In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux or Polydeuces were twin brothers, together known as the Dioskouri. Their mother was Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to h...
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[Prado] The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group, after San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain, the location of the palace of La Granja at which it was kept until 1839) is an ancient Roman sculptural group of the 1st century AD, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Drawing on 5th- and 4th-century BC Greek sculptures in the...
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[elephants] Castor and Pollux were two elephants kept at the zoo Jardin des Plantes in Paris. They were killed and eaten, along with many other animals from the zoo, in late 1870 during the siege of Paris. The two elephants may have been siblings, and had been popular before the siege for giving rides on their backs around the park, but the...
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(French satellites) A pair of French microsatellites, also known as D5A and D5B, launched unsuccessfully on May 21, 1973, by a Diamant B from Kourou. Castor was to have studied interstellar space and collected aeronomy and geodesic data; Pollux was to have tested a hydrazine pro...
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Cas'tor and Pol'lux [
Castor and
Pollux were twin sons of Jupiter and Leda.]
(Nautical) See
Saint Elmo's fire , under
Saint .
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Castor and Pollux is London Cockney rhyming slang for the testicles (bollocks).
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