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20 unusual facts about HECToR


Angelica Kauffman

In its first catalogue of 1769 she appears with “R.A.” after her name (an honor she shared with one other woman, Mary Moser); and she contributed the Interview of Hector and Andromache, and three other classical compositions.

Anxiety dream

Anxiety dreams have a long tradition in (Western) literature, beginning with Homer, who describes in Book 12 of the Iliad how Achilles is unable to catch up with Hector, "As in a dream a man is not able to follow one who runs from him, nor can the runner escape, nor the other pursue him, so he could not run him down in his speed, nor the other get clear".

Cephalophore

Hector whirls in the air the severed head of Patroclus, which whispers "Ultor ubi Aeacides", "Where is Achilles Aeacides, my avenger?"

Clément Prinsault

# De ceulx qui premier trouvèrent armes (he names Alexander the Great and Hector as the first armigers)

French ship Andromaque

Seven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Andromaque in honour of Andromache, wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes.

Hector-class ironclad

Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer during this period when the Queen and her family, were in residence in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Héctor-Neri Castañeda

Born in San Vicente, Zacapa, Guatemala, he emigrated to the United States in 1948 and studied under Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in 1950 and M.A. in 1952.

One noted critic of Guise theory was Plantinga, who developed his own rival theory involving a realm of abstract objects.

Hector, Arkansas

The community was named for President Grover Cleveland's dog by the President himself when postal officials grew frustrated with the resident's indecision on whether to name the community Avondale or The Plain.

Hector, Minnesota

Hector, New York was named after the bravest of the ancient Trojan warriors whose story is an important part of Homer’s epic, “Iliad”.

HMS Hector

Eleven ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hector, named after the Trojan hero Hector in the Iliad.

Iphitos

In Book VIII of the Iliad, his son Archeptolemus suddenly becomes the charioteer of Hector when Eniopeus is killed by Diomedes.

Jesse Kaikuranta

The album was produced by Matti Mikkola and Eppu Kosonen and includes work by Aki Tykki, DJPP, Paula Vesala, Freeman and Hector.

Johan Ludwig Lund

In 1803-1804 he painted a large picture, "Andromache i Afmagt ved Synet af Hectors mishandlede Lig" ("Andromache, Powerless at the Sight of Hector’s Maligned Corpse") which was seized by English pirates in 1807 on its voyage to Denmark.

John of Brienne

After this last feat of arms, which has perhaps been exaggerated by the Latin chroniclers, who compare him to Hector, Roland and the Maccabees, John died in the habit of a Franciscan friar.

Milman Parry

For example "swift footed Achilles" can be seen as looking forward to Hector and Achilles' race around the walls of Troy.

Troy: Shield of Thunder

Shield of Thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the Silver Bow; the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.

Helikaon, King of Dardania, and his unfulfilled love for Andromache, now wife of Hektor, continues to be the central theme of this novel.

Vie mut kotiin

Matti Mikkola and Eppu Kosonen served as producers, while Saara Törmä, Hector, Freeman, Paula Vesala and Kaikuranta himself were among the songwriters.

Waikanae

The waters between Waikanae Beach and Kapiti Island are a marine reserve, and whales or Hector's dolphins are sometimes spotted on their migration routes through the narrow corridor.


Battle of Achnashellach

Hector Munro was also made constable of Strome Castle on behalf of the MacDonnells of Glengarry by King James V. Previously Ewen Cameron had been constable of Strome Castle for the MacDonalds of Lochalsh.

Battle of Piva Forks

The 3rd Marine Raiders also moved forward for support and the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment—under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hector de Zayas—moved behind the Numa Numa trail roadblock and was sporadically shelled by the Japanese using 90 mm mortars.

Charles Hector

Charles Hector (full name Charles Hector Fernandez, born in Temerloh on 4 July 1961) is a Malaysian Human Rights advocate and activist.

Classical piano in Cuba

One of his most important musical achievements has been a consistent research, performance and recording of the Cuban piano repertoire that include a long list of composers such as: Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona, Alejandro García Caturla, Harold Gramatges, José Ardévol, Edgardo Martín, Hilario González, Fabio Landa, Leo Brouwer, Carlos Fariñas, Héctor Angulo, Roberto Valera, Carlos Malcolm, Armando Rodriguez Ruidiaz and Juan Piñera.

Diego Rivarola

At the beginning of 2006, and after conflicts with then coach of the Universidad de Chile, Héctor Pinto, Rivarola signed with Argentinos Juniors, but failed to establish himself as part of the team's starting 11 and moved to the Venezuelan club UA Maracaibo few months later.

Dionysius I of Syracuse

He also posed as an author and patron of literature; his poems, severely criticized by Philoxenus, were hissed at the Olympic games; but having gained a prize for a tragedy on the Ransom of Hector at the Lenaea at Athens, he was so elated that he engaged in a debauch which proved fatal.

Eliseo Barrón

Hector Gonzalez Martinez, a Roman Catholic Archbishop in Durango, indicated that "El Chapo" Guzmán had made Durango his home and said Mexican authorities were doing nothing about it.

Estadio Gran Parque Central

The stadium has four main stands: Tribuna José María Delgado (North), Tribuna Atilio García (South), Tribuna Abdón Porte (West), Tribuna Héctor Scarone (East), named after famous Nacional players (like Atilio García, Abdón Porte and Héctor Scarone) and a chairman of the club (José María Delgado).

Euphrosine

Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra, translated by Jacques Barzun (University of Chicago Press, 1973; 1999 reprint)

Felipe Crespo

On June 7, 2001, Crespo hit two home runs for the Giants, while his brother César hit his first major league homer with the San Diego Padres, joining a select club that includes Aaron and Bret Boone, Héctor and José Cruz, Al and Tony Cuccinello, Dom and Joe DiMaggio, Graig and Jim Nettles, and Rick and Wes Ferrell.

