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Pandora A/S (often styled PANDORA) is a Danish jewelry manufacturer and retailer founded in 1982 by Per Enevoldsen. [8] The company started as a family-run jewelry shop in Copenhagen . Pandora is known for its customizable charm bracelets , designer rings, earrings, necklaces and (now discontinued) watches.
HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. [1] The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. [2]
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.
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 ]
55 Pandora, discovered 1858 and Pandora, a moon of Saturn, named 1985. 74 Galatea, discovered 1862 and Galatea, a moon of Neptune, discovered 1989. 113 Amalthea, discovered 1871 and Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter, discovered 1892; the name was suggested by Camille Flammarion shortly after its discovery, but it was not officially named until 1975.
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]
The video was produced for Pandora by Malling Publications, a Danish advertising company. [2] [1] [8] Hanne Fabricius, CEO of Malling Publications, was responsible for the idea and concept, and was also the strategic director of the video.
Pandora's box is an artefact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [1] Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind.