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5 unusual facts about Aeolus


Aeolus Railroad Car

One of the early experiments in railroad cars, the yachtlike Aeolus, named in honor of Aeolus from mythology, was designed to sail before the wind.

Aeolus Ridge

Named in 1987 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Aeolus, the Greek god of wind, in reference to prevailing weather encountered here by British Antarctic Survey parties.

Mount Eolus

Named after the Greek god of the wind, the mountain was originally referred to as "Aeolus" in the 1874 Hayden Survey.

The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf

A Smurf asks Papa Smurf who gave him the magic weather vane, and he answers it was a certain Aeolus.

Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205

However, she fears that Aeolus (bass) could ruin the celebrations with heavy storms in August.


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Cymothoe

Cymothoe, one of the Nereids, known for helping Aeneas retrieve his ships, along with Triton, after Aeolus buffeted his fleet on the orders of Juno

David A. Eklund

In response to this opportunity, Eklund, along with Peter A. Appel, formed the Bermuda based reinsurer Aeolus Re to write property catastrophe business.

Hellen

According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, his sons were themselves progenitors of primary tribes of Greece: Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the Dorians, and Xuthus the Achaeans and Ionians through his sons Achaeus and Ion.

SS City of Los Angeles

SS City of Los Angeles (1922), sailed under this name from 1922 until scrapped in 1937; formerly USS Aeolus (ID-3005) for the United States Navy in World War I and SS Grosser Kurfürst for Norddeutscher Lloyd before that.


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