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Pleiades
Pleiades , in astronomy, famous open star cluster in the constellation Taurus; cataloged as M45. The cluster consists of some 500 stars, has a diameter of 35 light-years, and is 400 light-years distant from the earth. Six stars are easily visible to the naked eye—Alcyone (the brightest), Ele... Read more
Dardanus
Dardanus , in Greek mythology, founder of Troy; son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra. His descendants, the Trojans, were sometimes called the Dardani. ... Read more
Jean Antoine de Baïf
Jean Antoine de Baïf , 1532-89, French poet of the Pléiade (see under Pleiad ). He wrote sonnets, didactic and satirical poems, and plays. ... Read more
Maia
Maia . 1 In Greek mythology, oldest of the Pleiades . She was the mother of Hermes by Zeus. 2 In Roman mythology, goddess of fertility; also called Maiesta. She was often identified with Bona Dea . The month of May was probably named for her. ... Read more
Electra
Electra , in Greek mythology. 1 Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. After her mother and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon, Electra, eager for revenge, longed only for the return of her brother, Orestes . The reunion and vengeance of the brother and sister were dramatized by the three great traged... Read more
Aldebaran
Aldebaran , brightest star in the constellation Taurus ; Bayer designation α Tauri; 1992 position R.A. 4 h 35.5 m , Dec. +16°30′. An orange giant star ( spectral class K5 III) with apparent magnitude averaging 0.85, it is one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Aldebaran is a vis... Read more
Joachim Du Bellay
Joachim Du Bellay , 1522?-1560, French poet of the Pléiade (see under Pleiad ). He wrote their manifesto, La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse (1549), which urges the study and emulation of the classics and the use of French as the literary language. His poetic works, broadly... Read more
Taurus
Taurus [Lat.,= the bull], in astronomy, constellation NW of Orion and lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Gemini and Aries; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac . Taurus is traditionally depicted as the forepart of a bull, in reference to the Gr... Read more
Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder 1836-1923, American painter, illustrator, and author, b. New York City, studied in Paris. From 1867 his permanent residence was Rome. He often used romantic landscape as a setting for allegorical images. Among his works are The African Sentinel and The Pleiades (Metropolitan Mus.) ... Read more
Pierre de Ronsard
Pierre de Ronsard , 1524-1585, French poet. As page, then squire, Ronsard seemed destined for a career at court both in France and abroad. However, deafness turned him to a more secluded and studious life at the Collège de Coqueret where he became leader of the Pléiade (see under Plei... Read more

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Pleiades
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Pleiades The Pleiades is a star cluster an approximately 400 light-year distance from Earth...surrounded by a nebula. As with many of the heavenly bodies, the Pleiades has attracted the speculation of people who have imposed a mythological...
Meier, Eduard Albert "Billy" (1937-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...hailed from the planet Erra in the Pleiades. Of all the people with whom the Pleiadians...beamships, including a visit to the Pleiades. European media began to give Meier...book, UFO … Contact from the Pleiades, Volume One, made the world aware of...
Marciniak, Barbara (fl. ca. 1988)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...from entities said to originate in the Pleiades star cluster. She was raised in a Polish...is described as a collective from the Pleiades began to speak through her. She was...Greece when the channeling emerged. The Pleiades had been suggested as a source for extraterrestrial...
Stargate
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...ancient painting of the constellation Pleiades located at the entrance to a cave. He...Ogham), and ancient symbols of the Pleiades. The portal seems to point toward ancient...to the present, by visitors from the Pleiades and Sirius. The set of actual artifacts...
Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenzund Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologie-Studien
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...a beautiful space commander from the Pleiades star system. The Free Community tries...Welch. UFO … Contact from the Pleiades, Volume I. Phoenix, Ariz.: Genesis...UFO … Contact from the Pleiades, Volume Two. Phoenix, Ariz: Genesis...
Clow, Barbara Hand (1943-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...reputedly from inhabitants from the Pleiades star cluster, Heart of the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades. This volume, along with Barbara Marciniak...the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades. Santa Fe, N.Mex.: Bear &...
Lia Light
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Shapiro, a UFO contactee who claims communications from the Pleiades. She was born the daughter of an atheist Jewish father and...reported among the Cherokee people that they originated from the Pleiades. The experience of channeling from the Pleiadians put Shapiro...
Bell, Fred (1940-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...claiming contact with Semjase, the extraterrestrial from the Pleiades first introduced to the public through the writings of William...him that she had a mission of sharing the technology from the Pleiades with the Earth. The transfer of that technology has been authorized...
Brown dwarf
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...they designated PPL 15, in the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. The astronomers sidestepped the problem of determining mass...lithium in its spectrum, whereas all the true stars in the Pleiades cluster are old enough to have burnt up all their lithium...
Brown Dwarf
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...called PPL 15 that is located in the cluster of stars known as the seven sisters of the Pleiades (pronounced PLEE-adees). Since the stars in the Pleiades cluster are old, the astronomers asserted that PPL 15 is a brown dwarf rather than a...

