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It has been argued that the cutting down of Prometheus was an important factor in the movement to protect bristlecones in general, and the Wheeler Peak groves in particular. [9] There had been a movement to protect the mountain and contiguous areas as a national park before the incident, and 22 years later the area gained national park status.
Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) [1] was an American professor of geography.While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in ...
Another bristlecone specimen, WPN-114, nicknamed "Prometheus", was more than 4,844 years old when cut down in 1964, with an estimated germination date of 2880 BC. A dendrochronology , based on these trees and other bristlecone pine samples, extends back to about 9000 BC, albeit with a single gap of about 500 years.
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Prometheus (1774) was originally planned as a drama but never completed by Goethe, though the poem is inspired by it. Prometheus is the creative and rebellious spirit rejected by God and who angrily defies him and asserts himself. Ganymede, by direct contrast, is the boyish self who is both adored and seduced by God. As a high Romantic poet and ...
The Greek god Prometheus is known for rebelliously taking fire from the gods to give to humans, but at his statue in MacArthur Park, he was using it to heat an oversized meth pipe.
He was immortal, but he still felt the pain. Chiron's pain was so great that he volunteered to give up his immortality and take the place of Prometheus, who had been chained to the top of a mountain to have his liver eaten daily by an eagle. Prometheus' torturer, the eagle, continued its torture on Chiron, so Heracles shot it dead with an arrow.
Elvis Presley regretted turning down a chance to act in "A Star is Born" opposite Barbra Streisand, according to Joel Brokaw, the son of late Hollywood agent Norman Brokaw.