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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given.
The most desirable women drew many prospective suitors, and persuasive skill often determined the suitor's success. Plutarch includes her on a list of five deities for new couples to pray to, also included are Zeus (Teleios), Hera (Teleia), Aphrodite, and Artemis. [26] A Roman relief depicting Peitho, circa 1st century B.C.E.
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Pandora's box is a metaphor for something that brings about great troubles or misfortune, but also holds hope. In Greek mythology, Pandora's box was a gift from the gods to Pandora, the first woman on Earth. It contained all the evils of the world, which were released when Pandora opened the box.
Serena (Elizabeth Montgomery, although credited as "Pandora Spocks," Montgomery's spin on the phrase "Pandora's box," in many of her appearances from 1969 to 1971) is Samantha's cousin on Maurice's side. [6] Serena is first seen in episode, #54, "And Then There Were Three". [7] Serena looks like Samantha, with a few notable exceptions.
Pandora, a novel by Sylvia Fraser based on her own childhood "Pandora", a short story by Henry James, published in 1884; Pandora, a drama fragment by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Pandora, by Holly Hollander, a novel by Gene Wolfe; Pandora, a comic strip in the magazine Kerrang! Pandora, a book series from Insel Verlag (1920-1921)
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