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Skyward is a 2018 young adult [a] science fiction novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It is the first in a series of four books. It was published by Delacorte Press on November 6, 2018. Skyward is set in the same universe as Sanderson's short story Defending Elysium, which details events hundreds of years before the events of ...
Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction , historical fiction , contemporary fiction and science fiction , with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
Atlas and Heracles, metope from the temple of Zeus at Olympia. According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito. [21] The works of Eusebius [22] and Diodorus [3] also give an Atlantean account of Atlas. In these accounts, Atlas' father was Uranus and his mother ...
The Pleiades' parents were the Titan Atlas [5] and the Oceanid Pleione [6] born on Mount Cyllene. In some accounts, their mother was called Aethra , another Oceanid. [ 7 ] Aside from the above-mentioned sisters (the Hyades), the Pleiades' other siblings were Hyas and the nymph Calypso who was famous in the tale of Odysseus .
The legendary (and almost archetypal) lost continent that was supposed to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. Cloud cuckoo land: A perfect city between the clouds in the play The Birds by Aristophanes. Chryse and Argyre: A pair of legendary islands, located in the Indian Ocean and said to be made of gold (chrysos) and silver (argyros).
Skyward Sword received critical acclaim; it has a score of 93/100 on the aggregate site Metacritic, based on 81 reviews. [62] It was the site's 10th highest scoring game of 2011, [78] and ranked as the 6th best-reviewed Wii game. [79] Skyward Sword was the third Zelda game and the sixteenth video game to receive a perfect score from Famitsu. [68]
When Heiberg studied the palimpsest in Constantinople in 1906, he confirmed that the palimpsest included works by Archimedes thought to have been lost. Heiberg was permitted by the Greek Orthodox Church to take careful photographs of the palimpsest's pages, and from these he produced transcriptions, published between 1910 and 1915, in a ...
The original broadcast of "The 23rd Psalm" was on January 11, 2006 on ABC, being preceded by a clip show titled "Lost: Revelations". [5] It was watched by approximately 20.56 million American viewers, being third in the weekly audience ranking, behind the AFC playoffs and Desperate Housewives. [6] Reviews for "The 23rd Psalm" were mostly positive.