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Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.
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A successful rollback was the CIA's Operation Ajax in August 1953, in collaboration with the British, which assisted the Iranian military in their restoration of the Shah.
" I am happy that the KNVB approached me ," said Van Gaal, who will be assisted by former Dutch internationals Danny Blind and Patrick Kluivert, both part of his successful Ajax squad from 1995.
Héros was assisted by Illustre and Ajax, while Hughes, leading from Superb, was assisted by Burford, Sultan, Eagle, Hero, and Monarca.
Ajax and by
In punishment for this presumption, Poseidon split the rock with his trident and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea.
Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.
The abduction of Cassandra by Ajax was frequently represented in Greek works of art, for instance on the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias and in extant works.
In Book 7, Ajax is chosen by lot to meet Hector in a duel which lasts most of a whole day.
Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.
After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.
Ajax, " Unconquered ", and furious, falls upon his own sword, " conquered by his sorrow ".
* Ajax ( Sophocles ), a play by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles
Palamedes, Creugas and Damoxenus, the Combat of Theseus and the Centaur, and Hercules and Lichas may close the class of heroic compositions, although the catalogue might be swelled by the enumeration of various others, such as Hector and Ajax, King Ferdinand of Naples, and others.
Managed by Louis van Gaal, Ajax won the 1992 UEFA Cup.
Ajax originally played in an all black uniform with a red sash tied around the players ' waists, but that uniform was soon replaced by a red / white striped shirt and black shorts.
AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).
At the fall of Troy, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was violently abducted and raped by Ajax the Lesser.
Ajax gives Hector his girdle, which will later be used to attach Hector's corpse to Achilles ' chariot by which he is dragged around the walls of Troy.
Hector goes down, hit by a stone thrown by Ajax, but Apollo arrives from Olympus and infuses strength into " the shepherd of the people ", who orders a chariot attack, with Apollo clearing the way.
By 1950 systems based on this early research started to reach operational service, including the US Army's Nike Ajax, the Navy's " 3T's " ( Talos, Terrier, Tartar ), and soon followed by the Soviet S-25 Berkut and S-75 Dvina and French and British systems.
Camp X, at Ajax, near Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, where an " assassination and elimination " training program was operated by the British Special Operations Executive.
* The 1986 book " Camp X " by David Stafford is the most accurate account of the activities and personnel of Camp X the secret agent training camp for sabotage and guerrilla warfare at Ajax near Oshawa Ontario, Canada, that was administered by the British Special Operations Executive.
Poseidon smites Ajax the Lesser, by Bonaventura Genelli ( 1798 – 1868 )
Ajax and Menelaus
Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.
Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.
Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.
Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.
* Business-Agamemnon, Menelaus, Ulysses, Patroclus and Ajax
Neoptolemus kills king Priam, even though he has taken refuge at the altar of Zeus ; Menelaus kills Deiphobus and takes back his wife Helen ; Ajax the Lesser rapes Cassandra and drags her from the altar of Athena.
Ajax and fighting
When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.
The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.
Ajax argues that because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving the ships from Hector, and driving him off with a massive rock, he deserves the armor.
On her first, and only, day of fighting, Penthesilea kills many men and clashes with Telamonian Ajax, although there is no clear victor, before she comes face to face with Achilles, who had been summoned by Telamonian Ajax.
However, during Patroclus ' funeral games, Diomedes was overwhelming Ajax when his comrades advised the fighting to stop, lest one of them get injured.
He went to the aid of Ajax the Great when the latter was wounded and tired from hard fighting and was compelled to withdraw from combat: in defending Ajax he killed Apisaon but was wounded in the thigh and put out of action from one of Paris ' arrows.
Ajax and off
Ajax, wielding an enormous spear as a weapon and leaping from ship to ship, holds off the Trojan armies virtually single-handedly.
Ajax would wield his magnificent shield, as Teucer stood behind picking off enemy Trojans.
Ajax, with his great shield and spear, manages to drive off the Trojans, while Odysseus pulls the body to his chariot, and rides away with it to safety.
* December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay.
Prior to Achilles ' entrance, Penthesilea had tried to fight Telamonian Ajax but he had merely laughed off her attempts, thinking her unfit to face him.
He and his brothers helped carry Ajax off the battlefield during the Trojan War when he was injured.
He even got the better of Ajax, son of Telamon, in an armed sparring tournament, but the bout was called off prematurely.
The fixture kicked off a tradition of pre-season friendlies being held against European teams at the ground, with Barcelona ( twice ), CSKA Moscow, Athletic Bilbao, Lazio, Ajax and RCD Mallorca all visiting the stadium over the next 6 years.
Ajax ' fortunes suffered a steady decline after Koeman got off to a successful start at the Amsterdam ArenA, winning a domestic double in 2001 – 02.
The super tall smoke stack can be seen from about 40 miles across the lake from the shores in Toronto, Pickering, and Ajax, Ontario, usually topped off with a plume of heat.
McManaman had also been noted for his versatility in his free role, switching from right to left wings, and his ability to play in central midfield, behind the front pair, or as a forward, with many notable managers including then Ajax coach Louis van Gaal, describing it as a role few could pull off the way McManaman had.
Filming began in March 1968 in Albion Park racecourse and elsewhere in Brisbane, with location filming on Dunk Island and Purtaboi Island on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, and interiors shot at Ajax Film Centre in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
After knocking Ajax Amsterdam out of the UEFA Cup, four first team members were killed in a plane crash just off the coast of Dover on the way home from the game.
Musampa first started off in the famous AFC Ajax youth academy where he played a total of 31 games in two seasons and scored six goals.
After making a name for himself at Ajax, he went on to represent Internazionale and Everton, his spell at the latter club being cut short due to several problems, both on and off the pitch.
Against Ajax Amsterdam in the UEFA Champions League third qualification round 2006 it was Kvist's pass that deflected off Ajax-defender Thomas Vermaelen for an own-goal.
FC Twente, which had never won a Eredivisie title in its history, continued to top the league in the latter part of the season, holding off the likes of renowned competitors PSV and Ajax, and seriously emerged as title favourites.
Composed of three Royal Navy cruisers, HMS Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles, the unit was patrolling off the River Plate estuary of Argentina and Uruguay.
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