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In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Typhon is called the "dweller of the Cilician caves", [10] and both Apollodorus and the poet Nonnus (4th or 5th century AD) have Typhon born in Cilicia. [11] The b scholia to Iliad 2.783, preserving a possibly Orphic tradition, has Typhon born in Cilicia, as the offspring of Cronus. Gaia, angry at the destruction ...
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of as many as 50.
By 1950, tropical cyclones that were judged by the US Weather Bureau to have intensified into a tropical storm started to be assigned names. [1] [2] Storms were originally named in alphabetical order using the World War II version of the Phonetic Alphabet. [1]
However, some of the deadliest typhoons in history have struck China. Southern China has the longest record of typhoon impacts for the region, with a thousand-year sample via documents within their archives. Taiwan has received the wettest known typhoon on record for the northwest Pacific tropical cyclone basins. However, Vietnam recognises its ...
Echidna's family tree varies by author. [4] The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which ...
The Typhon system is part of a U.S. drive to amass a variety of anti-ship weapons in Asia. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), which oversees U.S. forces in the region, told Reuters the Typhons have ...
Arimoi in Greek mythology are the people in whose country (or τὰ Ἄριμα – the place in which) lies under the ground bound by Typhon.. Homer describes a place he calls the "couch [or bed] of Typhoeus", which he locates in the land of the Arimoi (εἰν Ἀρίμοις), where Zeus lashes the land about Typhoeus with his thunderbolts. [1]
Nearly 100 years ago, one of the most fondly remembered U.S. presidents was born. John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a little town just outside of center Boston.