Myrmidon had been sailing from Newcastle with a cargo of lumber when a privateer captured her. Diligent sent her into Sheerness, where Myrmidon arrived around 14 July 1797.Lloyd's List, no. 2939, - accessed 12 February 2014.
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In Greek mythology, Aethalides (; ) was a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of Myrmidon.
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In April 1899, the British Admiralty placed an order with the Jarrow shipbuilder Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited for three torpedo boat destroyers, (which had been laid down "on-spec", in advance of a formal order), Myrmidon and , for the Royal Navy under a supplement to the 1899–1900 shipbuilding programme. with a contract price being £47149 per ship. Myrmidon was laid down (as Yard number 751) on 23 October 1899, and was launched on 26 May 1900, completing in May 1901. Myrmidon closely resembled , built by Palmers under the previous year's shipbuilding programme, and like Spiteful had four funnels.
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The Myrmidons (or Myrmidones Μυρμιδόνες) were an ancient nation of Greek mythology. In Homer's Iliad, the Myrmidons are the soldiers commanded by Achilles.Achilles himself is "the great Myrmidon/Who broils in loud applause" in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Their eponymous ancestor was Myrmidon, a king of Phthiotis who was a son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthiotis.
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Subsequent editions published by Myrmidon Press expanded the number of playable races to twelve and adopted the Megaversal System RPG system developed by Palladium Books.
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The 6th Flotilla, mobilised and transferred to its war station at Dover (as part of the Dover Patrol) on 31 July–1 August 1914. The Flotilla's role was to prevent German warships from passing into the English Channel. Myrmidon was operating off the Belgian coast on 24 October 1914 when she reported being attacked by a submarine. Myrmidon remained part of the 6th Flotilla at the beginning of March 1917.
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They feature as the loyal followers of Achilles in most accounts of the Trojan War. Another tradition states that the Myrmidons had no such remarkable beginnings, but were merely the descendants of Myrmidon, a Thessalian nobleman, who married Peisidice, the daughter of Aeolus, king of Thessaly. Myrmidon was the father of Actor and Antiphus. As king of Phthia, Actor (or his son) invited Peleus to stay in Thessaly.
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He was involved in the production of Mercenaries and Pantheons of the Megaverse for Palladium's multigenre RPG RIFTS. Carella also authored Rifts Manhunter (1996) for Myrmidon Press, a cross-over book between Myrmidon's own science-fiction game Manhunter and Rifts. Carella designed the role-playing games CJ Carella's WitchCraft (1996) and Armageddon: The End Times (1997), which were first published by Myrmidon. Carella developed the Unisystem for the first editions of WitchCraft and Armageddon.
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Myrmidon sank after a collision with the merchant ship Hamborn on 26 March 1917 off Dungeness. Her crew were rescued by and SS Tambour, with the loss of one life.
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Myrmidon was the son of Zeus and Eurymedusa,Eustathius on Iliad, 113. 1 & 320\. 42Eratosthenes in Servius on Aeneid, 2. 7 daughter of Cleitor (Cletor) of ArcadiaClement of Alexandria, Protrepticus, 1. p.
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Mrymidon was a member of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, based at Portsmouth, in 1910 and remained part of that Flotilla in 1912. On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on contract speed and appearance. As a four-funneled 30-knotter destroyer, Myrmidon was assigned to the B Class. In 1912, older destroyers were organised into Patrol Flotillas, with Myrmidon being part of the 6th Flotilla, based at Portsmouth, in March 1913.
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During April, Badsworth was nominated for detached service in support of a planned combined services operation, named Operation Myrmidon. The destroyer escorted the infantry landing ships and her sister-ship with four other Hunt-class destroyers to attack shipping in Bayonne, by Number One and Number Six Commando Units. The raid was unsuccessful both because of weather conditions and due to the enemy’s state of alert. Released early from Myrmidon, Badsworth returned to Derry, joining military convoy WS-18 on 18 April with the destroyers , and Lancaster.
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Myrmidon was commissioned in August 1901 to serve on the Mediterranean Station. Commander Cecil Lambert was appointed in command in January 1902, and in September that year she was part of a squadron visiting Nauplia and Souda Bay off Crete for combined manoeuvres of the Mediterranean and Channel Fleets, during which she was declared as being sunk by the umpires of the exercise when she engaged two destroyers of an opposing fleet, mistaking them for torpedo boats. Myrmidon returned from the Mediterranean in 1905, and then served with the Atlantic Fleet for a year. In September 1907, Myrmidon, based at Portsmouth as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla of the Channel Fleet, started a refit at Sheerness dockyard, with her boilers being retubed and her hull and machinery refurbished, with the refit completing in April 1908.
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Myrmidon (; lived 4th century BC) was an Athenian who commanded a force of ten thousand mercenaries, which formed part of the reinforcements sent by Ptolemy, under the overall command of his brother Menelaus, to effect the reduction of Cyprus, in 315 BC. He was afterwards dispatched to the assistance of Asander in Caria, against the generals of Antigonus Monophthalmus. Evidently Myrmidon failed in Caria for Asander was reduced to sore straits by Antigonus's general Ptolemy (general).Richard A.Billows, Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, p. 119.
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After shakedown along the east coast, Myrmidon departed Norfolk, Virginia, for the Pacific on 10 April. She reached San Diego, late in the month; then, after loading cargo at San Francisco, she steamed to Pearl Harbor, on 19 May, for duty with Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet. Sailing in convoy 30 May, she steamed via the Marshall Islands to Iwo Jima, where she arrived 22 June. During the closing weeks of fighting in the Pacific Myrmidon operated at Iwo Jima, repairing, disbursing, and provisioning ships at that important American forward base.
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In Greek mythology, Phorbas (, gen. Φόρβαντος) or Phorbaceus was the son of Triopas and Hiscilla (daughter of Myrmidon). He was a hero of the island of Rhodes, was sometimes confounded with the Phlegyan Phorbas.Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 58.
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The Myrmidon is thought to be the model for the Junta, the fictional club in Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, of which the Duke of Dorset was for some time the sole member. Beerbohm was himself a member of the Myrmidons.
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Unfortunately, with her athletic build and independence, Glynn is often mistaken as a myrmidon, the Amazon-like women who are the sworn protectors of the soulweavers. Unbeknownst to Glynn, Ember, who is dying of brain cancer and half blind, is also transported to Keltor in her attempt to save Glynn from drowning. She is rescued by a kiss from the manbeast Ronaall, seemingly in a vision. The Soulweaver Alene and her myrmidon protectors Feyt and Tareed find her, who privately suspect Ember is the long-awaited "Unraveller", given her strong physical similarity to Shenavyre and the prophecy.
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He served as the Secretary of the Myrmidon Club before becoming its President in his final year at university. H. P. Alleyne's sister was Leonora Blanche Alleyne who met and married the Merton Fellow Andrew Lang whilst her brother was at the college.
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22Pseudo-Clement, Homilia, 5. 13 Myrmidon married Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and by her became the father of Antiphus and Actor.Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.7.3 Also given as his sons are ErysichthonAthenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.9b and Dioplethes, himself father of Perieres,Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 16.
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The Gift of Rain is the first novel by Malaysian novelist Tan Twan Eng. It was published in 2007 by Myrmidon Books in the United Kingdom and the following year by Weinstein Books in the United States, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year.
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Sylvia, Nassau and Myrmidon were suspended in 1862 or 1863, but were resumed, with Sylvia and Nassau being finished as survey vessels. Tartarus was broken up on the slipway in 1865, having cost £6,268 and work to Pegasus cost only £339. Guernsey was never laid down.
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The term myrmidon enjoys widespread use in computer and video games, especially those in the role-playing game genre. It is in common use as a title for character classes or enemies, and even occasionally used as the name for a piece of equipment or vehicle within a game.
