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This was the ' good ' king Minos, and he was held in such esteem by the Olympian gods that, after he died, he was made one of the three ' Judges of the Dead ', alongside his brother Rhadamanthys and half-brother Aeacus.
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Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
For a while he was content to let events develop in their good time.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.
Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.
He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.
It was a good report, he did all he could to make it a good report.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
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`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.
After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.
The favorite guest of the house, as far as the staff was concerned, was Mr. Wrigley, the chewing gum king.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.
But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.
But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.
Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.
This was a doubly bitter blow to the king.
He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.
In an age of oratory, he was the king of orators, and both he himself and Chief Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncle Dan'l reached his thundering climax:
Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons.
The last Assyrian city to fall was Harran in south east Anotolia, this city was also the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar.
Up to the time of the revolution the promise was, " to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom.
In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.
The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.
Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!
Bloch was not concerned with the effectiveness of the royal touch — he acted instead like an anthropologist in asking why people believed it and how it shaped relations between king and commoner.
Anbar was originally called Firuz Shapur ( Firuz Shabur ; Aramic: פירוז שבור ), or Perisapora and was founded c. 350 by Shapur II, Sassanid king of Persia.
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Minos was angry and declared war on Athens.
Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.
Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over.
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.
He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete.
In Crete, the Minotaur was known by its proper name, Asterion, a name shared with Minos ' foster-father.
Its location was near Minos ' palace in Knossos.
It may also be that this priest was son to Minos.
In Greek mythology, Minos (, Minōs ) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa.
Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by king Asterion ( or Asterius ) of Crete.
When Asterion died, his throne was claimed by Minos who banished Sarpedon and, according to some sources, Rhadamanthys too.
Minos is the Cretan word for " king ", or indeed, to take a euhemerist position, the name of a particular king that was subsequently used as a title.
Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy.
According to this view, the first King Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon.
The wife of this ' Minos I ' was said to be Itone ( daughter of Lyctius ) or Crete ( a nymph or daughter of his stepfather Asterion ), and he had a single son named Lycastus, his successor as King of Crete.
This ' Minos II '— the ' bad ' king Minos — is the son of this Lycastus, and was a far more colorful character than his father and grandfather.
Subsequently his remains were sent back to the Cretans, who placed them in a sarcophagus, on which was inscribed: " The tomb of Minos, the son of Zeus.
The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.
Minos was committed to sacrificing the bull to Poseidon, but then decided to substitute a different bull.
To make sure no one would ever know the secret of who the Minotaur was and how to get out of the Labyrinth ( Daedalus knew both of these things ), Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son, Icarus, along with the monster.
Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun ; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete.
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