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3 unusual facts about Hylas


Hylas Yachts

He branded them Hylas after a Greek mythological youth associated with Hercules and the cruise of the Argonauts.

HYLAS-1

The HYLAS payload carries two transponders, intended mainly for HDTV, and six John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey

"which he implicitly submitted to, at the Expence of his Conscience, his Honour, and of his Country." Didapper is also compared to Hylas, and is mistaken for a woman in the dark on account of his soft skin.


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Boreads

Their death was said to be caused by Heracles on Tenos in revenge for when they convinced the Argonauts to leave him behind as he searched for Hylas.

Gardenia thunbergia

The tree is a food plant for the larvae of some species of hawk moths such as the Oriental Bee Hawk moth, Cephonodes hylas.

John Adams Jackson

Jackson's portrait busts include those of Daniel Webster (1851); Adelaide Phillips (1853); Wendell Phillips (1854); "Eve and the Dead Abel" (1862); "Autumn"; "Cupid Stringing his Bow"; "Titania and Nick Bottom"; "The Culprit Fay" (many times repeated); "Dawn" (repeated); "Peace"; "Cupid on a Swan"; "The Morning Glory" (a medallion repeated fourteen times); "Reading Girl" (1869); "Nusidora" (Vienna Exposition, 1873); "Hylas" (1875); and "Il Pastorello," an Abruzzi peasant-boy with his goat.


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