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Aurora is a feminine given name, originating from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of dawn Aurora. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her tears were said to turn into the morning dew . Each morning she traveled in her chariot across the sky from east to west, proclaiming renewal with the rising of the sun . [ 3 ]
Aurora Flight Sciences (a.k.a. Aurora), flight research subsidiary of Boeing Aurora Health Care , a health care system in Wisconsin, United States Aurora Innovation , an American self-driving car company
An aurora [a] (pl. aurorae or auroras), [b] also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), [c] is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic). Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains ...
Aurora now had left her saffron bed, And beams of early light the heav'ns o'erspread. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus mentions in his 5th century poem De reditu suo: [7] Saffron Aurora had brought forward her fair-weather team: the breeze offshore tells us to haul the sail-yards up.
Selene, Hesperus and Nyx fight against the Giants, Antalya Museum.. Hesperus is the personification of the "evening star", the planet Venus in the evening. His name is sometimes conflated with the names for his brother, the personification of the planet as the "morning star" Eosphorus (Greek Ἐωσφόρος, "bearer of dawn") or Phosphorus (Ancient Greek: Φωσφόρος, "bearer of light ...
Riordan, Roderick, from Ruairi (Ruaridh, Ruaidhrí, Ruairí, Ruairidh, Ruaraidh, Ruaidhrígh, "Ruari"), Aurora Rory is a given name of Gaelic origin. It is an anglicisation of the Irish : Ruairí / Ruaidhrí and Scottish Gaelic : Ruairidh / Ruaraidh [ 6 ] and is common to the Irish , Highland Scots and their diasporas. [ 7 ]
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The nimbus in Christian art first appeared in the 5th century, but practically the same motif was known from several centuries earlier, in pre-Christian Hellenistic art. It is found in some Persian representations of kings and gods, and appears on coins of the Kushan kings Kanishka, Huvishka and Vasudeva, as well as on most representations of the Buddha in Greco-Buddhist art from the 1st ...