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Hercules' Club

Aralia spinosa (also called angelica tree, devil's walking stick, prickly ash)

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (also called pepperwood, Southern prickly ash)


189th

189th Airlift Squadron, a unit of the Idaho Air National Guard that flies the C-130 Hercules

2009 California mid-air collision

At 19:10 local time on 29 October 2009 (02:10 on 30 October UTC), a Lockheed C-130H Hercules aircraft of the United States Coast Guard was involved in a mid-air collision with a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter of the United States Marine Corps.

A Lecture on Modern Poetry

A Lecture on Modern Poetry was a paper by T. E. Hulme which was read to the Poets' Club around the end of 1908.

Abraham Paz

On 16 July 2013, aged 34, he moved abroad for the very first time, signing a two-year contract with Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin FC – he had just been banned from playing in his country while investigations were carried out to determine whether or not he was involved in match-fixing when he represented Hércules.

Alex Kurtzman

Kurtzman first teamed with Orci on television on the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

Bianor

The genus name is derived from Bianor, the mythical son of Hercules.

Boeing 377

:In the early 1960s the Israeli Air Force wanted to upgrade to the C-130 Hercules which could lift larger payloads, but it was expensive and sales were embargoed by the United States.

Car numberplate game

This game plays a large role in Richard Herring's stand-up show, Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace.

Cave of Echoes

Like the "clip movie" Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur, the fight with the hydra in Hercules and the Amazon Women would not be remembered by Iolaus because Hercules had Zeus turn back time.

Caves of Hercules, Tanger

It is also believed that Hercules stayed and slept in this cave before doing his 11th labour, which was to get golden apples from the Hesperides Garden, which some ancient Greek writers said was located nearby at Lixus (ancient city).

CITER 155mm L33 Gun

A total 4 guns were captured by the British, these were flown in via Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules during the conflict last weeks in order to repel British naval gun fire.

Clarendon, New South Wales

During the Vietnam War Logistic support and medical evacuations were supplied by the Hercules from RAAF Richmond.

Diego de Pesquera

He also worked on non-sacred themes, in 1574 producing sculptures of Julius Caesar and Hercules for La Alameda.

Dousman

Dousman Hotel, a hotel in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin named for Hercules L. Dousman

Dynamite

Other American dynamite makers of that time period included the Hercules Corporation, Atlas, Trojan-US Powder, Austin, and several other smaller firms.

Edward Wingfield, 2nd Viscount Powerscourt

Wingfield was the son of Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, by Dorothy Beresford Rowley, daughter of Hercules Rowley, of Summerhill, County Meath.

Elaine Mardis

Prior to joining the Washington University faculty, she was a senior research scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories in Hercules, California.

Eton Manor

In 1909 four Old Etonian philanthropists founded Eton Manor Boys' Club to provide sporting facilities in the Hackney area, purchasing the former Manor Farm in 1913.

Florian Trimpl

His win in the qualifying heats of that tournament in the Hercules Hold event, in a group containing Mark Felix who has a claim to having the strongest grip in the world, is the achievement he has stated he is most proud of.

Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße

Near the Hochtor, Celtic and Roman coins have been found, and the highest European sanctuary with a small statue of Hercules.

Hercules and the Circle of Fire

The man tells Hercules that they are all men from his village and that the witch who guards the Fountain of Youth killed them for their youth and strength.

Hercules InColor Card

The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) was an IBM PC compatible graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. After the success of the monochrome Hercules Graphics Card which gained wide developer support, the market was changing with the release of new colour cards which were becoming increasingly affordable.

Hercules Transit Center

The transit center is a pulse (a timed and synchronized) transfer point for various local feeder bus lines from the adjacent areas of Hercules, Pinole, Rodeo, the northern Hilltop area of Richmond, Bayview-Montalvin, and Tara Hills.

Hercules: The Thracian Wars

-- The official title of this film is Hercules, not Hercules: The Thracian Wars --> is an upcoming American action-adventure film, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Reece Ritchie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Joseph Fiennes, and John Hurt.

Hugh Lygon

He was a friend of Waugh's at Oxford (A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers), where both were members of the Hypocrites' Club.

Indian Naval Air Arm

In the very next year (1961), INS Vikrant (formerly HMS Hercules) was acquired by the Indian Navy.

Jan-Christian Hansche

A series of rooms on the ground floor is decorated with scenes from the life of Hercules, while the apartment on the first floor follows the theme of the four seasons.

Jasper Heywood

Jasper Heywood, SJ (1535 – 9 January 1598) was the English translator of three Latin plays of Seneca, the Troas (1559), the Thyestes (1560) and Hercules Furens (1561), and a Jesuit missionary.

Jegenstorf Castle

In the first upper story, the so-called Herkulessaal (Hercules hall) is decorated with a statue of Hercules battling the Hydra from the 17th century.

José Roberto Figueroa

José Roberto Figueroa Padilla, also known as Macho, (born 15 December 1959 in Coyoles, Olanchito) is a retired Honduran footballer who played as a forward, in Honduras for Motagua, Vida and in Spain for Real Murcia and Hércules.

Kathleen Freeman

In later years, Freeman also worked extensively as a voice actress, playing Ma Crackshell on DuckTales, a Theban woman in Disney's Hercules, a matriarchal criminal called "Ma Mayhem" in the series Batman Beyond in the episode "The Eggbaby", and fortune teller Madame Xima in the video game Curse of Monkey Island.

Kehlen

A monument to the four gods depicting Juno, Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, possibly once the base of a Jupiter Column, was discovered on the heights of Schoenberg at the point where two Roman roads once crossed.

La Condamine

The yacht belonging to the Prince of Monaco is usually berthed in La Condamine's large harbour, the Port of Hercules.

Manchester Wheelers' Club

They were world famous, attracting Olympic, World and National Champions from around the world including Tom Simpson, Cyril Peacock, Patrick Sercu, Sid Patterson, Arie van Vliet, Mario Ghella, Russell Mockridge and Jef Scherens.

Manmohan Ghose

During this time in London Ghose met many other members of the "Rhymers' Club" set such as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, who were both very fond of him.

Martin AN/TSQ-8 Coordinate Data Set

Firing Unit Integration Facilities had been replaced when the Improved Nike Hercules ground system (Western Electric System 1393 Radar Course Directing Central) was deployed and included an internal automated data link.

Norma Ray

Norma has sung the French versions of songs on the soundtracks of French dubbed American films, including Sister Act 1 & 2, Lion King, Hercules etc.

Nude per l'assassino

Writing for The A.V. Club, Noel Murray compared the film to Sergio Martino's 1972 film Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave), noting that "both take place among the idle European aristocracy, with vapid models, rugged motocross drivers, bigoted executives, and debauched artists wandering through a world of soft fabrics and bloody, gashed skin".

Perry Link

After roughly one hour, he was allowed to enter Hong Kong, where he spoke at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.

Poets' Club

The Club produced several anthologies; the first two being — For Christmas MDCCCCVIII (January 1909) and The Book of the Poets' Club (December 1909).

Ptolemy of Mauretania

Ptolemy’s parents descended from backgrounds that had strong endemic traditions in claiming their descent from Hercules (see Heracleidae).

Purple House Press

Its catalog also contains books such as The Mad Scientists' Club series by Bertrand R. Brinley, Pickle-Chiffon Pie and more by Jolly Roger Bradfield,Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zor-Noom, by Paul Fenimore Cooper, and Mr. Bear Squash-You-All-Flat, by Morrell Gipson.

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.

Saint-Savin, Hautes-Pyrénées

In the ancient past, Hercules visited the area, and fell in love with a beautiful girl named Pyrene, who happened to be a daughter of the King of Cerdagne.

Social club

There are many examples of private social clubs including the University Club of Chicago, The Mansion on O Street in D.C., Penn Club of New York City and New York Friars' Club.

St James's Club

The club was founded in 1857 by the Liberal statesman the second Earl Granville and by the Marchese d'Azeglio, Minister of Sardinia to the Court of St. James's, after a dispute at the Travellers' Club.

The 1 in 12 Club

The 1 in 12 Club refers to both a members' club and the building in which it is based, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

The Mad Scientists' Club

A two-part episode in 1971 of the TV series Wonderful World of Disney was loosely based on "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake".

Urban park

Some early parks include the la Alameda de Hércules, in Seville, a promenaded public mall, urban garden and park built in 1574, within the historic center of Seville; the City Park, in Budapest, Hungary, which was property of the Batthyány family and was later made public.

ZF Sachs

In the early 1970s, Sachs produced the revolutionary Wankel rotary engine powered Hercules motorcycle.


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