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Look up: ATHENA

  1. Athena
    Greek goddess of war, wisdom and arts and crafts. The patron of the city of Athens and the deity to whom the Parthenon was dedicated. Athenians regarded her as their protector and to be thanked for their military victories.
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  2. Athena
    The patron goddess of Athens. A huge statue of Athena stood inside the Parthenon.
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  3. Athena
    [n] - (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare
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  4. Athena
    In Greek mythology, the goddess of war, wisdom, and the arts and crafts (Roman Minerva). She was reputed to have sprung fully-armed and grown from the head of Zeus, after he had swallowed her...
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  5. Athena
    Athene noun (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva
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  6. Athena
    in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva (q.v.). She was ... [21 related articles]
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  7. Athena
    Athena is a Greek girl name. The meaning of the name is `Wisdom, War goddess` Where is it used? The name Athena is mainly used In Greek Mythology. Athena appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 444.. 2007 was a `top year` for the name Athena. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that yea...
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  8. Athena
    Athena is a Greek girl name. The meaning of the name is `goddess of wisdom ` Where is it used? The name Athena is mainly used In Greek Mythology. Athena appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 444.. 2007 was a `top year` for the name Athena. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #444. The last time Athena app
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  9. Athena
    Project Athena
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  10. Athena
    Athena (uthē'nu) , or Pallas Athena (păl'us) , in Greek religion and mythology, one of the most important Olympian deities. According to myth, after Zeus seduced Metis he learned that any son she bore would overthrow him, so he swallowed her alive. Later Hephaestus split Zeus' sk...
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  11. Athena
    Athena, or Athene was a Greek goddess, identified by the Romans with Minerva, the representative of the intellectual powers. She was the daughter of Zeus and Metis (that is, wisdom or cleverness). According to the legend, which is perhaps allegorical, before her birth Zeus swallowed her mother, and ...
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  12. Athena
    Athena is a cultivated variety of potato.
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  13. Athena
    Click images to enlargeIn Greek mythology, the goddess of war, wisdom, and the arts and crafts (Roman Minerva). She was reputed to have sprung fully-armed and grown from the head of Zeus, after he had swallowed her mother Metis, the Titaness of wisdom. In Homer's Odyssey, Athena is the protector...
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  14. Athena
    :``"Athene", "Athina" and "Pallas Athena" all redirect here. For other uses, see Athena (disambiguation), Athene (disambiguation), Athina (disambiguation) and Pallas Athena (disambiguation) In iː-->; Attic Greek|Attic: , Athēnā or , Athēnaia;...
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  15. Athena
    (disambiguation) `Athena` is a goddess of wisdom, strategic-war and weaving in Greek mythology. It is also a feminine given name, after the goddess. `Athena` can also refer to: Places: Companies: In music: In film: In television: In comics: In computer games: In science and technology: In other fields: Ships: See also:
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  16. Athena
    (video game) is a platform arcade game, produced and published in 1986 by SNK. It was later ported to the NES. The NES version was developed by Micronics. Only the NES version has been released in North America. Conversions were done for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1987 b...
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  17. Athena
    (band) `Athena` is a ska punk band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up is composed of Hakan Özoğuz (guitar and backing vocals), Gökhan Özoğuz(lead vocals and guitar), Umut Arabacı (bass), Emre Ataker (keyboards) and Alican Tezer (drums) . Band history : Athena (ah-T...
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  18. Athena
    (film) `Athena` (1954) is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film tells the story of an old-fashioned conservative lawyer who falls in love with a daughte...
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  19. Athena
    (song) "`Athena`" is a song written by Pete Townshend and recorded by The Who. It appears as the first track on the group`s tenth studio album It`s Hard, released in 1982. It was released as the first single from that album, achieving moderate chart success at #28 on the US B...
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  20. Athena
    (company) `Athena Co. Ltd.` is a Japanese video game developer, founded in July 1987. Games: Arcade: Game Boy: Game Boy Color: Nintendo GameCube: Nintendo 64: PlayStation: PlayStation 2: PlayStation 3: Sega Saturn: Super NES: Virtual Boy: WonderSwan: Games Developed: Game Boy: Game Boy Color:...
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  21. Athena
    (rocket family) `Athena` is a Lockheed Martin expendable launch system which has undergone several name changes in its lifetime. Development began at the Lockheed Corporation in 1993, where the design was known as the Lockheed Launch Vehicle. The name was changed to the Lockheed Martin Launch...
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  22. Athena
    (Marvel Comics) `Athena` is a fictional deity in the Marvel Comics Universe based on the Greek Goddess of the same name. Athena first appeared in the pages of Thor #164, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby. Publication history: Athena first appeared in Thor #164 (May 196...
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  23. Athena
    (yacht) at Cairns, Queensland. `Athena` is a clipper-bowed 3-masted gaff rigged schooner built by Royal Huisman in 2004 for internet entrepreneur James H. Clark. Clark purchased a 47.4 meter sloop, Hyperion, from Royal Huisman in 1998. As Hyperion was nearing completion, ...
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  24. Athena
    (Saint Seiya) The Greek goddess (spelled in Greek as and , in the manga and the anime adaptation respectively, and occasionally as in both) is one of the main characters in the Manga Saint Seiya, authored by Masami Kurumada, and later adapted to Anime. A character with a substantial importanc...
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  25. Athena
    (retailer) `Athena` is a British art retailer, and was formerly a large retail chain, famous for its distinctive posters. History: Athena`s first shop was opened by Ole Christensen in Hampstead in July 1964, and then bought into E&O PLC, by Chairman, Douglas H. Bayle. He expanded Athena t...
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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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