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  2. The Planets - Wikipedia

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    The innovative nature of Holst's music caused some initial hostility among a minority of critics, but the suite quickly became and has remained popular, influential and widely performed. The composer conducted two recordings of the work, and it has been recorded at least 80 times subsequently by conductors, choirs and orchestras from the UK and ...

  3. Mars (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Anne Ross associated Thincsus with a sculpture, also from the fort, which shows a god flanked by goddesses and accompanied by a goose – a frequent companion of war gods. [169] Mars Visucius. A fusion of Mars with the Celtic god Visucius. Mars Vorocius. A Celtic healer-god invoked at the curative spring shrine at Vichy as a curer of eye ...

  4. Cultural influence of Holst's The Planets - Wikipedia

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    The Simpsons episode "The Regina Monologues" features an extract from Mars in a flashback scene to World War II. [42] Mars is used as the opening and closing theme music for the 6-part 1958/1959 BBC TV science fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit. Mr. Robot features Neptune in the pre-credits sequence of season 2 episode 4. [43]

  5. Ares in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The "Ares Program", a fictional NASA program of scientific missions to Mars, appeared in the 2011 novel The Martian by Andy Weir. [1] In Planet Comics there was a strip called Mars God of War, featuring a character based on Ares under his Roman alter ego Mars. This character was a villain who took over people's bodies in various attempts to ...

  6. Castor et Pollux - Wikipedia

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    It celebrates the end of the War of the Polish Succession, in which France had been involved. In the prologue, Venus, goddess of love, subdues Mars, god of war, with the help of Minerva. In the 1754 revision, the prologue was eliminated.

  7. Gerard Marino - Wikipedia

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    Gerard Kendrick Marino (born April 1, 1968) is a film and video game score composer, most notably contributing heavily to the Greek mythology-based games of the God of War series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the God of War series, his work is featured on the soundtracks of God of War (2005), God of War II (2007), God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008), God of ...

  8. 2025 Grammy Awards: The Winners - AOL

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    Wild God, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Charm, Clairo The Collective, Kim Gordon What Now, Brittany Howard Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony

  9. List of war deities - Wikipedia

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    Belatucadros, war god worshipped by soldiers and equated with the Roman war god Mars; Camulus, god of war of the Belgic Remi and British Trinovantes; Catubodua, Gaulish goddess assumed to be associated with victory; Caturix, god of war; Cicolluis, Gaulish and Irish god associated with war; Cocidius, Romano-British god associated with war ...