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

  3. 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 ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  4. 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
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  5. 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

  6. 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 Cret...
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  7. 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

  8. Daedalus
    (mythology) 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 house the creature of their union, the Minotaur. Having incurred the displeasure of Mino...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  9. Daedalus
    Fabled inventor (the name meaning ingenious) and father of Icarus, variously reputed by diverse classical authors to be responsible for, amongst other things, sails on ships, the axe, the labyrinth of King Minos, the statue of Britomartis at Olous and the feather and glue wings that would ultimately bring about the death of his son.
    Found on http://www.makeitcrete.com/crete_mytholo

  10. Daedalus
    , Rome (Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888). :``This article is about the mythological character. For other uses see Daedalus (disambiguation). In Greek mythology, `Daedalus` (Latin, also Hellenized Latin `Daedalos`, Greek `Daidalos` (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cu...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

  11. Daedalus
    (disambiguation) :This is a disambiguation page for Wikipedia navigation purposes. For a more complete list see List of things named Daedalus. The character `Daedalus` from Greek mythology has lent his name to many other things: In fiction : :*Daedalus`s Children, the subsequent novel to the above See also :
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

  12. Daedalus
    (Ariadne) :This article deals with the fictional inventor Daedalus. For other uses of the name, see Daedalus (disambiguation). `Daedalus` is a fictional inventor created by David E. H. Jones for his Ariadne column in the New Scientist and The Guardian, and which is...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

  13. Daedalus
    (crater) `Daedalus` is a prominent crater located near the center of the far side of the Moon. The inner wall is terraced, and there is a cluster of central peaks on the relatively flat floor. Because of its location (shielded from radio emissions from the Earth), it has been proposed as the ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

  14. Daedalus
    (novel) `Daedalus` is a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, which was released in December 2003. Synopsis: Daedalus was a warp-five capable ship created years before the first Enterprise. It exploded on a test run, killing many innocent people. Tucker, now chief engineer on the Enterpr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus

  15. Daedalus
    (band) `Daedalus` is an Italian progressive metal band. Their music contains influences from different musical genres, among them rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, classical music, jazz, electronic music, ambient. History : Daedalus was born in Genoa (Italy) in 2000, as the result o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus



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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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