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2 unusual facts about PISCES


Pisces

PISCES (Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System), a border control database system administered by the U.S. Department of State

Pisces-class deep submergence vehicle

Pisces VII and Pisces IX were built in 1975 and used by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR for about 10 years, until being replaced by the MIR submersibles.


7 BC

Possible birthdate of Jesus, according to appearance of a very bright triple conjunction of the royal star Jupiter and Saturn in the sign of Pisces (land in the west) in May until December of that year since 854 years, with a retrogradation and stationing in November 12, 7 BC.

Babylonian star catalogues

#MULŠÍM.MAḪ šinūnūtu "The Great Swallow" (SW Pisces and Epsilon Pegasi)

Daily Nightly

"Daily Nightly" is a song by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees, which appeared on their fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., in 1967, and was featured in two second-season episodes of their television series, "A Fairy Tale" and "Monkees Blow Their Minds".

Gamma Piscium

In Frank Herbert's Dune series, Gamma Waiping (The Chinese name for Pisces) is the home system of Imperial House Corrino.

Jophiel

The Kabala says he is the spirit of Jupiter when it is in the sign of Pisces and Sagittarius.

Lloyd Bochner

He appeared in the episode "The Pisces" of the short-lived TV show The Starlost (1973), and was Commandant Leiter in the Battlestar Galactica original series episode "Greetings from Earth".

Observable universe

In 1987 Astronomer R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii's Institute of Astronomy identified what he called the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex, a structure one billion light years long and 150 million light years across in which, he claimed, the Local Supercluster was embedded.

Oscar Stanton De Priest

"Oscar DePriest lived Pisces's call to service, unity." Gazette, March 7, 2008.

Pisces V

A mock-up of the control panel of the Pisces V can be visited by the public at the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center in Hilo, Hawaii.

Poorakkali

The Pooram festival begins with the Karthika asterism and concludes with the Pooram asterism of the month of Meenam according to the Malayalam calendar (corresponding to the sun sign Pisces according to the Julian Calendar) to honour Kamadeva, the god of love.

Yukine Honami

A native of Ishikawa, Japan - Yukine Honami was born on March 17 (year unknown), is currently residing in Ishikawa and her star sign is Pisces.


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