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Urania is by far the longest life science fiction series published in Italy ( in July 2005 the issue number 1500 was released: it contained the translation of Stories for Men, a short novel by John Kessel ; Il ranch di Cranwell, a short novel by Giorgio Monicelli ; and short stories by Fruttero & Lucentini, Gianni Montanari, and Giuseppe Lippi ).
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The older, Urania, is the daughter of Uranus, and inspires homosexual male ( and more specifically, ephebic ) love / eros ; the younger is named Pandemos, the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and all love for women comes from her.
* In Italy, The Wizard of Id is known as Mago Wiz ( Wiz The Sorcerer ) and has been published with great success in the comics magazines Il Mago and Linus, and in the science fiction magazine Urania, plus several hardcover editions also by Mondadori.
Urania tells him that his work violates the fundamental principles of respect for human life and is an offense to the worship of the Goddess.
In the invocation to Book 7 of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is " he meaning, not the name I call " ( 7. 5 ).
Spenser dedicated his Ruines of Time to her, and refers to her as " Urania " in Colin Clout's come home againe ; in Spenser's Astrophel she is " Clorinda ".
Urania was established in the late 1890s by lumbering magnate Henry E. Hardtner, who is considered " Louisiana's first conservationist.
* The Countess of Montgomery's Urania ( 1621 ) by Mary Wroth is considered to contain significant autobiographical elements.
Pausanias, the legal expert of the group, begins by taking Phaedrus up on his chosen examples ( 180c ), asserting that the love that deserves attention is not the kind associated with Aphrodite Pandemos ( Aphrodite common to the whole city ) whose object may equally be a woman or a boy, but that of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ), which " springs entirely from the male " and is " free from wantonness "; the object of this kind of love is not a child, but one who has begun to display intelligence and is close to growing a beard ( 181e ).
* The Christian imagery of the Dove as the Holy Spirit is derived from its use as the emblem of the " heavenly love " of Aphrodite Urania.
Lady Mary was an author of considerable repute in her own right, and her book Urania is generally regarded as the first full-length English novel by a woman.
There are two major reasons for the omission: symmetry, and the fact that Urania is not related to the arts performed in the Opéra.
Detail of painting The Muses Urania and Calliope by Simon Vouet, in which she is holding a copy of the Odyssey
Among them, only Urania was one of the original Greek muses ; Kokopelli, a trickster, is a god in many native American tribes.
Urania and by
At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.
Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).
Uzzā was worshipped by the Nabataeans, who equated her with the Graeco-Roman goddesses Aphrodite, Urania, Venus and Caelestis.
Muse magazine features Urania as one of the characters in the " Kokopelli and Co ." comic strip by Larry Gonick
Urania Cottage was a refuge for fallen women established by the writer Charles Dickens in Lime Grove, Shepherd ’ s Bush, London in the late 1840s.
* 2003: Mondadori / Urania, Milan, ISSN 1120-5288 / Number 1460 ( pb periodical ), translated by Riccardo Valla ( Italian translation )
Around the mid 18th century, the forms and styles of English country parish music were introduced to America, notably in a new tunebook called Urania, published 1764 by the singing master James Lyon.
Two mud volcano fields were first explored, one along the Mediterranean Ridge, where most of them were partially ( Napoli, Milano mud volcanoes ) or totally ( Urania, Maidstone mud volcanoes ) affected by brines, and the other on the Anaximander mounds south of Turkey.
She won the Premio Urania 1992 with the novel Il cuore finto di DR, a science fiction / noir cross-pollination published by Mondadori under the Urania inprint the following year, and also translated in French.
His second science fiction novel, Il Quinto Principio, was published in December 2009, again by Urania.
* Old Ladies Home — Site for residents of the Home for the Friendless, a charity set up by Urania Nott, wife of Eliphalet Nott, the first President of Union College.
She is perhaps best known for having written The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, the first extant prose romance by an English woman, and for Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, the first known sonnet sequence by an English woman.
Urania was the first known piece of original fiction by an English woman and reflected Wroth ’ s experience as an eyewitness to the Jacobean court.
However, her period of notoriety was brief after the scandal aroused by these allusions in her romance ; Urania was withdrawn from sale by December of 1621. Two of the few authors to acknowledge this work were Ben Jonson and Edward Denny.
Urania and life
One of her earliest was to establish, with the novelist Charles Dickens, Urania Cottage, a home that helped young women who had " turned to a life of immorality " including theft and prostitution.
Urania and science
An ambitious didactic composition in hexameters, entitled Urania, embodying the astronomical science of the age, and adorning this high theme with brilliant mythological episodes, won the admiration of Italy.
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti, translated by Laura Serra, first published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the science fiction series Urania, Milan 1983.
* The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Ristorante al termine dell ' Universo, translated by Laura Serra, first published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the science fiction series Urania, n. 968, Milan 1984.
* Life, the Universe and Everything: La vita, l ' universo e tutto quanto, translated by Laura Serra, first published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the science fiction series Urania, n. 973, Milan 1984.
* So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: Addio e grazie per tutto il pesce, translated by Laura Serra, first published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the science fiction series Urania, n. 1028, Milan 1986.
* Mostly Harmless: Praticamente innocuo, translated by Laura Serra, first published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the science fiction series Urania, n. 1209, Milan 1993.
In 1993 his novel Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore won the Urania Award, which was established by Urania, Italy ’ s main science fiction magazine, with the aim of discovering new talent in the field.
Urania is an Italian science fiction magazine published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since October 10, 1952.
* Urania Blu of 1984 was intended to reprint major short-stories collections and other works ( notably a collection of articles about science fiction by Isaac Asimov ), but had an unlucky run of only 4 numbers.
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