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    the open star cluster of the Hyades, the Pleiades form the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic. The name, Pleiades, comes from Ancient Greek: Πλειάδες. It probably...
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    Pleiades were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain. The name Pleiades ostensibly...
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  • Look up Pleiades in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Pleiades are an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus. Pleiades may also refer to:...
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  • Pleiades are the seven daughters of Pleione and Atlas even though the greatest part of his inspiration may come from the astronomy, as the Pleiades were...
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    The Pléiades constellation is composed of two very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites. Pléiades-1A and Pléiades-1B provide the coverage...
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    ttukayeɣ ttegmyeɣ tabruq ttelseɣ. When the Pleiades fall, I wake looking for my goatskin bag to drink. When (the Pleiades) rise, I wake looking for cloth/clothes...
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    Pleiades (/ˈplaɪədiːz, ˈpliːə-/) is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center...
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    The Berlin Pleiades was a group of seven masters of German chess in the 19th century. They are named after the star constellation the Pleiades. The members...
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    topographic maps. The key col is located east of the mountain at 1,154 metres. Media related to Les Pléiades at Wikimedia Commons Les Pléiades on Hikr v t e...
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    transformation into the star cluster known as the Pleiades is the subject of various myths. In one story, the Pleiades, along with their half sisters the Hyades...
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  • the Pleiades may refer to: Order of the Pleiades (Iran) – a 1955 founded all-female order of the former Imperial State of Iran. Order of La Pléiade – a...
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  • Pleiads. The title comes from the mythical Greek Pleiades, the seven daughters of the titan Atlas. Pleiades is a multi-stage space shoot 'em up in which enemy...
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  • Wish Upon the Pleiades (Japanese: 放課後のプレアデス, Hepburn: Hōkago no Pureadesu, lit. "After-School Pleiades") is an original net animation series produced by...
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  • affiliated Pleiades Press publishes several books of poetry and prose each year through the Lena-Miles Wever Todd poetry prize, the Pleiades Press Editors...
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    The Pleiades Phenomenon refers to the chance encounter between a star and an interstellar cloud of dust that leads to the appearance of a reflection nebulosity...
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  • B.C.), corresponding to the seven stars of the Pleiades star cluster. Notable members of "La Pléiade" consisted of the following people: Pierre de Ronsard...
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  • USS Pleiades is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy: USS Pleiades (SP-1616) built in 1900 by the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Maryland...
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  • consistent with the dance-suite attitude of the other sets of Pleiades Dances. The Pleiades are a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. The Japanese...
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  • "Metacritic Gorguts Pleiades Dust". Metacritic. Retrieved August 14, 2016. Falzon, Denise (May 11, 2016). "Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust". Exclaim!. Retrieved...
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  • northern Victoria Land; The Pleiades are located on the Bowers Terrane. Faults may also govern the position of The Pleiades volcanoes. Basanite, basalt...
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  • Collections Guide to the Pleiades Club Collection". Dlib.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2013-12-05. Pleiades Club (1905). Pleiades Club Year Book. Pleiades Club....
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    created the Local Bubble, but now multiple supernovae in subgroup B1 of the Pleiades moving group are thought to have been responsible, becoming a remnant supershell...
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  • free dictionary. Seven Sisters may refer to: Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for Pleiades (Greek mythology), the seven sisters who are...
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    B.C.); the seven main stars of the Pleiades star cluster in the western astronomical tradition, and the Pleiades, seven sisters in the Greek mythology...
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    the Pleiades because there were more (pleion in Greek) of them than their sisters the Hyades. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, the Pleiades were...
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    Maia (category Pleiades (Greek mythology))
    Μαίη; Latin: Maia), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes, one of the major Greek gods, by Zeus, the king...
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  • Black God has a crescent moon on his forehead, a fullmoon for a mouth, the Pleiades on his temple and he wears a buckskin mask covered in sacred charcoal with...
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    (Milecastle 1 (Stott's Pow))". Pleiades. Retrieved 13 September 2020. Vanderbilt, S. "Places: 967060277 (Milecastle 2 (Walker))". Pleiades. Retrieved 13 September...
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    believes is accompanied by a depiction of the Pleiades. The name "seven sisters" has been used for the Pleiades in the languages of many cultures, including...
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    He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island Ogygia. The term "atlas"...
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