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Apollo Belenus was a healing and sun god. [53] Apollo Cunomaglus ("hound lord"). A title given to Apollo at a shrine at Nettleton Shrub, Wiltshire. May have been a god of healing. Cunomaglus himself may originally have been an independent healing god. [54] Apollo Grannus. Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [55] [56] [57]
Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, with the first crewed flight in 1968. It encountered a major setback in 1967 when an Apollo 1 cabin fire killed the entire crew during a prelaunch test. After the first successful landing, sufficient flight hardware remained for nine follow-on landings with a plan for extended lunar geological and astrophysical ...
The success of Apollo 11 demonstrated the United States' technological superiority; [221] and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race. [222] [223] New phrases permeated into the English language. "If they can send a man to the Moon, why can't they ...?" became a common saying following Apollo 11. [224]
In an Oval Office meeting a few days after Soviet Russia launched Sputnik in October 1957, two points emerged. Eisenhower’s deputy defense secretary, Donald Quarles, told the president that ...
Apollo was known as Apollo Moiragetes, [14] referring to Apollo as the god of fate. [20] The oracle at Delphi gave oracles from Apollo. [17] Apollo in an oracular function is associated with both plague, purification [21] and truth. Even though the prophecies given by him were ambiguous, he is said to have never uttered a lie. [22]
Another popular theory held that the maxims were first spoken by the Delphic oracle, and therefore represented the wisdom of the god Apollo. [10] Clearchus of Soli , among others, attempted to reconcile the two accounts by claiming that Chilon, enquiring of the oracle what was best to be learnt, received the answer "Know thyself", and ...
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