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Look up: Daedalus

  1. DAEDALUS
    acronym: Documenting Aerosol Electromagnetics, Defining Aerosol Lifetimes, and Understanding Sources (Research Stations)
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  2. Daedalus
    In Greek mythology, Daedalus was an Athenian artisan whose skill rivalled that of Hephaestus. He was ordered by King Minos to construct a vast underground palace linked by a labyrinth of rooms into which Minos imprisoned his wife Pasiphae and her monstrous child the Minotaur. Daedalus fled from Crete because he knew the secret of the labyrinth and didn't trust Minos not to kill him. He fled with his son Icarus using wings made by them from feathers fastened with wax.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Daedalus
    [n] - (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Daedalus
    In Greek mythology, a talented Athenian artisan. He made a wooden cow to disguise Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, when she wished to mate with a bull, and then constructed a Labyrinth to...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Daedalus
    Daedal noun (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Daedalus
    In Greek mythology, `Daedalus` was a most skillful artificer, so skillful that he was said to have invented images. Daedalus had two sons: Icarus and Iapyx. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the `Lady of the Labyrinth` . The Labyrinth on Crete in which the Minotaur was kept was also created by the artificer Daedalus. The story of the labyrinth is told ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

  7. Daedalus
    mythical Greek architect and sculptor, who was said to have built, among other things, the paradigmatic Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Daedalus ... [3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/2

  8. Daedalus
    Daedalus (ded'ulus) , in Greek mythology, craftsman and inventor. After killing his apprentice Talos in envy, he fled from Greece to Crete. There, he arranged the liaison between Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull that resulted in the Minotaur. At the order of King Minos, he built the Minotaur's ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08144


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21 November 2009

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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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