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9 unusual facts about Zodiac


Castor et Pollux

The opera ends with the fête de l'univers ("Festival of the Universe") in which the stars, planets and sun celebrate the god's decision and the twin brothers are received into the Zodiac as the constellation of Gemini.

Grey Towers Castle

The ceiling was painted by François Lafon, and depicts the four seasons as women, accompanied by cupids, with the path of the Zodiac behind them.

Jules Bruff

She is known for her portrayal of Catherine Allen in David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac.

Labours of the Months

They are often linked to the signs of the Zodiac, and are seen as humankind's response to God's ordering of the Universe.

Stuart Devlin

In 1966 a Stuart Devlin fine silver sculpture was commissioned by Ford of Britain to celebrate the release of the new Mk IV Ford Zephyr & Zodiac range of motor vehicles.

Svetitskhoveli Cathedral

Today, after much careful restoration, some few remnants survive including fragments of a 13th-century Beast of the Apocalypse and figures of the Zodiac.

Taxco

Some of the pictures in the street are from the Zodiac and meant to indicate certain commercial activities in times past.

Tierkreis

Tierkreis is the German word for the Zodiac.

Zodiac: The Race Begins

Its script, researched by Singapore-based freelance playwright and former cross-talk celebrity Zhao Jin, incorporates eight myths.


Across the Zodiac

Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (1880) is a science fiction novel by Percy Greg, who has been credited as an originator of the Sword and planet sub-genre of science fiction.

Curiously, the same title was used for a later, similar book — Across the Zodiac: A Story of Adventure (1896) by Edwin Pallander (1869-1952) (the pseudonym of UK biologist, botanist and author Lancelot Francis Sanderson Bayly).

Alpha Andromedae

In the Hindu lunar zodiac, this star, together with the other stars in the Great Square of Pegasus (α, β, and γ Pegasi), makes up the nakshatras of Pūrva Bhādrapadā and Uttara Bhādrapadā.

Brazilian Abdominal Acupuncture

On the abdomen we find the 2 principles yin-yang, 3 treasures, 4 seas, 5 elements, 6 connections up-down, 7 feeling aggression areas, 8 trigrams and 8 odd meridians, 9 numerological sections, 10 dimensions of Kabala on the abdomen, several forms of 12 meridians, scheme to shelter the body, I Ching on abdomen, western and oriental zodiac signs, tonification and sedation using 5 elements on abdomen, pulse diagnosis on abdomen, etc.

Byron, California

The site has notably been used as the set of national Bay Area rap artist Mars for various projects including his Zodiac Tour commercial, and an interview with Insane Clown Posse on their Weekly Freakly Weekly internet news show.

Calvert County Fire-Rescue-EMS

North Beach has two engines, one tower, one heavy rescue, one brush truck, two basic life support ambulances, a boat, and a zodiac.

Cleveland Torso Murderer

David Fincher planned to make a film about the murders after making a movie about another unidentified serial killer, known as Zodiac.

Dance Dance Dragon

As Lunar New Year 2012 marks the year of the Dragon, the film explores the Chinese's age-old obsession with the Dragon and having children on a "Dragon year" (see Chinese zodiac).

Dendera

It was once home to the celebrated zodiac which is now displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Dog in Chinese mythology

This twelve-year cycle which may be referred to as the "Chinese zodiac" associates each year in turn with a certain creature, in a fixed order of twelve animals, after which it returns to the first in the order, the Rat.

Fyodor Tyutchev

The same poem was also set to music by the 20th-century Russian composer, Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-1996), in his 1974 cantata "Signs of the Zodiac".

Grand Lagoon

On the northeast side of the lagoon is the helipad of the Bulgarian base, and on its southwest side — the designated embarkation area and a shed hosting the base's Zodiac inflatable boats.

Jezreel Valley

Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the Sun (a Greek motif), while the corners depict the 4 "turning points" ("tekufot") of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs—tequfah of Tishrei, tequfah of Tevet, tequfah of Nisan, tequfah of Tamuz.

Labours of the Months

Otranto (Apulia, cathederal): Zodiac signs and labours form part of the mosaic scenes which cover the entire floor.

