In Tahitian folklore, Capella was Tahi-ari'i, the wife of Fa'a-nui (Auriga)...
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combat, athletics, herding, poetry and music. Photius wrote that Polydeuces (Pollux), one of the Dioscuri, was a lover of Hermes, to whom he gifted the Thessalian...
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Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij (section Reorientation and restructuring (1883 - 1900))
were sold. However, KNSM made good use of the money by ordering Castor, Pollux and Stella of about 1,800 ton each. Other ships were bought, lengthened...
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Deipnosophistae. 10.413f. B3. Athanaeus. Deipnosophistae. 12.526a. B4. Julius Pollux. Onomasticon. B5. Athanaeus. Deipnosophistae. 11.782a. B6. Athanaeus. Deipnosophistae...
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later claimed responsibility for the attack, identifying the tanker as the Pollux and claiming they targeted it with a "large number of appropriate naval...
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associations. The design was based on the proportions of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum. "Perfect and aloof" on a tall, rusticated podium, it...
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Rome The Apotheosis of Claudius Castor and Pollux...
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Service is a submarine flanked by two stylized dolphins named Castor and Pollux. The origin of this insignia dates back to June 1923, when Captain Ernest...
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would not look equilateral, but very thin and long, with Procyon outshining Pollux in the middle of Gemini, and Sirius lying less than a degree from Betelgeuse...
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Aricie (1733), which was followed by Les Indes galantes (1735), Castor et Pollux (1737) and Dardanus (1739). After a few years of inactivity, in 1745 he...
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