Castor+and+Pollux
71Castorite — Castor Cas tor, Castorite Cas tor*ite, n. [The minerals castor and pollux were so named because found together on the island of Elba. See {Castor and Pollux}.] (Min.) A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba. [1913 Webster] …
72Dioscuri — Castor and Pollux, AV, REB; the twin brothers, NRSV; the Twins, NJB (Acts 28:11); the figurehead of the ship which took Paul to Rome. There were temples to the Dioscuri in Athens and in Rome, and they were held to be the protectors of travellers …
73Face/Off — Infobox Film name = Face/Off caption = Face/Off movie poster director = John Woo writer = Mike Werb Michael Colleary starring = John Travolta Nicolas Cage producer = David Permut Barrie M. Osborne Terence Chang music = John Powell Michael A.… …
74Dioscuri — /duy euh skyoor uy/, n.pl. Class. Myth. Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. * * * or Castor and Pollux (from Greek dioskouroi, sons of Zeus ) Twin gods of ancient Greece and Rome. They aided shipwrecked sailors and accepted… …
75Dark Kingdom — This article is about the villain group. For the corresponding story arc, see List of Sailor Moon episodes (season 1). For other uses, see Dark Kingdom (disambiguation). Sailor Moon villain group The Dark Kingdom as seen in the anime, with Queen… …
76Bayer designation — A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation s Latin name. The original list of Bayer designations contained 1,564 stars.Most of… …
77Simonides of Kea — Simonides Ceos (Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος) Simonides of Kea (c. 556 BC 468 BC), Greek lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea. He was included, along with Sappho and Pindar, in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic… …
78Moonbase 3 — Format Drama Science fiction Created by Barry Letts Terrance Dicks …
79Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …
80Gemini — /jem euh nuy , nee/, n.pl., gen. Geminorum /jem euh nawr euhm, nohr / for 1. 1. Astron. the Twins, a zodiacal constellation between Taurus and Cancer containing the bright stars Castor and Pollux. 2. Astrol. a. the third sign of the zodiac: the… …
