The name of the plant family Proteaceae as well as the genus Protea, both to which P. cynaroides belongs to, derive from the name of the Greek god Proteus, a deity that was able to change between many forms.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

# Eurynome, an alternate name for Eidothea, the daughter of Proteus.

Another character of the same name was the son of the sea god Proteus who wrestled with Heracles and lost his life in the battle.

Gorgophone was also the name of one of the Danaids ; she married and murdered Proteus, a son of Aegyptus.

* Proteus ( Marvel Comics ), a Marvel Comics fictional character, originally known as ' Mutant X ' but unrelated to the series of the same name and publisher

Pharos is the only named surface feature on this moon: the name is Greek and refers to the island where Proteus reigned.

A third major theme is inconstancy, particularly as manifested in Proteus, whose very name hints at his changeable mind ( in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Proteus is a sea-god forever changing its shape ).

USS Proteus has been the name of several ships in the United States Navy.

The name " Protei " is a Russian version of the classical Latin / Greek mythological name Proteus.

* Russian for the name " Proteus "

For example, in his 1990 edition of the play for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, Kurt Schlueter suggests that Valentine is indeed handing Silvia over to Proteus, but the audience is not supposed to take it literally ; the incident is farcical, and should be interpreted as such.

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

Nereus and Proteus ( the " first ") seem to be two manifestations of the god of the sea who was supplanted by Poseidon when Zeus overthrew Cronus.

Why Proteus in Homer the Symbole of the first matter, before he settled himself in the midst of his Sea-Monsters, doth place them out by fives?

The world's first car-carrying hovercraft was made in 1968, the BHC Mountbatten class ( SR. N4 ) models, each powered by four Rolls-Royce Proteus gas turbine engines.

Indeed, most critics now agree that the first major 20th century production didn't take place until 1957, at The Old Vic, directed by Michael Langham and starring Richard Gale as Valentine, Keith Michell as Proteus, Barbara Jefford as Julia and Ingrid Hafner as Silvia.

However, there is no dialogue in this scene, and the first words spoken are the same as in the text (" Cease to persuade my loving Proteus ").

It is revealed that Proteus has been resurrected and has taken possession of Blindfold ( who had the vision of going to Muir Island in the first place ).

The first use of the term “ Proteus ” in bacteriological nomenclature was made by Hauser ( 1885 ) who described under this term three types of organisms which he isolated from putrefied meat.

* Proteus ( alchemy ), the " first matter " ( prima materia ), usually the metal mercury

The first is the " Model 395 ", a militarized version of the Scaled Composites Proteus modified to a pure UAV configuration, with a sensor turret under the nose and a SAR-MTI pod under the forward fuselage, and carrying munitions on the centerline, for example tandem triple racks to carry six 225 kilogram ( 500 pound ) munitions.

The Committee's first act of civil disobedience on 18 February 1961 was a sit-down demonstration at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, London, to coincide with the expected arrival of USS Proteus on the River Clyde.

The American comic company and manga translator Studio Proteus acquired rights to create comic versions of The Dirty Pair in 1989 ; the first two graphic novels were published by the since-defunct Eclipse Comics.

In 1768, Laurenti also published an Italian manuscript titled ( The Dragon ) describing the blind salamander ( amphibian ): Proteus anguinus, purportedly collected from cave waters in Slovenia ( or possibly western Croatia ); this description represented one of the first published accounts of a cave animal in the western world.

Sir Stanley George Hooker, FRS ( 30 September 1907 – 24 May 1984 ) was a jet engine engineer, first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines where he helped bring the troubled Proteus and Olympus to market, and then designed the famous Pegasus.

At first, Proteus convinced the Young Allies to fight the Exiles.

* The first U. S. Polaris submarines arrived at the new submarine base at Scotland's Holy Loch, as the nuclear missile bearing USS Patrick Henry sailed past protesters and in alongside its tending ship, USS Proteus, to begin a two year mission.

Archimago is the first in a sequence that includes Despair, Merlin, Phantastes, Proteus, Busirane, and Scudamour, among others.

Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist / co-writer John Byrne, Proteus first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 125 ( September 1979 ), though hints to his character appeared in earlier issues.

It was later revealed that when Proteus had killed himself by dissipating his form, a fragment of him eventually entered inside Destiny's body when she was killed on Muir Island, which was brought back to life when the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, Selene, began using the Technarch transmode virus to resurrected dead mutants, being one of the first Destiny's.

This directly resulted in Warren's first major work, Dirty Pair: Biohazards, which he co-wrote with Toren Smith and published through Studio Proteus and Eclipse Comics in 1989.

Working together with anime company Gainax, Studio Proteus also organized the first large anime and manga convention, AnimeCon ' 91.

These were expensive, but often used the sounds from respected MIDI instruments such as the E-mu Proteus.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

He learned from Proteus ' daughter, Eidothea (" the very image of the Goddess "), that if he could capture her father he could force him to reveal which of the gods he had offended, and how he could propitiate them and return home.

Proteus emerged from the sea to sleep among his colony of seals, but Menelaus was successful in holding him, though Proteus took the forms of a lion, a serpent, a leopard, a pig, even of water or a tree.

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ;

While stranded in Egypt, Menelaus learned from Proteus how he could return home.

It is likely, however, that Merrick suffered from the very rare Proteus syndrome.

The Danish Navy had 6 Søløven class torpedo boats ( the export version of the British Brave class fast patrol boat ) in service from 1965 to 1990 ) which had 3 Bristol Proteus ( later RR Proteus ) Marine Gas Turbines rated at combined, plus two General Motors Diesel engines, rated at, for better fuel economy at slower speeds.

And they also produced 10 Willemoes Class Torpedo / Guided Missile boats ( in service from 1974 to 2000 ) which had 3 Rolls Royce Marine Proteus Gas Turbines also rated at, same as the Søløven class boats, and 2 General Motors Diesel Engines, rated at, also for improved fuel economy at slow speeds.

King Proteus of Egypt, appalled that Paris had seduced his host's wife and plundered his host's home in Sparta, disallowed Paris from taking Helen to Troy.

Momus was one of three historic krewes ( with Comus of 1857 and Proteus of 1882 ) that withdrew from parading rather than identify their membership.

File: Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus. jpg | Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus ( 1851 )

In 2001 it was proposed that Merrick had suffered from a combination of neurofibromatosis type I and Proteus syndrome.

A. R. Tibbles put forward the theory that Merrick had suffered from Proteus syndrome, a congenital disorder identified by Cohen in 1979.

In a letter to Biologist in June 2001, British teacher Paul Spiring speculated that Merrick might have suffered from a combination of neurofibromatosis type I and Proteus syndrome.

Proteus is probably not an original body that formed with Neptune ; it may have accreted later from the debris created when the largest Neptunian satellite Triton was captured.

Proteus was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 space probe two months before its Neptune flyby in August 1989.

The shape of Proteus is close to a sphere with a radius of about 210 km, although deviations from the spherical shape are large — up to 20 km ; scientists believe it is about as large as a body of its density can be without being pulled into a perfect spherical shape by its own gravity.