Landscape zodiac

They seem to play a part in personal belief systems, possibly as fictional devices; for example "The Brighton Zodiac" - created by Sally Hurst, based on the streets of that town - features as a plot device in Robert Rankin's novel "The Brightonomicon" .

In 2006, artist Nigel Ayers began to develop the idea of the Bodmin Moor Zodiac as a form of spatial detournement.

Marianne Pretorius

Here they climbed in 9 different states over a period of 5 months including Yosemite, where they started on the "Leaning Tower" and then went on to climb "The Nose" and "The Zodiac" on El Capitan in August 1999 - their first experience of big walls.

Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs

Williams finished high school and while on the road with the band (after their station wagon broke down in Bluefield, West Virginia), the band came across a small car known as the Zodiac and changed their name.

Northbrook Court

Also, scenes from the 1980 movie Ordinary People filmed on the escalators, the women's clothing section, and the Zodiac restaurant at Neiman-Marcus, showing Mary Tyler Moore's character, Beth, and Donald Sutherland's character Calvin, in their public personae.

Oenopides

However, when it saw how Thyestes, a mythological figure, was served his own son for dinner by his brother Atreus, the sun was so horrified that it left its course and moved to the zodiac instead.

Pushkaram

Pushkaram is a festival in India which occurs in any particular year with respect to one of twelve important rivers; the river for each year's festival is based on which zodiacal sign Jupiter is in at that time.

Reign of the Zodiac

Reign of the Zodiac is a comic-book series created in 2003 by Keith Giffen (writer), Colleen Doran (penciller) and Bob Wiacek (inker), and published by DC Comics.

Ruby Andrews

Most of Andrews releases on the Chicago-based Zodiac label were produced and written by the team of Fred Bridges, Robert Eaton and Richard Knight, who were also moderately successful as the vocal group Brothers Of Soul (of "I Guess That Don't Make Me A Loser" fame).

Sepharial

Sepharial's "Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised" (co-written with Charubel) foreshadowed Marc Edmund Jones's subsequent (and nowadays better known) work on Sabian Symbols.

Śrīpati

Genethlialogy was the science of casting nativities and it was the earliest branch of astrology which claimed to be able to predict the course of a person's life based on the positions of the planets and of the signs of the zodiac at the moment the person was born or conceived.

St Mark's Clock

The relative positions of five planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury) were shown, as were the moon's phases and the position of the Sun in the zodiac.

Steve Zodiac

Steve Zodiac (pseudonym adopted from the lead character of Fireball XL5) is a rock guitarist and prolific songwriter, who gained recognition in the early 1980s as frontman of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal band Vardis.

Steve is thought to have taken his last name from either Sylvia and Gerry Anderson's astronaut in 1960s television show Fireball XL5, or his Selmer Zodiac 100-watt amplifier, which had to be used at full volume to get the distortion and sustain which was fundamental to his sound.

Tai Sui

In the Chinese zodiac, there are sixty (originally 12 corresponding to the Earthly stems, later popularly believed to be 60, one for each stem-branch combination) heavenly generals (:zh:六十甲子神列表) who assist the Jade Emperor in taking charge of the well-being of the Mortal World.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders is the debut mystery novel of Soji Shimada, the musician and writer on astrology who is best known as an author of over 100 mystery novels.

The novel is brought up to the present, where a freelance illustrator and avid fan of mysteries, Kazumi Ishioka, is teaching his friend, the brilliant astrologer Kiyoshi Mitarai (who plays the Holmes to Ishioka's Watson) about the Zodiac Murders; Ishioka had been approached by a client who claimed to have new evidence about the murders.

The Zodiac Game

The Zodiac Game was a quiz programme devised by Ron Bareham that was produced by Anglia Television and aired on the ITV network from 1984 until 1986 and was hosted by Tom O'Connor.

Vasilis Kanatas

In this he introduces a new, speculative astrological theory which includes Ophiuchus to employ 13 zodiac constellations and proposes the replacement of the ascendant with the place of the Moon on the ecliptic.

Wingdings

This font contains many largely recognized shapes and gestures as well as some recognized world symbols, such as the Star of David and the symbols of the zodiac.

Zodiac Aerospace

In 1970, with the creation of Zodiac Espace as part of a joint project with the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies), the company revived its original core business: the air balloon.


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