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Sometimes the radio connection to the cell is lost, for example when you go underground.
This means the phone cannot make or receive calls until the connection is made again.
Networks and payment
The network is the company that provides the phone service.
In most areas there will be more than one mobile network.
Customers choose networks based on how well the different networks work in their area, or by price.
If you pay by contract you will pay the network money every month so that you can make calls.
Usually you can talk for a lot of time for the monthly fee, but if you do not use the phone a lot you still pay the same money.
Pay as you use
If you pay as you use, you will pay for a fixed amount of call time credit which you then use up when phoning people.
Once the credit is used up you must buy some more to use the phone.
This can be cheaper if you do not use the phone a lot.
Mobile phones use different technical standards.
GSM phones need a separate microchip, called a Subscriber Identity Module or SIM card, to work.
The SIM has information like the phone number and payment account and this is needed to make or receive calls.
The SIM may be supplied by the same company as the phone, or a different one.
Sometimes you can change the network by using a SIM from another network, but some companies do not want this to happen and they lock the phone so that you have to use their SIM.
The others have a special radio inside them that only makes phone calls when the phone is activated.
When someone buys a contract, the network gives them a code, that if they enter it into the phone, the phone will then make calls.
It is usually impossible to switch to a different network's code on this type of phone.
The majority of these CDMA phones are used in the United States and nearby countries.
Main page: Smartphone
A majority of new mobile phones from the 21st century are smartphones.
These phones are basically  small computers.
Besides calling, they can be used for email, browsing the internet, playing music and games, and many other functions that computers can perform.
Most smartphones run a common mobile operating system.
This allows developers to make mobile apps that work on many different phones without needing to change the code.
Examples of smartphones include Apple's iPhone (which uses iOS software) and Samsung's Galaxy series, one of many phones that use the Android platform made by Google.
Mobile case
Cases, which are designed to attach to, support, or otherwise hold a smartphone, are popular accessories.
Some have a keyboard built in.
Case measures are based on the display inches (e.g. 5 inch display).
There are different types:
Pouches and sleeves
Holsters
Flip cases and wallets
Leather case
Screen protectors and body films
More people are using smartphones than the old kind of mobile phone, which are called feature phones covers
Holsters are commonly used alone for devices that include rubberized padding, and/or are made of plastic and without exposed rigid corners.
Heavy duty cases are designed to protect from drops and scratches.
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He was voted mostly by the left-wing coalition led by Prime Minister Romano Prodi, head of the Italian Government.
Napolitano was preceded at his job by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
His nickname is King George.
People from Naples
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
Robert Carlyle Byrd (November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a Senator of the state of West Virginia from 1959 until his death in 2010.
He is the longest serving Senator in United States History.
He was dean of the United States Senate from 2003 to 2010.
He was President pro tempore four times.
He was elected to the Senate in 1958.
He served as majority leader from 1977 to 1981 and again from 1987 to 1989.
He was also minority leader from 1981 to 1987.
He was a member of the KKK.
Byrd was born on November 20, 1917 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
He was married to Erma James from 1937 until her death in 2006.
Byrd was fourth person in the state (as President pro tempore of the Senate, usually longest serving Senator from majority party) from January 1989 to January 1995, from January 3, 2001 to January 20, 2001 and again from June 2001 to January 2003 and January 2007 until his death in 2010.
After Republicans retook control of the Senate, he became the honorary President "pro tempore emeritus" In 2007, Byrd became President Pro Tempore of the Senate again.
Before he was elected to the Senate he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 until 1959 (he is dean of all Congress).
He was a vocal opponent of President George W. Bush's war in Iraq.
In January 2006 he was one of the only four (alongside Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Ken Salazar of Colorado) democratic Senators, who voted for Samuel Alito.
Byrd died on June 28, 2010 in Falls Church, Virginia from problems caused by heat exhaustion, aged 92.
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Artemis is the Greek goddess of the Moon, hunting, archery, virginity and midwifery.
She is one of the members of the Twelve Olympians who ruled the world on top of Mount Olympus.
She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto, older twin sister of Apollo.
Her roman equivalent is Diana.
Artemis is generally depicted as a beautiful huntress wearing a sleeveless tunic and carrying a bow and arrow.
She is accompanied by a group of nymphs huntresses.
Bow, arrow, quiver and knives serves as her symbols.
While deer and stags is her sacred animal.
Ancient Greek myths involving Artemis
Hera, who was Zeus's wife, discovered that Leto was pregnant and became very angry.
She banned Leto from giving birth on any mainland or island known.
Leto found the island of Delos, which floated and so was not an island or mainland, and gave birth there.
Hera then locked up the goddess of childbirth, Eilethyia, so she could not give birth to the twins.
Then, all the other goddesses convinced her to let her free so she could finally give birth.
Leto gave birth to Artemis without any problem.