Hector Bizerk

That summer also saw Hector appear at Wickerman Festival, Insider Festival, Go North, Eden, Doune The Rabbit Hole, Audio Soup, Live at Troon as well as headlining Oran Mor as part of Glasgow's West End Festival.

Héctor Buitrago

Hector Buitrago is the co-member of the multiple Grammy winning Colombian Latin alternative band Aterciopelados.

Hector Buitrago’s “Conector” (a play on words between the homophone con Héctor, "with Héctor", and the word “connector”), released in 2006, marks the first solo project by the Aterciopelados co-founder, following in the footsteps of Aterciopelados frontwoman Andrea Echeverri, whose debut solo album was released a year before.

Hector de Castro

Hector de Castro(1849 – January 30, 1909) was an Ottoman born American businessman and diplomat.

Héctor Fajardo

Héctor Fajardo Navarrete (born November 16, 1970, in Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico) is a former Mexican major league baseball player.

Hector Hanoteau

Hector Charles Auguste Octave Constance Hanoteau (25 May 1823 – 7 April 1890) was a French landscape painter born at Decize in Nièvre.

Héctor Hugo Eugui

Héctor Hugo Eugui Simoncelli (born February 18, 1947 in Mercedes, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player.

Hector Macpherson

Hector Macpherson, Jr. (born 1918), American dairy farmer and Oregon State Senate member from 1971 to 1974, son of Hector Macpherson, Sr.

Hector Munro Macdonald

Both of Hector Macdonald's parents, his mother Annie Munro and his father Donald Macdonald, were from Kiltearn.

Héctor Simón

Héctor Simón Escudero (born 13 March 1984 in Llançà, Girona, Catalonia) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Oviedo as an attacking midfielder.

Héctor Vilches

Héctor Vilches (born 14 February 1926) is a former Uruguayan footballer, who played for C.A. Cerro.

Héctor Zelada

Héctor Miguel Zelada Bertoqui (born April 30, 1957 in Maciel, Santa Fe) is a former Argentine football goalkeeper.

Jack-a-Boy

Through the Professor, allusions made are to Homer, Georg Autenrieth's A Homeric Dictionary, H. L. Ahrens's Griechische, Formenlehre, John Flaxman, The Trojan War, Harlequin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Artemis, John Keats, Rhesus of Thrace, Achilles, Patroclus, Aubrey Beardsley, Franz Schubert, Theseus, Centaur, Jack the Giant Killer, Golden Helen, Hector, Andromache.

John Garbh Maclean, 7th Laird of Coll

Hector Roy Maclean, The eldest son, Hector Roy, married Marian, daughter of Hector Maclean, 2nd Laird of Torloisk.

Kongsdal

In 1846, the estate became the inheritance of Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup from his father Hector Frederik Janson Estrup who was a landowner.

La Grande Bouffe

There they find the old caretaker, Hector, who has innocently prepared everything for the great feast, and a Chinese visitor who is there to offer a job to the magistrate in faraway China, which Philippe politely rejects with the phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes", quoting Virgil.

La Madrastra

She wants to find Patricia's real killer and confront Esteban, whom she now hates for abandoning her, but what she wishes for most is to have her children, Héctor (Mauricio Aspe) and Estrella (Ana Layevska), back.

Muzzle Tough

Granny, frightened at the sight, thinks the bear had been "playing 'possum for twenty years" and fires several pistol shots at Sylvester (a partial reference to The Fair-Haired Hare) before Hector chases him out again.

New Zealand State Highway 67

The road passes through alternating areas of farmland and temperate rainforest vegetation as it passes the settlements of Waimangaroa (turn right here for Denniston), Granity (turn right here for Millerton, Stockton and Stockton Mine), Ngakwau and Hector.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Panamericana Televisión

In 1963, Genaro and Héctor Delgado Parker, in association with Johnny E. Lindley, founded Radio Programas del Perú, a radio network, of which Manuel (the youngest of the three sons) was named manager.

Phillip Parotti

In this deft sequel, 10 less-famous Trojan officers get their chance to tell their stories, and speak freely about Troy’s major players, including Hector, Priam, and Polydamas.

Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón

The newspaper La Voz del Interior praised as well the work of the actors Victoria Carreras and Fito Yanelli as Isabel Perón and López Rega, and the striking similarity of Manuel Vicente with Héctor Cámpora.

Syd Nicholls

In 1927 a film called The Kid Stakes was produced by Tal Ordell, featuring Fatty Finn and his goat, Hector.

Tanquetazo

Other military officers involved in planning the putsch were René López, Edwin Ditmer, Héctor Bustamante, Mario Garay, Carlos Martínez, Raúl Jofre, and José Gasset.

The Book of Illusions

The Silent World of Hector Mann is an album by Duke Special inspired by the character Hector Mann with each song themselves based on a film each written by a different songwriter

The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore

The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore (German: Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena and Kitty Moran.

Thomas Anstis

On their southward course they encountered the Grand Caymans, where the Morning Star ran aground and, as the survivors were being rescued by the Good Fortune, the pirates were sighted and pursued by HMS Hector and HMS Adventure.

Transporte Urbano

Días chose a few young, Santo Domingo-based musicians for this project: Juan Francisco Ordóñez on electric guitar, Guy Frómeta on drums, Héctor Santana on bass (later replaced by Peter Nova), Bruno Ranson on sax and percussionist José Duluc.

Zits

Jeremy spends time restoring a 1962 Volkswagen Type 2 van with his best friend Hector Garcia, which they hope to drive across the country when they turn 16.