Exploring the mythological and visual symbolism of the Minotaur, Ariadne and the labyrinthine structure of the maze, Minotaur-The Island echoes the story of Ariadne, Mistress of the Labyrinth, abandoned on the island of Naxos by Theseus.

Part of a joint DoD / NASA payload, it was launched by a Minotaur IV rocket from the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Oberman published twelve books, including the award-winning Always Prayer Shawl ( 1999 ), The Shaman's Nephew ( 1999 ; short-listed for the Governor General's Award ), The Island of the Minotaur, and " Solomon and the Ant and other Jewish Folktales " ( 2006 ), ( published posthumously ).

It was launched atop a Minotaur rocket, from Wallops Island, at 06: 48 GMT on 24 April 2007.

Ariadne being discovered by Dionysus | Dionysos on the island of Naxos Island | Naxos, where she was abandoned by Theseus after helping him kill the Minotaur.

The main thread of the story -- like Ariadne ’ s string guiding Theseus into the labyrinth with the Minotaur -- begins at a table on a terrace on the Greek Island of Crete ( one chapter is about Olive tree of Vouves ), winds its way into the center and back out to the same table, passing through Greece, Japan, France, England, and Seattle.

* Minotaur: Unlike later games, which featured hoardes of minotaurs, in this one, just as in the original mythos, there is only one minotaur, and he, just as in the original mythos, lives in a labyrinth on the Island of the Black Bull, Crete.

NASA has awarded a contract to the Orbital Sciences Corporation, managed by the Air Force's Space Development and Test Wing ( SDTW ), to use a Minotaur V to launch the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer ( LADEE ) Mission from the Wallops Island, Virginia launch site in early 2013.

Nero even threatened his mother he would abdicate the throne and would go to live on the Greek Island of Rhodes, a place where Tiberius had lived after divorcing Julia the Elder.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

The name " topaz " is derived ( via Old French: Topace and Latin: Topazus ) from the Greek Τοπάζιος ( Τοpáziοs ) or Τοπάζιον ( Τοpáziοn ), the ancient name of St. John's Island in the Red Sea which was difficult to find and from which a yellow stone ( now believed to be chrysolite: yellowish olivine ) was mined in ancient times ; topaz itself ( rather than topazios ) wasn not really known about before the classical era.

Lazaretto Island, formerly known as Aghios Dimitrios, is located two nautical miles northeast of Corfu ; the island has an area of 17. 5 acres and comes under the administration of the Greek National Tourist Organization.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

* Rhodes, rising in prosperity, becomes head of an Island League and helps to keep the peace and freedom of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

In Greek mythology Teucer, also Teucrus or Teucris (), was the son of King Telamon of Salamis Island and his second wife Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy.

It bears the same name as the Greek Island of Patmos, where the Book of Revelation was written.

* Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island ( 1901 ), an " ironic phantasy ," the scene of which is laid in the 20th century, though the personages are Greek gods, is written in prose, with some blank verse.

" Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core ( south of Twelfth Street ) [...] The Greek delta formed by Harrison, Halsted, and Blue Island Streets served as a buffer to the Irish residing to the north and the Canadian – French to the northwest.

To this date, many of the islanders have remained sympathetic to communism ( KKE wins 35-40 % of the vote ), and, for this reason, Ikaria is referred to by some as the Kokkino Nisi ( Greek: Κόκκινο νησί ) ( Red Island ) or the Kokkinos Vrahos ( Greek: Κόκκινος Βράχος ) ( Red Rock ).

Otis was the child of Greek immigrants Alexander J. Veliotes, a Mare Island longshoreman and grocery store owner, and his wife, the former Irene Kiskakes, a painter.

In Greek mythology, the Red-billed Chough, also known as ' sea-crow ', was considered sacred to the Titan Cronus and dwelt on Calypso's ' Blessed Island ', where " The birds of broadest wing their mansions form / The chough, the sea-mew, the loquacious crow.

But the defeat on land at Thermopylae forced a Greek withdrawal, and Athens evacuated its population to nearby Salamis Island.

Burgazada ( meaning " Fortress Island "; Greek: Αντιγόνη, Antigoni ) is the third largest of the Islands, a single hill 2 km across.

Sedef Island, (, meaning " Mother-of-Pearl Island "; Greek: Τερέβυνθος Terebinthos, and in ancient times also Androvitha or Andircuithos ) is one of the smallest islands of the archipelago, and has 108 private homes.

Yassıada ( meaning " Flat Island "; Greek: Plati ) was used by the Byzantines for sending prominent figures into exile.

Tavşan Adası ( meaning " Rabbit Island "; Greek: Νέανδρος Neandros, the name of a mythological figure ) is the smallest of the Princes ' Islands, with an area of.

Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building ( 1902 – 1908 ), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception: like a classical Greek column, its facade – limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise – is divided into a base, shaft and capital.

In Michigan and the Ohio Valley at " Coney Island – style " restaurants, coney dogs are served, as are certain types of Greek cuisine like gyros.

The modern Greek region of Attica includes classical Attica as well as the Saronic Islands, a small part of the Peloponnese around Troezen, and the Ionian Island of Cythera.

*** Thomomys bottae ; many subspecies, including the Botta's, Fish Spring, Bonneville, Clear Lake, San Antonio, Pistol River, Mount Ellen, Guadalupe, Limpia, Mearns ', Stansbury Island, Antelope Island, Cebolleta, Salinas, Skull Valley, Swasey Springs, Harquahala and Limpia Greek Pocket Gophers.

* " The Myth of Potsdam ," in B. Heuser et al., eds., Myths in History ( Providence, Rhode Island and Oxford: Berghahn, 1998 )

Archbishop Healy eulogises him thus: " A man more holy, more chaste, more self-denying, a man with loftier aims and purer heart than Columbanus was never born in the Island of Saints " ( Ireland's Ancient Schools, 378 ).

# Digimon Frontier: Revival of the Ancient Digimon ( Island of Lost Digimon )

Ancient DNA studies have shown that in prehuman times the distribution of this species included the east coast of the South Island.

His Ancient and Modern Michimilimackinac was published by the Smithsonian Institution, and remained the definitive work of Beaver Island flora and fauna for nearly a century.

Things considered to be wonders of the world include several statues, with the Colossus of Rhodes and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the Moai of Easter Island considered for inclusion in various lists of wonders of the modern world.

Ancient map of Hainan Island

Ancient soils, called paleosols, have developed in the top of the Sicily Island Loess and Crowley's Ridge Loess.

Ancient astronaut proponents also believe that travelers from outer space known as " astronauts " or " spacemen " built many of the structures on earth such as the pyramids in Egypt and the Moai stone heads of Easter Island or aided humans in building them.

The basic legislations enacted are: The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958 and Rules ( 1959 ); The Elephanta Island ( Protected Monument ) Rules of 1957, which prohibits mining, quarrying, blasting, excavation and other operations nearby the monument ; the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act promulgated in 1972 with its Rules promulgated in 1973 ; a Notification issued in 1985 declaring the entire island and a area from the shore as " a prohibited area "; a series of Maharashtra State Government environmental acts protecting the site ; the 1966 Regional and Town Planning Act ; and the 1995 Heritage Regulations for Greater Bombay.

It is the site of the Ancient Kiln Park and the Airport Island Angle Station of the Ngong Ping 360 cable car.

Giglio means " lily " in Italian, and though the name would appear consistent with the insignia of Medici Florence, it derives from Aegilium, " Goat Island ", a Latin transliteration of the Greek word for " little goat " ( Ancient greek: Aigýllion, Αιγύλλιον ).

* Late-Quaternary Geomorphic Processes: Effects on the Ancient Aleuts of Umnak Island in the Aleutians

Amazing Island, known in Japan as, is a video game developed by Ancient and Hitmaker and published by Sega for the Nintendo GameCube.

* Aboard HMS May Island, Ron Morris, Save the Wemyss Ancient Caves Society 2006, ISBN 0-946294-40-2

Founded in 1926, the Ancient and Horribles Parade in Chepachet, Rhode Island continues this tradition.

It was actually written in 1913 by Jose E. Marco as a part of his historical fiction Las antiguas leyendas de la Isla de Negros ( Spanish, " The Ancient Legends of the Island of Negros "), which he attributed to a priest named Jose Maria Pavon.

Most ground-nesting bird species ( Aleutian Cackling Goose, Rock Ptarmigan ) and most burrow-nesting seabirds ( storm-petrels, Ancient Murrelets, Cassin's Auklets, Tufted Puffins ) were extirpated by foxes ; Semisopochnoi Island is currently in the early stages of recovery.

It is believed that all the kings and queens who ruled on Java Island ( Ancient Mataram, Majapahit and Islamic Mataram ) are the descendants of Ken Arok.