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5 unusual facts about Siren


Aglaope

:This article is about the genus of moths in the Zygaenidae family; Aglaope is also one of the Sirens in Greek mythology

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest

In 2010, Estonia failed to qualify to the final, with the song "Siren" by Malcolm Lincoln.

Night Tide

Mora believes she is a descendant of the Sirens, mythic sea creatures who lure sailors to their deaths.

Siren

When the Sirens were given a name of their own, they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon (the Earth.

Siren, Wisconsin

Presumably the postal department thought this was a misspelling, for on the granted application they put down the spelling as "Siren." In 1912, the town center was moved nearer the Soo Line Railroad tracks which had been extended through the area to Duluth, Minnesota.


5.0

He felt that what is left is "a murky stew of withered affections and grasps at modernity, from siren effects to processed horns and Auto-Tune breakdowns."

Abyzou

In classical Greece, female sea monsters that combine allure and deadliness may also derive from this tradition, including the Gorgons (who were daughters of the old sea god Phorcys), Sirens, Harpies, and even water nymphs and Nereids.

Alexis Minotis

His other films include Siren of Atlantis (1949) with Maria Montez, Boy on a Dolphin (1957) with Sophia Loren, and Land of the Pharaohs (1955) with Joan Collins.

Amalie Bruun

In spring 2012 she released the single "Siren", written and produced in collaboration with Mark Saunders on A:Larm Music.

Anthony Hudson

When Lance Franklin kicked his career high 13 goals, he was cited for calling his 13th goal on the siren by saying, "Thirteen, thirteen!".

Cazaly's Stadium

With 30 seconds left in the 4th quarter the Gold Coast Suns trailed by 10 points, but kicked two goals including one after the siren by rugby league convert Karmichael Hunt to win the match.

Commitment device

An early example of a commitment device is the tale of Odysseus ordering his men to lash him to the mast of the ship so that he would be able to hear the sirens' song without jumping overboard.

Donnelly Rhodes

In 1980, Donnelly played a Franciscan priest in the concluding episode, "The Siren Song", of the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms.

Edmund Falconer

Indeed, it was a favourite of Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) In the novel, Bloom thinks quite a lot about the opera, and it features as one of the motifs of the Sirens episode (Chapter 11).

I'm Bad

The song samples the Theme from "S.W.A.T." by Rhythm Heritage, Federal Signal Corporation's famous Q2B siren, and an interpolation of the theme song from the 1960s syndicated animated series Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.

J. S. Sirén

Sirén went on to hold his own office, and his later work included the expansion of the main building of the University of Helsinki.

Johannes Jeep

In Ulysses (Episode 16, "Eumaeus", 663:14-22), Joyce's autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, performs Jeep's spirited song "Von der Sirenen Listigkeit" ("Of the Siren's Cunning") for Leopold Bloom, and the two men bond over its misogyny.

Jon Nödtveidt

Nödtveidt also performed in several other projects, including The Black (as Rietas), De Infernali, Nifelheim, Ophthalamia (as Shadow), Satanized, Siren's Yell, and Terror, a grindcore band which featured members of At the Gates.

June 18, 2001, tornado outbreak

Following the Siren tornado Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum viewed the damaged areas via helicopter, and declared a state of emergency.

Kai Altair

The show consisted of musical performances, including a burlesque act by 'siren' Veronica Varlow, and other performances from House of Yes (Brooklyn) regulars Ali Luminescent, Desert Sin and Lady Circus.

Live at The Siren

Live at The Siren is a live album released by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem.

Melusine

The Starbucks logo features a two tailed siren similar to Melusine.

Moe! Staiano

One such piece is 'Piece No.7: In Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein And Other Whereabouts' employs U-bolts, wine glasses, sirens and guitars with six E-strings along with percussion and strings.

MYMP

In 2009, M.Y.M.P. were regularly seen every Sunday on ASAPs "Sessionistas" segment together with Soul Siren Nina, crooner Richard Poon, bossa artist Sitti Navarro, ex-Southborder vocalist Duncan Ramos and singer Aiza Seguerra.

Orchids, a collection of prose and poetry

Couperus biographer, Frédéric Bastet, described Couperus' poems as: Bacchantes, odalisques, sirens and eunuchs populate this Parnassiens-poetry, but they remain opera characters without much content.

P-70 Ametist

The P-15M was fitted with an L band sensor and a new altimeter radar both developed for the 'Siren', but there was no room for a datalink in the smaller 'Styx'.

Psirens

The concept of sirens creating illusions to lure unwary travellers to their deaths first appears in Homer's Odyssey, and this concept is much-repeated in Western film and literature.

Queenstown Oval, Tasmania

The ground was the first ground in Tasmanian that had a siren installed to signal the start and end of each quarter, with the siren being borrowed from the Mt Lyell Mines.

Seduction

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

Siren interactive

Siren Interactive is an agency specializing in relationship marketing for rare disorder therapies.

Sirenum scopuli

--Licosa, St. Pietro and La Galett in original--> reported George Richard Crooks, Christian Frederik Ingersley, on the basis of Alexander Jacob Schem, A new Latin-English school-lexicon, (Philadelphia), 1861 s.v. "Siren".

Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust

Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins recorded the intended b-side, a cover of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren." Ivo was pleased enough with the results that "Siren" was made the A-side of the 7" release.

Stator

The stator is the stationary part of a rotary system, found in electric generators, electric motors, sirens, or biological rotors.

Sydney–West Coast AFL rivalry

Andrejs Everitt of Sydney kicked the final two goals of the match, with the last one only seconds before the final siren.

The Siren of the Woods

The song "The Siren of the Woods" is written in the Akkadian language.

The Siren Six!

Citing the Pixies, Elvis Costello, The Jam and The Selecter among their influences, The Siren Six!'s music stood in contrast to the then-popular ska punk sound, combining 2-Tone-style ska with heavy indie rock and Mod influences and a focus on introspective lyricism, a combination Kingpin Records marketed the band with as "2tone/mod/emoska".

The Ward Brothers

The band signed to Siren Records and released the album Madness of It All in 1986, produced by Mike Howlett and engineered by Steve Power, whilst Don Was and Frank Fillipetti produced the title track, and Was solely produced "Cross that Bridge".

Thunderbolt siren

The blower, which is made up of a motor-driven Roots-type supercharger, supplies the large volume of air for the siren head.

Unreal Tournament

The soundtrack for the game was primarily written by Alexander "Siren" Brandon, Michiel "M.C.A." van den Bos, Andrew "Necros" Sega, and Dan "Basehead" Gardopée, the same music artists who wrote the Unreal soundtrack, although only Brandon and Van Den Bos remained credited for it.

Waverley Park

The game was between Melbourne and Hawthorn and the game was described as the most epic played at VFL Park, with Hawthorn winning from a goal kicked after the siren, by Gary Buckenara.

William P. Anderson

Among the more important works may be mentioned the Colchester Reef lighthouse (1885) on a caisson in Lake Erie, the construction and installation in 1898 of the first-order fog siren station on Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador), and the nine flying buttress lighthouses at Pointe-au-Pere, Escarpement Bagot, Estevan Point, Michipicoten Island, Caribou Island, Belle Isle Northeast, Cape Bauld, Cape Norman, and Cape Anguille.

Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

The player may meet Sirens and Charron from Greek mythology, the Amazulu (a group of African warrior women, whose tribal name is derived from the Amazons of Greek legend, and the Zulu of Africa), and even the Caterpillar from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.


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