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Anna Kavan 
 I Am Lazarus is a collection of short stories that address the disturbing unreality of mental illness, particularly as a result of [war-related] post traumatic stress disorder.
Anna Kavan 
 Kavan's biographical details have until recently been vague and sketchy, but recent discoveries of letters and unpublished manuscripts have shed revealing light on her life and times.
Anna Kavan 
 Dr Jennifer Sturm of Auckland University has made a recent study of Kavan's writing, and has unearthed significant validation of her biographical details.
Anna Kavan 
 London publishers Peter Owen Publishers have for many years flown the Kavan flag and continue to do so, with the recent re-release of Ice and a forthcoming publication of Guilty, a new posthumous release of Kavan's work.
Voodoo 
 The word voodoo, which has many different names and spellings (like vodun, vodou, voudou, vudu, vodoun, vowdown, vooodooo, vundun) is the name of a West African animist, spiritual folkway.
Voodoo 
 It is a supernatural ancestral connection, passed from generation to generation by word of mouth (oral tradition), rituals and spiritual practices.
Voodoo 
 Religion, on the other hand, is based on formal organization, myths and dogma in texts, buildings constructed for worship, and a hierarchy of ordained leaders.
Voodoo 
 That is, all aspects of the natural world are seen as having spiritual identity immune to physical death.
Voodoo 
 Ancestors' 'spirits' are called upon for inspiration, protection or other influences over the material world.
Voodoo 
 The roots of voodoo in the Americas come from the Fon, Ewe, and Yoruba people of Africa.. The word vodún is the Fon-Ewe word for spirit.
Voodoo 
 Another word for voodoo is vodu, used in Haiti where the creole language is based on French language.
Voodoo 
 African voodoo often has animal sacrifice (the animal is killed for the spirits), but this is not common in Haiti.
Voodoo 
 Voodoo in Haiti and America has also added some Catholic ideas that were not known in African voodoo.
Voodoo 
 The use of Catholic saints/iconography may have developed as a means of adaptation, and survival, but also as a safety precaution.
Voodoo 
 When Haiti beat the French in a war and became its own country, the people of Haiti believed that voodoo had helped them win.
Voodoo 
 Voodoo originally entered the United States via immigrants from Africa and Haiti such as Marie LaVeau, "the voodoo queen of New Orleans".
Voodoo 
 Though unprecedented, the local Catholic priest let Marie practice Voodoo in the Catholic Church, and as a result, she became famous, leading (along with others) many in Louisiana to believe in Voodoo.
Voodoo 
 Like many other religions and practices, people learn about voodoo and hoodoo through movies and TV shows, where it has gained the popularity it has today as a form of entertainment.
Voodoo 
 Hoodoo was showcased in the 2005 horror-suspense movie, The Skeleton Key, starring Kate Hudson (correctly emphasizing that it was hoodoo that was being used), and in the 2009 Disney movie The Princess and the Frog.
Voodoo 
 Zombies are a large part of popular horror culture, and they originated in voodoo folklore from the original word, “nbzambi”, which refers to the primary sprit and/or to one’s soul.
Voodoo 
 Just as there is Christian music, there is music that came from voodoo rituals, which influenced jazz, and many of the original jazz players are rumored to have had a connection to voodoo in some way, including Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong.
Voodoo 
 Storyville, a district in New Orleans, was a place where, at night, Jazz was played and hoodoo was sold.
Voodoo 
 There, jazz thrived and pulsed with the voices and instruments of Jelly Roll, Sweet Emma Barrett, and many others.
Voodoo 
 There are many songs and albums that reference voodoo and/or hoodoo, either in the title ("Hoodoo" by Muse )
Voodoo 
 or in the actual song, such as in David Bowie's song "Magic Dance", with the lyric, "You remind me of the babe./ What babe?/ The babe with the power.
Voodoo 
 Baron Samedi (as the head of the Ghede family of Loa) is mentioned in the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories Live and Let Die.
Voodoo 
 In the short story Kum Ogun by Jorge Amado, or the 2nd part of the novel Shepherds of the night (1964), is one of the title characters – Loa Ogun.
Voodoo 
 Papa Legba, Erzulie, Ogun, Ghede and other popular Loa together with the adepts of Voodoo are depicted in Andrei Gusev's 2020 novel Our Wild Sex in Malindi.
Mercury (mythology) 
 Mercury (Latin: Mercurius) is the god of trade, commerce, financial gain, messages/communication, travellers and boundaries, trickery, merchants and thieves in Ancient Roman religion and myth.
Mercury (mythology) 
 Son of Jupiter and Maia, Mercury was a major god in Roman state religion, being a member of the Dii Consentes, the principal group of ancient Roman deities.
Medusa 
 The Latin poet Ovid writes in Book IV of  his Metamorphoses that Poseidon had raped Medusa in the temple of Athena.
Medusa 
 They are an example of using one evil thing to make other evil things leave, the same way Perseus used Medusa against his other enemies.
Medusa 
 Before they were monsters, all three sisters were beautiful young women, Medusa the most; however, she was a priestess in the temple of Athena and was bound by a vow of celibacy.
Medusa 
 She appears on the breastplate of Alexander the Great in the Alexander Mosaic at the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy (about 200 BC).
Medusa 
 Among the Renaissance depictions are the sculpture Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini (1554) and the oil painting Medusa by Caravaggio (1597).
Medusa 
 Baroque depictions include Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens (1618); the marble bust Medusa by Bernini (1630s); and Perseus Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone, an oil painting by Luca Giordano from the (early 1680s).
Medusa 
 Romantic and modern depictions include Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova (1801) and Perseus, a sculpture by Salvador Dalí.
Medusa 
 Twentieth century artists whno tackled the Medusa theme include Paul Klee, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, Pierre et Gilles, and Auguste Rodin.
Medusa 
 The twenty-first century sculpture Medusa with the Head of Perseus by Luciano Garbati became part of the #MeToo Movement.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series 
 Lilo & Stitch: The Series is a Disney Channel animated television series based on the 2002 movie, Lilo & Stitch.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series 
 As with the first movie, it stars Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai and Chris Sanders as her alien friend Stitch.
Olga Bondarenko 
 Olga Bondarenko (maiden name Krentser, born 2 June 1960 in Slavgorod, Altai Krai, Russia) is a long-distance runner.
Olga Bondarenko 
 Running for the U.S.S.R., she won the 10,000 metre race at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and the 3,000 metre race at the 1986 European Championships.
Olga Bondarenko 
 Earlier she had set a world record for the 10,000 m event, at 31 minutes, 13.78 seconds, in Kiev in 1984.
Olga Bondarenko 
 Her first world-class gold medal was a first-place finish in the 5,000 m race at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow.
Hephaestus 
 Hephaestus (, Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of fire, metalworking, craftsmen, sculpture, metallurgy and volcanoes.
Hephaestus 
 Hephaestus denied because he knew that the only reason that Hera wanted him back, was because he could make her items.
Hephaestus 
 He then set to work and fashioned a beautiful golden throne and sent it to Hera as a ‘thank you, but not really, gift.’
Hephaestus 
 Hephaestus was still very angry with Hera because she threw him off Mount Olympus because of his disability.
Hephaestus 
 Everyone tried to free Hera from the great trap, but Hephaestus’ design was so clever that none of the gods could detach the ropes.
Hephaestus 
 Soon Dionysus was making his proud return to Mount Olympus, with drunk Hephaestus on the back of a mule.
Hephaestus 
 Hera felt very guilty and gave him loads of supplies, materials, tools, and helpers for his workshop.
Hephaestus 
 Some of his greatest creations ever were the silver bows and arrows of Artemis and Apollo as well as Apollo’s golden chariot.
Hephaestus 
 He also made all of the gods and goddesses palaces (with help from Athena) and their unbreakable locks.
Hephaestus 
 On top of all this, Hephaestus was and is still credited with the invention of the three-legged stool and the world’s first robots.
Hephaestus 
 When Aphrodite emerged from the sea (created by the sperm of the severed member of Uranus,) Zeus feared that the gods would battle over her hand in marriage, so Zeus arranged that Aphrodite would marry Hephaestus if he let his mother out of the golden throne.
Hephaestus 
 Hephaestus gave Aphrodite his best creations and even gave her a magic girdle that made her irresistible to men.
Hephaestus 
 However, Aphrodite did not love him as she was married against her will and she didn't like Hephaestus' looks.
Hephaestus 
 It is said that when his wife, Aphrodite, does something unfaithful, he smashes some of his materials through rage and makes the volcano he lives under erupt.
Hephaestus 
 One time, Hephaestus caught Aphrodite and Ares on a bed while they Aphrodite and Ares were making love.
Hephaestus 
 Hephaestus out of rage, trapped them on the bed and sent them to Mount Olympus to be ridiculed and laughed at by the other gods.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 In Roman mythology, he was one of the top 12 gods in the heavens - the 12 gods that made up the Dei Consentes, the council of Gods.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Little did she know that her young boy would grow to be a very talented blacksmith for all the gods and goddesses of Olympus.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Through his identification with the Hephaestus of Greek mythology, he came to be considered as the manufacturer of art, arms, iron, jewelry and armor for various gods and heroes, including the thunderbolts of Jupiter.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Late in his childhood, he found the remains of a fisherman's fire on the beach and became fascinated with an unextinguished coal, still red-hot and glowing.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Vulcan carefully shut this precious coal in a clam shell and took it back to his underwater grotto and made a fire with it.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 On the second day, he discovered that when he made the fire hotter with bellows, certain stones sweated iron, silver or gold.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Vulcan made pearl-handled knives and spoons for his foster mother, he made a silver chariot for himself, and bridles so that seahorses could transport him quickly.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Later, Thetis left her underwater grotto to attend a dinner party on Mount Olympus wearing a beautiful necklace of silver and sapphires, which Vulcan had made for her.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Thetis became flustered causing Juno to become suspicious and, at last, the queen god discovered the truth: the baby she had once rejected had grown into a talented blacksmith.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 However he did send Juno a beautifully constructed chair made of silver and gold, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Juno was delighted with this gift but, as soon as she sat in it her weight triggered hidden springs and metal bands sprung forth to hold her fast.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 The more she shrieked and struggled the more firmly the mechanical throne gripped her; the chair was a cleverly designed trap.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 For three days Juno sat fuming, still trapped in Vulcan's chair, she could not sleep, she could not stretch, she could not eat.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 It was Jupiter who finally saved the day, he promised that if Vulcan released Juno he would give him a wife, Venus the goddess of love and beauty.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 It was said that whenever Venus is unfaithful, Vulcan grows angry and beats the red-hot metal with such a force that sparks and smoke rise up from the top of the mountain, to create a volcanic eruption.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 To punish mankind for stealing the secrets of fire, Jupiter ordered the other gods to make a poisoned gift for man.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Vulcan's contribution to the beautiful and foolish Pandora was to mould her from clay and to give her form.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 It was said to have been built during the Roman Kingdom by Titus Tatius, the Sabine co-king, in the eighth century BC.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 The Etruscan haruspices thought a temple of Vulcan should be outside the city, and the Volcanal may originally have been on or outside the city limits before they expanded to include the Capitoline Hill.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 The Romans identified Vulcan with the Greek smith-god Hephaestus and he became associated like his Greek counterpart with the use of fire in metalworking.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 A fragment of a Greek pot showing Hephaestus found at the Volcanal has been dated to the 6th century BC, suggesting they were already associated.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 However, Vulcan had a stronger association than Hephaestus with fire's destructiveness, and his worshippers wanted to encourage the god to avert harmful fires.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 Also because of that fire, Domitian (emperor 81–96) established a new altar to Vulcan on the Quirinal Hill.
Vulcan (mythology) 
 A red bull-calf and red boar were added to the sacrifices made on the Vulcanalia, at least in that part of town.
Tyche (planet) 
 Tyche was first proposed in 1999 by astronomer John Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Tyche (planet) 
 Matese and Daniel Whitmire say that the points of origin for long-period comets gives a pattern that suggests Tyche's existence.
Tyche (planet) 
 They noted that Tyche, if it exists, should be seen in the archive of data that was collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Infrared telescope.
Demeter 
 Demeter (Attic Greek: Δημήτηρ, Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ, Dāmā́tēr) is the goddess of the harvest and agriculture in ancient Greek religion and myth, one of the Twelve Olympians.
Demeter 
 She served as the patron goddess of farmers, and was believed to have taught men how to reap and cultivate the harvest.
Demeter 
 Both she and Persephone were central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a series of festivals held in honor of the two goddesses in the region of Attica.
Demeter 
 Her symbols were the scythe, cornucopia, wheat, bread and harvest grains, and the pig and snake were her sacred animals.
Demeter 
 Eventually an accord was met by which Persephone would spend part of the year underground, and the rest above ground with her mother.
Ceres 
 In Roman religion and myth, Ceres (Latin: Cerēs) is the goddess of agriculture, especially the growing of grains and cereals, fertility and motherly relationships.
Ceres 
 The Roman counterpart of Demeter, Ceres was the central deity of the Plebeian or Aventine Triad, comprised of her, Liber and Libera.
Roman mythology 
 Roman mythology is a huge collection of stories, started in Ancient Rome, about the beginning of the world, and the lives and adventures the many Roman gods, goddesses, and heroes.
Roman mythology 
 Originally they were similar to the Greek mythology of the Ancient Greeks, and later the Romans added Greek stories for their Roman gods, so they became even more similar.
List of Roman gods and goddesses 
 Mercury - The god of shopkeepers, merchants, travelers, transporters of goods, thieves, and tricksters.
List of Roman gods and goddesses 
 List of names of mythological gods, a comparison of names of Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Norse and Meitei gods and goddesses
List of gods and goddesses 
 This is a list of deities in different polytheistic religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.
Ancient history 
 Ancient history is all the events we know about between the invention of writing and the start of the Middle Ages.
Ancient history 
 It was invented after the Neolithic revolution in which people settled in small towns and started agriculture.
Ancient history 
 Finding facts about ancient history is difficult because people wrote less in those times: only scribes could write.
Ancient history 
 More people could read and write in Ancient Rome than in other places but much of what they wrote is now lost.
Ancient history 
 When a volcano (a mountain that makes fire and hot rocks) killed the people living there, the city was buried and the things inside it were covered with rock and ash.
Ancient history 
 4th millennium BC – cuneiform writing in the cities of Uruk and Susa; and hieroglyphs (picture writing) in Egypt.
Ancient history 
 c. 3300 BC – Bronze Age start in the Near East and South Asia Bronze Age goes to the rest of Europe and The Middle East
Ancient history 
 1700 BC – Indus Valley Civilization ends but the Cemetery H culture keeps going; The start of Poverty Point Civilization in North America
Ancient history 
 1122 BC – The Zhou people stop the last king of Shang Dynasty from being king; Zhou Dynasty starts in China
Ancient history 
 326 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Indian king Porus (Purushottama) in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
Ancient history 
 221 BC - Qin Shi Huang is in China, end of Warring States Period; start of Emperors in China (this will end in 1912 AD)
Ancient history 
 44 BC - Marcus Brutus and others kill Julius Ceaser; The Roman Republic ends; The Roman Empire starts.
Ancient history 
 238 - Shapur I of Persia defeats of Gordian III (238–244), Philip the Arab (244–249), and Valerian (253–260).
Staten Island 
 Three bridges connect Staten Island to New Jersey, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects to Brooklyn.
Staten Island 
 A passenger railroad runs along the south shore to the northeast end of the island, which is called Saint George.
Staten Island 
 The free Staten Island Ferry carries 21 million passengers each year the five miles (eight km) across New York Harbor between Saint George and Manhattan.
Staten Island 
 England took control of New Netherland in the Second Anglo-Dutch War in the 17th century and made Staten Island part of New York instead of new Jersey.
Borough 
 The Borough in Southwark, London is thought to have been the original 'borough' of which all others come from.)
Borough 
 But in some cities it is a sub-division of the city (e.g. London, New York City, Toronto, Montreal).
Borough 
 In such cases the borough will normally have either limited powers delegated to it by the city's local government or no powers at all.
Borough 
 At certain times London has had no overall city government and London boroughs were the main unit of local government for Londoners.
Borough 
 In other places, such as Alaska, a borough does not mean a single township, but a whole region - in other words, it is similar to a county.
Borough 
 Boroughs exist in United Kingdom, more specifically in England and Northern Ireland, in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, in Israel, and formerly they also existed in New Zealand.
Borough 
 At the end of a word, -borough (or -brough) is found in the name of many towns and cities in England; in southern England it is usually spelt -bury.
Borough 
 The suffix -bury is also used in the New England region of the United States, while -burg (or -burgh) is more common in Scotland and the American South and West.
Echo (mythology) 
 According to Ovid, Echo once had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus having relationships with other women.
Echo (mythology) 
 She put a curse on her that meant that she could only speak the last words of other people after she had heard them.
Echo (mythology) 
 She then went and haunted valleys and mountainous areas where echoes are able to be heard in all hollow places of the earth.
Echo (mythology) 
 Echo's voice was not collected, so it remains all over the world and still says the last words that other people have said.
Helios 
 During the Hellenistic period, particularly the 3rd Century BCE, he became more and more identified with Apollo, the god of light, music and prophecy.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate 
 The president pro tempore ( or ), or president pro tem, of the United States Senate is the longest serving senator from the majority political party in the United States Senate.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate 
 It is the third in the U.S. presidential line of succession (behind the vice president and the speaker of the House).
President pro tempore of the United States Senate 
 Benjamin Wade was only one vote away from becoming the president of the United States due to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate 
 Probably the most famous presidents pro tempore were John Langdon (first in this office), David Rice Atchison (D-MO), Benjamin Wade (R-OH), Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI), Carl Hayden (D-AZ) Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA), Strom Thurmond (R-SC), Robert Byrd (D-WV), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
President pro tempore of the United States Senate 
 When Senator Hubert Humphrey, a former vice president, was seriously ill, the Senate showed its respect for him by creating the office of Deputy President Pro tempore for any former president or vice president who is elected to the Senate.
President pro tempore of the United States Senate 
 Since 2001, the honorary title of president pro tempore emeritus has been given to a Senator of the minority party who has previously served as president pro tempore.
David Tennant 
 He is known for portraying the Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010 and as Giacomo Casanova in the television series Casanova.
American Broadcasting Company 
 The network is owned by The Walt Disney Company following the acquisition of Disney Channel's consumer business.
Papua New Guinea 
 The island is in both Australasia and Oceania, which are two different terms for the continent of islands in the Pacific area.
Papua New Guinea 
 The nation has 20 province-level divisions: eighteen, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and the National Capital District.
Papua New Guinea 
 Parliament has approved two additional provinces by 2012: Hela Province, which will be part of the current Southern Highlands Province, and Jiwaka Province, which will be formed by dividing Western Highlands Province.
Strom Thurmond 
 He was the oldest serving member of the United States Senate to date and the only senator to reach 100 while in office.
Strom Thurmond 
 During 1948 U.S. Presidential Election he became the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party faction called "Dixiecrat" (States Rights Democrat, mostly from the South) - people who supported racial segregation and opposed civil rights laws.
Strom Thurmond 
 Thurmond and his Vice Presidential candidate, Mississippi Governor Fielding Lewis Wright finished the race in 3rd (behind Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey) with 39 electoral votes and they carried 4 states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and, of course, Thurmond's home state).
Strom Thurmond 
 He was originally a Democrat, but in 1964 he openly supported Barry Goldwater's presidential bid and became a Republican.
Strom Thurmond 
 As the longest serving Republican he was President pro tempore of the United States Senate for three occasions (1981-1987, 1995-2001, and January 2001-June 2001), when Republican gained a majority.
Strom Thurmond 
 After Democrats took over the control of the Senate in June 2001 Thurmond became first honorary "president pro tempore emeritus".
Strom Thurmond 
 Thurmond turned 100 years old on December 5, 2002, while still in office, the oldest person ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Strom Thurmond 
 Started his career as opponent of racial integration, in his later years Thurmond supported desegregation.
Strom Thurmond 
 His longtime Senate rival, Robert Byrd of West Virginia surpassed Thurmond's record of length of senatorial service in 2006.
Strom Thurmond 
 After Thurmond's death in 2003, an attorney for his family confirmed that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's housekeeper, Cassie Butler, then 16 years old.
Strom Thurmond 
 Thurmond died in his sleep on June 26, 2003, at 9:45 p.m. of heart failure at a hospital in Edgefield, South Carolina.