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Look up: Ariadne

  1. Ariadne
    In mythology Ariadne fell in love with Theseus, and after he killed her half-brother the Minotaur, helped Theseus to escape the labyrinth.
    Found on http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/glo

  2. Ariadne
    In Greek mythology Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She helped Theseus out of the labyrinth with a thread. She was abandoned by Theseus on the Isle of Naxos where she subsequently met and married Bacchus.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Ariadne
    [n] - beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Ariadne
    One of the `minor planets` of our solar system. Discovered by Pogson on 15 Apr 1857. Diameter in km: 84. More data in TABLE 13. THE MINOR PLANETS
    Found on http://www.delscope.demon.co.uk/astronom

  5. Ariadne
    In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos, King of Crete. When Theseus came from Athens as one of the sacrificial victims offered to the Minotaur, she fell in love with him and gave him a ball of...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  6. Ariadne
    noun beautiful daughter of Minos and Pasiphae; she fell in love with Theseus and gave him the thread with which he found his way out of the Minotaur`s labyrinth
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Ariadne
    `Ariadne`, in Greek mythology, was daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan. She aided Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and later became the consort of the god Dionysus.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne

  8. Ariadne
    in Greek mythology, daughter of Pasiphae and the Cretan king Minos. She fell in love with the Athenian hero Theseus and, with a thread or glittering ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/99

  9. Ariadne
    Ariadne is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Most Holy` Where is it used? The name Ariadne is mainly used In Greek Mythology and In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Ariane ( In Welsh and In English) Arianna ( In Italian) Arienne ( In French) Arianne ( In French) See also In Other languages: Ariana From Old English. Alternative meanings
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Ari

  10. Ariadne
    Ariadne (ărēăd'nē) , in Greek mythology, Cretan princess, daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë. She loved Theseus, and gave him the skein of thread that enabled him to make his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. When Theseus left Crete, Ariadne went with ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08046


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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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