Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces) are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. Their mother was...
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The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) was an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, Rome, Central Italy. It was originally built...
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Castor et Pollux (Castor and Pollux) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 24 October 1737 by the Académie royale de musique at its...
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Castor and Pollux were two elephants kept at the zoo Jardin des Plantes in Paris. They were killed and eaten, along with many other animals from the zoo...
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constellations today. Its name is Latin for twins, and it is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. Its old astronomical symbol...
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a magnitude fainter than 'β' (beta) Geminorum, Pollux. Hierarchy of orbits in the Castor system Castor is a multiple star system made up of six individual...
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Castor and Pollux may refer to: Castor and Pollux, in Greek and Roman mythology, the twin sons of Lēda and Zeus/Tyndareus, who were transformed into the...
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Face/Off (redirect from Castor Troy)
Malcolm Walsh to take on Castor Troy's face, voice, and appearance. Archer-as-Troy is taken to the same high-security prison where Pollux is being held in order...
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Leda (mythology) (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
children in Greek mythology: Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, and the twins Castor and Pollux. Leda and the Swan was a popular motif in the visual arts, particularly...
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Helen of Troy (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda or Nemesis, and the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor, Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. She was married first...
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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...
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Castor and Pollux, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology. It is known as a positive, mutable sign. In Babylonian astronomy, the stars Pollux and Castor...
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star's Bayer designation. The traditional name Pollux refers to the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek and Roman mythology. In 2016, the International Astronomical...
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twins Castor and Pollux in Greco-Roman mythology Castor or CASTOR may also refer to: Castor (rocket stage), a family of solid-fuel rocket stages Castor (software)...
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free dictionary. Kastor may refer to: Castor and Pollux, twin brothers in Greek and Roman mythology Kastor und Pollux, a complex of two towers in Frankfurt...
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in the Roman forum. It was here in Roman legend that the deities Castor and Pollux watered their horses after bringing news of the Roman victory at the...
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after which its fate is unknown. Alongside the concurrently acquired Castor, Pollux was one of the first tugboats in the Polish fleet. Following the acquisition...
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The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (category Castor and Pollux)
painting depicts the mortal Castor and the immortal Pollux abducting Phoebe and Hilaeira, daughters of Leucippus of Messenia. Castor the horse-tamer is recognisable...
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Anakeion (category Castor and Pollux)
a temple in Athens, which was situated near the Acropolis and dedicated to Castor and Pollux.: 20 The name of the temple derives from the Greek Ἄνακες...
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after Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri of Greek and Roman mythology. Pollux and Kastor were designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and built between 1994 and 1997...
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Twins in mythology (section Greek and Roman mythology)
Castor and Pollux share a bond so strong that when mortal Castor dies, Pollux gives up half of his immortality to be with his brother. Castor and Pollux...
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Mount Pollux is a 2,536-metre-elevation (8,320-foot) mountain in New Zealand. Mount Pollux is located 1.5 kilometre southwest of Mount Castor on the crest...
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Castor is a family of solid-fuel rocket stages and boosters built by Thiokol (now Northrop Grumman) and used on a variety of launch vehicles. They were...
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fierce and bloody, and the outcome is only decided when the twin gods Castor and Pollux descend to the battlefield on the side of Rome. So spake he; and was...
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Zeus (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Greek gods Agetor Ambulia – Spartan epithet used for Athena, Zeus, and Castor and Pollux Hetairideia – Thessalian Festival to Zeus Temple of Zeus, Olympia...
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Tyndareus (section Helen and the Trojan War)
children; Castor and Pollux, and Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. When Thyestes seized control in Mycenae, two exiled princes, Agamemnon and Menelaus came...
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Superfecundation (category Castor and Pollux)
by Zeus. This happens again; this time Leda bears two sons: Castor by Tyndareus and Pollux by Zeus. Alcmene lies with Zeus, who is disguised as her husband...
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Pompejanum (category Buildings and structures in Aschaffenburg)
commissioned by King Ludwig I and built in the 1840s. The villa is a replica of a domus in Pompeii, the so-called House of Castor and Pollux (Casa dei Dioscuri)...
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returned to Poland. The vessel was decommissioned in 1955 and scrapped in 1958. Castor and Pollux, acquired at the same time, were the first tugboats in...
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Divine twins (section In mythology and religion)
sky-god, Greek: the Diós-kouroi (Castor and Pollux), the "boys of Zeus", the sky-god. Italic: both Paelignian Ioviois Pvclois and Marsian Ioveis Pvcles are interpreted...
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