However she was in labor with Apollo for nine days.
Artemis helped Leto to give birth to Apollo.
Acteon
A mortal hunter named Acteon stumbled upon Artemis while she was bathing in one of his hunting session with his friends.
Artemis discovered him and she was enraged.
So she inflicted a punishment upon him for spying on her whilst she was bathing by transforming him into a stag.
She sent his own hunting dogs to tear him apart.
Hippolytos
Hippolytos, a companion and devotee of Artemis, was slain through the machinations of Aphrodite, as punishment for his scorning of love and neglecting her worship.
Artemis avenged the death of Hippolytos by killing Aphrodite's favourite lover, Adonis.
She later petitioned Asclepius to bring the boy back to life, and spirited him away to her sacred shrine in Aricia.
Artume - Etruscan mythology version of Artemis.
Diana - Roman mythology version of Artemis.
Theoi Project, Artemis, information on Artemis from original Greek and Roman sources, images from classical art.
Hymn To Artemis - The Virgin Goddess of the Hunt
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds.
G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte)
Apollo is a god in Greek mythology, and one of the Twelve Olympians.
He is the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis.
He is the god of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry and the sun.
He is the leader of the Muses.
He also is a god of prophecy, and his Oracle at Delphi is very important.
He also is the god of justice.
During the 5th century BC, Apollo became also known as the god of Sun, becoming one with the god Helios, and getting the name Phoebus.
He is shown as a handsome young man, wearing a laurel wreath and playing the kithara (lyre).
It is known as his symbol.
His other symbols include the raven.
Myths about Apollo
Apollon or Apollo was one of the Twelve Olympians, the 12 most important gods in Greek mythology.
Because of this, there are many myths about him:
The Birth of Apollo
Apollo and his twin sister Artemis were the children of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and the goddess Leto.
When Leto became pregnant, Zeus already had a wife, the queen of the gods Hera.
Hera was angry that Zeus was having children with Leto, and cursed Leto so that she could not ever give birth to her children anywhere on the earth where the sun shone.
Hera then sent a serpent called Python to eat her.
Python chased Leto to the edge of the sea, where Leto swam to the island of Delos.
Python could not swim, however, and had to leave her alone.
The island of Delos was at that time just a big rock floating on the sea, not an island yet, so it wasn't "on the earth".
So Leto climbed under the shade of a palm tree and gave birth to her daughter Artemis, and then her son Apollo.
Delos then became Apollo's and Artemis' sacred land.
It varies from myth to myth what twin was born first.
Apollo and Delphi
When Apollo grew up, he went to his father Zeus and asked for a golden bow with arrows as bright and sharp as the sunshine.
Then he went looking for a place to build his temple.
He came to a spring that belonged to a nymph called Telephusa and tried to build his temple there, but Telephusa suggested he build his temple at Delphi instead, since there was already a shrine there to Themis, the goddess of telling the future.
Apollo went to Delphi but found out it was taken over by Python, the dragon who had tried to eat his mother.
He killed the Python with a hundred arrows and claimed Delphi as his temple.
He got two sailors to be his priests and then gave a girl the power of telling the future.
The girl became his priestess or oracle.
The little god Eros, the son of the love goddess Aphrodite, had watched Apollo kill Python and worshiped Apollo as his idol.
Apollo, however, was annoyed by Eros and insulted him.
Eros got angry and shot Apollo with his magic arrow, making him fall in love with a nymph named Daphne.
Daphne didn't love Apollo and shunned him.
Apollo chased her, and she turned herself into a laurel tree to escape him.
Apollo still loved her and made the laurel one of his symbols.
Apollo and Hermes
Apollo looked after the cattle of the sun-god Helios while Helios was driving the sun through the sky.
While Apollo was chasing Daphne, the mischievous baby god Hermes stole the cattle and confused Apollo by making the cattle walk backward as they left their pen.
When Apollo went looking for them, it looked like they had walked into the ranch instead of out.
Hermes also told a nearby man that he would make him rich if he told no one about what he saw Hermes do.
The man, Battos, told Apollo anyway and was later turned into stone by Hermes as punishment.
Apollo took Hermes in front of all the gods to be judged.
Hermes acted innocent, though, and finally convinced Apollo to forgive him by giving him the lyre.
Apollo loved this lyre so much that he not only let Hermes keep the cattle but also gave him the caduceus, a magic wand that could heal wounds and cause sleep.
Hermes tried the caduceus out on two dying snakes, who came back to life and curled around the wand for the rest of eternity.
Nike (Greek: Νίκη) is the goddess of victory in Greek mythology.
She was the daughter of Styx and Pallas and the sister of Cratos, Bia, and Zelus.
Nike and her brothers and sister were all friends of Zeus.
Nike could run very fast, had wings and brings good luck.
She is usually worshipped at the same time as Athena.
Nike is often linked with sport, with companies named for her like Nike Inc. A picture of Nike also appears in all the medals for the Summer Olympics.
Her Roman name is Victoria.
The most famous statue of Nike is the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
This is now in the Louvre, which is a museum in Paris, France.
She is a symbol of victory displayed outside Olympic stadiums in Olympia and in other places where there are Olympics.
She is believed to always be watching over sport stadiums ready to  choose the victor of the game.
Daphne, a dryad in Greek mythology
Dafne is the name of an opera by Jacopo Peri (1597), no longer existent, and is considered to be the first opera ever composed.
Daphne is also the title of an opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth of the nymph Daphne.
Daphne Descends is a song on the Smashing Pumpkins' Adore album.
Daphne is a song on several Django Reinhardt albums, such as Djangology.
The song was originally written in 1938.
Daphne is also a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries.
41 Daphne is the name of an asteroid.
DAΦNE is a nuclear physics experiment in Frascati, Italy.
DAPHNE is an emulator of Laserdisc Arcade Games.
Many cities and villages in Greece are named Dafni
Daphne is the name of a city in the U.S. state of Alabama.
Daphne Blake is a character in the television cartoon Scooby-Doo.
Daphne Broon is a character in the Scottish cartoon strip The Broons.
Daphne Moon is a character in the Emmy Award Winning Show Frasier.
Daphne is the name of a tree that is important in finding Maia Mizuki's lost memories, in the anime Daphne in the Brilliant Blue (2004)
SS Daphne was a ship which sank disastrously in 1883.
"Daphne II" is a European Community program based on the decission 803/2004/CE from the European Parliament, to prevent and fight violence against women and children and protect the victims and risk groups; It states a common position and strategy from the representatives of the European citizenship.
Styx is the goddess of the river Styx in Greek mythology, and was the only female river goddess.
She was the daughter of Okeanos and Tethys, and with Pallas was also the mother of Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia (and sometimes Eos).
During the Titanomachy she sent the children to help Zeus.
To reward her for helping the Olympians, Zeus did not throw her in Tartarus, but let her be the guardian of the river Styx.
She is the wife of the ferryman, Charon, and the guardian of the river Coctylus, Archeon.
Julius Henry Marx or Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian.
He was best known for work with his siblings in The Marx Brothers and then later on his own.
He was also best known for portraying a fast-talking "wise guy" with bushy eyebrows, glasses, moustache and a cigar.
The gods and goddesses in Greek mythology have special parts in the world.
For instance, Zeus is the god of the sky, Poseidon is the god of the sea and Hephaestus is the god of metal work, forging and fire.
They can make themselves invisible to humans and move to any place in a very short amount of time.
Gods and goddesses also never get sick and can only be hurt by very unusual causes.
This is called being immortal.
The king of the gods was Zeus.
The gods were children of the Titans such as Kronos and Rhea.
Greek mythology has thirteen main gods known as the Twelve Olympians plus Hades, the brother of Zeus.
They were Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hephaestus, Dionysus, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Demeter, Aphrodite and Hermes.
Before them there were the twelve Titans.
The myth of the Sun
The Greeks believed that the sun was pulled across the sky by a chariot driven by the god, Apollo, (Or Helios, as some say, the titan who drove the 'sun chariot' across the sky before his successor Apollo)  and he himself was the god of archery, poetry, and Oracles.
Every day, Apollo would drive the Sun Chariot across the sky.
The Greek creation myth
The Ancient Greeks believed that in the beginning, the world was in a state of nothingness which they called Chaos.
Suddenly, from light, came Gaia (Mother Earth) and from her came Uranus (the sky) along with other old gods (called primordials) like Pontus (the primordial god of the oceans).
Gaia and Uranus had 12 children, the Titans.
The most important of the 12 children were Kronos and Rhea.
Gaia gave birth to monsters called cyclops and monsters called Hecatoncheires (the hundred handed ones).
Uranus, disgusted by the monsters, threw them in Tartarus.
Gaia was angered by Uranus and wanted revenge on him.
Gaia used her son Kronos, who chopped off Uranus' genitals.
Kronos then threw Uranus into the ocean.
From the blood of his genitals, came the goddess of love and beauty—Aphrodite.
Kronos married his sister Rhea and gave birth to 6 children, who were called the gods.
Kronos, who was afraid of a prophecy delivered to him which stated that one day his children would cut him up, swallowed each of his children the second they were born.
Rhea did not like this, so she saved Zeus and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead.
Zeus was raised by Amaltheia.
In some versions of the story, Amaltheia was a nymph.
In other versions she was a goat.
Zeus grew up in a mountain cave in Crete.
When he was old enough, he tricked Kronos into drinking a mixture of wine and mustard with the help of Metis.
Metis later had a child with Zeus named Athena.
