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Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (French: Sous les vents de Neptune, lit. "Under Neptune's Winds") is a crime novel by French author Fred Vargas, originally published in France in 2004. The novel is part of her Commissaire Adamsberg series. As with many of Vargas' novels in English translation, the English title is not a literal translation.
Unicorn – 17th-century three-masted armed Royal Navy vessel in The Adventures of Tintin stories The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure; HMS Viper – British destroyer, from the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage; Vulkan – Kriegsmarine cruiser, from the Commando Comics story Flak Fever
When Percy is forced to take him to camp, it is revealed that he is a baby Cyclops and thus a son of Poseidon, making him Percy's half-brother. He appears in The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, The Blood of Olympus and The Tyrant's Tomb.
It wasn’t just large cargo ships, either; passenger ships made the same route. There’s even a monument at the tip of Cape Horn, in memorial of the more than 10,000 sailors who are believed to ...
The episode "All Great Neptune's Ocean" in Andromeda (TV series) made explicit reference to Orestes. Book One of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel "Of Time and the River" is entitled "Orestes: Flight Before Fury". [6] The novel House of Names by Colm Tóibín is a retelling of The Oresteia.
Neptune's Car was launched in 1853 and by 1855 the vessel had already developed a reputation for speed. It was 216 feet long and weighed 1,617 tons. [ 6 ] According to the New York Herald , Patten was a last minute replacement for the ship's previous captain, who had taken ill shortly before the vessel was set to travel the world.
Neptune's mass of 1.0243 × 10 26 kg [8] is intermediate between Earth and the larger gas giants: it is 17 times that of Earth but just 1/19th that of Jupiter. [g] Its gravity at 1 bar is 11.15 m/s 2, 1.14 times the surface gravity of Earth, [71] and surpassed only by Jupiter. [72] Neptune's equatorial radius of 24,764 km [11] is nearly four ...
Sandy Howard, a film producer from the United States, brought the idea of The Neptune Factor to David Perlmutter and Harold Greenberg, who chose to produce the film. Howard wanted the film to be made in the United States, but Greenberg was able to have the film shot in Canada. [5] The film was based on an original story by writer Jack DeWitt.