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  2. The Battle of the Labyrinth - Wikipedia

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    The book follows the adventures of modern-day fourteen-year-old demigod Percy Jackson, the son of a mortal woman and the Greek god Poseidon. Percy and his friends Annabeth Chase , Grover Underwood , Rachel Dare , and Tyson attempt to stop Luke Castellan and his army from invading Camp Half-Blood through Daedalus 's labyrinth by trying to ...

  3. Daedalus; or, Science and the Future - Wikipedia

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    It was the text of a lecture [1] read to the Heretics Society (an intellectual club at the University of Cambridge) on 4 February 1923. Haldane uses the Greek myth of Daedalus as a symbol for the revolutionary nature of science with particular regard to his own discipline of biology. The chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus ...

  4. David E. H. Jones - Wikipedia

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    David Edward Hugh Jones (20 April 1938 – 19 July 2017) was a British chemist and writer, who - under the pen name Daedalus - was the fictional inventor for DREADCO. Jones' columns as Daedalus were published for 38 years, starting weekly in 1964 in New Scientist.

  5. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.

  6. De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae - Wikipedia

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    Gildas swathes the condemnations in allegorical beasts from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation, likening the kings to the beasts described there: a lion, a leopard, a bear, and a dragon. [11] The kings excoriated by Gildas are: "Constantine the tyrannical whelp of the unclean lioness of Damnonia". [12] [13] "thou lion's whelp ...

  7. Dedalus Books - Wikipedia

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    Dedalus Books is an independent publishing company based in Cambridgeshire, England. Publisher Eric Lane has said, "We like the bizarre, the grotesque, the surreal and the clever, preferably in the same book.

  8. Magick (Book 4) - Wikipedia

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    This event occurred around the time that The Book of the Law (Liber Legis) was about to be published in The Equinox, Vol. I, No. VII. [2] The writing of Book 4 was accomplished with the assistance of Soror Virakam [3] at a villa in Posillipo near Naples, Italy. The book was subsequently published in the winter of 1912–1913 in The Equinox, Vol.

  9. Sic et Non - Wikipedia

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    Sic et Non, an early scholastic text whose title translates from Medieval Latin as "Yes and No", was written by Peter Abelard. In the work, Abelard juxtaposes apparently contradictory quotations from the Church Fathers on many of the traditional topics of Christian theology. In the Prologue, Abelard outlines rules for reconciling these ...