In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, Ancient: [mǐːnɔːs] Modern: [ˈminos]) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine...
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far detector). The MINOS experiment started detecting neutrinos from the NuMI beam in February 2005. On 30 March 2006, the MINOS collaboration announced...
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Minotaur (redirect from Minos bull)
upon command of King Minos of Crete. According to tradition, every nine years the people of Athens were compelled by King Minos to choose fourteen young...
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Minos was a mythical king of Crete. Minos may also refer to: Minos (dialogue), one of the dialogues of Plato Palace of Minos, a Bronze Age archaeological...
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92°14′30″W / 47.82000°N 92.24167°W / 47.82000; -92.24167 MINOS+ was a continuation of the MINOS experiment (Main injector neutrino oscillation search) to...
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ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Minos, after the Minos of Greek mythology. The first HMS Minos (1840) was an early steam vessel, operating...
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mulberry plant, and Minos sent him to find Glaucus. Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an owl driving bees away from a wine-cellar in Minos' palace. Inside...
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Knossos (redirect from Palace of Minos)
wrote that Minos, the legendary king of Knossos, established a thalassocracy (sea empire). Thucydides accepted the tradition and added that Minos cleared...
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Mino ware (美濃焼, Mino-yaki) is a style of Japanese pottery, stoneware, and ceramics that is produced in Mino Province, mainly in the cities of Tajimi,...
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Icarus were imprisoned by King Minos in the labyrinth that he had built. He could not leave Crete by sea, as King Minos kept a strict watch on all vessels...
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Mino may refer to: Mino, Gifu, a city in Gifu Prefecture Mino, Kagawa, a former town in Kagawa Prefecture Mino, Tokushima, a town in Tokushima Prefecture...
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Phragmacossia minos is a species of moth of the family Cossidae. It is found on Crete. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phragmacossia minos. Wikispecies...
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Butler as Caeneus (né Caenis) Mat Fraser as Daedalus Stanley Townsend as Minos Billie Piper as Cassandra Fates Suzy Eddie Izzard as Lachesis ("Lachy")...
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Sarpedon (Trojan War hero) (redirect from Sarpedon (brother of Minos))
of Minos and Rhadamanthus, while in other accounts the Sarpedon who fought at Troy was the grandson of the Sarpedon who was the brother of Minos. There...
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geos, genitive gē "earth, land") was a Cretan prince as the son of King Minos. Androgeus' mother was Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios. He was the brother...
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now in western Georgia). Pasiphaë was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus...
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Rhadamanthus (redirect from Minos and Rhadamanthus)
— Plato's Laws, Book I King Asterius died childless and Minos inherited the throne. When Minos became the king of Crete, he drove Rhadamanthus out of Crete...
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Minos Xenophon "Minas" Kyriakou (Greek: Μίνως (Μηνάς) Κυριακού, pronounced [ˌminos (miˌnas) ciriaˈku]; 31 May 1942 – 2 July 2017) was a Greek media and...
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Earth, and Venus. "Minos". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 22 March 2020. "Minos". Merriam-Webster...
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Ariadne (section Minos and Theseus)
Minoan loanword. Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete and son of Zeus, and of Pasiphaë, Minos' queen and daughter of Helios. Others denominated...
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1307. Plato, Minos, 313a–b Plato, Minos, 313b–c Plato, Minos, 314c Plato, Minos, 314d Plato, Minos, 314e Plato, Minos, 314e–315a Plato, Minos, 315a–318d...
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Minos (Hangul: 마이노스), is a South Korean rapper. He is currently[when?] a member of the hip hop duo Eluphant, signed to Brand New Music. Virus Minos debuted...
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the son of Minos, the first king of Crete. She bore Lycastus a son, also named Minos, who succeeded his father as the "second" king Minos of Crete. Graves...
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controlling share of Minos Matsas & Son, founded by pioneering Greek music industry executive and prominent rebetiko musician Minos Matsas, and relaunched...
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designing escape rooms for Minos after they abducted her daughter. Amanda appears and begs Zoey to become the next puzzle-maker for Minos, warning that she has...
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MINOS is a Fortran software package for solving linear and nonlinear mathematical optimization problems. MINOS (Modular In-core Nonlinear Optimization...
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Mino is a genus of mynas, birds in the starling family. These are the largest of the starlings and are found in tropical moist lowland forests in New Guinea...
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incurring the wrath of Minos. When King Minos heard what had befallen his son, he ordered the Cretan fleet to set sail for Athens. Minos asked Aegeus for his...
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Minos Kalokairinos (Μίνως Καλοκαιρινός, 1843, Heraklion - 1907, Heraklion) was a Cretan Greek businessman and amateur archaeologist known for performing...
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of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalus had revealed the...
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