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Intelligence Service was in fact " Pandora " ( 1985 ), a software developed for their thesis by two academic students of Jean-Louis Laurière, one of the most famous and prolific French AI researcher.
Erasmus is also generally credited with originating the phrase " Pandora's box ", arising through an error in his translation of Pandora by Hesiod in which he confused " pithos ", storage jar, with " pyxis ", box.
Pandora cannot resist peeking into the jar, and by opening it all evil is unleashed into the world — labour, sickness, old age, and death.
Pandora was fashioned by Hephaestus out of clay and brought to life by the four winds, with all the goddesses of Olympus assembled to adorn her.
In Hesiod, the story of Prometheus ( and, by extension, of Pandora ) serves to reinforce the theodicy of Zeus: he is a wise and just ruler of the universe, while Prometheus is to blame for humanity's unenviable existence.
Pandora ( 1861 ), by Pierre Loison ( 1816 – 1886 )
According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar ( pithos ), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as " Pandora's box " ( see below ), releasing all the evils of mankind — although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod — leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again.
However, the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, fragment # 5, had made a " Pandora " one of the daughters of Deucalion, and the mother of Graecus by Zeus.
" Both were motherless, and reinforced via opposite means the civic ideologies of patriarchy and the " highly gendered social and political realities of fifth-century Athens "-Athena by rising above her sex to defend it, and Pandora by embodying the need for it.
* Avatar by ( James Cameron ) In 2154, the RDA Corporation is mining a valuable mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush, Earth-like habitable moon with an atmosphere poisonous to humans in the Alpha Centauri star system.
Pandora is inhabited by the Na ' vi, 10-foot tall, blue-skinned, sapient humanoids who live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa.
Atlas is significantly perturbed by Prometheus and to a lesser degree by Pandora, leading to excursions in longitude of up to 600 km (~ 0. 25 °) away from the precessing Keplerian orbit with a rough period of about 3 years.
The mutineers first returned to Tahiti, where most of the survivors were later captured by the Pandora and taken to England for trial.
This mythological account of his lover recalls Hesiod's account of Pandora who was decked out by the same goddesses ( the Graces, the Seasons and Persuasion ) so as to be a bane to mankind — an allusion consistent with Ibycus's view of love as unavoidable turmoil.
Latinus is also referred to, by much later authors, as the son of Pandora and brother of Graecus although according to Hesiod, Graecus had three brothers, Hellen, Magnitas, and Macedon with the first being the father of Doros, Xuthos, and Aeolos.
Pandora by Alexandre Cabanel, 1873.
Complicating this is the escape of an ancient evil called Pandora from the Matrix in the paradoxical form of Romana's first incarnation ( played once again by Mary Tamm ).
At the war's end, Romana destroys Pandora by trapping her in the Matrix and destroying it.
AGA was codenamed the Pandora chipset by Commodore International internally.
The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit, 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box, 1904 ).

