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51The City and the Stars —   …
52Adrian Carton de Wiart — Infobox Military Person name=Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart caption= allegiance=United Kingdom rank=Lieutenant General commands=61st Infantry Division Namsos Assault Force unit= family= nickname= lived=5 May 1880 5 June 1963 placeofbirth=Brussels,… …
53List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy — The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts or canticas (or cantiche ), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio 33, and Paradiso 33 …
54Metamorphoses (play) — Metamorphoses Written by Mary Zimmerman Characters Myrrha Midas Hermes Phaeton Aphrodite Erysichthon Alcyone King C …
55Greek literature — Introduction body of writings in the Greek language, with a continuous history extending from the 1st millennium BC to the present day. From the beginning its writers were Greeks living not only in Greece proper but also in Asia Minor, the… …
56Greek mythology — Bust of Zeus, Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican) Topics in Greek mythology Gods …
57“The Sentinel” — (1948) STANLEY KUBRICK became interested in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the universe when two Cornell University physicists employed microwave radio to communicate between the stars. After reading ARTHUR C.… …
58Iliad — The Iliad (Greek: Ἰλιάς [iliás] (Ancient), Ιλιάδα [ili aða] (Modern)) is, together with the Odyssey , one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC… …
59HAL-9000 — The computer known as HAL controlled the operations of the spaceship Discovery 1 in STANLEY KUBRICK’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968). Released a year before the first moon landing, the film presents a fully realized version of outer space, and… …
60epic — epically, adv. epiclike, adj. /ep ik/, adj. Also, epical. 1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer s Iliad is an… …
