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Look up: Icarus

  1. ICARUS
    acronym: Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities (Program)
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  2. Icarus
    Icarus escaped from the Minos labyrinth by means of wings made by his father Daedalus. In escaping he flew too close to the sun, the wax holding the feathers to the wings melted and icarus fell into the sea and drowned.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Icarus
    [n] - (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Icarus
    In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, who with his father escaped from the labyrinth in Crete by making wings of feathers fastened with wax. Icarus plunged to his death when he flew too near the...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Icarus
    `Icarus` (Greek: , Latin: `Ã?karos`, Etruscan: `Vicare`) is a character in Greek Mythology. Icarus's father, Daedalus attempted to escape his prison, the Labyrinth, in which he was imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth (Labyrinth is derived from the Minoans word for a ceremonial axe). The Labyrinth's original purpose was intended to hold the horrible creature, the Minotaur, a beast that was a product o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

  6. Icarus
    in Greek mythology, son of the inventor Daedalus who perished by flying too near the Sun with waxen wings. See Daedalus.[2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/3

  7. Icarus
    asteroid that has a more eccentric orbit and also approaches nearer the Sun (within 30 million km [19 million miles]) than does any other known body ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/3

  8. Icarus
    (minor planet 1566) A member of the Apollo group of asteroids, discovered by Walter Baade in 1949. Its orbit carries it well within the orbit of Mercury, but not quite as close to the Sun as 2000 BD19 (0.09AU), 1995 CR (0.12 AU), or 3200 Phaethon (0.14 AU). Icarus ranks fifth on...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  9. Icarus
    Icarus, in astronomy: see asteroid.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09145

  10. Icarus
    Icarus: see Daedalus.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A09145


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22 November 2009

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