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  2. Circe - Wikipedia

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    Circe (/ ˈ s ər s iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κίρκη, romanized: Kírkē) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. [2] In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse. Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs.

  3. Telemachus - Wikipedia

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    Telemachus appears in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1833 poem "Ulysses", where the title speaker (based on Dante's version) expresses disappointment in his son. Telemachus is a frequent character in the poetry of Louise Glück. [16] Telemachus was the name of Carole King's cat and is pictured on the cover of her album Tapestry. [17]

  4. Vietnamese encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (Encyclopedia of Vietnam), a state-sponsored encyclopedia which was published in 2005. Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Vietnam War encyclopedias. Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics.

  5. Telegonus (son of Odysseus) - Wikipedia

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    Telemachus married Telegonus' mother, the enchantress Circe, while Telegonus took to wife Odysseus' widow Penelope. [6] By Penelope, he was the father of Italus who, according to some accounts, gave his name to Italy. [7] What appears to be later tradition holds that Odysseus would also be resurrected by Circe after he was killed by Telegonus. [8]

  6. Space travel - Wikipedia

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    Space travel can refer to: Spaceflight, flying into or through outer space; Spacefaring, to be capable of and active in space travel; Human spaceflight, space travel with a crew or passengers; Interplanetary spaceflight, travel between planets; Interstellar travel, travel between stars or planetary systems

  7. Cassiphone - Wikipedia

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    Cassiphone is alluded to in obscure lines in Hellenistic poet Lycophron's Alexandra, with an explanation provided in the commentary of twelfth-century Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes, who is the only one to mention her by name; she is most likely a late classical or Hellenistic invention, whose only purpose is to expand on the myth of Telegonus, the son of Odysseus and Circe. [1]

  8. Telemaco (Gluck) - Wikipedia

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    Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe (Telemachus, or Circe's Island) is an operatic dramma per musica in two acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The Italian libretto was written by Marco Coltellini after Carlo Sigismondo Capece 's libretto for Scarlatti 's 1718 opera Telemaco .

  9. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.