Kronos vomited up the rest of the gods, who, being immortal, had been growing up completely undigested in Kronos' stomach.
Zeus and other gods then had a big war with the Titans.
Zeus won with the help of the hundred handed ones and the cyclops.
After they won the war Zeus cut Kronos into pieces and threw them into Tartarus.
Zeus was, from then on, the leader of the gods.
Poseidon took over the oceans.
Hades took over the Underworld.
Zeus married his sister Hera and crowned her Queen of Olympus.
List of Greek gods and goddesses
List of people in Greek mythology
Gaia (mythology): the earth and mother of the gods in Greek mythology
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Gaia hypothesis: the idea that living things and the Earth are closely connected, and form a complex self-regulating system, making sure there can be life on the planet.
James Lovelock promoted this idea.
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Nyx was the goddess of the night in Greek mythology.
She came out of Chaos.
Hesiod's Theogony
In his theogony (How the gods came to be), Hesiod tells: Night is born of Chaos; her offspring are many, and telling.
With Erebus, Night gives birth to the following deities:
Aether ("atmosphere") and Hemera ("day").
Momus "blame"
Ponos "toil"
Moros "fate"
Thanatos "death"
Hypnos "sleep",
the Oneiroi "the tribe of dreams"
the Hesperides
the Keres and Fates
Nemesis "retribution"
Apate "deception"
Philotes "friendship"
Geras "age",
and Eris "strife".
In his description of Tartarus, Hesiod says further that Hemera "day", who is now Night's sister rather than daughter, left Tartarus just as Nyx entered it; when Hemera returned, Nyx left.
This mirrors the portrayal of Ratri "night" in the Rig-Veda, where she works in close cooperation but also tension with her sister Ushas "dawn".
Only hers:
Hypnos, the god of sleep.
Thanatos, the god of death.
Apate, the god of deception.
Eris, the god of strife.
Geras, the god of age.
Momus, the god of blame.
Moros, the god of fate.
Philotes, the god of friendship.
Ponus, the god of toil.
with Erebos: Charon
Nox - Etruscan mythology version of Nyx.
Hemera was the goddess of daylight in Greek mythology.
She was the daughter of Erebus and Nyx, and the sister of Moros, Charon, Keres and Nemesis.
Aether was her brother and consort.
Hyginus listed Gaia, Thalassa and Ouranos as their children.
In Hesiod's "Theogony", Hemera was only mother of Thalassa.
Hemera's mother was the goddess of the night and her father was the god of darkness.
they were brother and sister and married and had kids Hemera was one of them.
Aether was the God of light in Greek mythology.
He was the son of Erebus and Nyx.
Aether is one of the primordial deities, the first-born elementals.
Damascius says that Aether, Erebus and Chaos were siblings, and the offspring of Chronos (Father Time).
According to Epiphanius, the world began as a cosmic egg, encircled by Time and Inevitability (most likely Chronos and Ananke) in serpent fashion.
Together they constricted the egg, squeezing its matter with great force, until the world divided into two hemispheres.
The lighter and finer ones floated above and became the Bright Air (Aether and/or Ouranos) and the rarefied Wind (Chaos), while the heavier and dirtier atoms sank and became the Earth (Gaia) and the Ocean (Pontos and/or Oceanus).
The Keres are female death spirits in Greek mythology, and were the daughters of Erebus and Nyx.
They look very dark and have sharp teeth, claws and like the taste of blood.
The Keres look around battlefields for hurt people and people who are dying.
Greek legendary creatures
Eris (, "Strife") is the goddess of strife and discord in Greek mythology.
She is the daughter of Nyx, but has no father.
She is the opposite of Harmonia, who is the goddess of harmony.
The Romans called her Discordia.
In Roman statues of Discordia, and in other Roman art of her, she looks scary and ugly, and she is holding a knife.
There are a few myths about this goddess, such as the one involving the golden apple.
Discordians
Nowadays, there are some people who call themselves Discordians.
This idea comes from a book called Principia Discordia, which was written by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley in San Francisco in the year 1958 or 1959.
The book says that Eris might not have been scary and ugly after all, but that she was just misunderstood.
The Principia Discordia describes the Discordian Society and its Goddess Eris, as well as the basics of Discordianism.
Geras is the god of age in Greek mythology.
His mother is Nyx, but he has no father.
Hypnos is the god of sleep in Greek mythology.
He is the son of Nyx and the twin brother of Thanatos, the god of death.
His Roman equivalent was Somnus.
Hypnos was represented as a gentle young man, usually with wings attached to his temples or shoulders.
Momus is the god of blame in Greek mythology.
He was kicked out of Olympus after criticizing Zeus and Aphrodite.
Moros is the personification of doom in Greek mythology.
He was the child of Nyx and brother to Thanatos.
It is believed that he decided the destiny of each mortal.
Metis is the goddess of wisdom in Greek mythology.
She is one of the Titans and is the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
She was the mother of Athena.
When she was inside Zeus, Metis made a helmet and a robe for her baby.
The hammering noise caused Zeus to have a headache.
To try and help Zeus with the pain, Prometheus, Hephaestus, Hermes, or Palaemon (depending on the myth) cut his head open with a Minoan axe.
Athena then came out of Zeus's head.
She was fully grown and had her armour on.
Eos (Ionic and Homeric Greek: Ἠώς, Ēōs; Attic: Ἕως, Éōs; Aeolic: Αὔως, Aúōs; Doric: Ἀώς, Āṓs) is the goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology.
She was the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia.
She is the sister of Helios, god of the sun, and Selene, goddess of the moon.
Eos leaves her home, which was at the edge of ocean, every morning to wake her brother, Helios.
She opens the gates of heaven so that Helios can ride his chariot across the sky each day.
Aurora - Roman mythology version of Eos.
Thesan - Etruscan mythology version of Eos.
Selene is also another name for the moon
Selene () is the goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology.
She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia.
She is the sister of Helios, god of the Sun, and Eos, goddess of the dawn.
She is often shown driving her chariot across the night sky, drawn by a team of winged horses.
Many other goddesses, such as Artemis and Hecate, were associated with the moon, but only Selene was regarded as the personification of the Moon itself.
Her Roman equivalent is Luna.
The etymology of Selene is unknown, but if the word is from Greek, it is probably connected to the word selas, meaning "light".
Boreion Selas is the Greek name for Aurora Borealis.
The word selenology, the study of the geology of the Moon, comes from her name.
The chemical element Selenium was also named after Selene.
In post-Renaissance art, Selene is shown as a beautiful woman with a pale face.
She is sometimes riding a silver chariot (cart) pulled by oxen or a pair of horses.
Often, she is shown riding a horse or bull, wearing robes and a half-moon on her head and carrying a torch.
In the old pre-Olympian genealogy of the gods, Helios, the sun, is Selene's brother: after her brother, Helios, finishes his trip across the sky, Selene, freshly washed in the waters of the Earth-circling Ocean, begins her own trip as night falls upon the earth, which becomes lit from the light of her head and golden crown.
When she is growing after mid-month, it is a "sure token and a sign to mortal men".
Her sister, Eos, is goddess of the dawn.
Eos also carried off a human lover, Cephalus, which is like a myth of Selene and Endymion.
As a result of Selene becoming one with Artemis, later writers sometimes said Selene was a daughter of Zeus, like Artemis, or of Pallas the Titan.
In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, with its list of people's fathers, she is "bright Selene, daughter of the lord Pallas, Megamedes' son."
The Apollonius of Rhodes tells how Selene loved a mortal, the handsome hunter or shepherd—or, in the version Pausanias knew, a king— of Elis, named Endymion, from Asia Minor.
He was so beautiful that Selene asked Zeus to grant him eternal sleep, she learned from her sister never to ask for eternal life or be left with a grasshopper in her hands so he would never leave her: her asking permission of Zeus is as an Olympian change to an older myth: Cicero Tusculanae Disputationes recognized that the moon goddess had done it by herself.
Another story says Endymion made the decision to live forever in sleep.
Every night, Selene went down behind Mount Latmus near MiletusPausanias geographerPausanias .
Selene had fifty daughters, the Menae, by Endymion, including Naxos, the nymph of Naxos Island.
The protected place of Endymion at Heraclea by Latmus|Heraclea on the southern slope of Latmus is a horseshoe-shaped room with an entrance hall and pillared front court.
Though the story of Endymion is the best-known one today, the Homeric hymn to Selene tells that Selene also had a daughter by Zeus, Pandia, the "utterly shining" full moon.
According to some sources, the Nemean Lion was her child as well.
She also had a brief relationship with Pan, who seduced her by wrapping himself in a sheepskin and gave her the yoke of white oxen that drew the chariot in which she is shown in sculptures, with her windblown veil above her head like the arching canopy of sky.
In the Homeric hymn, her chariot is drawn by long-maned horses.
The Roman moon goddess, Luna, had a temple on the Aventine Hill.
It was built in the sixth century BC, but was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome when Nero was king.
There was also a temple to Luna Noctiluca ("Luna that shines by night") on the Palatine Hill.
There were parties in honor of Luna on March 31, August 24 and August 29.
The main character in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution is a woman named Selene who is a vampire.
She is played by Kate Beckinsale.
The Selene is a secret ship in the Playstation game Einhänder.
Selene is the name Lanfear uses when she approaches Mat, Perrin, and Rand to talk about glory, in the Wheel of Time series written by Robert Jordan
Leto is a goddess in Greek mythology.
She was the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, who were Titans.
