In the French version, Pollux is a British character who speaks somewhat broken French with an outrageous English accent as a result of Ivor Wood's role as co-creator.

French soundtrack recordings were also issued in France in the 60s on three EPs and again on an LP ' Pollux ' in 1983 along with an original single ' C ' est moi Pollux '.

Tommaso Traetta produced two operas setting translations of Rameau libretti that show the French composer's influence, Ippolito ed Aricia ( 1759 ) and I Tintaridi ( based on Castor et Pollux, 1760 ).

Among the audience was Claude Debussy, who especially cherished Castor et Pollux, revived in 1903: " Gluck's genius was deeply rooted in Rameau's works ... a detailed comparison allows us to affirm that Gluck could replace Rameau on the French stage only by assimilating the latter's beautiful works and making them his own.

While the Pollux is exiting the Bay of Zambra, a French squadron consisting of a two-decker eighty gun man-of-war and two frigates with French colours fire on her.

The old sixty-four gun Pollux eventually blows up but damages the French newly-built third rate.

* EAS Pollux, a spaceship in the television series Babylon 5

The Magic Roundabout ( released in France as Pollux, le manège enchanté and in North America as Doogal ) is a 2005 British computer-animated film based on the television series of the same name.

* Pollux, a character in the erotic anime series Words Worth

In Greco-Roman mythology the god Zeus and the queen Leda produced the dioscuri, known in Greek mythology as Kastor and Polydeukes or Castor and Pollux in Roman mythology.

Evidence has been found for a hot, outer, magnetically supported corona around Pollux, and the star is known to be an X-ray emitter.

Temples dedicated to Hephaestus, Heracles and Asclepius were also constructed in the sacred area, which includes a sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone ( formerly known as the Temple of Castor and Pollux ); the marks of the fires set by the Carthaginians in 406 BC can still be seen on the sanctuary's stones.

* Julius Pollux, also known as Ioulios Poludeukes ( 2nd century A. D ), a Greek rhetorician

* was known as Pollux in 1994-1995.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux or Polydeuces were twin brothers, together known as the Dioscuri.

The 5th century BC witnessed the construction of the earliest Forum temples with known dates of construction: the Temple of Saturn ( 497 BC ) and the Temple of Castor and Pollux ( 484 BC ).

Their consummation, on the same night as Leda lay with her husband Tyndareus, resulted in two eggs from which hatched Helen ( later known as the beautiful " Helen of Troy "), Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux ( also known as the Dioscuri ( Διόσκουροι ).

It is the third brightest star known to have an orbiting planet, after Pollux and the Sun.

It is also one of the most luminous quasars known, with an absolute magnitude of − 26. 7, meaning that if it was only as distant as Pollux (~ 10 parsecs ) it would appear nearly as bright in the sky as the Sun.

Sheridan concentrates on the known hostiles: the Heracles and Pollux.

* Dioscuri: Otherwise known as Castor and Pollux, they were venerated in particular by Spartans.

Simple load balancing software routed requests across two CPUs, known as Castor and Pollux, the computer as a whole thus becoming Gemini.

The main character is Dougal ( Pollux in the original French-language version ) who is a drop-eared variety of the Skye Terrier.

In fact, when Serge Danot was interviewed by Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up in 1968 his associate ( perhaps Jean Biard ) said that in France it was thought at first that the UK version of Pollux had been renamed De Gaulle, mishearing the name Dougal ( as seen in the Channel 4 documentary The Return Of The Magic Roundabout ( broadcast 08: 50 on December 25, 1991 and 18: 00 on January 5, 1992 ), and in the BBC4 documentary The Magic Roundabout Story ( 2003 )).

Danot made a longer film, Pollux et le chat bleu, in 1970 which was also adapted by Thompson and shown in Britain as Dougal and the Blue Cat.

Other horse twins are: Greek, Dioskuri ( Polydeukes and Kastor ); borrowed into Latin as Castor and Pollux ; Irish, the twins of Macha ; Old English, Hengist and Horsa ( both words mean ' stallion '), and possibly Old Norse Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse born of Loki ; Slavic Lel and Polel ; possibly Christianized in Albanian as Sts.

According to the usual version, from one egg, Polydeuces ( Pollux ) and Helen were the children of Zeus ; from the other, Castor and Clytemnestra were the children of Tyndareus.

For instance, both Orfeo and the 1737 version of Castor et Pollux open with the funeral of one of the leading characters who later comes back to life.

In the DOS version, she is a swordswoman who has a sexual encounter with Pollux ; in the Win95 version, she is an archer and has no such encounter.

Conversely, the German " Dogge " and French " dogue " refer to a specific kind of dog rather than to dogs in general.

If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong?

Pangrams are also transmitted on RTTY circuits as test messages, the most common one being " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ", and in French circuits, " Voyez le brick géant que j ' examine près du wharf "

A cruel French Canadian brutalizes his dog.

The Alano name, however, has historically been used for a number of dog breeds in a few European countries thought to descend from the original dog of the Alans, such as the German mastiff ( Great Dane ) and the French Dogue de Bordeaux, among others.

Shoestring French Fries are covered with the hot dog sauce (" chili " sauce ) unique to the Detroit area, then covered with shredded cheddar cheese.

French: Grand Danois ), also known as German Mastiff () or Danish Hound (), is a breed of domestic dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ) known for its giant size.

A Bichon Frisé ( or ; French, meaning curly white lap dog ), is a small breed of dog of the Bichon type.

The word bichon comes from Middle French bichon (" small long-haired dog "), a diminutive of Old French biche (" bitch, female dog "), from Old English bicce (" bitch, female dog "), related to Old Norse bikkja (" female dog ") and German Betze (" female dog ").

This name is after his French research assistant, Gabrielle's ( Miranda Otto ) childhood dog.

The Barbet is a breed of dog ; it is a medium-sized French water dog.

* Berger Picard, French breed of dog of the herding group of breeds