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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread daedalus #122860 02/14/2004 4:30 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Date: Mon Jun 1 02:58:30 EDT 1998 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--daedal daedal (DEED-al) adjective 1. Ingenious and complex in design or function; intricate. 2. Finely or skillfully made or employed; artistic. [Latin daedalus, from Greek daidalos.] Another of the many words discussed on AWADtalk not long ago,without any of us knowing it was in the Archives Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: daedalus #122861 02/14/2004 5:25 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Daedalus was a mythical polymath who built Labyrinth for Kind Midos of Crete, who later was so ungrateful that he imprisoned Daedalus and his son. Daedalus made wings and escaped. This was commemorated by: 1988 DAEDALUS flys from Heraklion airport on Crete to Santorini setting world distance and duration records. 116 km in 3 hours 54 mins 59 secs The pilot was Kanellos Kanellopoulos Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: daedalus #122862 02/14/2004 6:46 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Fiberbabe old hand Fiberbabe old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon I had to think for a while to remember who the son of Daedalus was... Icarus, for anyone else similarly afflicted with "right-on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-itis"... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: icarus #122863 02/14/2004 7:19 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Icarus was mentioned in this article about translating Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone into ancient Greek. http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.html?prgCode=WESAT&showDate=14-Feb-2004&segNum=6&NPRMediaPref=RM Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: icarus #122864 02/25/2004 12:27 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK ...and Stephen Daedalus was James Joyce's early pen name. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: daedalus #122865 02/26/2004 12:36 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Deadalus was the name of the first starship planned in 1973-77 by the British Interplanetary Society to travel to Barnard's Star. The spaceship which appears in "The Planet of the Apes" is named Icarus. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: daedalus #122866 02/26/2004 7:22 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok And if you want to hear what CAN happen, you should listen to "Rambling On" by Procul Harum ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Deja Daedalus! #122867 01/21/2005 2:19 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 plutarch veteran plutarch veteran Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,385 Deja Daedalus! from Dr. Bill [wwh] almost a year ago. [See what we're missing! We don't have to. :) ] re Daedalus was the name of the first starship planned in 1973-77 by the British Interplanetary Society to travel to Barnard's Star. Makes me think of the Starship Enterprise [and its noble mission]: Good discussions with three or with four Are twice as good if you double the score. Please don't lurk Be like Capt. James Kirk Boldly go where you've n'er been before. Excerpt Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before By Tony Horwitz Prologue: The Distance Traveled "Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far I think it possible for man to go." —The Journal of Captain James Cook "Just after dark on February 16, 1779, a kahuna, or holy man, rode a canoe to His Majesty's Sloop Resolution, anchored off the coast of Hawaii. The kahuna came aboard with a bundle under his arm. Charles Clerke, the ship's commander, unwrapped the parcel in the presence of his officers. He found "a large piece of Flesh which we soon saw to be Human," Clerke wrote in his journal. 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