Leto was the mother of the twins Artemis and Apollo, whose father was Zeus.
After the twins were born, Leto played very little part in Greek mythology.
She is the goddess of motherhood and one of Zeus' many wives.
Birth of Artemis and Apollo
Leto found the island of Delos, which floated and so was not an island nor mainland, and gave birth there.
However she was in labour with Apollo for nine days and nine nights.
Sioux Falls (pronounced "sue falls") is a city in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
It is the largest city in the state; 153,888 people lived there at the 2010 census.
The city is in the eastern part of South Dakota.
It is the county seat of Minnehaha County, where most of the city is located.
The southern part of the city is in Lincoln County.
Sioux Falls became a city in 1876.
The city is built around the Big Sioux River, and it gets its name from a set of waterfalls along the river that are located in a park in the city.
Sioux Falls is home to four major sports teams.
The Sioux Falls Skyforce play basketball in the NBA Development League, the Sioux Falls Canaries play baseball in the American Association, the Sioux Falls Stampede play ice hockey in the United States Hockey League, and the Sioux Falls Storm play American football in the Indoor Football League.
Two major Interstate highways go through Sioux Falls.
Interstate 90 goes from east to west, and Interstate 29 goes from north to south.
Sioux Falls also has a shorter route, Interstate 229, that serves the eastern part of the city and connects Interstate 90 to Interstate 29.
The city is also home to the Sioux Falls Regional Airport, which has flights to many big cities across the country.
City of Sioux Falls government website
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Christopher Eccleston (born 16 February 1964) is an English actor.
He played the Ninth Doctor on Doctor Who in 2005.
Before playing the doctor, he played the Son of God in The Second Coming.
He has acted in movies, such as Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, and Gone in 60 Seconds.
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Actors from Greater Manchester
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{{Infobox movie
| name = Deliverance
| director = John Boorman
| producer = John Boorman
| writer = Novel:James DickeyScreenplay:James Dickey| starring = Jon VoightBurt ReynoldsNed BeattyRonny CoxJames Dickey
| music =
| cinematography =  Vilmos Zsigmond
| editing = Tom Priestley
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = July 30, 1972
| runtime = 109 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $2 million
| gross  = $46,122,355
}}Deliverance' is a 1972 American crime drama movie made by Warner Bros.. It was directed by John Boorman and stars Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, and Jon Voight.
It was based on a book written in 1970 by James Dickey, who also wrote the screenplay and had a small part in the movie.
It is set in rural northern Georgia.
Four men from Atlanta take a trip in a canoe.
Two of them are raped by sadistic local men; the victims take revenge on their attackers.
Deliverance'' got good reviews from critics and is widely considered one of the best films of 1972.
Academy Award for Directing – John Boorman
Academy Award for Film Editing – Tom Priestley
New York Film Critics Circle for Best Film and Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture – John Boorman
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama – Jon Voight
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – James Dickey
1970 books
1970s adventure movies
Movies set in Georgia (U.S. state)
Rape in movies
Movies directed by John Boorman
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 swashbuckler movie.
It was directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley.
It was shot in Technicolor.
The movie stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.
The story is based on the traditional tales of Robin Hood.
It is the third of eight movies Flynn and De Havilland made together.
The movie won three minor Academy Awards.
In 1995, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
1930s adventure movies
Swashbuckler movies
Movies directed by William Keighley
Speed is a 1994 American action-thriller movie set in Los Angeles, California.
It stars Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck, and Dennis Hopper with Joe Morton.
It is about a police officer (Reeves) who has to stop a extortionist (Hopper), who has put a bomb on a city bus.
The movie was a box office success in many countries.
It was followed by a 1997 sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control.
1994 crime movies
1994 thriller movies
1994 action movies
1990s crime thriller movies
1990s American action movies
American crime thriller movies
Movies about extortion
Movies about murderers
Ares is a god in Greek mythology.
He is the god of savage war and bloodlust, and represents the untamed, wild aspects of conflict.
He is one of the Twelve Olympians.
His parents are Zeus and Hera.
He had a twin sister called Eris.
Neither parent liked him.
He is considered murderous and bloody.
In the Trojan War, he fought on the side of the Trojans.
He had six children with Aphrodite.
His homeland is Thrace.
Ares' name is believed to be derived from the Greek word ἀρή (arē), the Ionic form of the Doric ἀρά (ara), which translates to "bane" or "ruin".
Maris - Etruscan mythology version of Ares
Tyr - Norse mythology version of Ares
Mars - Roman mythology version of Ares
Theoi Project, Ares information on Ares from classical literature, images from Greek and Roman art.
Greek Mythology Link, Ares  summary of Ares in myth
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was an English writer.
Her early work, comprising six novels, gave little indication of the style and content of her writing after 1939.
