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Look up: Arachne

  1. Arachne
    In Greek mythology, a Lydian woman who was so skilful a weaver that she challenged the goddess Athena to a contest. Athena tore Arachne's beautiful tapestries to pieces and Arachne hanged herself....
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  2. arachne
    this machine operates by stitching seams in loose-fibre fabric and so produce a consolidated sheet of textile material used as filtering material,carpet underlay,etc. Category: Various industries and crafts
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Arachne
    in Greek mythology, the daughter of Idmon of Colophon in Lydia, a dyer in purple.
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/93

  4. Arachne
    Arachne is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `Mythical Name` Where is it used? The name Arachne is mainly used In Greek Mythology. The name Arachne doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Arachne seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Ara

  5. Arachne
    Arachne (urăk'nē) , in Greek mythology, a Lydian woman who challenged Athena to a trial of skill in weaving. When Arachne won, the goddess forced Arachne to hang herself. Athena then turned Arachne into a spider and her weaving into a cobweb.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08044

  6. Arachne
    In Greek mythology, Arachne was a Lydian woman who was so skilful a weaver that she challenged the goddess Athena to a contest. Athena tore Arachne's beautiful tapestries to pieces and Arachne hanged herself. She was transformed into a spider, and her weaving became a cobweb. She was therefore relat...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  7. Arachne
    In Greco-Roman mythology, `Arachne` () was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Minerva, the Latin parallel of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts. `Arachne` refused to acknowledge that her knowledge came, in part at least, from the goddess. The offended ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne

  8. Arachne
    (web browser) `Arachne` is a full-screen Internet suite containing a graphical web browser, email client, and dialer.<ref name="Rakitin">Rakitin, Jason "http://www.networkworld.com/news/1997/1027browser2.html Review: Alternative Web browsers" Network World, October 27, ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne

  9. Arachne
    (Archaeological Database) `Arachne` is the central object-database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 2004 the DAI and the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CoDArchLab) at the University of Cologne (FA) joined the effort to support Arachne as a tool for free internet-based...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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