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An escape pod, escape capsule, life capsule, or lifepod is a capsule or craft, usually only big enough for one person, used to escape from a vessel in an emergency. An escape ship is a larger, more complete craft also used for the same purpose.
It derives its name from the island country of New Zealand which occupies the vast majority of its non-submerged land. Dutch explorers named the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland, [24] [25] and British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand. [26] [self-published source] [27]
In Greek mythology, crossroads were associated with both Hecate and Hermes, with shrines and ceremonies for both taking place there. The herm pillar associated with Hermes frequently marked these places due to the god's association with travelers and role as a guide. Though less central to Greek mythology than Hermes, Hecate's connection to ...
The names derived from numbers are the most certain. The masculine names Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius and Decimus, and the feminine names Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta, Septima, Octavia, Nona and Decima are all based on ordinal numerals. There may also have been a praenomen Nonus, as there was a gens with the apparently ...
The Scythian genealogical myth was an epic cycle of the Scythian religion detailing the origin of the Scythians.This myth held an important position in the worldview of Scythian society, and was popular among both the Scythians of the northern Pontic region and the Greeks who had colonised the northern shores of the Pontus Euxinus.
The name may derive from Mori-genos or Mori-gena, meaning "sea-born. [1] The name has also been rendered as Muri-gena [2] or Murigen. [3]The name may also be cognate with the Irish Muirgen, an alternate name of Lí Ban, a princess who was transformed into a mermaid when her city was flooded.
While the forerunner has only 473 entries, [27] over 2000 names are listed in An = Anum (2123 in the most complete known copy). [28] However, this should not be understood as analogous to the presence of 2000 individual deities, as many of the names are instead epithets or alternate names. [29] It is nonetheless the most extensive known god ...
Of the fifty-seven stars included in the new almanac, these two had no traditional names. The RAF insisted that all of the stars must have names, so new names were invented for them. [8] These names have been approved by the IAU WGSN. [2] The book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by R. H. Allen (1899) [9] has had effects on star names: