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  2. Icarus - Wikipedia

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    Without warning, the heat from the sun softened (and melted) the wax. Icarus could feel melted wax dripping down his arms. The feathers then fell one by one. Icarus kept flapping his "wings", trying to stay aloft. But he realized that he had no feathers left. He was only flapping his bare arms. He also saw loose feathers falling like snowflakes.

  3. Solaris (1972 film) - Wikipedia

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    The interior of the space station is decorated with full reproductions of the 1565 painting cycle of The Months (The Hunters in the Snow, The Gloomy Day, The Hay Harvest, The Harvesters, and The Return of the Herd), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and details of Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and The Hunters in the Snow (1565).

  4. Project Icarus (photography) - Wikipedia

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    The device traveled to around 93,000 feet (28 km) before free falling back to Earth. It was eventually recovered in Worcester, Massachusetts. The mission was a success, and the pictures were retrieved. The project cost only $148. [1] "We looked at these photographs and thought wow, these are beautiful—this is artwork," said Lee.

  5. MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 - Wikipedia

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    MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus, [note 2] is a blue supergiant star observed through a gravitational lens.It is the seventh most distant individual star to have been detected so far (after Earendel, Godzilla, Mothra, Quyllur, star-1 and star-2), at approximately 14 billion light-years from Earth (redshift z=1.49; comoving distance of 14.4 billion light-years; lookback time of 9. ...

  6. The Fall of Icarus - Wikipedia

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    Icarus is a character in Greek Mythology who fell to his death when the sun melted the wax holding together the wings he was using to fly. The Fall of Icarus is a common subject in art, and may refer to: A mural by Pablo Picasso (1958) in the UNESCO headquarters, Paris; An art installation by Peter Greenaway from 1986, with music by Michael Nyman.

  7. File:Rubens, Peter Paul - The Fall of Icarus.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Forgetting his father's advice, Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting the wax of his wings and falling into the sea. Daedalus watches his son's fall despairingly, unable to save him. The Fall of Icarus is another of the sketches that Peter Paul Rubens produced from 1636 onwards for the decoration of the Torre de la Parada.

  8. File:The Fall of Icarus, fresco from Pompeii, 40-79 AD.png

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  9. File:'The Fall of Icarus', 17th century, Musée Antoine ...

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Ikarus; Sonne und Stahl; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Soleil; Ornithoptère; Usage on hyw.wikipedia.org