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Look up: Apollo

  1. Apollo
    Greek god with special responsibility for music, law, prophesy, archery and animal husbandry. His principal shrine was at Delphi.
    Found on http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/glo

  2. Apollo
    ancient Greek god of light, music, prophecy, and healing; son of Leto and Zeus, brother of Artemis; read the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo and Pythian Apollo to learn more.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  3. Apollo
    A class of Earth-crossing asteroid.
    Found on http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsfgloss

  4. Apollo
    In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo was the god of the sun, music, poetry, prophecy, agriculture, and pastoral life, and leader of the Muses. He was the twin child of Zeus and Leto. Ancient statues show Apollo as the embodiment of the Greek ideal of male beauty. Apollo epitomized the transition between adolescence and manhood in Greek male society.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  5. Apollo
    Apollo is a borough in Armstrong County Pennsylvania, USA.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  6. apollo
    A software program used to analyze shelf space and product movement in order to develop planograms for specific categories. See planogram; space management.
    Found on http://www.fmi.org/facts_figs/glossary_s

  7. Apollo
    [n] - Greek god of light
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  8. Apollo
    Caterpillar species. Latin name: Parnassius apollo Food: Stonecrop and houseleek Description: Velvety black, short black hairs arising from small warts, rounded orange-red spots along each side. Central and southern Europe.
    Found on http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk

  9. Apollo
    In Greek and Roman mythology, the god of sun, music, poetry, prophecy, agriculture, and pastoral life, and leader of the Muses. He was the twin child (with noun [ Latin Apollo , - linis , Greek ....] (Classic Myth.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the 'sun god'), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus . The Apollo Belvedere , a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belved ...
    Found on
    http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/104

  10. apollo
    A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the 'sun god'), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc, and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; called also Phebus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the nobl ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. Apollo
    Phoebus noun (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. Apollo
    In Greek and Roman mythology, `Apollo` , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the `kouros` (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythol...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo

  13. Apollo
    • (n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the `sun god`), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. Apollo
    (from the article `Balanchine, George`) ...the first of 10 ballets Balanchine was to mount for Diaghilev. Of the ballets he choreographed for Diaghilev, two survive notably in the world ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/88

  15. Apollo
    (from the article `Michelangelo`) ...family tombs. His political commitment probably was more to his city as such than to any specific governmental form. Two separate projects of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/88

  16. Apollo
    in Greek religion, a deity of manifold function and meaning, after Zeus perhaps the most widely revered and influential of all the Greek gods. Though ... [33 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/88

  17. Apollo
    Apollo is a Lat In boy name. The meaning of the name is `Strength, Sun god` Where is it used? The name Apollo is mainly used In Greek Mythology. The name Apollo doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Apollo seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Apol

  18. Apollo
    (minor planet 1862) The prototype asteroid of the Apollo group. It was discovered by the German astronomer Karl Reinmuth (1892-1979) in 1932, when it approached Earth to within 10.5 million km (0.07 AU), but was then lost until 1973. Apollo can come as close to Earth as 4.2 mill...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  19. Apollo
    Apollo (upol'ō) , in Greek religion and mythology, one of the most important Olympian gods, concerned especially with prophecy, medicine, music and poetry, archery, and various bucolic arts, particularly the care of flocks and herds. He was also frequently associated with the higher develo...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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