[Wikipedia] October 5: Orion (mythology)

[Faraaz Damji]

   Orion was a great huntsman of Greek mythology who was placed among the
   stars as the constellation of Orion.  He is described as a great hunter
   in the ancient Greek epic, the Odyssey, when Ulysses meets him in the
   underworld.  The bare bones of his story are told by the Hellenistic
   and Roman collectors of myths, but there is no record of him
   comparable to that of other Greek heroes, such as that of Jason in the
   Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes or in Euripides' Medea.  The
   remaining fragments of legend have provided a fertile field for
   speculation about the prehistory of Greek myth.  Ancient sources tell
   several different stories about Orion.  There are two major versions of
   his birth and several main versions of his death.  The most important
   recorded episodes are his birth somewhere in Boeotia, his visit to
   Chios where he met Merope and was blinded by her father, Oenopion, the
   recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete,
   his death by the blow of Artemis or of the giant scorpion which became
   Scorpio, and his elevation to the heavens.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1877:
   After battling the U.S. Army for more than three months, retreating
   over 1,000 miles across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, and
   enduring a five-day siege, Chief Joseph and his Nez Perce band finally
   surrendered.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Joseph)

1908:
   Prince Ferdinand became the first Tsar of Bulgaria since the Ottoman
   invasion in the 14th century.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Bulgaria)

1930:
   The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on its
   maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101)

1970:
   Members of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnapped British
   diplomat James Cross, sparking the October Crisis in Montreal, Canada.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec)

1986:
   The British newspaper Sunday Times published former nuclear
   technician Mordechai Vanunu<nowiki>'s</nowiki> story revealing details
   of Israel's nuclear capability.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu)


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Wiktionary's Word of the day:

   ballast: Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship or in the
   gondola of a balloon, to provide stability.
   (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ballast)


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Wikiquote of the day:

   The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular
   observations.  ... He does not confuse truth with plausibility; he
   takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful
   what is doubtful, and probable what is probable.  ... The philosophical
   spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.  -- Denis Diderot

   (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot)