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A documentary is being filmed about the rise and fall of the company LifeBoat, the brainchild of a young college dropout named Persephone Odair. Mr. Burns agrees to give her part of the power plant and its workers to build a device to desalinate ocean water into drinkable water at a fraction of the cost. Burns and Persephone also fall in love ...
The fruit is intermediate in size between a lemon and a grapefruit, 5–12 cm (2– 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in diameter with a rounded shape and thick, reddish husk. [7] In mature fruits, the juice obtained by compressing the seeds yields a tart flavor due to low pH (4.4) and high contents of polyphenols, [21] which may cause a red indelible stain on ...
Persephone was abducted by Hades, who desired a wife. When Persephone was gathering flowers, she was entranced by a narcissus flower planted by Gaia (to lure her to the underworld as a favor to Hades), and when she picked it the earth suddenly opened up. [64] Hades, appearing in a golden chariot, seduced and carried Persephone into the underworld.
Tiepolo's Triumph of Flora (c. 1743), a scene based on the Fasti, Book 4 [1]. The Fasti (Latin: Fāstī [ˈfaːstiː], [2] "the Calendar"), sometimes translated as The Book of Days or On the Roman Calendar, is a six-book Latin poem written by the Roman poet Ovid and made public in AD 8.
Poseidon was the last one to suffer this fate before Rhea decided to deceive Cronus and whisk the sixth child, Zeus, away to safety, after offering Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket to eat. [168] Once Zeus was grown, he gave his father a powerful emetic that made him gorge up the children he had eaten.