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8 unusual facts about Midas


Air Ranger: Rescue Helicopter

Air Ranger: Rescue Helicopter is a helicopter simulator video game released for the Sony PlayStation 2, developed by ASK Corporation and published by Midas.

Ferit Tüzün

His works included the opera Midas'ın Kulakları, on the tale of King Midas' ears.

Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201

The work is scored for Momus (soprano), Mercurius (alto), Tmolus (tenor), Midas (tenor), Phoebus (bass), Pan (bass), a six-part choir of those voices, three trumpets, timpani, two tranverse flutes, two oboes d'amore, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.

Grand Central Murder

Like the inspiration of her stage name, King Midas, everything (or rather every man) she touched, turned to gold for her purse.

Midas Island

The name, given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960, derives from this description; Midas, King of Phrygia, was represented in Greek satyric drama with the ears of an ass.

Polatlı

The mythological Phrygian King Midas is said to have ruled from Pessinus and to be buried here.

Sargon II

In 710 BC, the seven Greek kings of Ia (Cyprus) had accepted Assyrian sovereignty; in 709, Midas, king of Phrygia, beset by the nomadic Cimmerians, submitted to Assyrian rule and in 708 BC, Kummuhu (Commagene) became an Assyrian province.

Víctor Manuel Vucetich

Due to his success, Vucetich has been given the nickname "Rey Midas", or "King Midas", by the Mexican media, referring to Midas, king of Phrygia, who according to Greek Mythology was given the ability to turn anything he touched into gold by Dionysus.


DataSnap

DataSnap (Previously known as MIDAS) is a DCOM-based software technology that enables RAD creation of multi-tier database applications.

Front Mission 3

The group pursues MIDAS to an OCU base hidden inside Taal Volcano in OCU Philippines, but the OCU uses it against a DHZ-aided rebel force conducting an amphibious landing in Batangas City.

Harlington Upper School

The houses are named after mythical creatures and gods, Apollo, Europa, Hercules, Midas, Pegasus, Theseus.

HMS Pactolus

the river in which, according to legend, King Midas washed his hands to divest himself of the golden touch.

Hyatt 10

The name "Hyatt 10" was coined because the press conference where the concerned officials announced their resignation was held at the then-Hyatt Regency Hotel (now Midas Hotel) in Pasay City.

Mac Hack

Mac Hack was written in MIDAS macro assembly language on the PDP-6 computer DEC donated to MIT (the first working PDP-6, serial number 2).

Midas Consoles

Midas has been designing and manufacturing audio consoles since the early 1970s.

When, in January 2006, Telex Communications was acquired by the Bosch group, Midas consoles became part of the business unit "Bosch Communications Systems".

Midas Records Nashville

The Weather Channel released The Best of Smooth Jazz and Smooth Jazz II compilations under the Midas label.

Midas Run

Midas Run (UK title A Run on Gold) is a 1969 comedy film directed by Alf Kjellin and starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood and, in one of his final big-screen roles, Fred Astaire.

MIDAS Trial

The MIDAS Trial is a randomized controlled trial in Manchester, England using Motivational Interventions for Drugs & Alcohol misuse in Schizophrenia.

Phrygia

In one version of his story, Midas travels from Thrace accompanied by a band of his people to Asia Minor to wash away the taint of his unwelcome "golden touch" in the river Pactolus.

Phrygian language

The Paleo-Phrygian corpus is further divided (geographically) into inscriptions of Midas (city) (M, W), Gordion, Central (C), Bithynia (B), Pteria (P), Tyana (T), Daskyleion (Dask), Bayindir (Bay), and "various" (Dd, documents divers).

Rupert Soames

After leaving GEC in 1997, Soames joined the software company Misys as chief executive of its Midas-Kapiti division.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The film is almost totally restricted to her apartment's bedroom, decorated by a huge reproduction of Poussin's Midas and Bacchus (c.1630), which depicts naked and partially clothed men.


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