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4 unusual facts about Chiron


1933 French Grand Prix

Taruffi and Zehender from the third row of the grid, were in third and fourth, respectively, followed by Chiron and Étancelin, who had both made significant gains in the early stages.

The Centaur

George is both the Centaur Chiron and Prometheus (some readers might see George's son Peter as Prometheus), Mr. Hummel, the automobile mechanic, is Hephaestus (AKA Vulcan); and so forth.

The Hierophant

In the Mythic Tarot deck, the Hierophant is depicted as Chiron, the learned centaur.

Wounded healer

In Greek mythology, the centaur Chiron was a "Wounded Healer", after being poisoned with an incurable wound by one of Hercules's arrows.


1958 Monaco Grand Prix

The Monaco local had won the Grand Prix 27 years earlier but Chiron and his Maserati 250F did not make it past qualifying.

Actaeon beetle

The species name actaeon derives from the name Actaeon of a famous Theban hero, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, trained by the centaur Chiron.

Alfa Romeo P3

Louis Chiron won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery, whilst the German Silver Arrows dominated the other four rounds of the European Championship.

Ambasada Gavioli

The AG management used to receive weekly ideological feeds from Chiron Morpheus, which were used as flyers and repurposed in the club’s programming by Valentino Kanzyani’s AG Music Direction department, MC Flasher’s AG Performance & Outreach division, Denis Papic’s AG Ministry of Information.

Avi Wallerstein

Wallerstein is one of 14 surgeons in North America with the designation to teach LASIK by the developers of the first LASIK microkeratome (Chiron), and one of the first surgeons in North America to use Bausch & Lomb's Technolas 217 laser and Hansatome Keratome.

Bugatti 18/3 Chiron

The Chiron 18/3 is named after Bugatti race driver Louis Chiron.

Bugatti named the Chiron in honor of Bugatti racing driver Louis Chiron.

Hellé Nice

No facts on Chiron's accusation ever came to light and recent research by Miranda Seymour, author of Nice's biography published in 2004, could find nothing to substantiate such a charge.

Jean-Baptiste Regnault

His diploma picture, the Education of Achilles by Chiron, is now in the Louvre, as also the Christ taken down from the Cross, originally executed for the royal chapel at Fontainebleau, and two minor works – the Origin of Painting and Pygmalion praying Venus to give Life to his Statue.

Luigi Fagioli

In what is one of racing's most famous battles, Chiron eventually won but Fagioli showed how skilled he was in a car geared for great speed on long stretches, not the tight twists and short runs of Monte Carlo.

Shell Development Emeryville

Following Shell's 1972 departure from its Emeryville campus, its facilities languished briefly, then became an early home of biotechnology pioneers Cetus and Chiron.

Tonfa

Robert Paturel and Alain Formaggio, Tonfa sécurité, Chiron éditeur, 2001.


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