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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.
In Pandora by Bishop Jean Oliver, Pandora is said to " open the box in defiance of a divine injunction ".
* 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.
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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On 6 April 1584, Oxford's daughter, Bridget, was born, and two works were dedicated to him, Robert Greene's Gwydonius ; The Card of Fancy, and John Southern's Pandora.
The film Avatar depicts a world ( Pandora ) that functions like a single organism, in which various species of earth and sky cooperate with the humanoid population ( the Na ' vi ) to defend the planet against a corporate-military invasion.
Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos.
The Good, The Bad, and the Gorgeous: Popular Culture's Romance with Lesbianism, Pandora.
* 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.
The protagonist Kratos must unite and fight through the Labyrinth to free Pandora.
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.
Eve is the Hebrew version of the Greek Pandora.
This further enraged Zeus, who sent Pandora, the first woman, to live with men.
After Prometheus ' theft of fire, Zeus sent Pandora in retaliation.
Pandora shut the lid of the jar too late to contain all the evil plights that escaped, but foresight remained in the jar, giving mankind hope.
Instead, Aeschylus includes this one oblique allusion to Pandora and her jar that contained Hope ( 252 ): " caused blind hopes to live in the hearts of men.
There was a relief sculpture of Prometheus with Pandora on the base of Athena's cult statue in the Athenian Parthenon of the 5th century BC.
* 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.
In Greek mythology, Pandora ( ancient Greek,, derived from " all " and " gift ", thus " all-gifted " or " all-giving ") was allegedly the first woman, who was made out of clay.
The myth of Pandora is ancient, appears in several distinct Greek versions, and has been interpreted in many ways.
The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560 – 612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony ( ca.
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a stirring `` Flames Of Paris '' pas de deux by Xenia Ter-Stepanova and Alexandre Pavlovsky, and a lovely version of Fokine's `` Le Cygne '' by Olga Moiseyeva, which had to be repeated.
Aeolus by Alexandre Jacovleff shows Aeolus as an embodiment of Wind himself.
There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.
Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin.
* The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père mentions many conspiracy theories based on Borgia.
* The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas, père
With a large expedition that eventually included 40 000 European troops, and receiving help from white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Alexandre Pétion, a former lieutenant of Rigaud, the French won several victories after severe fighting.
The government was taken over by Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre.
The standards of the juries represented the values of the Académie, represented by the works of such artists as Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.
* In Alexandre Dumas ' The Three Musketeers, d ' Artagnan escapes prosecution for the death of Milady by means of an ambiguously worded lettre de cachet given to Milady for her own use by the Cardinal de Richelieu.
" Alexandre adds that " based on other excavations that I conducted in other villages in the region, this pit was probably hewn as part of the preparations by the Jews to protect themselves during the Great Revolt against the Romans in 67 AD ".
Notable among these are the pinscreen animation films of Jacques Drouin, made with the original pinscreen donated by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker.
Due to his cognomen Afer, Terence has long been identified with Africa and heralded as the first poet of the African diaspora by generations of writers, including Juan Latino, Phyllis Wheatley, Alexandre Dumas, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou.
Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss / French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of plague in Hong Kong.
* The classic novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père takes place in 1628.
* A peace treaty in Haiti confirms its division between the northern State of Haiti ruled autocratically by the gen de couleur Henri Christophe and the southern Republic ruled by the mulatto Alexandre Pétion.
* The events of the historical novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas take place in this year, and include fictionalized versions of the Siege of La Rochelle and the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham.
* February 10 – The papacy is removed from power by French General Louis Alexandre Berthier.
* The Lady of the Camellias was a novel about a courtesan by French author Alexandre Dumas, fils that was turned into the opera La Traviata by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.
" and other Heideggerian texts were read by Jean-Paul Sartre and other existentialists, as well as by thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas, Alexandre Kojève and Georges Bataille.
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