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unusual facts about HMCS ''Niobe''



Balance puzzle

Niobe, the protagonist of Piers Anthony's novel With a Tangled Skein, must solve the twelve-coin variation of this puzzle to find her son in Hell: Satan has disguised the son to look identical to eleven other demons, and he is heavier or lighter depending on whether he is cursed to lie or able to speak truthfully.

Beatrice Helen Worsley

After graduation, she enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service and, after basic training, was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and assigned to the shore–base HMCS Stadacona where she was engaged on research in Degaussing techniques, to protect ships from Magnetic mines.

CSS Acadia

CSS Acadia was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy in January 1917 as a patrol vessel, replacing the CSS prefix with HMCS, thus becoming HMCS Acadia.

Diane Van Deren

She was featured in the 2012 CBC documentary "The Perfect Runner" directed by documentary filmmaker Niobe Thompson for the Canadian television series "The Nature of Things".

Éric Mercier

Mercier was Divisional Officer at Department of Education at the Naval Unit HMCS Montcalm in Quebec in 2002 and 2003.

HMCS Acadia

HMCS Acadia (II) is a cadet summer training centre operated by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets that has used the unit name Acadia from 1956–present.

Hyman Kaplan

Mrs Sadie Moskowitz, characterized by Mr Parkhill as "the Niobe of the beginners' grade", a large, lugubrious middle-aged lady who is baffled by the English language and spends much of the time asleep, waking only to punctuate a particularly intimidating fact with a despairing exclamation of "Oy!"

Indira Varma

Varma has had a number of television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1997 and Bride and Prejudice in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the first season of BBC/HBO's historical drama series Rome.

Kalends of February

As Vorenus is leaving to respond to a summons by Caesar, Niobe wraps a small bundle of ashes from the family shrine in cloth, and tucks it in Vorenus' toga whispering, "Juno protect you." Juno was the Roman incarnation of the Greek goddess Hera, goddess of marriage and family bonds.

Lydians

Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and Dione and sister of Pelops and Broteas, had known Arachne, a Lydian woman, when she was still in Lydia/Maeonia in her father's lands near to Mount Sipylus, according to Ovid's account.

Naval Museum of Halifax

Highlights include the original bell and a large display of artifacts from HMCS Niobe, the first flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy, as well as a display of ship's bells and christening bells spanning the history of the Canadian Navy.

SMS Niobe

On 19 December, Niobe ran aground on the island of Silba.

William Landymore

Landymore was posted to the C-class destroyer HMCS Fraser in 1940 and survived her sinking after she collided with cruiser HMS Calcutta in the Gironde estuary.

With a Tangled Skein

Although Niobe at first hates being married to a "child", Cedric's good nature, kind heartedness, and desire to make his wife happy and safe win her over, and she soon falls madly in love with her husband.

Niobe agrees to become one of the three aspects of the incarnation of Fate, in an attempt to thwart the plans of Satan.


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