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His Majesty's hired armed cutter Diligent (or Diligente) served the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. She was a small vessel, of 44 tons (bm) and six 2-pounder guns, and she served from 27 February 1793 to 1 November 1801.Winfield (2008), p.387. Diligent recaptured Myrmidon.
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The Myrmidon Club is a dining club elected from the male undergraduate members of Merton College, Oxford, and with a continuous history exceeding 150 years. Although the club is single-sex, an equivalent club for women, named the Myrmaids, was established following the college's decision to admit women students in 1980.
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5259 Epeigeus is a mid-sized Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 30 January 1989, by American astronomer couple Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory in California. The D-type asteroid has a rotation period of 18.4 hours. It was named after the Myrmidon hero Epeigeus from Greek mythology.
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Erysichthon was the son of TriopasOvid, Metamorphoses 8.756 possibly Hiscilla, daughter of Myrmidon and thus, brother to IphimedeiaPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.4 and PhorbasHomeric Hymns to Apollo, 3.211. In some accounts, however, he was called instead the son of MyrmidonAthenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.9b possibly by Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and thus, brother to Antiphus, ActorPseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.7.
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Palladium Books has licensed several of their intellectual properties to third-party developers. Only one book has ever been published by another company under license from Palladium: Rifts: Manhunter from Myrmidon Press, released December 1994. Palladium cancelled the license in May 1996. In October 2000, Rifts was licensed to the now defunct Precedence Entertainment for a collectible card game.
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Ažuožeriai (or Užuožeriai) is a village in Anykščiai district municipality, in Utena County, in northeast Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 383 people. Prevailing agricultural branch of local farming is gardening. Surroundings feature wood carvings commemorating spot of writer A. Vienuolis' native homestead and his creative folk heroes of stargazer Šmukštaras, drowned myrmidon Veronika.
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In Greek mythology Bathycles () was a Thessalian Myrmidon warrior, who took part in the Trojan War on the side of the Achaeans. His father was called Chalcon (Χάλκων). Bathycles was killed in the Trojan War by Glaucus and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad (rhapsody 16). So far the Trojans from their lines retired; Till Glaucus, turning, all the rest inspired.
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Kalide The sadistic younger son of Coralyn, who she wishes to place on the throne as Holder, since she can control him easily. Asa Court emissary Unys Coralyn's stepdaughter, whom she hopes to marry Kerd in order to ensure ties with Vespi. Despite Unys' obvious dislike for Kerd, she does not ever seem to dispute the arrangement. Feyt The blonde myrmidon protector of Alene.
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In 1821, Elliot joined under Sir Robert Mends in the West Africa Squadron. On 11 June 1822, he became a lieutenant while serving in HMS Myrmidon under Captain Henry John Leeke. He again served in the Iphigenia on 19 June, and in under Captain George Harris in the West Indies Station. There, he was appointed to the schooners on 19 June 1825 and Renegade on 30 August.
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Laid down as LST-948 on 25 August 1944, at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; named Myrmidon 11 September 1944; launched 28 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Marguerite Ross; placed in reduced commission 19 October 1944; transferred to Jacksonville, Florida; decommissioned there 10 November 1944; converted to ARL-16 by Merrill Stevens Shipyard, Jacksonville; and commissioned 9 March 1945 with Lieutenant Edgar A. Simpson in command.
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Tareed The younger myrmidon, protector of Alene. It is Tareed who insists that Ember's arrival is a sign of the Unraveller coming. She is a little less experienced, however she holds an open mind about most things and displays a sort of childish compassion. Draaka Leader of a cult growing in popularity due to its radical ideas but who actually worship the Chaos Spirit and commits animal and human sacrifices.
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He married Enarete, daughter of Deimachus, and begat seven sons, Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, and five daughters, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, Perimede. Perimede had Hippodamas and Orestes by Achelous; and Pisidice had Antiphus and Actor by Myrmidon. Alcyone was married to Ceyx (son of Eosphorus), and both are described by several sources as having been transformed into halcyon birds, giving rise to the term halcyon days.
