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Apollo 11: As It Happened, a 1994 six-hour documentary on ABC News' coverage of the event [287] First Man, 2018 film by Damien Chazelle based on the 2005 James R. Hansen book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. Apollo 11, a 2019 documentary film by Todd Douglas Miller with restored footage of the 1969 event [288] [289]
Commodus (/ ˈ k ɒ m ə d ə s /; [5] 31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was Roman emperor from 177 to 192, first serving as nominal co-emperor under his father Marcus Aurelius and then ruling alone from 180. Commodus's sole reign is commonly thought to mark the end of a golden age of peace and prosperity in the history of the Roman Empire ...
An alternative version of the myth holds Zephyrus responsible for the death of Hyacinthus. Jealous that Hyacinthus preferred the radiant Apollo, Zephyrus blew Apollo's quoit boisterously off course to kill Hyacinthus. [3] [17] [18] Apollo and Hyacinth (1603-1604) by Domenichino. Apollo's face turned pale as he held his dying lover in his arms. [16]
Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator was a sensational tale of honor and betrayal in the ancient Roman empire.. In the film, Rome’s dying emperor Marcus Aurelius fears that his son Commodus ...
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Apollo takes a young child with him, as the creature and William roar and cackle in the darkness. After a hairy fall, everyone survives and makes it to a large ship that awaits them. Only Cal says ...
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
Athena helps build the Argo; Roman moulded terracotta plaque, first century AD. The poem begins with an invocation to Apollo and briefly recounts his prophetic warning to Pelias, king of Iolcus, that his downfall will be the work of a man with only one sandal. Jason has recently emerged as the man in question, having lost a sandal while ...