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unusual facts about Muses



1707 in Great Britain

John Oldmixon, The Muses Mercury; or, The Monthly Miscellany, a periodical published monthly from January of this year to January 1708

Almanach des Muses

To be published in the Almanach des Muses, like Millevoye and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, was to have "arrived" on the literary scene.

Ben Going

To counter, A Current Affair enlisted media personality Peter FitzSimons, who muses Vegemite to comprise, rather, "the distilled essence of Australia".

Charles Musès

Muses also envisioned a mathematical number concept, Musean hypernumbers, that includes hypercomplex number algebras such as complex numbers and split-complex numbers as primitive types.

Crantor

He is accordingly called by the poet Theaetetus, in an epitaph which he composed upon him, the friend of the Muses; and we are told, that his chief favourites among the poets were Homer and Euripides.

Etudes Australes

Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music, edited by Joan Retallack.

Gus Caesar

Arsenal fan Nick Hornby in his 1992 book Fever Pitch muses on Caesar's downfall, pointing out that Caesar had considerable talent as a youth (or else Arsenal would have never signed him in the first place).

Krewe of Muses

"Muses Night Fever" was a parody on disco songs (2008); "Muses 009: License to Swill" spoofed James Bond movie titles (2009); "The Muses Guide to Love and Romance" attempted to teach men what women rarely have the nerve to say (2010) and celebrated the krewe's tenth anniversary with a pyrotechnic birthday cake; and "Dancing with the Muses" (2009) was a parody on Dancing with the Stars and provided an array of dance parodies.

Mnemosyne

In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.

Music of Luxembourg

The 3rd-century Roman mosaic from Vichten presents excellent representations of the muses Euterpe with her flutes and Erato playing the lyre, testifying to an early interest in music.

Nicolas Felizola

Nicolas Felizola maintains personal and dear relationships with many prominent celebrities and has proclaimed his muses to be Mexican actresses Patricia Manterola, Jacqueline Bracamonte and Susana González as well as Venezuelan TV personality Chiquinquira Delgado.

Parnassus, New Zealand

He saw a likeness between a local hill and the Greek Mount Parnassus, mythical home of the god Apollo and the Muses.

Peabody Auditorium

The artist, Fred Dana Marsh, completed the exterior sculptures of four muses.

Pharmakos

More recently, both Daniel Ogden, The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece (1997) and Todd Compton, Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero (2006) examine poet pharmakoi.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

This commission was followed by works at the Sorbonne, namely the enormous hemicycle, The Sacred Grove or L'Ancienne Sorbonne amongst the muses in the Grand Amphitheater of the Sorbonne.

Poetry and the Microphone

Notable for including Orwell’s sentence: "Poetry on the air sounds like the Muses in striped trousers.", the article mentions some of the material used in the broadcasts, mainly by contemporary or near-contemporary English writers such as T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, Alex Comfort, Robert Bridges, Edmund Blunden, and D. H. Lawrence.

The Empath

Kirk muses on the "chance" encounter with Gem, and Scott talks about her in terms of the biblical parable of the "Pearl of Great Price".

Thomas Logan

In Wolverine: Weapon X #8, Logan muses about having killed his own father, believing Tom Logan's paternity.

Throwing Muses

Throwing Muses is an alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects.

Triadex Muse

Morgan Fisher, a British avant-garde musician/composer based in Tokyo, currently owns three Muses and has them "perform" together in harmony (using Molex sync cables) during his improvisation concerts.

Winnersh

Golden Globe-winning BBC sitcom The Office namechecks Winnersh when Ricky Gervais as David Brent muses on his future: "My world does not end with these four walls. Slough's a big place, and when I'm finished with Slough, there's Reading, Aldershot, Bracknell, you know, I've got – Didcot, Yateley. You know. My – Winnersh, Taplow. And because I am my own boss, I can.. Burghfield."

Zeisters

The film was referenced in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, Attack of the Giant Leeches: when a rather portly character in the film brandishes a rifle, one of the robots muses “Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid!: a Troma presentation.”


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