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The first 6 ships had a 2-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine provided by Robert Napier and Sons and rated at 200 nominal horsepower, driving a single screw. On trials these units developed between and , giving speeds of about . Sylvia and Nassau were completed as survey ships and were powered by 150 nhp Humphreys and Tennant engines. Myrmidon received a more powerful 200 nhp Humphreys and Tennant engine.
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He has truly fallen in love with Glynn, and comes to her at the end in an attempt to help her. Alene Soulweaver and past lover of Tarsin, the current Holder, before she became a soulweaver. She is not allowed to leave the Isle of Ramidan while Tarsin is Holder, although he orders she get out of his sight. She and her myrmidon protectors stay in a cabin away from the citadel until Ember arrives.
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Fan-generated image of Drum Drum is an embodiment of physical strength and is described as having to use special clothing on account of his size (he is much bulkier than the average teenager), but has been emasculated by steroids given to him by the Overlords since he was to become a Myrmidon. Unfortunately for him, the steroids stopped him from going through puberty. His Change Talent is telekinesis, limited by mass.
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Chryses prays for Apollo's help, and Apollo causes a plague to afflict the Greek army. After nine days of plague, Achilles, the leader of the Myrmidon contingent, calls an assembly to deal with the problem. Under pressure, Agamemnon agrees to return Chryseis to her father, but decides to take Achilles' captive, Briseis, as compensation. Achilles furiously declares that he and his men will no longer fight for Agamemnon and will go home.
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He came aboard himself to meet the former Emperor, and a grand dinner was held in the great cabin, attended by Napoleon's retinue and British officers. The following day Napoleon visited Hotham on Superb, and after his return, Maitland began the voyage to England in company with HMS Myrmidon. A routine was soon developed, with Napoleon usually taking a walk on deck around 5 p.m., followed by a formal dinner at 6 p.m.
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Myrmidon by Roy van Rijn is an example of a oneshot. ;Stone (or bomber): A bomber blindly copies a "bomb" at regular intervals in the core, hoping to hit the enemy. The bomb is often a instruction, although other instructions, or even multi-instruction bombs, may be used. A bomber can be small and fast, and they gain an extra edge over scanning opponents since the bombs also serve as convenient distractions.
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He made an alliance with Dionysius the tyrant of Heraclea, cemented by marrying the tyrant's daughter.Memnon, History of Heraclea, F. 4, 6. In the latter part of that year, Ptolemy next threatened Caria, which was defended for a time by Myrmidon, a mercenary in service to Ptolemaic Egypt. In the following year (313 BC) Ptolemy was able to strike a decisive blow in that quarter against Eupolemus, a general of Cassander, whom he surprised and totally defeated.
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Carella had bad experiences with the business end of Myrmidon, and since George Vasilakos and M. Alexander Jurkat of Eden Studios, Inc. were fans of his work, they had talked about doing a Conspiracy X/Witchcraft crossover book. By 1998, sales on Conspiracy X supplements were slowly dropping and they realized that they needed more lines to revitalize the business. In July 1998, Eden Studios announced that they had come to agreement for an exclusive license to Carella's WitchCraft and Armageddon RPGs.
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Diana managed to stop the executioner from torturing Belyllioth but was soon made a victim herself by the large number of demons faithful to Dalkriig-Hath. Artemis then joined the fight by freeing Belyllioth from her shackles, allowing her and her loyal Myrmidon demons to take part in the battle also. Grateful to Artemis and Diana for freeing her, Belyllioth held back Dalkriig-Hath's forces until they could safely escape. Following their example, Belyllioth and her minions retreated to safety also.
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The massive escort was required to deter the German battleship , the pocket battleship and the heavy cruiser , all of which were in the area hunting convoys to the USSR. In April, she was deployed for the aborted Operation Myrmidon. After the operation was cancelled she joined another heavy escort, led by the same three ships, for convoy PQ 14 and QP 10. Later in April, she was yet again deployed in such a rôle, for convoys PQ 15 and QP 11.