The change of her name to Anna Kavan in 1940 signalled an experimental form, focussed on the 'nocturnal language' of dreams and addiction.
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.
Kavan travelled extensively during the Second World War, spending 22 months in New Zealand.
That country's proximity to Antarctica informed her writing of Ice.
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.
Dr Jennifer Sturm of Auckland University has made a recent study of Kavan's writing, and has unearthed significant validation of her biographical details.
Kavan is currently enjoying something of a belated interest.
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.
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.
Some class it as a religion.
However, voodoo is more a way of life.
It is a supernatural ancestral connection, passed from generation to generation by word of mouth (oral tradition), rituals and spiritual practices.
Voodoo has variations from tribe to tribe.
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 is animism or spiritism.
That is, all aspects of the natural world are seen as having spiritual identity immune to physical death.
Animism includes belief in a person's spirit surviving the death of the body.
Ancestors' 'spirits' are called upon for inspiration, protection or other influences over the material world.
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.
In voodoo many gods and spirits are prayed to or called on.
Both spirits of nature and of dead people are important.
The spirits of family members who have died are especially important.
Voodoo often has rituals with music and dancing.
Drums are used to make most of this music.
In voodoo people often believe that a spirit is in their body and controlling the body.
Having a spirit come into is wanted, and important.
This spirit can speak for the gods or dead people you love, and can also help to heal or do magic.
Vodou in Haiti
Another word for voodoo is vodu, used in Haiti where the creole language is based on French language.
African voodoo often has animal sacrifice (the animal is killed for the spirits), but this is not common in Haiti.
Voodoo in Haiti and America has also added some Catholic ideas that were not known in African voodoo.
The use of Catholic saints/iconography may have developed as a means of adaptation, and survival, but also as a safety precaution.
Voodoo is an important religion in Haiti.
When Haiti beat the French in a war and became its own country, the people of Haiti believed that voodoo had helped them win.
Also, in Haiti there are both good priests and "dark" sorcerers (called bokor).
The bokor acts like a kind of religious policeman, and may curse bad people.
Voodoo in the United States
Voodoo originally entered the United States via immigrants from Africa and Haiti such as Marie LaVeau, "the voodoo queen of New Orleans".
Marie was a pacifist and known for healing people.
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 in popular culture
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.
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.
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.
The 2009 release of Zombieland and the 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead are both horror-comedies.
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.
Storyville, a district in New Orleans, was a place where, at night, Jazz was played and hoodoo was sold.
There, jazz thrived and pulsed with the voices and instruments of Jelly Roll, Sweet Emma Barrett, and many others.
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.
/What power?/ The power of the hoodoo.
/Hoodoo?
/You do.
/Do what?
/Remind me of the babe!".
Another example is Rob Zombie who started the band White Zombie.
Loa (spirits of Voodoo) are depicted in Zadie Smith's 2005 novel On Beauty.
Loa also appear in Terry Pratchett's book Witches Abroad (1991).
A powerful voodoo woman in novel Witches Abroad is named Erzulie Gogol.
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.
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.
The character Galeb from Tales of Monkey Island was based on Loa Papa Legba.
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 (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.
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.
The Roman counterpart to Hermes, the god is depicted as holding a caduceus in his left hand.
The planet Mercury and the element Mercury are named after him.
Turms - Etruscan mythology version of Mercury.
Hermes - Greek mythology version of Mercury.
Medusa is a character in Greek mythology.
Her story has been told and retold by ancient and modern storytellers, writers, and artists.
The Latin poet Ovid writes in Book IV of  his Metamorphoses that Poseidon had raped Medusa in the temple of Athena.
The goddess was angry, and changed Medusa into a monster with snakes for hair.
To people in Ovid's time, Medusa, not Poseidon, was the one who had done something wrong.
Artists have made statues and paintings of Medusa for thousands of years.
Ancient Greeks and other ancient people painted Medusa's face on pots and doors and other things.
In Greek art from this time, artists usually painted or carved people looking out to the side.
Medusa was almost always carved looking out of the picture toward the viewer.
This was so Medusa could scare evil things away.
These pictures of Medusa are called Gorgoneions.
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 was one of three sisters, the Gorgons.
Medusa's sisters were Stheno and Euryale.
Medusa was mortal, but her sisters were immortal.
They were all children of the sea gods, Phorkys and his sister Keto.
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.
The hero Perseus cut off Medusa's head.
He snuck up on her by using his shiny shield as a mirror.
He put Medusa's head in a special bag and then showed it to his enemies.
They turned to stone.
Then he gave Medusa's head to the gods.
Either Zeus or Athena put her head on the shield called aegis.
Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon at the time of her death.
Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a golden giant, sprang from her blood.
Medusa in art
Medusa was a subject for ancient vase painters, mosaicists, and sculptors.
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).
A Roman copy of Phidias' Medusa (left) is held in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany.
