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Galatea 2.2, 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers; Galatea is the name of the main flagship in the 1998 PC game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War; Galatea is the name of the gynoid in the 1999 film Bicentennial Man. Galatea, a 2000 interactive fiction video game; Galatea of Justice League Unlimited (2001–2006)
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion (/ p ɪ ɡ ˈ m eɪ l i ən /; Ancient Greek: Πυγμαλίων Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a ...
Carol Susan Jane Danvers is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan, the character first appeared as an officer in the United States Air Force and a colleague of the Kree superhero Mar-Vell in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 (March 1968).
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The section is a solo for a woman mourning the loss of her children. A marble statue of Niobe is a female lead character in a long-running 1892 farce Niobe (play) by Harry Paulton. In the play she is bought to life by a quaint electrical storm and brings the Edwardian values and relationships in the household to disarray.
The 8-foot-tall (2.4-meter) bronze, depicting McAuliffe walking in stride in a NASA flight suit, is believed to be the first full statue of McAuliffe, known for her openness to experimental learning.
In September 2008, archaeologists from the University of Tübingen discovered a 6 cm (2.4 in) figurine carved from a mammoth's tusk. This figurine was later called the Venus of Hohle Fels and can be dated to at least 35,000 years ago. It represents the earliest known sculpture of this type and the earliest known work of figurative art. [9]
The monument to the Russian Empress Catherine II in Odessa causes a lot of controversy among Ukrainians, especially after the Russian invasion, which is why the statue is often vandalized with red ...