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  2. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    After noticing that a video sharing platform did not exist, they dropped the dating aspect of the site. [13] The idea of the new company was for non-computer experts to be able to use a simple interface that allowed the user to publish, upload and view streaming videos through standard web browsers and modern internet speeds.

  3. Orpheus - Wikipedia

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    Orpheus's mother taught him to make verses for singing. He is also said to have studied in Egypt. [56] Orpheus is said to have established the worship of Hecate in Aegina. [57] In Laconia Orpheus is said to have brought the worship of Demeter Chthonia [58] and that of the Κόρες Σωτείρας (Kóres Sōteíras; 'Saviour Maidens').

  4. Cyparissus - Wikipedia

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    Ovid frames the tale within the story of Orpheus, whose failure to retrieve his bride Eurydice from the underworld causes him to forsake the love of women in favor of that of boys. When Orpheus plays his lyre , even the trees are moved by the music; in the famous cavalcade of trees that ensues, the position of the cypress at the end prompts a ...

  5. Orpheus and Eurydice - Wikipedia

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    Orpheus and Eurydice, a ballet choreographed by Dame Ninette de Valois with music by Gluck (1941) [6] Orpheus, a ballet made by choreographer George Balanchine to music by Igor Stravinsky (1948) Orpheus in the Underworld, an album by Don Shirley (1956) Orpheus, a song by New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, from Reflections (Manos Hatzidakis album ...

  6. Sisyphus - Wikipedia

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    When Orpheus descends and confronts Hades and Persephone, he sings a song so that they will grant his wish to bring Eurydice back from the dead. After this song is sung, Ovid shows how moving it was by noting that Sisyphus, emotionally affected for just a moment, stops his eternal task and sits on his rock, the Latin wording being inque tuo ...

  7. The Gaze of Orpheus - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Greek religion, The Gaze of Orpheus is derived from the antiquarian Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.In the story of Orpheus, the poet descends to the underworld to retrieve his wife, Eurydice from premature death, only on Hades’ and Persephone's condition that he does not look at her during the process.

  8. Jawed Karim - Wikipedia

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    Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]

  9. Ixion - Wikipedia

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    Only when Orpheus played his lyre during his trip to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop for a while. Punishment of Ixion: in the center is Mercury holding the caduceus and on the right Juno sits on her throne.