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Fairy houses have been recorded on Monhegan Island in Maine since the 1950s, [3] although some claim they date back to the early 20th century. [4] These houses were primarily made by local children. [3] [4] In the early 2000s, New Hampshire writer Tracy Kane began publishing children's books on fairy houses after visiting Monhegan. [5]
Pandora is an inner satellite of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980 from photos taken by the Voyager 1 probe and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 26. [5] In late 1985, it was officially named after Pandora from Greek mythology. [6] It is also designated as Saturn XVII. [7] Pandora was thought to be an outer shepherd satellite of the F Ring.
The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment in the Tex Murphy series of graphic adventure games produced by Access Software. After its creators reacquired the rights to the series, it was re-released on Good Old Games in July 2009.
55 Pandora is a fairly large and very bright asteroid in the asteroid belt. Pandora was discovered by American astronomer and Catholic priest George Mary Searle on September 10, 1858, from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, NY . [ 5 ]
The Pandora myth first appeared in lines 560–612 of Hesiod's poem in epic meter, the Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), without ever giving the woman a name. After humans received the stolen gift of fire from Prometheus, an angry Zeus decides to give humanity a punishing gift to compensate for the boon they had been given.
When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village consisting of several small houses without roofs. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] William Graham Watt of Skaill House , [ 9 ] a son of the local laird who was a self-taught geologist , began an amateur excavation of the site, but after four houses were uncovered, work was abandoned in 1868.
A palloza is a traditional thatched house as found in Leonese county of El Bierzo, Serra dos Ancares in Galicia, and south-west of Asturias; corresponding to Astur tribes area, one of pre Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of northwest Hispania. It is circular or oval, and about ten or twenty metres in diameter and is built to withstand severe winter ...
Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years, and is located approximately 4 billion light years from Earth. [1] The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. [1]