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    The Destruction of the Children of Niobe is a painting by Richard Wilson, created in 1760. It depicts the Greek myth of the murder of Niobe's daughters...
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    mythology, Niobe (/ˈnaɪ.ə.biː/; Greek: Νιόβη [ni.óbɛː] : Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione (as most frequently cited) or of Eurythemista...
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  • The children of Niobe is a novel written by Tasos Athanasiadis. In this novel Athanasiadis describes the way Greeks lived in Anatolia by the example of...
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  • Steffani (1653–1728) Niobe, an 1826 opera seria by composer Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867) The Destruction of the Children of Niobe (c. 1759–1760), a painting...
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    Richard Wilson (painter) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    painting, The Destruction of the Children of Niobe (c.1759–60), won acclaim, he gained many commissions from landowners seeking classical portrayals of their...
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    John Boydell (category Sheriffs of the City of London)
    engraving of Richard Wilson's The Destruction of the Children of Niobe, which revolutionised the print trade. Ten years later, largely as a result of Boydell's...
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    First Exhibition (1760) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    paintings of his career, The Destruction of the Children of Niobe. Although the exhibition was considered a success from a financial point of view, with...
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    William Woollett (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    London, and studied in the St Martin's Lane academy. His first important plate was from The Destruction of the Children of Niobe of Richard Wilson, published...
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    Artemis (redirect from The Hunt of Artemis)
    that Niobe had given birth to twelve children, equally divided in six sons and six daughters (the Niobids). Other sources speak of fourteen children, seven...
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    Lot's wife (redirect from The Wife of Lot)
    the needle-shaped pillar that collapsed in a storm in 1764 Baucis and Philemon Kiidk'yaas Lot's Wife (crag) Niobe Orpheus The Needles Vayeira List of...
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  • (Gold): daughter of Kavax and Niobe. Magnus au Grimmus, a.k.a. the "Ash Lord" (Gold): former ArchImperator and supreme commander of the Sovereign's fleet...
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  • goes to Io, the last human city led by Niobe. Niobe reveals that, when Zion was nearly destroyed by the machines, she and the rest of the inhabitants...
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  • many programs who is purged by the Machines before the new Matrix is uploaded. Niobe later tells a resurrected Neo that the last message that they received...
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    exhibited The Children of Niobe killed by Apollo and Diana, a work that won him the Prix de Rome. He lived in Rome, as a licensee of the Government, from 1774...
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    Albert Mattison of Niobe agreed to secure a line to the French ship's stern so as to pull it away from the pier to avoid setting it on fire. The five-inch (125 mm)...
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  • the HBO Network in the United States and ended on 25 March 2007, after 2 seasons and a total of 22 episodes. Rome is a historical drama depicting the...
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    further claims that her children aren't truly better than Niobe's. Leto replies that Hera is probably jealous to see her [Leto's] children receive so much attention...
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    and he named them after the children of Tantalus: niobium (from Niobe, the goddess of tears), and pelopium (from Pelops). The supposed element "pelopium"...
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    Bernardino Cesari (category People from the Province of Frosinone)
    of Constantine the Great, a St. Peter, and three oil paintings for the church Santi Cosma e Damiano . Destruction of Niobe's Children Hannibal's Defeat...
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    of Isaac in Ghiberti's The Sacrifice of Isaac presents the classical typology of The Children of Niobe, how the figure of the recumbent Christ in Donatello's...
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    Herculaneum (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. Deiss, J. J. 1995. The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure...
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    brood of children which are personifications of primarily negative forces. She features in a number of early cosmogonies, which place her as one of the first...
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    Tuberculosis (redirect from The consumption)
    PMC 130701. PMID 12202584. Niobe-Eyangoh SN, Kuaban C, Sorlin P, Cunin P, Thonnon J, Sola C, et al. (June 2003). "Genetic biodiversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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    Zeus (redirect from Zeus the Greek god)
    Zeus for his destruction of ... the Titans". Contrastingly, according to the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (3), 305–55, Hera is the mother of Typhon without...
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    ("vengeful destruction"), all of whom appear in the Aeneid. Dante Alighieri followed Virgil in depicting the same three-character triptych of Erinyes; in...
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    the Greek proverbial expression "Diomedes' necessity", applied to those who act under compulsion. Because Odysseus was essential for the destruction of...
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  • Circe The Danaids The Egyptians Epigoni Iphigenia Ixion The Lion Memnon Myrmidons, survives in fragments. Nereids, survives in fragments. Niobe The Nurses...
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    BC, one of the commissioners (probouloi) who responded to the catastrophic destruction of the Athenian expeditionary force in Sicily during the Peloponnesian...
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  • King Teredor and Queen Niobe are the rulers of the lands of Andros and the parents of Aisha. King Teredor is also the brother of King Neptune. King Neptune...
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  • beeldenstorm" of Antwerp, 1581 Doge's Palace fire, 1576 El Pardo Palace fire, 1604 Russo-Swedish Deluge 1648-1667 Destruction of the Commonwealth Bombardment of Brussels...
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