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30 unusual facts about Sirius


Alpaero Sirius

Named for the star, the prototype Sirius was made from wood, tube and aircraft fabric and first flew in August 1984.

Anubis

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive (Anubis was known to be mockingly called "Barker" by the Greeks), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

Aristaeus

He found the islanders suffering from sickness under the stifling and baneful effects of the Dog-Star Sirius at its first appearance before the sun's rising, in early July.

Dog Star

the Dog Star, a common name for the star Sirius, reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (Greater Dog)

Dog watch

The name is also said to be derived from Sirius, the "Dog Star", on the claim that Sirius was the first star that can be seen at night.

Eye of Ra

In addition to representing the morning star, the Eye can also be equated with the star Sothis (Sirius).

Fanous

The fanous developed from the torches used in the Pharaonic festivals celebrating the rising of the star Sirius.

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad

was released in 2006 and received regular airplay on Sirius and XM Radio.

HMS Sirius

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sirius after the brightest star in the nighttime sky.

Leslie Gornstein

The AB and now FF franchise have been extended to podcasts, videocasts and shows on XM Satellite and Sirius radio as well as twitter, Facebook and MySpace profiles.

Macarthur Girls High School

The school is located on an area of land first granted to William Reid (a seaman-convict from the Sirius, the first ship of the First Fleet to enter Sydney Harbour in 1788).

Minced oath

Socrates favored the "Rhadamanthine" oath "by the dog", with "the dog" often interpreted as referring to the bright "Dog Star", i.e., Sirius.

Nabarun Bhattacharya

Now, Lubdhak is a star, the brightest star on the night sky, also known as Sirius.

Osiris

Through the hope of new life after death, Osiris began to be associated with the cycles observed in nature, in particular vegetation and the annual flooding of the Nile, through his links with Orion and Sirius at the start of the new year.

Otis Nixon

In an interview on February 11, 2010, on Hardcore Sports Radio on Sirius, Nixon discussed how he overcame his demons and conquered his drug and alcohol addiction.

Patrick Madrid

He hosts the Thursday edition of the EWTN "Open Line" radio broadcast (3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET), heard across the U.S. on approximately 185 AM and FM stations, as well as on Sirius Satellite Radio Network.

Road with Cypress and Star

The orientation of the night sky objects may have been influenced by a conjunction of heavenly bodies on 20 April 1890, when Mercury and Venus were at 3 degrees of separation and together had luminescence comparable to Sirius.

Serius Jones

"Serius" comes from the extremely bright star of the same name, Sirius.

Seth

William Whiston, a 17/18th century translator of the Antiquities, stated in a footnote that he believed Josephus mistook Seth for Sesostris, king of Egypt, the erector of the pillar in Siriad (being a contemporary name for the territories in which Sirius was venerated (i.e., Egypt).

The Dixie Bee-Liners

They have appeared live on BBC Radio Scotland, NPR, the Food Network, and have been featured on radio playlists across the country and world-wide, including regular rotation on Sirius and XM satellite radio.

Thomas Allibone Janvier

Under the pen name Margaret Vandergrift she wrote many juveniles, among which are: The Absent-Minded Fairy, and Other Verses (1884); The Dead Doll, and Other Verses (1900); Under the Dog-Star (1900); and Umbrellas to Mend (1905).

Top 20 on 20

One can also vote their favorite songs by calling the station number (866-553-2020), or text messaging, Sirius XM Love moved from Sirius 3, XM 23 and Dish Network 6003 to Sirius XM Radio 17 and Dish Network 6017 as part of the May 4 channel lineup.

Trapp Mendoza

It has since been played on major stations including Sirius Sat Radio, WEDR Miami 99 Jamz, Chicago radio, Underground radio & college radio.

Truck stop

Increasingly, as interstate truck drivers have become a large market for satellite radio, these retail stores also sell various satellite radio receivers for both XM and Sirius as well as subscriptions to those services.

UCF Orlando Jazz Festival

The UCF Orlando Jazz Festival is an annual jazz event hosted at the University of Central Florida founded in 2008 to bring world-class jazz to Orlando, Florida, and has appeared twice on Jazz Set, a program hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater that appears on Sirius/XM Radio and NPR.

Umberto Bossi

Bossi gave his last two sons unusual, politically charged names: "Roberto Libertà" (libertà means freedom, and it is a feminine noun in Italian) and "Eridano Sirio" (Eridano being the name of an ancient god of the Po river).

Voices of a Distant Star

She then goes to Agartha, the (fictional) fourth planet of the Sirius System.

Works and Days

Works and Days contains the earliest recorded mention of the star Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens as seen from Earth.

WRKZ

It was also formerly the home of the syndicated The Howard Stern Show for several years before that show went to Sirius Satellite Radio.

X-COM: Apocalypse

One of these organizations, the Cult of Sirius, is a group of religious fanatics who worship the aliens, and is inherently hostile to X-COM.


Aristaeus

When the miscreants were found out and executed, and a shrine erected to Zeus Ikmaios, the great god was propitiated and decreed that henceforth the Etesian wind should blow and cool all the Aegean for forty days from the baleful rising of Sirius.

Aurvandil

Guesses as to the identity of this star have included the polestar, the planet Venus, Sirius and the star Rigel which forms the toe of the constellation Orion, though if Aurvandil is to be identified with the constellation Orion one would expect to find Aurvandil himself being translated into the sky, not just his toe.