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).
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).
Romantic and modern depictions include Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova (1801) and Perseus, a sculpture by Salvador Dalí.
Twentieth century artists whno tackled the Medusa theme include Paul Klee, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, Pierre et Gilles, and Auguste Rodin.
The twenty-first century sculpture Medusa with the Head of Perseus by Luciano Garbati became part of the #MeToo Movement.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series is a Disney Channel animated television series based on the 2002 movie, Lilo & Stitch.
It follows Stitch!
The Movie, which was a pilot to the series.
As with the first movie, it stars Daveigh Chase as Lilo Pelekai and Chris Sanders as her alien friend Stitch.
In the show, they try to find Stitch's alien cousins and the job each cousin is perfect for.
626/Stitch (voiced by Chris Sanders)
Lilo Pelekai (voiced by Daveigh Chase)
Dr. Jumba Jookiba (voiced by David Ogden Stiers)
Agent Wendy Pleakley (voiced by Kevin McDonald)
Nani Pelekai (voiced by Tia Carrere) Lilo's older sister.
Captain Gantu (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson)
625/Reuben (voiced by Rob Paulsen)
Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel (voiced by Jeff Bennett)
Mertle Edmonds (voiced by Liliana Mumy)
624/Angel (voiced by Tara Strong)
Main article: List of Lilo & Stitch: The Series episodes
Disney Channel site
TV.com entry
Television series by Buena Vista Television
Olga Bondarenko (maiden name Krentser, born 2 June 1960 in Slavgorod, Altai Krai, Russia) is a long-distance runner.
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.
Earlier she had set a world record for the 10,000 m event, at 31 minutes, 13.78 seconds, in Kiev in 1984.
Her first world-class gold medal was a first-place finish in the 5,000 m race at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow.
She competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
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Soviet Olympic gold medalists
Hephaestus (, Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of fire, metalworking, craftsmen, sculpture, metallurgy and volcanoes.
His parents were Zeus and Hera, Hephaestus was the blacksmith of the gods.
He was married to the goddess Aphrodite, who cheated on him with his brother Ares.
His symbols were a smith's hammer, an anvil, and a pair of tongs.
The donkey was his sacred animal.
The god Vulcan is his Roman equivalent.
When Hephaestus was born, he was ugly and weak, with a broken foot.
Hera did not like the way he looked and threw him off her castle which  was on top of the clouds.
Hephaestus fell for one day and one night before falling into the sea.
The sea animals rescued him and took him to an island called Lemnos.
There Hephaestus built his forge underneath a volcano.
He collected precious metals, pearls and pieces of coral to fashion extraordinary jewelry.
Hephaestus built little robots of gold to help him get around.
Hephaestus even worked with the Cyclopes (one eyed creatures).
To impress the gods and goddesses, he made a set of golden thrones for them.
Hera realized her mistake of throwing Hephaestus off Mount Olympus and wanted Hephaestus back.
Hephaestus politely refused, saying that he was quite happy where he was.
Hephaestus denied because he knew that the only reason that Hera wanted him back, was because he could make her items.
He then set to work and fashioned a beautiful golden throne and sent it to Hera as a ‘thank you, but not really, gift.’
Hera felt delighted by his present.
The instant she sat on it, golden ropes and chains flew out and tied her into the chair.
Hephaestus was still very angry with Hera because she threw him off Mount Olympus because of his disability.
Hera was trapped on the throne three whole days without being able to eat or sleep.
Everyone tried to free Hera from the great trap, but Hephaestus’ design was so clever that none of the gods could detach the ropes.
So, Zeus sent his son Ares, god of war, to bring Hephaestus back to let Hera loose.
Hephaestus made Ares run away by throwing firebrands at him, and Ares made a shameful retreat.
Zeus used trickery next and sent Dionysus, the god of wine, to get Hephaestus drunk.
Hephaestus was not a regular drinker, and Hephaestus got drunk very quickly.
Soon Dionysus was making his proud return to Mount Olympus, with drunk Hephaestus on the back of a mule.
Hephaestus still refused to let his mother out.
Zeus offered him Aphrodite (the goddess of beauty) as a wife if he let his mother out.
Hephaestus agreed to his offer and finally freed Hera.
He moved back to the forges because he did not like the busy life of the palace.
Although, he still refused to forgive Hera.
Hera felt very guilty and gave him loads of supplies, materials, tools, and helpers for his workshop.
Hephaestus made the best weapons, jewelry, and armor.
Some of his greatest creations ever were the silver bows and arrows of Artemis and Apollo as well as Apollo’s golden chariot.
He also made the  shield of Achilles, Athena's spear, and Hercules' breastplate.
In addition to this he made the scepter of Zeus and the battle armor of the Olympian armies.
He also made all of the gods and goddesses palaces (with help from Athena) and their unbreakable locks.