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Not I." Clytemnestra arrives at Aulis filled with happiness over her daughter's prospective wedding the famous Myrmidon leader, Achilles. Iphigenia's first meeting with her father is couched in double entendre which is devastating: as she talks about her upcoming wedding, he talks about her upcoming sacrifice. They use the same words, but the meanings could not be more horribly apart. When Agamemnon meets with Clytemnestra, he still vainly tries to convince her to return to Argos without witnessing the "wedding.
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Wilkinson, Beerbohm later said, "gave me my love of Latin and thereby enabled me to write English".. Mrs Wilkinson taught drawing to the students, the only lessons Beerbohm ever had in the subject. Beerbohm was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford, from 1890, where he was Secretary of the Myrmidon Club. It was at school that he began writing. While at Oxford Beerbohm became acquainted with Oscar Wilde and his circle through his half-brother, Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
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The insectoid Sen-Soth are colored purple, yellow, and green. Their units tend to be relatively fragile, but are moderately quick, and have very fast development times, allowing them to quickly grow formidable numbers of troops. They include the lightly armed Snipe, the quadrupedal Myrmidon, the giant Dhuganaya (the other unit with four weapon mounts), and the flying Aphid (the only flying unit which allows the player to choose its weapons). The Sen-Soth's indigenous tech includes helpful support structures, perception enhancing Eyestalks, and good ranged weapons.
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Two early British raids for which battle honours were awarded were Operation Collar in Boulogne (24 June 1940) and Operation Ambassador in Guernsey (14–15 July 1940). The raids for which the British awarded the "North-West Europe Campaign of 1942" battle honour were: Operation Biting – Bruneval (27–28 February 1942), St Nazaire (27–28 March 1942), Operation Myrmidon – Bayonne (5 April 1942), Operation Abercrombie – Hardelot (21–22 April 1942), Dieppe (19 August 1942) and Operation Frankton – Gironde (7–12 December 1942).North West Europe 1942 regiments.orgDieppe , www.canadiansoldiers.
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No. 6 Commando was a battalion-sized British Army commando unit of the Second World War. Although it was raised to conduct small-scale raids and harass garrisons along the coast of German-occupied France, it was mainly employed as a highly trained infantry assault unit. Formed in July 1940, No. 6 Commando's first involvement in operations came in late 1941 when it contributed small forces to raids in Norway. In April 1942 the whole unit was scheduled to take part in Operation Myrmidon, in France, but this raid was eventually cancelled.
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Lorne MacLaine Campbell was born on 22 July 1902 in Airds, Argyll, Scotland, the eldest of three sons of Colonel Ian Maxwell Campbell and Hilda Mary Wade. He was schooled at the Dulwich College Preparatory School, and then at Dulwich College in South London between 1915 and 1921 (as was his uncle and fellow recipient of the Victoria Cross, Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell). Between 1921 and 1925 he attended Merton College, Oxford, where he was President of the Junior Common Room and of the Myrmidon Club and graduated with a second class degree in Literae Humaniores.
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This mission is not successful: on entry, the team discovers that the stronghold stretches underground, allowing for the unforeseen presence of creatures. The team's Deceptors run out prematurely as they discover a Myrmidon barracks, and they escape with a conch-shaped Overlord device called a Thinker, but without Drum who, having been winded, stays behind to fight. It is presumed by the rest of the team that he is killed. On return to the Sub, however, Gold-Eye has a vision in which he sees Drum being stored temporarily in the Meat Factory, indicating that Drum is still alive.
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He steadily rose through the ranks until reaching the rank of commander on 1814. In 1818, while in command of HMS Myrmidon he captured a Portuguese slave-vessel, and freed Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who later became Bishop of Niger.Royal Naval Museum: Sir Henry Leeke He was given command of HMS Queen, in which he served as flag-captain to Admiral Sir John West, in 1845 and of HMS San Josef in 1847 and, having been promoted to rear admiral in 1854, he became Third Naval Lord in 1859. His promotion to vice- admiral came in 1860, and to admiral in 1864.
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Nevertheless, the decision was made to continue with the raid, although it was eventually called off when the naval commander was unable to locate the fjord upon which Florø was located due to navigational difficulties. Later in the month, on 27 December, No. 6 Commando provided a small detachment of engineers to support No. 3 Commando's raid on Vågsøy and Måløy in Norway as part of Operation Archery.Saunders 1959, p. 45. The raid proved a resounding success; however, No. 6 Commando did not participate in another until April 1942 when it took part in Operation Myrmidon.
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The first 6 ships were ordered from commercial yards (Money Wigram & Son, C J Mare & Co and J Scott Russell), with fitting out to be done in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham (first pair) and Woolwich (last 4). A further batch of 4 ships (Sylvia - Myrmidon) were ordered on 5 March 1860 and another batch of 3 (Pegasus - Guernsey) on 25 March 1862. The first completed ships had a draught of , exceeding the intended by a considerable margin. Since gunvessels were intended to work in shallow water while bombarding the shore, work on the later two batches was suspended.
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There are a number of different characters or archetypes planned for the game consisting of a mixture of humans, demi-humans and animal- hybrids. The archetypes include Champion (melee dps), Ranger (specialist), Druid (support), Confessor (ranged dps), Knight (tank), Templar (tank), Forgemaster (specialist), Frostweaver (ranged dps), Assassin (specialist), Myrmidon (tank), Legionnaire (support), Duelist (specialist) and Stalker (ranged dps). At the start of a campaign (this is the MMORTS part), players will spawn in the newly created world during spring, filled with villages, mines, gatherable resources, and ruins. The world map is clouded by fog, meaning players will have to explore to discover its geography.
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Manhunter: Science Fiction-Fantasy Role Playing Game was designed by Ramon P. Moore, with art by Jerry Bingham, and published by Kingslayer Productions in 1988 as a 72-page book with a cardstock screen. A second edition was published in 1990 as a 112-page book. Rifts: Manhunter: A Megaverse Sourcebook was written by Buck Shomo based on Ramon P. Moore's concept, with cover art by Jerry Bingham, and published by Myrmidon Press in 1994 as a 196-page book. This book uses the Megaversal System published by Palladium Books and is designed to be used as supplemental material within the Rifts role-playing game.
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The novel is set in Penang. It concerns Philip Hutton, of mixed Chinese-English heritage, and his relationship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat who teaches him aikido. As war looms and the Japanese invade, both Endo and Philip find themselves torn between their loyalty to each other, versus loyalty to their country and family, respectively. Philip decides to assist the Japanese and Endo in administering the country in an attempt to keep his family safe, but wherever possible, he passes intelligence to the guerrilla fighters of Force 136,The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, Myrmidon p/b edition, page 207 which include his best friend Kon.
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However, Rick is severely injured during the mission and never returns. ;Sam Allen Sam is supposedly captured at least nine years before the novel begins, after leaving the Sub in anger at Shade's ruthlessness. He is used in one of the elite Myrmidon guards that belong to no particular Overlord, which are ordered to drown Gold-Eye and Ninde near the end of the book. When the Change Projector is destroyed, the device controlling his brain is disabled, giving him a few moments of humanity during which he recites a small poem in English and tells Gold-Eye that he was once Sam Allen; after this, he falls into the water and dies due to the lack of Projector radiation energy.
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Ant ("Another Neat Tool") was conceived by James Duncan Davidson while preparing Sun Microsystems's reference JSP and Servlet engine, later Apache Tomcat, for release as open-source. A proprietary version of Make was used to build it on the Solaris platform, but in the open-source world, there was no way of controlling which platform was used to build Tomcat; so Ant was created as a simple platform-independent tool to build Tomcat from directives in an XML "build file". Ant (version 1.1) was officially released as a stand-alone product on July 19, 2000. Several proposals for an Ant version 2 have been made, such as AntEater by James Duncan Davidson, Myrmidon by Peter Donald and Mutant by Conor MacNeill, none of which were able to find large acceptance with the developer community.
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M. Alexander Jurkat is an attorney who gave George Vasilakos the idea to license the property of a small press roleplaying game called Battlelords of the 23rd Century (1990) that Jurkat had worked on, the result of which was published as the Battlelords CCG (1995) through Vasilakos' New Millennium Entertainment. New Millennium went out of business after being unable to deal with its CCG-related debts, and on July 4, 1997, Vasilakos and Jurkat—together with investor Ed Healy—announced that they had formed the new gaming company, Eden Studios; they also acquired the rights to Conspiracy X from their former New Millennium Entertainment partners to continue the line. Vasilakos and Jurkat were fans of C.J. Carella's work, and in July 1998 they announced an exclusive license to Carella's WitchCraft and Armageddon role-playing games, previously published by small-press roleplaying company Myrmidon Press. Eden Studios arranged a deal with Steve Jackson Games to produce GURPS Conspiracy X (2002), which was authored by Jurkat.
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Stamp series on Rumpelstilzchen from the Deutsche Post of the GDR, 1976 The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures: Tom Tit Tot in England (from English Fairy Tales, 1890, by Joseph Jacobs); The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts in Ireland (from The Fireside Stories of Ireland, 1870 by Patrick Kennedy); Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland (from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1826); Gilitrutt in Iceland;Grímsson, Magnús; Árnason, Jon. Íslensk ævintýri. Reykjavik: 1852. pp. 123-126. جعيدان (Joaidane "He who talks too much") in Arabic; Хламушка (Khlamushka "Junker") in Russia; Rumplcimprcampr, Rampelník or Martin Zvonek in the Czech Republic; Martinko Klingáč in Slovakia; "Cvilidreta" in Croatia; Ruidoquedito ("Little noise") in South America; Pancimanci in Hungary (from A Csodafurulya, 1955, by Emil Kolozsvári Grandpierre, based on the 19th century folktale collection by László Arany); Daiku to Oniroku (大工と鬼六 "A carpenter and the ogre") in Japan and Myrmidon in France.
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Achilles and Patroclus are close comrades in the fight against the Trojans. Due to his anger at being dishonored by Agamemnon, Achilles chooses not to participate in the battle. As the tide of the war turns against the Achaeans, Patroclus convinces Achilles to let him lead the Myrmidon army into battle wearing Achilles’ armor. Patroclus succeeds in beating back the Trojan forces, but is killed in battle by Hector. News of Patroclus’ death reaches Achilles through Antilochus, which throws him into deep grief. The earlier steadfast and unbreakable Achilles agonizes, touching Patroclus’ dead body, smearing himself with ash and fasting. He laments Patroclus’ death using language very similar to that later used by Andromache of Hector. He also requests that when he dies, his ashes be mixed with Patroclus'. The rage that follows from Patroclus’ death becomes the prime motivation for Achilles to return to the battlefield. He returns to battle with the sole aim of avenging Patroclus’ death by killing Hector, despite a warning that doing so would cost him his life.
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When Stuart Saunders Smith chose the title "Links" for his ongoing series of compositions for vibraphone, he provided us with the most suggestive mode of biographical entry and subsequent inquiry, for his links are not only intra- and inter- compositional, but between and among his vocations as composer, performer, teacher, writer, anthologist, editor, entrepreneur, philomath, and musical activist. When as a young man from Maine he ventured out into our hypercompartmentalized, ultrapluristic compositional society, he was disposed to be no one's myrmidon, and so his music has displayed no more the explicit influences of the succession of strong-willed composition teachers with whom he studied and from whom he surely learned than that of jazz which he professes to be (or, at least, to have been) his primary musical influence. For he has forged a personalized seamless musical compound, a vast collection of awarenesses fused into a unified, single, and singular vision in which the individual sources retain little of their literal characteristics. (Milton Babbitt – quoted in Welsh, "The Music of Stuart Saunders Smith") Stuart Saunders Smith has done very important and unique work in the fields of open- form composition and jazz.
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