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6 unusual facts about Icarus


120 North LaSalle

Above the main entrance is a mosaic mural, by artist Roger Brown, depicting Daedalus and Icarus.

Göcek, Fethiye

According to the legends, it is in the Göcek area that Icarus landed in the sea after his famous flight trying to escape from the tower where he was imprisoned.

Hellenic Air Force Academy

It was founded in 1919 as the Military Academy of Aviation (Στρατιωτική Σχολή Αεροπλοΐας) and renamed in 1967 as the Icarus School in reference to the figure of Icarus in ancient Greek mythology.

L'envol d'Icare

L'envol d'Icare (The Flight of Icarus) is a score written (but never performed) as a ballet by the Ukrainian composer Igor Markevitch in 1932–33.

Srečko Kosovel

Much of it was published in 2004, on the 100th anniversary of Kosovel's birth, in the monograph entitled Ikarjev sen ("Icarus'es Dream"), edited by the literary critics Aleš Berger and Lugwig Hartinger.

The Fall of Icarus

Icarus is a character in Greek Mythology who fell to his death when the sun melted the wax holding together the wings he was using to fly.


Babylon 5: The Shadow Within

The main plot deals with the voyage of the Icarus to Z'ha'dum and the fate of Anna Sheridan, wife of future Babylon 5 commander John Sheridan.

Casey Dienel

Later the same year, "Icarus" was featured in an episode of the ABC Family drama "Pretty Little Liars," as well the fashion show of the winner of the Project Runway (Season 8) finale, Gretchen Jones.

Catastrophism

In a paper published in Icarus in 1975, William K. Hartmann and Donald R. Davis proposed that a catastrophic near-miss by a large planetesimal early in Earth's formation approximately 4.5 billion years ago blew out rocky debris, remelted Earth and formed the Moon, thus explaining the Moon's lesser density and lack of an iron core.

Chikara Season Four

At the next event, Remain In Light on March 18th (an event which also saw the debut of Delirious and the commencement of what would turn out to be a short series of matches between Men at Work (Mister ZERO and Shane Storm) and Team F.I.S.T. (Icarus and Gran Akuma) as they went to a fifteen minute draw), Hero, Cannon, and Castagnoli officially formed one of CHIKARA's most influential rudo factions: the Kings of Wrestling.

Coupe Icare

Coupe Icare (Icarus Cup) is an annual festival of free flight held between Saint-Hilaire (on the border of Chartreuse Mountains) and Lumbin (in the valley of Isère in France).

Evan Mather

His 2002 short film Icarus of Pittsburgh about a dedicated Pittsburgh Steelers fan played at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

Frank Porter Wood

He died on 20 March 1955 in Toronto and his major bequest to the Art Gallery of Ontario included: The Harvest Wagon by Thomas Gainsborough, Daedalus Warning His Son Icarus by Anthony van Dyck, A Portrait of Dr. Joseph Joachim by John Singer Sargent, Portrait of a Gentleman, Isaak Abrahamsz Massa by Frans Hals, Lady with a Lap Dog by Rembrandt van Rijn, and Portrait of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne by Frans Hals.

Giles Smith

This cassette featured 36 tracks including "Helluva Break By Ray Reardon", "You Lawn Tennis", "The Babylon Shuffle", "Love Me Love My Rabbit", "Guru Guru Guru" and "Icarus Dicarus, I Smell A Nail".

Icarus at the Edge of Time

Icarus at the Edge of Time is a 2008 novella by physicist Brian Greene, illustrated by Chip Kidd with images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

The story of Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters is influenced by Greek mythology, and follows the angel soldier Pit on his quest for three sacred treasures.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Largely derived from Ovid, the painting is described in W. H. Auden's famous poem Musée des Beaux-Arts, named after the museum in which the painting is housed in Brussels, and became the subject of a poem of the same name by William Carlos Williams, as well as Lines on Bruegel's "Icarus" by Michael Hamburger.

Eric Steele, whose film The Bridge (2006) documents the suicides of two-dozen people who jumped off the world's most popular suicide site - the Golden Gate Bridge - throughout 2004, has compared images captured in his documentary to those of Bruegel’s Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, because the fatal leaps go almost unnoticed by passersby.

Lyuben Dilov

Dilov described in his 1974 novel The Trip of Icarus the Fourth Law of Robotics extending the original three laws proposed by Isaac Asimov: A robot must establish its identity as a robot in all cases.

Revolution at Sea saga

In By Force of Arms, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb's smuggling ship, the Judea, is destroyed by British soldiers, which results eventually in his and his friend Ezra Rumstick's impressment aboard an English man-o-war, HMS Icarus, commanded by the irresponsible and arrogant Lieutenant James Pendexter.

Steel Harbinger

The slaughtering is made possible by both modern and futuristic weaponry, including handguns, the US M16 rifle, rocket launchers, energy rifles, the Canadian Icarus beam, and more.

The Earl of Essex Rebellion

Lacey, Robert: Robert, Earl of Essex: An Elizabethan Icarus (Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1971) ISBN 0-297-00320-8

The Icarus Agenda

The Icarus Agenda is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum.

The Lament for Icarus

According to Dr. Justine Hopkins, Draper identifies Icarus "with the other heroes of the Pre-Raphaelites and symbolists, who, like James Dean half a century later, manage to live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse".

Torneo cibernetico

The first Chikara Torneo Cibernetico took place on October 30, 2004 in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and featured "Sweet 'n' Sour International" (Larry Sweeney (captain), Crossbones, Hallowicked, Mano Metalico, Rorschach, ShareCropper, Spyrazul and UltraMantis Black) wrestling against the team of Jigsaw (captain), DJ Skittlez, Gran Akuma, Icarus, Jolly Roger, Mister ZERO, Private Eye and Shane Storm.

The second annual Torneo Cibernetico took place on October 22, 2005 in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and featured Chris Hero (captain), Blind Rage, Arik Cannon, Claudio Castagnoli, Gran Akuma, Hallowicked, Icarus and UltraMantis Black wrestling against Mike Quackenbush (captain), Jigsaw, Eddie Kingston, Milano Collection A.T., Sabian, Skayde, Shane Storm and Mister ZERO.


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