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Aeschylus
Aeschylus ( ; , Aiskhulos; c. 524/525 BC – c. 455/456 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived, the others being Sophocles and Euripides, and is often recognized as the father of tragedy. His name derives from the Greek word aiskhos (αισχος), meaning "shame". According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them; previously, characters interacted only with the chorus. Only seven of an estimated seventy to ninety plays by Aeschylus have survived into modern times; there is an ongoing debate about the authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (, Mégas Aléxandros), was a Greek king of Macedon. He is the most celebrated member of the Argead Dynasty and the creator of one of the largest empires in ancient history.
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Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was a Venetian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture.
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Arnold Böcklin
For the Art Nouveau font see Arnold Böcklin (typeface)
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Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau style and the poster movement was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis.
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Auguste Rodin
François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin ( respell|oh- roh-), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.
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Benjamin De Casseres
Benjamin De Casseres (1873–1945) was an American journalist and author. He worked for various New York City newspapers writing columns and editorials. He also wrote poetry, fiction, essays, and critical reviews. He was married to author Adele Bio Terrill De Casseres, and corresponded with prominent literary figures of his time including Clark Ashton Smith and Charles Fort.
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Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.
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Diomedes
Diomedes or Diomed (; English translation: "God-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus") is a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. In Homer's 'Iliad' Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the second-best warriors of all the Achaeans. His paternal uncle Heracles and his close companion Odysseus are the favoured heroes of Athena. In Virgil's 'Aeneid' he is one of the warriors who entered the Trojan Horse shortly before the sack of Troy.
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Hesiod
Hesiod (Greek: Hēsíodos) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active around 700 BC. No date before 750 BC or later than 650 BC fits the evidence. Since at least Herodotus's time (Histories, 2.53), Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often paired. Scholars disagree about who lived first, and the fourth-century BC sophist Alcidamas' Mouseion even brought them together in an imagined poetic agon, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. Aristarchus first argued for Homer's priority, a claim that was generally accepted by later antiquity.
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Jack London
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild, set in the Yukon Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and The Sea Wolf, of the San Francisco Bay area.
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Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850–5 April 1928) was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology. She applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have become standard. Contemporary classics scholar Mary Beard, Harrison's biographer, has described her as "in a way ... [Britain's] first female professional 'career academic'".
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully (; ) (28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born, French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of Baroque French style and he disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in 1661.
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John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American painter, and a leading portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci () (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.
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Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.
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Medon
In Greek mythology, there were three people called Medon (Ancient Greek: ).
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Medusa's Head
'Medusa's Head' (1922), by Sigmund Freud, was an essay contributing to a body of criticism surrounding the Medusa Myth.
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Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. He is also well known for the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the long curse-poem Ibis. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso (; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica'' (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss painter and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague , the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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Phorcys
:For the minor planet moon, see 65489 Ceto.
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Pindar
Pindar (, Pindaros; Latin: Pindarus) (ca. 522–443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence".
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an "analysand", and a psychoanalyst. Freud is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, as well as for his therapeutic techniques, including the use of free association, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy, and a prolific essayist, drawing on psychoanalysis to contribute to the history, interpretation and critique of culture.
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Theodontius
Theodontius was the author of a now lost Latin work on mythology. He was extensively quoted in Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, but is otherwise almost unknown. Boccaccio says that he knew Theodontius's work through the Collections of Paul of Perugia, which Paul's wife burnt after his death (Genealogiae XV 6). In telling the legend of Bathyllus, however, Boccaccio complains that Theodontius was illegible except for Bathyllus's birth, from Phorcys and a marine monster (Genealogiae X 7), so he may have seen some of Theodontius's own writings; sources disagree on this. Some authorities think Boccaccio invented him.
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Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) was an American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants' Bank of Boston.
