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A 2011 Comic-Con poster depicting many characters from the first season. This is a list of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, an animated television series based on the My Little Pony toyline created by American toy manufacturer and multimedia company Hasbro. The series features characters and settings developed by Lauren Faust, who sought to create more in-depth characters ...
The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting elderly citizens to be reborn. Proctor gradually realizes that his utopian life is not what it seems. The Ferryman is Cronin's first novel since 2016's The City of Mirrors.
The 2019 anime series Fruits Basket is the second anime based on the manga series of the same name by Natsuki Takaya, this time adapting all 23 volumes of the story.The new anime adaptation was announced in November 2018, [1] featuring a new cast and staff, as per Takaya 's request, with TMS Entertainment handling the 63 episodes-long productions from April 2019 to June 2021, divided into ...
Attic red-figure lekythos attributed to the Tymbos painter showing Charon welcoming a soul into his boat, c. 500–450 BC. In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ən / KAIR-on, -ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων Ancient Greek pronunciation: [kʰá.rɔːn]) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld.
The route is around 2.2 nautical miles (4.1 km; 2.5 mi) and the crossing takes 22 minutes. Today, all ferries on this route are constructed so that they do not need to turn around in the harbors. This also means that the ferries lack stems and sterns, since the vessels sail in both directions. Starboard and port-side are dynamic, depending on ...
The Suda defines danakē as a coin traditionally buried with the dead for paying the ferryman to cross the river Acheron, [10] and explicates the definition of porthmēïon as a ferryman's fee with a quotation from the poet Callimachus, who notes the custom of carrying the porthmēïon in the "parched mouths of the dead." [11]
"Don't Pay the Ferryman" is a song by British-Irish artist Chris de Burgh. It was released in September 1982 as the lead single from his album The Getaway . AllMusic critic Sharon Mawer stated the song has become "a standard art rock classic" and one of de Burgh's most frequently played songs on radio, despite not reaching the Top 40 on its ...
The third is yet to come and will dry the sea altogether, thus depriving the ferryman of his livelihood. [1] Aristotle's reason for reporting this was in connection with the belief of the pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus that the sea's level was gradually lowering and that it would eventually disappear. [2]