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Mécanique Aviation Traction or Matra (Mécanique Aviation TRAction) was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to automobile bicycles aeronautics and weaponry. In 1994 it became […]

In Greek mythology Cretheus or Krētheus (Ancient Greek: Κρηθεύς) was the king and founder of Iolcus the son of Aeolus (son of Hellen) and Enarete. His wives were Tyro and […]

In Greek mythology Salmoneus (Ancient Greek: Σαλμωνεύς) was a son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Athamas Sisyphus Cretheus Perieres Deioneus Canace Alcyone and Perimede. Salmoneus was the father […]

In Greek mythology Tyro (Ancient Greek: Τυρώ) was the daughter of Salmoneus and married Cretheus but loved Enipeus. She gave birth to Pelias and Neleus the twin sons of Poseidon. […]

Frank Frederick Borman II (born March 14 1928) is a retired NASA astronaut best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8 the first mission to fly around the Moon making […]

The Rharian Field (Ράριον [sic!] πεδίον) was located in Eleusis in Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture. […]

In the Eleusinian Mysteries the bakchoi were the branches that initiates carried during their procession along the Sacred Way the twenty-one kilometer hike from Athens to Eleusis. (Homo necans p. […]

The Eumolpidae (Greek: Ευμολπιδαι) were a family of priests at Eleusis who maintained the Eleusinian Mysteries during the Hellenic era. As hierophants they popularized the cult and allowed many more […]

Boleslaus I the Cruel also called Boleslav I (Czech: Boleslav I. Ukrutný) (c. 915 – 15 July 967 or 972) was the ruler (kníže literally prince but usually translated as duke) […]

In Greek mythology Pleisthenes (Ancient Greek: Πλεισθένης) is the name of several different people descended from Tantalus.