How To Use Pollux In A Sentence
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Possibly this had been the date of the festival at Tusculum, a day especially appropriate because it was the Ides of the month, and the Ides were sacred to Juppiter, whose sons Castor and Pollux (_Dios-kouroi_) were supposed to be.
The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome
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I don’t recall ever learning that the name Betelgeuse came from the Arabic bayt al jauza, meaning “in the house of the twins,” referring to the Heavenly Twins, Castor and Pollux, hanging out right above Orion.
2004 January 08 « Far Outliers
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Castor and Pollux were also the names given by Roman sailors to St. Elmo's Fire, or the corposant phenomenon, when the flame effect on the mast of a ship appeared double.
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What are those Stars which are called the Dioscuri, The Twins, or Castor and Pollux?
Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted
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The moon's cusps point toward the stars Pollux and Castor.
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While approaching Pollux 4, aplanet in the Beta Geminorum System, the Enterprise has been stopped in space by an unknown force of some kind.
Who Mourns For Adonais?
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Pollux (_Onomasticon_ iv.chap. 8, § 59) calls the instrument barbiton or barymite (from [Greek: barus], heavy and [Greek: mitos], a string), an instrument producing deep sounds; the strings were twice as long as those of the pectis and sounded an octave lower.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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12 The latter part of the tenth Nemean Ode recounts, with every appearance of devout belief, the history of Castor and Pollux, the god begotten twins, who, reversing conditions with each other on successive days and nights, spent their interchangeable immortality each alternately in heaven and in Hades.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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(link) Incidentally, the St. Paul Saints baseball team being a minor league team benefits from the work Mr. Killebrew started with Castor and Pollux, Artemis and Apollo, and a few other sets of Twins, so for them the fuzzy benignity is enough because they have the bigger organization offering them more protection.
Mrissa: Minicon report, with digressions
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Pollux; then the trophies of Marius; then two milliary columns which served for the admeasurement of the Roman universe; and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, noble and calm in the midst of these several recollections.
Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy
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Iuno, tene; tuque o puppem ne desere, Pallas: nunc patrui nunc flecte minas. cessere ratemque accepere mari. per quot discrimina rerum expedior! subita cur pulcher harundine crines velat Hylas? unde urna umeris niueosque per artus caeruleae vestes? unde haec tibi volnera, Pollux? quantus io tumidis taurorum e naribus ignis! tollunt se galeae sulcisque ex omnibus hastae et iam iamque umeri. quem circum vellera Martem aspicio? quaenam aligeris secat anguibus auras caede madens? quos ense ferit? miser eripe parvos,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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At mag 1.4, Mars is between Castor and Pollux in brightness and improves to mag 1.3 by the month's end as it draws closer and tracks eastwards into Cancer.
Starwatch: the September night sky
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He looked into the hat as he continued speaking, “but I was given to understand that the owner of the Pollux was a shorter individual, in his mid- to late thirties and with less fur—a man named Eric.”
Crossed
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High above us, the great heptagon of the Winter sky: Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, and Castor (with Saturn nearby) - with Betelgeuse in the center and the Milky Way cascading through, just to the left of Orion.
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This inspired NASA to name the program after the third constellation of the zodiac, which featured the twin stars Castor and Pollux.
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`Those are Castor and Pollux, the heavenly twins,' I heard him say.
RESCUING ROSE
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Well, Castor and Pollux did _not_ blow us to Bermuda.
Still here
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Myself - skipper Castor - 1st officer & pilot Meade - 2nd officer & asst. cook Hazel - chief engineer Pollux - asst.eng. & relief pilot Edith - ship's surgeon & cook Buster - 'supercargo'
The Rolling Stones
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The mission consists of two microsatellites with the same size but different masses sent into orbit at the same time: the lighter satellite known as Pollux, and the heavier satellite, Castor.
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When she came close up to the screen to call Pollux, the woman, who was certainly sitting to him as a model, spoke louder than before, and called out merrily:
The Emperor — Complete
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Nibiru so should have it's apparent motion on sky toward us, due to "year motion" of Earth on it's orbit such, that Nibiru moves circa from Castor and Pollux to Aldebaran and vice versa within 1 year on sky during last years.
2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today
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The six stars that compose the Winter Hexagon are Aldebaren, Capella, Castor (and Pollux), Procyon, Rigel, and Sirius.
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Look for its reddish light in line with Castor and Pollux on the 16th, above-left of the waning Moon on the 23rd and with binoculars only 0.7° above-right of the Praesepe star cluster on the 30th.
Starwatch: the September night sky
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The name Pollux is based on the twins Pollux and Castor of
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Tejat and Dirah are both located in the left foot of Pollux, so traditionally share the Mercurial / Venus nature.
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Extending it out to 30 or even 50 or so light years which would then include nearest giants, Pollux - & its exoplanet "Polydeuces" (34 ly) Capella (42 ly)plus other sun-like F & G type dwarfs would be fantastic.
32 Nearby Stars