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Pleiades
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Pleiades Stars in the constellation Taurus, mentioned with Orion as part of God's creativity (Amos 5: 8) but which to Job seems to...
Roberts, Isaac
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...also long-exposure photographs of the Orion and Andromeda nebulae and of the Pleiades cluster. Later in 1886 he exhibited a three-hour exposure of the Pleiades that revealed the astonishing and unsuspected nebulosity that surrounds these stars...
Hirszfeld, Ludwig
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...brought forth fundamental findings on the racial composition of recent and historical peoples. According to his so-called Pleiades theory of blood groups, the other groups probably developed from the archaic O group in the course of evolution. Hirszfeld...
Rosenberger, Otto August
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1823, Bessel named Rosenberger to replace him. Bessel first assigned Rosenberger to compute a number of occultations of the Pleiades so as to obtain more accurate values for the distances between the observatories at which the observations had been made...
Nymph
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary 472. Nymph Atlantides ( Pleiades ) seven daughters of Atlas by Pleione. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 37] Camenae fountain nymphs; identified with Greek Muses...
Seven Sisters
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy Seven Sisters A popular name for the Pleiades star cluster in Taurus.
shell star
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy ...changes in brightness, many shell stars also have variable spectra. Pleione, also known as BU Tauri, a member of the Pleiades cluster, is a well‐known example of a shell star, with a range of mag. 4.8–5.5.
Carina
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy ...Another bright star is Beta Carinae ( Miaplacidus ). Eta Carinae is a unique variable star embedded in the nebula NGC 3372. Major star clusters include NGC 2516 and NGC 3532, and also IC 2602, sometimes called the Southern Pleiades.
Hyades
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Hyades in Greek mythology, the daughters of Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades who nursed the infant Dionysus; as a reward, they were placed as stars in the head of the constellation Taurus. In another version...
Electra
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...complex , a dated term in psychoanalysis for the Oedipus complex as manifested in young girls. Electra is also the name of one of the Pleiades , daughter of the Titan Atlas and mother by Zeus of Dardanus , ancestor of the kings of Troy.

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PLEIADES SUPERCOMPUTER FUELS NASA TRIP TO MARS.
Newspaper article from: UNIX Update; 12/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...problems in history. Key to that effort is Pleiades, the world's third fastest supercomputer...operations per second (TeraFLOPS). Pleiades made its debut on the Top500 list (www...LINPACK benchmark. The results make Pleiades the world's most powerful general...
Powered by Silicon Graphics, Pleiades Supercomputer Fuels NASA's Journey to Moon, Then Mars.
PR Newswire; 11/17/2008; 700+ words ; ...problems in history. Key to that effort is Pleiades, the world's third fastest supercomputer...operations per second (TeraFLOPS). Today, Pleiades made its debut on the Top500 list (http...LINPACK benchmark. The results make Pleiades the world's most powerful general...
Meet the Pleiades: find this cluster of stars in the night sky.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...meet a whole family of stars called the Pleiades (PLEE-uh-deez). You can observe the Pleiades from November through April. In winter...shimmering, misty swarm of stars you see is the Pleiades. To really get to know these stars, you...
Mask of Black God: the Pleiades in Navajo cosmology.
Magazine article from: Journal of College Science Teaching; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Today, a famous star cluster--the Pleiades--often appears on the traditional...case study, students learn about the Pleiades in Navajo cosmology while honing their...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The case The Pleiades star cluster is easy to recognize. It...
Partnership Takes Quadros Systems into South America; Agreement with Brazil's Pleiades establishes sales, development and customer support network.
Business Wire; 11/21/2005; 700+ words ; ...RTOS), announced they have signed on Pleiades Sistemas de Comunicacao Optico Digitais...partner in Brazil. Under the agreement, Pleiades will provide pre- and post-sale technical...products and customers in Brazil. The Pleiades team will build on the customer base...
Innovelis Announces Agreement with Pleiades System Designs to Distribute BudFits(TM) in Japan.
PR Newswire; 8/28/2008; 700+ words ; ...announces a strategic agreement with Pleiades System Designs to distribute BudFits...We're excited to collaborate with Pleiades to offer BudFits in Japan," said Innovelis...Mikio Motohashi, Managing Director of Pleiades, commented, "Pleiades has a strong...
NASA Selects DataDirect Networks' Proven S2A9900 Storage Solution for Pleiades Supercomputer.
PR Newswire; 11/19/2008; 700+ words ; ...platforms to provide the data backbone for Pleiades, the space agency's new supercomputer. The goal of the Pleiades project -- named after the open star...s four mission directorates. The Pleiades project is located at the NASA Advanced...
UH astronomers map activity of Pleiades star
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 12/26/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...by one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades cluster. George Herbig and Theodore...with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Pleiades, a famous navigational signpost for...illuminated by stars." Not far from Pleiades is a big dark cloud of cold gas and dust...
AT PLEIADES IN ENGLEWOOD
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/14/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Bergen County, NJ) 10-14-1994 AT PLEIADES IN ENGLEWOOD By BARBARA HOFFMAN, Restaurant...Were that the case, those who ate at Pleiades soon after it opened, in early July...another shot now. From all appearances, Pleiades would seem to shine as much as the stars...
Planets forming in Pleiades star cluster: astronomers
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/16/2007; 466 words ; ...recently formed around a star in the Pleiades star cluster, the result of "monster...evidence for planet formation in the Pleiades, and the results we are presenting may...Rhee, lead author of the study. The Pleiades star cluster - also known as the "seven...