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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
He writes that in earlier myths, Pandora was married to Prometheus, and cites the ancient Hesiodic Catalogue of Women as preserving this older tradition, and that the jar may have at one point contained only good things for mankind.
The story of Pandora was repeated on Greek ceramics.
A. H. Smith, however, notes that in Hesiod's account Athena and the Seasons brought wreaths of grass and spring flowers to Pandora, indicating that Hesiod was conscious of Pandora's original " all-giving " function.
Eve was created to help Adam, Pandora to bring punishment to the men who benefited from the crime ( Prometheus having been punished separately ).
( It is generally agreed in academic translations that this woman was Pandora.
A case in point was the abortive Pandora portable Spectrum, whose ULA had the high resolution video mode pioneered in the TS2068.
Pandora had a flat-screen monitor and Microdrives and was intended to be Sinclair's business portable.
It was originally to be released as a two-part film, one named The Lawbreakers that dealt with the voyage out to Tahiti and the subsequent mutiny, and the second named The Long Arm that studied the journey of the mutineers after the mutiny, as well as the admiralty's response in sending out the frigate HMS Pandora and her famous box in which some of the mutineers were imprisoned.
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.
In Greek mythology, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion.
Their mother Pandora was the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
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 ).
Pandora prospered because it was the main stop for travelers, mostly rich travelers such as doctors and lawyers, between Findlay and Kalida.
Pandora was originally named Columbia and later changed to Pendleton in 1850.
After finding out there was another town of the same name, it was renamed to Pandora, what it is known as today.

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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.
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.
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.

Pandora and Hephaestus
Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos.
Hephaestus created automata for his workshop: Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and, according to Hesiod, the woman Pandora.
The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues ; of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop ; of Talos, an artificial man of bronze ; and, according to Hesiod, Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus.

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