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* In the 2010 video game, God of War III ( which is loosely based on Greek mythology ), Daedalus and the Labyrinth are featured but instead of the Labyrinth imprisoning the Minotaur, it imprisons Pandora.
Eve is the Hebrew version of the Greek Pandora.
* Polyphemus is also the name of the planet which the moon Pandora orbits in James Cameron's Avatar.
In the mystical theories of the Orphics and the Platonists, Kore is described as the all-pervading goddess of nature who both produces and destroys everything and she is therefore mentioned along or identified with other mystic divinities such as Isis, Rhea, Ge, Hestia, Pandora, Artemis, and Hecate.
The myth of Pandora is ancient, appears in several distinct Greek versions, and has been interpreted in many ways.
In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:
This woman goes unnamed in the Theogony, but is presumably Pandora, whose myth Hesiod revisited in Works and Days.
Archaic and Classic Greek literature seem to make no further mention of Pandora, though Sophocles wrote a satyr play Pandora, or The Hammerers of which virtually nothing is known.
The 15th-century monk Annio da Viterbo credited a manuscript he claimed to have found to the Chaldean historian of the 3rd century BC, Berossus, where " Pandora " was also named as a daughter-in-law of Noah ; this attempt to conjoin pagan and scriptural narrative is recognized as a forgery.
An independent Pandora tradition that does not square with any of the literary sources is the tradition in the visual repertory of Attic red-figure vase-painters, which sometimes supplements, sometimes ignores, the written testimony ; in these representations the upper part of Pandora is visible rising from the earth, " a chthonic goddess like Gaia herself.
" Sometimes, but not always, she is labeled Pandora.
M. L. West writes that the story of Pandora and her jar is from a pre-Hesiodic myth, and that this explains the confusion and problems with Hesiod's version and its inconclusiveness.
He remarks that there is a curious correlation between Pandora being made out of earth in Hesiod's story, to what is in the Bibliotheca that Prometheus created man from water and earth.
This is an engraving of Pandora trying to close the box that she had opened out of curiosity.

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Other political caricatures include: Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis, a picture in which Pitt, so often Gillray's butt, figures in a favourable light ; The Bridal Night ; The Apotheosis of Hoche, which concentrates the excesses of the French Revolution in one view ; The Nursery with Britannia reposing in Peace ; The First Kiss these Ten Years ( 1803 ), another satire on the peace, which is said to have greatly amused Napoleon ; The Hand-Writing upon the Wall ; The Confederated Coalition, a swipe at the coalition which superseded the Addington ministry ; Uncorking Old Sherry ; The Plumb-Pudding in Danger ( probably the best known political print ever published ); Making Decent ; Comforts of a Bed of Roses ; View of the Hustings in Covent Garden ; Phaethon Alarmed ; and Pandora opening her Box.
Eight years later, he is made aware of his father's secret identity ; a famous international criminal known as International Criminal 1412: the Phantom Thief, and that he was murdered by a mysterious organization for refusing to aid them in retrieving the Pandora Gem ; a mystical stone said to shed a " tear " during the passing of a particular comet, the consumption of which bestows immortality.
Kasavin said the storyline in Pandora Tomorrow was more cohesive than the original Splinter Cell, but the gameplay often becomes pure trial and error, noting that the missions " could have benefited from feeling less rigid and scripted " but were " incredibly slick.
When Marius sees Bianca the next day, she declares that she is leaving him because she overheard what he said to Pandora.
Edwards is said to have retired to Cornwall, this story linking him to the ' Pandora Inn ' along Restronguet Creek near Mylor, which he is alleged to have owned and renamed after retiring from the Navy.
Rather, together with a story about a figurehead adorning the Inn's stairwell, said to be based on an 18th-century original from the Pandora, this claim can confidently be refuted and relegated to the realm of creative copy-writing to advertise the inn, which according to cadastral records was called ' The Passage House ' until 1851, following the death of Alexander Luben, tenant and Restronguet Passage boatman from 1823 until his death in 1848.

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Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened ; ;
When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight "Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.
Idarado kept the underground workings and mill operations open at Telluride ’ s Pandora hard-rock mine until 1978.
Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened ; and the disguised one, as the Serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.
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Although they succeeded in finding some of the mutineers on Tahiti, and Hayward evidently performed well, it was an unfortunate voyage, ending with Pandora shipwrecked, and for the second time in as many years Hayward found himself without a ship, in an open boat making for safety.
According to an obituary in the Lincoln, Stamford & Rutland Mercury ( 21 April 1815 ), he suffered for the rest of his life from the effects of the hardships he endured during the open boat voyage to Timor after the loss of the Pandora.
Critics allege that Qutb's Milestones helped to open up a Pandora ’ s box of takfir ( declaring a Muslim to be an infidel ) that has brought serious internal strife, in particular terrorism, to the Muslim world in recent decades.

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