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Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern (), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey. The cistern, located southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic ( ; , , short form Česko ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west and northwest, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. The Czech Republic has been a member of NATO since 1999 and of the European Union since 2004. The Czech Republic is also a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As an OSCE participating State, the Czech Republic’s international commitments are subject to monitoring under the mandate of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. From 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2009, the Czech Republic held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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opera
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Zeus
In Greek mythology Zeus ( or ; Ancient Greek: Ζεύς; Modern Greek: Δίας, Dias) is the "Father of Gods and men", according to Hesiod's Theogony, who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family; he was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence."(Iliad, book 1.503;533) For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe. As Pausanias observed, "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is referred to as the chieftain of the gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.
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Medusa \Me*du"sa\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone. [1913 Webster]
2. [pl. Medusae.] (Zool.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish. [1913 Webster]
Note: The larger medusae belong to the Discophora, and are sometimes called covered-eyed medusae; others, known as naked-eyed medusae, belong to the Hydroidea, and are usually developed by budding from hydroids. See Discophora, Hydroidea, and Hydromedusa. [1913 Webster]
Medusa bud (Zool.), one of the buds of a hydroid, destined to develop into a gonophore or medusa. See Athecata, and Gonotheca.
Medusa's head. (a) (Zool.) An astrophyton. (b) (Astron.) A cluster of stars in the constellation Perseus. It contains the bright star Algol. [1913 Webster] - Medusa n 1: (Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena; she was slain by Perseus 2: one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free- swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles [syn: medusa, medusoid, medusan]
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- Alexander Mosaic
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- Aubrey Beardsley
- Auguste Rodin
- Basilica Cistern
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- Benjamin De Casseres
- Benvenuto Cellini
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Medusa Filmography
- Medusa: My Life as Gangsta Godess (2009)
- This Is the Life (2008)
- Peace Process (2006)
- Sistas 'N the City (2003)
- Sistas 'N the City (2003)
- Stranger Inside (2001)
- Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000)
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nVidia - Medusa Demo - Very High HD Quality
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 03 Jun 2009
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
nVidia Demo: Medusa. Very High HD Quality. This and other demos freely available at official NVIDIA website: www.nzone.com In Greek mythology, Medusa - (snake-headed woman) was a gorgon, a chthonic female monster; gazing upon her would turn onlookers to stone en.wikipedia.org Megaera ("the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes in Greek mythology. She is the cause of jealousy and envy, and punishes people who commit crimes en.wikipedia.org
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Medusa Yalvaririm
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- Duration: 2:53
- Published: 07 Jan 2007
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
By Schizofren (www.illegaliz.biz)
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Clash of the Gods: Medusa
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- Duration: 1:35
- Published: 28 Aug 2009
- Updated: 03 Apr 2012
Medusa's horrific transformation from ultimate beauty...to ultimate beast.
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Anthrax-medusa
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- Duration: 4:43
- Published: 17 Nov 2007
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
Artist:Anthrax Album:Spreading the desiese Uploaded by kind permission of Universal Music Group
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Clash of the Gods S01E05 Medusa PART1
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- Duration: 9:00
- Published: 01 Sep 2009
- Updated: 03 Apr 2012
EP 1.5 Medusa An exploration of the God known as Medusa, who was said to turn people into stone with a simple glance. Included is a study of the possible origins of the god.
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Medusa 2D short film (Nick DiLiberto)
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- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 09 Aug 2010
- Updated: 02 Apr 2012
Perseus risks his life for the head of Medusa.
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![Official: Loco & Jam - Medusa [Rekluse]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120411111938im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kMsfHYvra3M/0.jpg "Official: Loco & Jam - Medusa [Rekluse]")
Official: Loco & Jam - Medusa [Rekluse]
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- Duration: 7:59
- Published: 07 Jul 2009
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
Out now on vinyl and digitally at Beatport (bit.ly "Medusa" has been Fergie & Mr Henry Von's secret weapon since they first got hold of it, never failing to completely destroy any club that has had it pumped through its soundsystem. Loco & Jam are 2 guys from Northern Ireland who have been really making a name for themselves in 2009 with their remix of Henry Von's Propaganda that made it's way onto Carl Cox's "Space 2009" compilation. Support coming in from Misstress Barbara, Slam, Hell, Groove Armada, King Unique, Umek, Michel De Hey, Japanese Popstars, Justin Robertson, Anderson Noise, Reset Robot, Alan Fitzpatrick... For more info head to: www.facebook.com
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Clash of the Gods - Medusa
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- Duration: 44:59
- Published: 22 Jan 2011
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
Thousands of years ago, they were used to help frame the world of the ancients, and dictate the guidelines of their societies. Today, they are often the first stories we learn as children, iconic tales where good and evil clash, and humanity and fantasy collide. But what is the reality behind these stories? From the epic tragedy of Medusa, Greek mythology's most infamous female fiend, to Hercules, its greatest action hero, and Hades, master of the land of the dead and a god so feared no one would speak his name, explore these myths and the legendary figures who inspired them in CLASH OF THE GODS. Each episode connects ancient myths to actual historical events, as well as to events in the Bible and other cultures' mythologies, gaining important historical insight from renowned scholars in search of the truth behind the legends.
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Medusa
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- Duration: 5:43
- Published: 09 Jul 2008
- Updated: 02 Apr 2012
Old favorite by trapeze
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The Mighty Hercules: Medusa's Sceptre
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- Duration: 5:37
- Published: 14 Jan 2007
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
An episode of the old Hercules cartoon where the evil wizard Daedelus uses Medusa's Sceptre to turn several of Herc's friends, including Helena, to stone.
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Medusa / Bizarro at Six Flags Great Adventure
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- Duration: 1:29
- Published: 31 Aug 2006
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure (now this coaster is called Bizarro. The track is the same but they painted it, added speakers to the head rests and two fog tunnels)
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Medusa
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- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 07 Feb 2009
- Updated: 03 Apr 2012
Just some pictures of girls to Heather Dale's Medusa 1st time making a slideshow...tell me what you think :) --------- Enjoy...and credit for all of the pictures goes to their artists or finders ~MissNightMare999
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Medusa Halloween Tutorial
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- Duration: 12:09
- Published: 21 Oct 2010
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
I hope you enjoy my take on a Medusa inspired makeup look for Halloween! What are you planning to be this Halloween? Be safe! :) Twitter: twitter.com Facebook Page: www.facebook.com Please check out Petrilude's video on Covering Eyebrows: www.youtube.com He has many amazing halloween tutorials as well that you should check out! Products Used: face: -Revlon Colorstay foundation in Sand Beige -Sonia Kashuk Hidden Agenda concealer palette (for brows) -Maybelline Instant Age Rewind concealer -MAC pressed blot powder eyes: -Ardell Brow pencil in Soft Black -Urban Decay Primer Potion -Wet n Wild Mojave Mauve Trio -Wet n Wild palette in Lust -MAC shadow in Chrome Yellow -L'oreal HIP duo in Riotous -NYX shadows in Kiwi, Lime Juice, and Black -NYC black liquid liner -Maybelline the Colossal mascara -Bliss lashes in #201 lips: -NYX jumbo eye pencil in Black Bean -Rimmel lipstick in Bordeaux Many of the brushes used are from www.sigmabeauty.com The rest are various brushes i've collected.
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Medusa (Underground Rap Lyricist) Performance at Dragonfly for Elemental
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- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 17 Sep 2010
- Updated: 27 Mar 2012
Join ED MAGIK TV on: FACEBOOK www.facebook.com TWITTER www.twitter.com There is but one living legend female of underground Hip Hop music on the West Coast (USA) -- her name is Medusa. Medusa performance at Dragonfly for Elemental, presented by Sisterz Of The Underground.
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Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa (radio edit)
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- Duration: 3:54
- Published: 13 Nov 2007
- Updated: 02 Apr 2012
Official Video for Medusa by the Straylight Group. Copyright 2007 Independiente Ltd.
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Nintendo 3DS - Kid Icarus: Uprising Medusa Trailer
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- Duration: 4:43
- Published: 08 Mar 2012
- Updated: 05 Apr 2012
Official Site: kidicarus.nintendo.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Contact Us: www.nintendo.com Newsletter: www.nintendo.com
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Medusa
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- Duration: 99:20
- Published: 14 Oct 2010
- Updated: 02 Apr 2012
In the Greek islands, two Americans, a playboy brother and a good girl sister, are set to inherit millions. But everyone who touches the will seems to be dying. Can the local inspector figure out who?
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Toundra - Medusa
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- Duration: 7:46
- Published: 28 Oct 2009
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
Album: Toundra (2009) Myspace: www.myspace.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Last FM: www.lastfm.es/music/Toundra Big Cartel: toundra.bigcartel.com
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Clan Of Xymox - Medusa
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- Duration: 5:55
- Published: 06 Nov 2008
- Updated: 03 Apr 2012
Medusa (c) 1986 CAD 613 FINALLY I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHTS IN YOUR EYES AND NOW I AM GLORYFING MY TRAGIC DESTINY DREAMS CAN BE WHOLESOME FOR ME LIFE IS A TORMENTED DREAM FOR ME MESMERIZE ME, ENCHANT ME MESMERIZE WITH YOUR EYES, NOW ENCHANT ME, HYPNOTIZE ME ENCHANT ME, MESMERIZE ME ENCHANT ME, HYPNOTIZE ME I FOUND THE LIES IN YOUR WORDS AND NOW I AM GLORYFING MY TRAGIC DESTINY DREAMS CAN BE HARD AND MEAN I STILL WONDER IF YOU ARE AWARE OF THIS DREAMS CAN BE HARD AND MEAN LIFE IS A TORMENTED TIME, NOW MEDUSA MEDUSA MEDUSA ENCHANT ME, MESMERIZE ME ENCHANT ME, MESMERIZE ME ENCHANT ME, HYPNOTIZE ME ENCHANT ME, MESMORIZE ME
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Black Country Communion- Medusa
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- Duration: 10:21
- Published: 18 Sep 2010
- Updated: 30 Mar 2012
MEDUSA SMILE BY KONRAD BLACK
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- Duration: 7:36
- Published: 23 Mar 2009
- Updated: 04 Apr 2012
VIDEO FOR WAGON REPAIR ARTIST KONRAD BLACKS' TRACK: MEDUSA SMILE. VIDEO BY BENTMATTER
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Daz 3d animation
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- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 16 Jul 2009
- Updated: 12 Mar 2012
Daz 3d. Medusa before she was turned into a snake. Made in daz only.
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Soul Eater:: |Medusa's Pumpkin Panties| *Kawaii* HD
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- Duration: 3:58
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In Greek mythology Medusa (), "guardian, protectress") was a Gorgon, a chthonic monster, and a daughter of Phorcys and Ceto. The author Hyginus, (''Fabulae'', 151) interposes a generation and gives Medusa another chthonic pair as parents. Gazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity the image of the head of Medusa appeared in the evil-averting device known as the ''Gorgoneion''.
Medusa in classical mythology
The three Gorgon sisters—Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale—were children of the ancient marine deities Phorcys (or Phorkys) and his sister Ceto (or Keto), chthonic monsters from an archaic world. Their genealogy is shared with other sisters, the Graeae, as in Aeschylus's ''Prometheus Bound'' who places both trinities of sisters far off "on Kisthene's dreadful plain":
Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged With snakes for hair— hated of mortal man—
While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born of monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC Pindar already speaks of "fair-cheeked Medusa".
In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (''Metamorphoses'' 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon raped her in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena, choosing not to punish Poseidon, transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment as a victim by Minerva (Athena) as just and well-deserved for the so-called crime of being raped.
Death
In most versions of the story, she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphos as a gift. In his conquest, he received a mirrored shield from Athena, winged sandals from Hermes, a sword, and Hades' cap of invisibility. Medusa was the only one of the three Gorgons who was mortal, so Perseus was able to slay her while looking at the reflection from the mirrored shield he received from Athena. During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a golden-sworded giant, sprang from her body.
Jane Ellen Harrison argues that "her potency only begins when her head is severed, and that potency resides in the head; she is in a word a mask with a body later appended... the basis of the Gorgoneion is a cultus object, a ritual mask misunderstood."
In ''Odyssey'' xi, Homer does not specifically mention the Gorgon Medusa:
Harrison's translation states "the Gorgon was made out of the terror, not the terror out of the Gorgon."
According to Ovid, in North-West Africa Perseus flew past the Titan Atlas, who stood holding the sky aloft, and transformed him into stone. In a similar manner, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have been formed of Medusa's blood spilled onto seaweed when Perseus laid down the petrifying head beside the shore during his short stay in Aethiopia where he saved and wed his future wife, the lovely princess Andromeda. Furthermore the poisonous vipers of the Sahara, in the ''Argonautica'' 4.1515, Ovid's Metamorphoses 4.770 and Lucan's Pharsalia 9.820, were said to have grown from spilt drops of her blood.
Perseus then flew to Seriphos where his mother was about to be forced into marriage with the king. King Polydectes was turned into stone by the gaze of Medusa's head.
Then he gave the Gorgon's head to Athena, who placed it on her shield, the Aegis.
Some classical references refer to three Gorgons; Harrison considered that the tripling of Medusa into a trio of sisters was a secondary feature in the myth:
Modern interpretations
Psychoanalysis
In 1940, Sigmund Freud's ''Das Medusenhaupt (Medusa's Head)'' was published posthumously. This article laid the framework for his significant contribution to a body of criticism surrounding the monster. Medusa is presented as "the supreme talisman who provides the image of castration — associated in the child's mind with the discovery of maternal sexuality — and its denial." Psychoanalysis continue archetypal literary criticism to the present day: Beth Seelig analyzes Medusa's punishment from the aspect of the crime of having been raped rather than having willingly consented in Athena's temple as an outcome of the goddess' unresolved conflicts with her own father, Zeus.
Feminism
In the 20th century, feminists reassessed Medusa's appearances in literature and in modern culture, including the use of Medusa as a logo by fashion company Versace. The name "Medusa" itself is often used in ways not directly connected to the mythological figure but to suggest the gorgon's abilities or to connote malevolence; despite her origins as a beauty, the name in common usage "came to mean monster." The book ''Female Rage: Unlocking Its Secrets, Claiming Its Power'' by Mary Valentis and Anne Devane notes that "When we asked women what female rage looks like to them, it was always Medusa, the snaky-haired monster of myth, who came to mind ... In one interview after another we were told that Medusa is 'the most horrific woman in the world' ... [though] none of the women we interviewed could remember the details of the myth."
Medusa's visage has since been adopted by many women as a symbol of female rage; one of the first publications to express this idea was a 1978 issue of ''Women: A Journal of Liberation''. The cover featured the image of a Gorgon, which the editors explained "can be a map to guide us through our terrors, through the depths of our anger into the sources of our power as women." In a 1986 article for ''Women of Power'' magazine called "Ancient Gorgons: A Face for Contemporary Women's Rage," Emily Erwin Culpepper wrote that "The Amazon Gorgon face is female fury personified. The Gorgon/Medusa image has been rapidly adopted by large numbers of feminists who recognize her as one face of our own rage."
Nihilism
Medusa has sometimes appeared as representing notions of scientific determinism and nihilism, especially in contrast with romantic idealism. In this interpretation of Medusa, attempts to avoid looking into her eyes represent avoiding the ostensibly depressing reality that the universe is meaningless. Jack London uses Medusa in this way in his novel ''The Mutiny of the Elsinore'':
Medusa in art
From ancient times, the Medusa was immortalized in numerous works of art, including:
Medusa remained a common theme in art in the nineteenth century, when her myth was retold in Thomas Bulfinch's ''Mythology''. Edward Burne-Jones' Perseus Cycle of paintings and a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley gave way to the twentieth century works of Paul Klee, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, Pierre et Gilles, and Auguste Rodin's bronze sculpture ''The Gates of Hell''.
In flags and emblems
The head of Medusa is featured on some regional symbols. One example is that of the flag and emblem of Sicily, together with the three legged ''trinacria''. The inclusion of Medusa in the center implies the protection of the goddess Athena, who wore the Gorgon's likeness on her aegis, as said above. Another example is the coat of arms of Dohalice village in the Czech Republic.
In popular culture
The petrifying image of Medusa makes an instantly recognizable feature in market-driven popular culture. Medusa has been featured in several media related topics, including videogames, movies and books.
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| name | Ulrich Schnauss |
|---|---|
| background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| origin | Kiel, Germany |
| genre | Indietronica, ambient techno, shoegazing |
| occupation | Musician, record producer, remixer |
| label | Independiente Records/Domino USA |
| associated acts | A Shoreline DreamLong-View Engineers |
| website | www.ulrich-schnauss.com }} |
Biography
Ulrich Schnauss was born in the northern German seaport of Kiel in 1977. He became interested in a range of music: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Tangerine Dream, Chapterhouse, and early bleep & breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see his musical influences in Kiel, so he moved to Berlin in 1996.
Ulrich's musical output began under the pseudonyms of View to the Future and Ethereal 77. These electronica and drum-driven pieces were noticed by Berlin electronica label CCO (City Centre Offices), to which Schnauss sent CD's on a regular basis. Ulrich developed these submissions to CCO into his first album under his own name, ''Far Away Trains Passing By'', released in Europe in 2001, and in the United States in 2005.
His next album, 2003's ''A Strangely Isolated Place'', showed the influence of My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields and Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie. Schnauss has said of this album, "When you've worked with computers and keyboards for a number of years, they become not so fascinating of themselves anymore. I gained confidence after people began to discover ''Far Away Trains Passing By'', and it hasn't really stopped since then. This time I decided not to compromise on what I wanted to do, with what I thought people might want me to do."
Since the release of both albums Ulrich has been asked to work with and remix with artists, including Port-Royal, Mojave 3, Airiel, A Shoreline Dream, Asobi Seksu, Televise, Long-view, Johannes Schmoelling, The Zephyrs, Lunz (Rodelius), and others.
He also plays keyboards for UK indie band Long-view, whose singer Rob McVey was featured on Ulrich's latest album ''Goodbye''. In an interview he said: " I have always loved music that has both elements: melancholy and sadness as a description of the current situation you are in, but at the same time a hopeful, utopian element that reminds you of the possibility of a different life."
His third album, ''Goodbye'', was completed in early 2007. It was released in Europe by Independiente Records on June 25, 2007. The United States release followed on July 10 under Domino Records. Regarding this album, he said: "The overall idea was pretty much the same. I just wanted to merge the indie songwriting elements and electronic instrumentation. After the previous album I still had a feeling like there was more room to take these ideas to an extreme level when it comes to layering and laying down as many tracks as possible."
On June 12, 2007, Ulrich released an EP named "Quicksand Memory." It contains two remixes by Robin Guthrie of previous releases, a mix by Rob McVey of a previously unreleased track, and an edit of a track appearing on his latest album.
Current status
In the spring of 2008, Ulrich remixed two tracks by the Manchester based shoegaze band Daniel Land and The Modern Painters. On October 27, 2008, the two tracks, 'Within The Boundaries' and 'Benjamin's Room', were released as a double A-side 7" single by the independent record label Sonic Cathedral - the labels 11th release.In July 2008, the ''Stars EP'' was released to support his June/July US tour. A co-produced/co-written track with A Shoreline Dream titled "neverChanger" was released on an EP of the same name. Ulrich traveled out for a short tour with the band in Texas and Colorado to promote this effort, and performed this track with A Shoreline Dream during his performances.
In the fall of 2008, Ulrich collaborated on three new tracks with A Shoreline Dream entitled "hypermode", "departure" and a live version of "neverChanger" which all appear on the A Shoreline Dream album ''Recollections of Memory'' – officially released on February 10, 2009.
In October 2009, Schnauss' record labels, Independiente and Domino, sued Guns N' Roses, alleging that the band had committed copyright infringement by using portions of Schnauss' compositions in the track "Riad 'n the Bedouins" on the album ''Chinese Democracy''.
In 2010, Schnauss was involved in the mixing of Exit Calm's self titled debut album.
Rachel Staggs and Carlos Jackson of All in the Golden Afternoon began work in the studio with Schnauss in June 2010. The song entitled "The Long Goodbye" is a result of this collaboration, and marks its debut on a compilation for Rocket Girl Records.
Ryan Policky of A Shoreline Dream visited Ulrich Schnauss in July 2010 to work on a new collaboration entitled "London". With the exception of live drums performed by Sean Merrell (also of A Shoreline Dream) the song was fully produced, engineered and mixed by Schnauss/Policky, and marks its debut on a compilation for Rocket Girl Records.
Schnauss also provided keyboards and backing vocals on Engineers' third album, ''In Praise Of More''.
In other media
Pseudonyms and groups
Discography
Releases
| ! Release title | ! Released as | ! Release type | ! Label | ! Year |
| ''Broken'' | View to the Future | 12" single | White Label | |
| ''Wegwerfgesellschaft'' | Police in Cars With Headphones | CD album | FSP | |
| ''Journey to the Other World'' | VTTF | 1996 | ||
| ''Purity'' | Alphakid Recordings | |||
| ''Music Is Music'' | Airdrops | |||
| ''We Rule the 80s'' | Hair (With Alex Krueger) | 12" EP | Müller | |
| ''The 7th Seal'' | CD album | Alphakid Recordings | ||
| ''Unicorn'' | 12" single | Case Invaders | ||
| ''Hair 2'' | Hair (With Alex Krueger) | 12" EP | USM | |
| ''Spring Rmx'' | 12" single | |||
| ''Landscapes'' | CD album | |||
| ''Ignorance'' | Junkie Sartre Vs Hexaquart | Force Tracks | 2000 | |
| ''Exploitation'' | Hexaquart | Lifetime | ||
| ''Far Away Trains Passing By'' | Ulrich Schnauss | CD / LP | City Centre Offices | |
| ''Zero Gravity'' | Ethereal 77 | 12" single | Looking Good | 2002 |
| ''A Strangely Isolated Place'' | CD / 2xLP | City Centre Offices (Europe) / Domino (US) | 2003 | |
| ''Quicksand Memory EP'' | CD/EP | |||
| CD/LP | ||||
| ''Stars'' | CD/EP | 2008 | ||
| ''neverChanger'' | CD/EP | 2008 | ||
| ''Recollections of Memory'' | CD album | 2009 | ||
| ''Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk'' | Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk | CD album | Pedigree Cuts | 2011 |
Remixes
Compilation appearances (exclusive tracks only)
References
External links
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Discographies
Interviews
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| name | Clan of Xymox |
|---|---|
| background | group_or_band |
| alias | Xymox |
| origin | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| genre | Electronic rock, Darkwave Gothic rock, Synthpop New Wave |
| years active | 1981–present |
| label | Metropolis RecordsWing Records, PolyGram4AD |
| website | http://www.clanofxymox.com/ |
| current members | Ronny MooringsMojca ZugnaMario UsaiYvonne de Ray |
| past members | Pieter NootenAnka WolbertFrank WeyzigWillem van AntwerpenTom AshtonSharon SoffnerRob VonkNina SimicRui RamosLilahPaul WhittleseaDenise DijkstraAgnes Jasper |
| notable instruments | }} |
In the 1990s, their music turned increasingly goth (they have since been referred to as the "founding fathers of goth.") Though the band is still active and continues to tour and release records, of the original members (Ronny Moorings, Pieter Nooten, Frank Weyzig, and Anke [also Anka] Wolbert), only Moorings remains in the band today.
History
1981–1991
The band formed in Amsterdam in 1981, consisting of Ronny Moorings, Anka Wolbert, Frank Weyzig, and Pieter Nooten, and released a mini-album, ''Subsequent Pleasures'', in 1983. They were invited to support Dead Can Dance and were signed to the indie label 4AD, which released their eponymous debut album in 1985. The track ''7th Time'', with Anka Wolbert on lead vocals, was picked up by John Peel, leading to the band recording two of the Peel Sessions at the BBC, in June and November 1985.In 1987, now abbreviated as Xymox, they released their second and last album on 4AD, ''Medusa'', before signing with PolyGram. Simultaneously, Pieter Nooten recorded and released his album ''Sleeps With The Fishes'' (4AD, 1987), in collaboration with Michael Brook.
The band's third album, ''Twist of Shadows'', was released in 1989. This album, and its successor ''Phoenix'', were released by Wing Records, a subsidiary of Polydor Records/PolyGram. In the United States, these two albums created a cult following for the band. The first two singles taken from the Twist of Shadows album, ''Blind Hearts'' and ''Obsession'' proved big college and club hits in the United States with ''Obsession'' charting on ''Billboard'''s Alternative Songs chart and both tracks hitting the Billboard Club Play Chart. But it was the album’s third single, ''Imagination'' (with Anka Wolbert on lead vocals), that brought the band the most mainstream attention, charting at #85 on Billboard Hot 100, generating Top 40 radio airplay and MTV rotation of the ''Imagination (Edit)'' single. ''Twist of Shadows'' proved their most commercially successful album, selling more than 300,000 copies worldwide.
By this time the band had moved to England, and released their fourth album, ''Phoenix'', on PolyGram in 1991; after this album, Anka Wolbert and Pieter Nooten left the band due to disagreements about the band's musical direction.
1991 – present
Xymox, without Nooten and Wolbert, left PolyGram to release ''Metamorphosis'' (1992) and ''Headclouds'' (1993) independently. In 1995 Ronny Moorings toured under the banner of Xymox in the Netherlands, including girlfriend and future band member Mojca.In 1997 the band's name was reverted to Clan of Xymox; Moorings recruited new live members, besides Mojca, and started touring. The band signed with the independent US label Tess Records and released ''Hidden Faces'', produced by David M. Allen. In 1998 Clan of Xymox got signed by Metropolis Records in the USA, at a time of increasing US interest in the band, and released ''Creatures''. That same year, 4AD re-released ''Clan of Xymox'' and ''Medusa'' in the USA, and a US tour was planned for April and May 1999. The band at that time consisted of Moorings, Mojca (bass), Rob Vonk (guitar), Sharon Soffner (keyboards), and Rui Ramos (drums).
In October 2000 the band, without Vonk and Soffner, and with the addition of Nina Simic (keyboards), released ''Live'', a double CD with nineteen tracks and two videos. In 2001, they released ''Notes from the Underground''. In September 2004, ''Best Of Clan of Xymox'' was released, with re-recorded versions of early hits as well as later offerings.
Early 2009 Clan of Xymox switched labels, going to Trisol Records in Europe but staying on Metropolis in the USA and Gravitator in Russia. In July 2009 the single "Emily" was released.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles/EPs
Remixes
Live albums
Compilations
Remixes of other artists
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References
External links
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