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3 unusual facts about Hydra


David Paich

A prolific writer of chart-performing songs, Paich wrote or co-wrote such tracks as "Hold the Line", "Lowdown", "Lido Shuffle", "Georgy Porgy", "Rosanna", "Hydra","Holyanna","Got To Be Real", and "Lady Love Me (One More Time)".

Hydra-class frigate

The first ship was built in Germany and commissioned in 1992 but suffered a serious fire while working up near Portland, England.

Hydra-Shok

Another bullet, referred to as FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) has a smooth, rounded tip designed for accuracy and penetration.


Anti-Partisan Guerrilla Warfare Badge

The sword's handle has a sun wheel swastika, with the blade plunged into the "Hydra", whose five heads represent the partisans.

BattleDragons

Each of the eight dragon races (Great, Mystic, Hydra, Wyvern, Basilisk, Wyrm, Feathered serpent, Bipedal) starts with a set number of creation points to spend on basic statistics, armor, weapons and other powers.

Bell AH-1 SuperCobra

Each wing has two other stations for 70 mm (2.75 in) Hydra rocket pods, or AGM-114 Hellfire quad missile launcher.

Bicho de Sete Cabeças

This is a reference to the Hydra from Greek mythology, a notoriously tough beast to slay.

C59

Caldwell 59 (NGC 3242, the Ghost of Jupiter), a planetary nebula in the constellation Hydra

Cave In

The band released a final six-song EP for Hydra Head titled Tides of Tomorrow, with an even further-expanded melodic approach, before moving on to RCA Records.

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.

Crypt Killer

Such bosses include Medusa, a large Pharaoh's head, a flying Sphinx, a Hindu God statue, a giant fire-breathing winged-rock monster and a Hydra.

Dave Pirner

In November 2013 it was announced that Pirner would be appearing as a guest vocalist on the upcoming Within Temptation album, "Hydra", on the track 'Whole World Is Watching'.

Elfonía

It was founded by Alejandro Millán and Marcela Bovio in 2001 following the leaving of their previous band, Hydra.

Garden Museum

On the east side of the tomb is carved the family arms, on the west side a skull and a seven-headed hydra, on the south side broken columns, Corinthian capitals, a pyramid and ruins, and on the north side shells, a crocodile, and a view of some Egyptian buildings.

Goodstein's theorem

Laurie Kirby and Jeff Paris gave an interpretation of the Goodstein's theorem as a hydra game: the "Hydra" is a rooted tree, and a move consists of cutting off one of its "heads" (a branch of the tree), to which the hydra responds by growing a finite number of new heads according to certain rules.

Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others

In the story Hellboy travels to Alaska in 1961, where he finds not only the grave of the recently deceased Hercules (who lived out the final years of his life in anonymity as a school janitor) but a monstrous hydra.

Hydra Engine

SweClockers.com, when testing the MSI Big Bang Fusion which features Hydra 200, gave it very poor ratings citing the following: Poor drivers, poor game support, small if any performance gain over a single video card, graphical artifacts, unstable gameplay and a high price tag.

Hydra Technologies Gavilán

The Gavilán was presented on June 10 of 2008 in San Diego, California by 'Hydra Technologies of Mexico' in AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) North America 2008, the biggest global expo of this particular industry in the world.

Hydra the Revenge

Hydra the Revenge (simply known as Hydra) is a steel Floorless Coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania (USA).

Jasper Sitwell

He would join with Dum Dum Dugan to form a mercenary paramilitary group, dubbed the Howling Commandos, that would engage H.A.M.M.E.R., HYDRA and its associate "Leviathan" program, alongside Nick Fury's Secret Warriors.

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.

Konstantinou kai Elenis

The show was mostly recorded at ANT1 studios in Athens, but the characters visited many areas inside and outside the city such as Arachova, Patmos and Hydra.

Marie de' Medici cycle

The many headed hydra struck a fatal blow by Divine Justice as witnessed by Divine Providence, a theme based on a classical seventeenth century metaphor for insurrection.

Marvel Mangaverse

Plot: Three years prior to the story Dr. Banner discovered the Negative Zone, a dimension which contains vast amounts of energy, and was tricked by the terrorist organization HYDRA into building "the Energy Well", a means of harvesting this energy, to power their weapon of mass destruction.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

This statue of Hercules slaying the Hydra of Lerna was originally in the castle of Vaudreuil, and was discovered, in 1882, by Adolphe-André Porée on the grounds of the Biéville-Beuville castle.

Nightmare Academy: Monster Revenge

They realize the Guardian has been poisoned, and that the only cure is the milk from a female Hydra.

Panayiotis Tetsis

Born in 1925 on the island of Hydra, where he spent his childhood and early teenage years, Tetsis moved to Piraeus in 1937 .

Perfect Pitch Black

The songs "Down the Drain" and "Droned" were originally released on Bootleg CD by Cave In during spring 2003, and "Trepanning" was originally released in 2004 on a SXSW Hydra Head sampler (demo version), a Daymare Recordings sampler and a Deathwish Inc. sampler.

Peter Lauterborn

The resolution is sponsored by Commissioners Kim-Shree Maufas, Eric Mar, and Hydra Mendoza.

Piraeus Prefecture

The prefecture covered the south-western part of the agglomeration of Athens, several islands in the Saronic Gulf (Salamis, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Dokos, Spetses, Spetsopoula), Methana and Troizina on the Peloponnese peninsula, and the islands of Kythira and Antikythera south of the Peloponnese.

Powermasters

Hydra (minor recoloring of Darkwing) - younger brother to Buster, Hydra is more gentle than his sibling.

Pride Comes Before a Brawl

While hiding out in the cave a Hydra appears, Hercules runs to help his friend, but Nemesis stops him saying, "Only Iolaus can redeem himself".

Pursuit of the Deadly Diamonds

The gang was likened to a hydra, and so far, the police only managed to get hold of the lowly footpads but had no inkling about the mastermind.

Red Terror

The first official announcement of Red Terror, published in Izvestiya, "Appeal to the Working Class" on 3 September 1918 called for the workers to "crush the hydra of counterrevolution with massive terror! ... anyone who dares to spread the slightest rumor against the Soviet regime will be arrested immediately and sent to concentration camp".

Ruins of St. Paul's

The carvings include Jesuit images with Oriental themes, such as a woman stepping on a seven-headed hydra, described by Chinese characters as 'Holy Mother tramples the heads of the dragon'.

Sharon Carter

In the alternate future of Earth X Sharon Carter has fallen victim to 'Hydra', which in this case is a squid-based alien life form that absorbs minds and people to expand.

Sigma Hydrae

It is also known by the proper name Minchir, and appears as Minchir es-schudscha' on Bode's large star atlas, Uranographia, which is derived from the Arabic Minkhir al-Shuja‘, "the Nostril of Hydra", for this star.

The Spice-Box of Earth

Following The Spice-Box of Earth, Cohen retreated for several years to the treeless Argolic island of Hydra in Greece, where he began work on the more angular, abrasive poems collected in Flowers for Hitler in 1964.

Thermopylae

In a Greek myth is mentioned that Heracles had jumped into the river in an attempt to wash off the Hydra poison infused in the cloak that he could not take off.

Unsafe at Any Speed

Early automatic transmissions, including GM's Hydra-Matic, Packard's Ultramatic, and Borg Warner's automatic used by a number of independent manufacturers (Rambler, Studebaker) used a pattern of "P N D L R", which put Reverse at the bottom of the quadrant, next to Low.


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