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Sometimes the name Cassandra is applied to those who can predict rises, falls, and particularly crashes on the global stock market, as happened with Warren Buffett, who repeatedly warned that the 1990s stock market surge was a bubble, attracting to him the title of the "Wall Street Cassandra". [13]
Think of any 2 digit number, for the purposes of this guide we'll say 48. When you add the number 4 and the number 8 together you get the number 12. Subtract the first number from the second ...
Ajax taking Cassandra, tondo of a red-figure kylix by the Kodros Painter , c. 440–430 BC, Louvre. The play Agamemnon from Aeschylus's trilogy Oresteia depicts the king treading the scarlet cloth laid down for him, and walking offstage to his death. [29]: ln. 972 After the chorus's ode of foreboding, time is suspended in Cassandra's "mad scene".
Cassandra is certainly interesting as a reinterpretation of history and literature by an otherwise rather obscure character. However, the novel is truly compelling because Cassandra's individual character and her individual voice are symbolic of all female characters and their voices that have been underrepresented by past writers. [weasel words]
William Connor wrote a regular column [1] for over 30 years between 1935 [2] and 1 February 1967 with a short intermission for the Second World War, his column restarting after the war with the words "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, it is a powerful hard thing to please all of the people all of the time."
Cassandra Peterson is best known for playing her alter-ego Elvira for the past 25 years and now the vampy actress is sharing her incredibly eclectic life with her fans in a new "coffin table" book.
Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes is a book published by HarperCollins Ecco and written by former United States intelligence and counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke, and former White House National Security Council Director, and U.S. and UN senior diplomat R. P. Eddy. [1] The book offers a framework, "The Cassandra Coefficient," to help determine which warnings ...
$11.27 at amazon.com. Nova by Rebecca Yarros (2017). Series it belongs in: Renegades #2 Average Goodreads rating: 3.96 A standout reader review: “Couldn’t put this down. I was up way too late ...