Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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IT was during the reign of King Uther that Gorlois, the Duke of Tintadel. came to a great festival in the palace, bringing with him his wife, the seductive, creamy-skinned Igerne. Uther at once fell in love with Igerne. and declared his passion; she coldly tattled to Gorlois. and...
THIGHS like the stems of banana trees, hands like opening lotus flowers-such, in Buddhist legend, is the formula for sculpting a statue of Buddha. See ART, Inspired Copyists. pHILOCTETES was an illustrious Greek warrior who received his in vincible weapons of war - bow and ar rows - from his dying...
Years later, on the way to Troy, the archer accidentally scratched his foot with one of the poisoned arrows and was cast into exile by his companions, who found the smell of the wound un bearable. When the Greeks learned that only Hercules' arrow could win the war. they...
ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help...
ANGERED by Prometheus' theft of - fire from Mount Olympus. Jupiter sent the first woman. Pandora, to earth. Then he sent Pandora a mysterious box, calculating (rightly) that Pandora's feminine curiosity would force her to peep inside. She did. and released all the sorrows that afflict humanity. See...