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Sometimes the name Cassandra is applied to those who can predict rises, falls, and particularly crashes on the global stock market, as happened with Warren Buffett, who repeatedly warned that the 1990s stock market surge was a bubble, attracting to him the title of the "Wall Street Cassandra". [13]
Cassandra puts herself under the protection of Pallas, Aimé Millet (1819–1891), Tuileries Garden, Paris. In some versions, Cassandra intentionally left a chest behind in Troy, with a curse on whichever Greek opened it first. [26] Inside the chest was an image of Dionysus, made by Hephaestus and presented to the Trojans by Zeus.
Articles relating to Cassandra and her depictions. She was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. In modern usage, her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed.
Now, according to USA Today, Peterson hauls in over $1 million a year as Elvira. How much money does Elvira make each year? Each year Cassandra Peterson makes over a $1 million as Elvira. Between ...
Smith is best known for her children’s book, The Hundred and One Dalmatians, but in 1948’s Castle—her first novel—she writes as Cassandra, a 17-year-old girl making journal entries about ...
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark famously wants to be remembered by two simple words.But when all is said and done, Cassandra Peterson only asks that people remember her buxom alter ego by three ...
In the earliest sources, Helenus and his sister Cassandra were given the power of prophecy by Apollo after their ears were licked by snakes. [4] In other sources, Helenus was taught the power by Cassandra, but others generally believed his predictions. After gaining foresight, he was renamed from Scamandrius to Helenus by a Thracian soothsayer. [5]
Willie Geist showed a flair for ego as “Anchorman’s” Ron Burgundy, even pouring himself a drink after the TODAY family went outside to rehearse at 5 a.m. Monday before putting on their ...