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10 unusual facts about Eros


A585 road

Broadwater Roundabout is surmounted by a statue of Eros, a copy of that standing in Piccadilly Circus, London.

Agde

The symbol of the city, the bronze Ephebe of Agde, of the 4th century BCE, recovered from the fluvial sands of the Hérault, was joined in December 2001 by two Early Imperial Roman bronzes, of a child and of Eros, which had doubtless been on their way to a villa in Gallia Narbonensis when they were lost in a shipwreck.

Aurelia Paulina

Over the large arch of the nymphaeum, there is a pediment with a relief of a distinctively feminine symbolism depicting the deities Eros, Artemis and Dionysus.

Bruno–Pyatt High School

It is the one of three high schools administered by the Ozark Mountain School District and the district's only high school in Marion County, Arkansas while supporting the rural communities of Bruno, Pyatt, Everton, and Eros.

Erös

Reinhard Erös (b. 1948), a medical doctor and former Colonel of the German army

Annette Erös, née Hofmann, a female German teacher for mathematics and history

Eros, Louisiana

Mrs. Pearl Collins suggested that the sawmill boomtown be named after the 433 Eros Asteroid (discovered in 1898).

Former Louisiana State University president James Monroe Smith taught at Eros High School in the 1911-1912 academic year.

Palace of Lausus

Lausus is also known to have owned the Hera of Samos and the Athena of Lindos, as well as statues of both Eros and Kairos.

Parc del Laberint d'Horta

At the entrance of the labyrinth there is a marble bas-relief depicting Ariadne and Theseus and, in the centre, a statue of god Eros.


Abelard Snazz

Snazz brings the “Gods Revival’” to Ursa Minor, where he introduces to the inhabitants the gods’ new roles, including Ares as the God of Space Invaders Machines, Demeter as the Goddess of Health Food Stores, Apollo as the Disco God, and Eros as the God of Popular Romantic Fiction.

ADI 3510

Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, Carmen Lúcia Antunes Rocha, Cezar Peluso, Ellen Gracie Northfleet, Enrique Ricardo Lewandowski, Eros Grau, Joaquim Barbosa, José Celso de Mello, Marco Aurélio Mello

Dig Allen Space Explorer

The setting centers on the asteroid Eros, which is discovered to be an immense alien spacecraft.

Dominic Walsh Dance Theater

In 1998, he created Flames of Eros when Ben Stevenson invited him to choreograph on Houston Ballet, his work winning him the Choo San Goh Award for Choreography.

Eros e Priapo

Eros e Priapo: da furore a cenere is a 1945 satiric pamphlet by Italian author Carlo Emilio Gadda.

Gerald Archie Mangun

He preached at many revivals in small towns in Louisiana such as Starks, Clarks, Eros, and Hodge.

Knucklebones

According to a still more ancient tradition Zeus, perceiving that Ganymede longed for his playmates upon Mount Ida, gave him Eros for a companion and golden dibs with which to play, and even condescended sometimes to join in the game (Apollonius).

Landsat 7

This operation was successful, and on September 5, 2003, the ETM+ instrument was turned on and acquired data that was sent to the Landsat ground system at EROS outside of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Like an Angel Passing Through My Room

The designer of the album sleeve for The Visitors, Rune Söderqvist, was partly inspired by this song's theme when he conceived the idea of photographing the group standing before Julius Kronberg's painting of an angelic-looking Eros.

Marc Levinthal

Levinthal's SF/horror fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines including Mondo Zombie, Eros Ex Machina and Aboriginal Science Fiction, and (with John Skipp) Dark Destiny II and III, and In the Shadow of the Gargoyle.

NEAR Shoemaker

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

Nizip

In excavation sites, valuable mosaics have been found, including those of Triton, Dionysos' Wedding, Poseidon, Perseus, Gypsy Girl or Gaia, Dolphin and Eros, Physke, Akhilleus, Aphrodite's Birth, the God of Euphrates, and Europa.

Northwest Africa 3009

Like all L chondrites NWA 3009 probably comes from the asteroid Eros which may have collided millions of years ago with another fragment in the asteroid belt.

Pierre de Bréville

Éros vainqueur (Eros, Conqueror), Lyric Opera in 3 acts, 4 scenes (1905); libretto by Jean Lorrain; first performance 7 March 1910, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels (with Claire Croiza in the title role)

Right Yaaa Wrong

This film was shot in Film City and released on 12 March 2010, under the banner of Eros.

Rodney Gordon

In 1959 he was introduced to Owen Luder by a colleague from the LCC and by the end of the year he was working for him in the Owen Luder Partnership for which he designed the Eros House.

Roman ruins of Villa Cardillio

The ruins were first excavated in 1962, yielding hundreds of coins and well as ceramics, bronze works, Assyrian and Egyptian glass works, as well as some jewellery and a statue of Eros.

Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

The meeting did not end with a decision, however, five candidates were narrowed down: Serebro, Gorod 312, Band'Eros, Zveri and Aleksandr Panayotov and Alexey Chumakov.

Sacha Zaliouk

Although always painting, he supported his family in the post war years by working as a humoristic illustrator for French magazines – usually with a sexual theme – such as Fantasio, Sourire, Le Journal Amusant, Eros, and especially La Vie Parisienne.

Sofia Constantinas

Although temporarily delayed by Dr. Cyber, who was impersonating Diana Prince, Sofia eventually led Wonder Woman, Steve, and the love-god Eros to learn of the previous lives of Steve Trevor.

Stroker Serpentine

Near the weekend of July 4, 2007, Alderman's company Eros LLC filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Second Life avatar named Volkov Catteno, temporarily named "John Doe" in court documents, for copying and reselling his virtual SexGen beds.

The Art of Unix Programming

The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by contrasting it to other operating systems including desktop-oriented ones such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS to ones with research roots such as EROS and Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

The Power of Myth

The Troubadours, Eros, romantic love, Tristan, libido vs. credo, separation from love, Satan, loving your enemy, the Crucifixion as atonement, virgin birth, the story of Isis, Osiris and Horus, the Madonna, the Big Bang, the correlation between the earth or mother Goddess and images of fertility (the sacred feminine).

Wouter Hanegraaff

(ed. with Jeffrey J. Kripal), Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism.