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Look up: Vulcan

  1. Vulcan
    Roman deity worshiped at the festival Vulcanalia, where little fish and other animals, representing humans, were sometimes thrown into a fire in order to preserve the human lives they represented; god who made armor for Aeneas; identified with Hephaestus by Romans.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  2. Vulcan
    Vulcan was the Roman name for the Greek god Hephaestus.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/D1

  3. Vulcan
    see "M61A1"
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/F5

  4. Vulcan
    The Vulcan is a British four-jet medium bomber. It is powered by Rolls-Royce Bristol Olympus 301 turbojets giving it a speed of Mach 0.94.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/I.

  5. Vulcan
    [n] - (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. Vulcan
    Operational code name for the Allied offensive in Tunisia - May 1943
    Found on http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/glossv.h

  7. Vulcan
    archaic or obsolete terms > Occupations:Blacksmith.
    Found on http://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossarytt.ht

  8. Vulcan
    In Roman mythology, the god of fire and destruction, later identified with the Greek god Hephaestus. His principal festival was the Vulcanalia held on 23 Aug, but his most ancient feast was the...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  9. VULCAN
    1. (database) A version of JPLDIS ported to CP/M by Wayne Ratliff around 1980. VULCAN evolved into dBASE II. 2. (database) The dBASE-like interpreter and compiler sold by RSPI with their Emerald Bay product. [Same as 1?] 3. (language) An early string manipulation language. ["VULCAN - A String Handling Language with Dynamic Storage Control", E.P. …
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  10. Vulcan
    Vul"can noun [ Latin Vulcanus , Volcanus : confer Sanskrit ulkā a firebrand, meteor. Confer Volcano .] (Rom. Myth.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/37

  11. vulcan
    The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; answering to the Greek Hephaestus. ... Origin: L. Vulcanus, Volcanus: cf. Skr. Ulka a firebrand, meteor. Cf. Volcano. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?v

  12. Vulcan
    noun (Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Vulcan
    • (n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  14. Vulcan
    in Roman religion, god of fire, particularly in its destructive aspects as volcanoes or conflagrations. Poetically, he is given all the attributes of ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/38

  15. Vulcan
    Vulcan In Roman mythology, god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus. The son of Jupiter and Juno, husband of Venus, and father of Caeculus. He was the god of fire and volcanoes, and the manufacturer of art, arms, iron, and armor for gods and heroes.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  16. Vulcan
    • (astron.) A hypothetical intra-Mercurian planet, the existence of which was proposed by the 19th century French mathematician Urbain Leverrier to explain anomalies in Mercury's orbit (now accounted for by the general theory of relativity). Alleged sightings of Vulcan in 1859 inspired many ast...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

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9 January 2009

This day in history:
In 1972 the Cunard ship the Queen Elizabeth started to burn and burned for 3 days. Queen Elizabeth was launched on September 27, 1938 and due to the war in Europe, her maiden voyage ended on 7 March 1940 with a surprise arrival in New York Harbor. During her war service she carried over 811,000 passengers and sailed over 500,000 miles. At 83,637 gross registered tons, she would be the largest passenger ship afloat for the next 34 years. read more

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