Bridge Street, Sydney

It includes the obelisk designed by Francis Greenway and constructed in 1818; the bronze statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort erected in 1883; the cannon and anchor from HMS Sirius, the anchor having been placed on its pedestal in 1907; and the men's lavatory built in 1908, which features stucco and a glazed dome.

Briskman

Robert D. Briskman (born 1932), an official with Sirius Satellite Radio

Chrysler Pacifica

Limited models came with a year subscription of Sirius satellite radio, 6-disc DVD player capable of playing MP3, DVD audio, DVD video, DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, and an available eight-speaker 385-watt Infinity "Intermezzo" audio system with subwoofer.

Drew32

His most recent release, Label Me, which is hosted by DJ Skee (of KIIS-FM and Sirius-XM Hip-Hop Nation), features collaborations with Jon Connor, Shorty Da Prince, and Slim the Mobster (of Aftermath Entertainment).

First wave

1st Wave, a classic alternative rock radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 22

Glenn Younes

Glenn has previously hosted the College Football Scoreboard Show with Bill Rohland as well as hosted shows and done updates on the Sirius XM PGA Tour Network.

Good Boy!

Hubble, who is really named Canid 3942, has been sent by the powerful Greater Dane (voice of Vanessa Redgrave) on a mission from the Dog Star Sirius 7 to make sure dogs have fulfilled this destiny.

Gun, with Occasional Music

Animals, too, can be given the intelligence of a human being through bioscientific techniques, a concept explored previously by David Brin in his Uplift novels,Roger Zelazny in The Dream Master, and in Olaf Stapledon's Sirius.

Head Control System

Head Control System is a cross-national rock/metal band featuring Portuguese Daniel Cardoso (ex-Sirius and ex-Re:aktor) and Norwegian Kristoffer Rygg (of Ulver and ex-Arcturus and ex-Borknagar).

Lasse Gjertsen

The only videos without original compositions are the two music videos, Home Sweet Home by Norwegian Rapper Sirius, and Sogno ad Occhi Aperti by Italian Cellist Giovanni Sollima.

Last of Seven

It has received some airplay on satellite radio stations, The Pulse on Sirius, and Flight 26 on XM.

Lockheed Model 8 Sirius

The Lockheed Model 8 Sirius was a single engine, propeller-driven monoplane designed and built by Jack Northrop and Gerard Vultee while they were engineers at Lockheed in 1929, at the request of Charles Lindbergh.

Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark

Further, he found that cairn pairs FO, FA, and FB correspond to the rising points of the stars Sirius, Aldebaran, and Rigel, respectively.

NFL Scoreboard

That show consists of game updates presented with text and graphics on the television screen and audio from Sirius NFL Radio.

Nick and the Glimmung

It is set on "Plowman's Planet" (Sirius Five), in the same continuity as his adult SF novel, Galactic Pot-Healer.

Nick Geber

Nick also hosts the Bluff Magazine show Poker Night Radio on Sirius, and broadcasts from the World Series of Poker.

On Basilisk Station

However, the other half of the plan is the Sirius, a Haven Q-ship disguised as a freighter, which will flee the carnage and "coincidentally" encounter a Havenite task force.

Outernet

They use a low-tech form of teleportation, traveling to Stonehenge (where Janus and Sirius originally landed), the Great Pyramid of Giza, Machu Picchu, Uluru, and Shangri-La to complete a chain that will defend Earth.

Ozzy's Boneyard

In 2012 Sirius/XM decided to relaunched The Boneyard in the hands of The Prince Of Darkness himself, Mr. Ozzy Osbourne & renamed it Ozzy's Boneyard.

Peculiar Lives

The story draws particularly from Stapledon's novels Last and First Men (1930), Last Men in London (1932), Odd John (1935) and Sirius (1944).

Right Between the Ears

More recently, episodes of Right Between the Ears have aired Saturdays at 8:00pm Eastern on the Sirius Laugh Break channel.

Seven rays

According to Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme, the seven rays are focused to the Solar Logos, through Sirius, the seven stars of the Big Dipper in the Great Bear, and the seven major stars of the Pleiades form the "Galactic Logos," (the consciousness of the "Divine Being" of the Milky Way Galaxy), and have their ultimate origin within the mind of God.

Sherman, New York

The Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman plays annual host to the Church of the SubGenius's X-Day celebration, Sirius Rising, the Wellspring Gathering and spent many years hosting the Starwood Festival before it was moved to Wisteria in Athens, Ohio.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system).

Sirius Passet

The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte was named after the Sirius sledge patrol that operates in North Greenland.

Sirius XM Progress

It launched on March 31, 2004, and the lineup included hosts like Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Al Franken, Marty Kaplan, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Colmes, Lizz Winstead and Chuck D. At the time, both Sirius and XM had centrist/progressive talk channels featuring talent from Air America Radio.

Soul Street

On November 12, 2008 Sirius XM replaced Soul Street with Soul Town.

The Starlight Barking

Sirius invites them all to travel back to his home where they will be safe from the dangers of nuclear war on Earth, not to mention the whims and potential abuse of humans.

Welcome to the Fall

The track "All is Numb" had a music video and found considerable airplay on the Sirius Satellite Radio station, Octane.

WQAQ

DJ Concept (AKA Kid Dee) - Former Music Director & DJ - SirIus Satellite Radio