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10 unusual facts about Argonauts


Aleksandre Basilaia

Basilaia was a principal composer and an art manager for Iveria which quickly gained popularity for its fusion of pop, rock and jazz with traditional Georgian music and attained to Soviet-wide fame with its musicals The Wedding of Jays (1980) and The Argonauts (1982).

Geoffrey Gaimar

To be clear, Gaimar did not create two separate and distinct chronicles, and the two estoires were merely the former and latter sections of a long running history starting from the Argonauts' quest of the golden fleece to the reign of William II "Rufus" (d. 1100) that Gaimar set out to write.

Hylas Yachts

He branded them Hylas after a Greek mythological youth associated with Hercules and the cruise of the Argonauts.

Josef Petersen

As the only Danish writer he thrice won Olympic silver medals of art for his prose-lyric tales with Antique Greek athletic motives Euryale (1924), Argonauterne (Eng. The Argonauts) (1932) and Den Olympiske Mester (eng. The Olympic Champion) (1948).

Space Battleship Yamato

In the English Star Blazers dub, the ship is noted as being the historical Yamato, but is then renamed the Argo (after the ship of Jason and the Argonauts).

The Hollowing

In addition to introducing Native American culture into Ryhope wood, mythagos about Jack (as in Jack and the Beanstalk), the Tower of Babel and Jason and the Argonauts appear, the last two of which involve variations on myths that are uncharacteristically non-English in origin.

Trojan Yachts

It was named, after the mythological Greek heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece, the Argonaut.

West Florida Argonauts

UWF's official mascot is the Argonaut, a mythical group of Greek sailors, who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece.

Women in the California Gold Rush

Most of the male Argonauts had originally planned on getting their gold and returning home to rejoin their families and enjoy their new riches.

Youth Argosy

Student travelers with the organization were referred to as 'Argonauts', although etymologically 'argosy' has no relation to Jason and the Argonauts.


1970 CFL Draft

The respective General Managers made the selections for all teams except the Toronto Argonauts, for whom Head Coach Leo Cahill made the picks.

1979 CFL Draft

37. Toronto Argonauts Mark Forsyth DB Wilfrid Laurier

1981 CFL Draft

Toronto Argonauts Dan Ferrone G Simon Fraser

Alectryon

Alector, father of one of the Argonauts, referred to by Homer as "Alectryon"

Boreads

Their death was said to be caused by Heracles on Tenos in revenge for when they convinced the Argonauts to leave him behind as he searched for Hylas.

Chicago Cardinals–Toronto Argonauts exhibition game

The Chicago Cardinals–Toronto Argonauts exhibition game of August 5, 1959 was the inaugural game of Toronto's Exhibition Stadium and the first game a National Football League team played in the city.

Clifford Ivory

He once shared the Argonauts' record for most interceptions returned for touchdowns with 5 along with Ed Berry and Adrion Smith, before Byron Parker broke the record with his 6th interception return for a touchdown in 2007.

Eagle Day

When he left the Stampeders, he joined the Toronto Argonauts (the first of two Ole Miss stars to play quarterback for Toronto, the other being Kent Austin in 1995).

Ferrone

Dan Ferrone (born April 3, 1958, in Oakville, Ontario) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1981 to 1992.

Georgian folk medicine

Classical Greek mythology suggests that ancient Kolkhs (Colchis people) had practiced somewhat highly developed medicine that must have impressed the Mycenaean Greek travelers at the time.

Gerry Dattilio

The next season he was released by the Argonauts, rejoined the Alouettes, and served as the third string quarterback behind Sonny Wade and Joe Barnes.

Jason

Jason appeared in the Hercules episode "Hercules and the Argonauts" voiced by William Shatner.

Jason et Médée

As early as 1454 however, the myth was presented as a dumb show in Lille, and, in 1489, the dancing master Bergonzio di Botta of Tortona adapted the tale of the Argonauts to a version that then became a model for subsequent danced entries in a variety of styles and tastes.

Justin Medlock

On August 14, 2009, Medlock scored seven field goals, tying Lance Chomyc's Argonauts single-game team record and just short of the league record of eight shared by Dave Ridgway, Mark McLoughlin, and Paul Osbaldiston.

P. K. Sam

On May 19, 2011 Sam was traded back to the Toronto Argonauts, along with defensive lineman Miguel Robede, for wide receiver Reggie McNeal and defensive lineman Adrian Davis.

Peisander of Laranda

Among the extant fragments there is mention of Io, Cadmus and the Argonauts, but the most significant fragment is the testimony of Macrobius that states that Peisander's history of the world began from the marriage of Zeus and Hera.

Ruth Park

When contracted in 1942 by Ida Elizabeth Osbourne to write a serial for the ABC Children's Session, she wrote the series The Wide-awake Bunyip.

Teddy Morris

In 1940, the year following his last game as a player, Morris began as a backfield coach for the Argonauts then, during IRFU's break from playing during the Second World War, coached the HMCS York Navy football team, and upon IRFU's return to play in 1945, became Argonauts head coach earning three consecutive Grey Cups from 1945 to 1947 and respect from fans and players alike.

Tyler Holmes

He was drafted by the Argonauts seventh overall in the first round of the 2011 CFL Draft, however, after playing out his college eligibility, he played for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League for the 2012 season.

VFA-147

In May 1998 the Argonauts conducted a wholesale swap of their Lot XVI Hornets for Lot XI Hornets from VFA-195.

Willie Pile

Pile played in 17 games in the 2007 season and finished 3rd on the Argonauts in tackles with 76 tackles.