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[clipper] The Memnon was the first clipper ship to arrive in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, and the only clipper to arrive in San Francisco before 1850. Built in 1848, she made record passages to San Francisco and to China, and sailed in the first clipper race around Cape Horn. ==Record passage to San Francisco== `The only clipper ship ...
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[mythology] In Greek mythology, MemnonPronunciation-needed (Greek: Mέμνων) was an Ethiopian king and son of Tithonus and Eos. As a warrior he was considered to be almost Achilles` equal in skill. During the Trojan War, he brought an army to Troy`s defense. The death of Memnon echoes that of Hector, another defender of Troy whom Achille...
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• (n.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
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(from the article `Voltaire`) ...lively and disillusioned temper: he wrote his first contes (stories). Micromégas (1752) measures the littleness of man in the cosmic scale; Vision ...
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in Greek mythology, son of Tithonus (son of Laomedon, legendary king of Troy) and Eos (Dawn) and king of the Ethiopians. He was a post-Homeric hero, ... [3 related articles]
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In Greek mythology, a king of Ethiopia. He fought for his uncle, Priam of Troy, against the Greeks, but was killed by Achilles. Memnon has been identified with the Egyptian pharaoh
Amenhotep III ...
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Mem'non noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., lit., the Steadfast, Resolute, the son of Tithonus and Aurora, and king of the Ethiopians, killed by Achilles.]
(Antiq.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
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The name of Memnon was applied to a statue still standing at Thebes, being one of two known from their size as 'the Colossi.' This statue, known as 'the vocal Memnon,' was celebrated in antiquity as emitting a sound every morning at the rising of the sun - perliaps through the craft of the priests, though some think it was owing to expansion caused...
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Memnon is a mythological personage mentioned in the Homeric poems as the beautiful son of Eos (the morning), and in the post-Homeric accounts as the son of Tithonus and nephew of Priam, whom he assisted at the siege of Troy. He slew Antilochus, but was himself slain by Achilles. His mother was filled with grief at his death, which Zeus endeavoured ...
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Ethiopian king; made immortal by Zeus; son of Tithonus and Eos.
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