 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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The mystery of the lost airman from Des Plaines Veteran on mission to find family of World War II pilot killed in Scotland.(News)
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Byline: Amy McLaughlin Daily Herald Staff Writer
Steve Schaefer doesn't give up easily.
As an armored crewman for the U.S. Army, he saw combat in Vietnam. He was wounded four times, spent two years in the hospital and was blind for a while.
His latest challenge, while perhaps a little less dangerous, is both frustrating and exciting.
Schaefer, a senior vice commander for the 4th District of Veterans of Foreign Wars, has taken on the job of scouting out information about Americans missing in wars. One of his searches has become like looking ...
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A curse on the house of Pelops.(Mycenaen civilization)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...meat in the stew was Tantalus' son, Pelops? The answer was "yes," and the gods...the stew absentmindedly and swallowed Pelops' shoulder. To punish Tantalus, Zeus...would toss them up to the dark clouds." PELOPS The gods took pity on Pelops. They restored...
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A race to the finish.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...as he watched Tantalus mistreat his son Pelops. How could a father be so mean? Unable...the great king of the gods, who was also Pelops' grandfather, decided to intervene. He decreed that Pelops' shoulder, which had suffered the most...
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The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, heroes, and athletes.
Magazine article from: Hesperia
; ...from the east pediment were figures of Pelops, Oinomaos, and Hippodameia the key players in the myth of Pelops's chariot race with Oinomaos (Fig...made obligatory offerings to Zeus and to Pelops at the hero shrine to Pelops, the Pelopion...
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LET THE GAMES BE SEENGREEK ATHLETES EXALTED IN MFA EXHIBIT OF OLYMPIC PROPORTION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...daughter, Hippodamia, fell in love with Pelops, she sabotaged her father's chariot so that it would fall apart. Pelops won the race, Dad was crushed under...figure into the urn's iconography, but Pelops is said to have gone on to found the...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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ONE TOSS AND GAMES HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE.(Special Pullouts)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...as easily could have been named after Pelops, and we could be celebrating a festival...those Augean stables. The other is that Pelops wanted to marry the daughter of king Hippodamia...him to a chariot race. In the night, Pelops changed the king's linchpins to wax...
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The games of 676 BC: a visit to the centenary of the ancient Olympic games.
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
; ...in honor of Zeus, a small shrine in honor of the legendary Pelops, and a scattering of less significant altars. Mallwitz (1972...It only contained the Pelopion (a small shrine in honor of Pelops) and a number of altars, including the major altar dedicated...
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Food for thought before the Olympic Games begin
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register
; ...s two rivers as a rinsing hose.) In the second, the hero Pelops, for whom Olympia's Peloponnesos (Peloponnesus) peninsula...Olympic victories. We also know that two other temples, one to Pelops and one to the great mother god, Gaia, sat nearby and that...
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IT'S STILL ALL GREEK TO ME
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; ...print or eat As for what I found on the Internet, see the following: "Pelops and Hippodamia had two sons, Thyestes and Atreus, who murdered an illegitimate son of Pelops to please their mother. Then they went into exile in Mycenae, where their...
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Of Cligés and Cannibalism
Magazine article from: Arthuriana
; ...Le mors de l'espaule' (vs. 4), I believe the tale of Pelops, as we know it from mythology and Ovid's brief evocation...his Philomela, focuses on the ivory replacement: 'factoque Pelops fuit integer illo.'8 His wholeness is thus the product of...
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Oresteia: a bright new day for civilization.
Magazine article from: LawNow
; ...through with hubris and savagery. One of the ancient patriarchs, Pelops, won the hand of his bride through a ruse which killed her...chariot ride which may have been the origin of the Olympic Games. Pelops had two sons who feuded with one another. Atreus is reported...
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