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Astrea (other)
Astrea may refer to: * Astraea, Greek deity * Astrea, Colombia, a municipality in the department of Cesar, Colombia * ASTREA, an acronym for the Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies unit of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department * Astrea, a leading protagonist of the 1978 Filmation animated television series, ''Space Sentinels'' * Astrea, the pseudonym used by writer Aphra Behn * ''Astrea'' (coral), a genus of corals from the '' Merulinidae'' family * ''Astrea placata'', a Russian opera by Tommaso Traetta * ''Astrea Redux'', a poem by John Dryden * HMS ''Astrea'', one of several vessels, primarily frigates, of the Royal Navy * ''Il ritorno di Astrea'', a poem by Vincenzo Monti * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 or 1920 * Astrea, West End, a heritage-listed house in Queensland, Australia * A.S.D. Astrea Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Astrea, simply known as Astrea, is an Football in Italy, Italian association football cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astraea (mythology)
Astraea, Astrea or Astria ( grc, Ἀστραία, Astraía; "star-maiden" or "starry night"), in ancient Greek religion, is a daughter of Astraeus and Eos. She is the virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity and precision. She is closely associated with the Greek goddess of justice, Dike (daughter of Zeus and Themis). She is not to be confused with Asteria, the goddess of the stars and the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. The main belt asteroid 5 Astraea is named after her, and her name was also suggested for the planet Uranus. Mythology Astraea, the celestial virgin, was the last of the immortals to live with humans during the Golden Age, one of the old Greek religion's five deteriorating Ages of Man.Aratus, ''Phaenomena'' 97–128 In the Iron Age, the world was illegally rampant. People only coveted gold, while family and friends did not trust each other. According to Ovid, Astraea abandoned the earth during the Iron Age. Fleeing from the new wickedness of humanity, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrea, Colombia
Astrea is a municipality and town of the Department of Cesar in northern Colombia. Government of Cesar: Astrea Geography The municipality of Astrea limits to the north with the municipality of and northwest with Magdalena Department; to the south with the municipality of Chiriguana. It has an extension of 580 km². The average temperature throughout the year is 30 °C. The region is part of the geological Zambrano formation, formed in the < ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies
ASTREA is an acronym for Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies, the air support unit of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. ASTREA Base is located at Gillespie Field, Gillespie Field Airport in El Cajon, California. History 1972 - ASTREA began operations with three Korean War-era Bell 47G helicopters based at Gillespie Field in El Cajon. 1997 - On February 16, Deputy Patrick "Pat" S. Coyle, 42, died after the ASTREA helicopter in which he and pilot Ron Hobson were flying crashed in Sycamore Canyon, northeast of Santee, California. His death marked the first fatality in the then 25-year history of the sheriff's air support unit. 2003 - Cedar Fire (2003), Cedar Fire and Paradise Fire (2003), Paradise Fire 2005 - ASTREA receives two refurbished Bell_204/205#Upgrades, Bell 205A-1++ "Super Huey" firefighting helicopters. These are the first two aircraft purchased for the new regional fire helicopter program the county started after the October 2003 wildfires. Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Sentinels
''Space Sentinels'' (originally titled ''Young Sentinels'' and renamed midway through its only season) is a Saturday morning animated series produced by Filmation which debuted on the American NBC network on September 10, 1977 and ran for thirteen half-hour episodes. The science fiction action series follows a superhero team during missions to protect the Earth. Premise Three young Earth people were selected many centuries ago and teleported to another planet, where they were given eternal youth and superpowers. They were trained and returned to Earth, where they are tasked with protecting the planet and its vicinity, similar to the Green Lantern Corps. Hercules and Mercury through superhuman feats became the basis for the mythological Roman deities of the same names. They are joined by Astrea, namesake of the Greek deity but with unrelated powers. Their base of operations and living quarters is a spaceship hidden within the caldera of a dormant volcano. They are supervised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her into legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, she declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrea (coral)
Astrea may refer to: * Astraea, Greek deity * Astrea, Colombia, a municipality in the department of Cesar, Colombia * ASTREA, an acronym for the Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies unit of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department * Astrea, a leading protagonist of the 1978 Filmation animated television series, ''Space Sentinels'' * Astrea, the pseudonym used by writer Aphra Behn * ''Astrea'' (coral), a genus of corals from the '' Merulinidae'' family * ''Astrea placata'', a Russian opera by Tommaso Traetta * ''Astrea Redux'', a poem by John Dryden * HMS ''Astrea'', one of several vessels, primarily frigates, of the Royal Navy * ''Il ritorno di Astrea'', a poem by Vincenzo Monti * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 or 1920 * Astrea, West End, a heritage-listed house in Queensland, Australia * A.S.D. Astrea Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Astrea, simply known as Astrea, is an Football in Italy, Italian association football clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merulinidae
Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals. Characteristics All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The valleys are superficial or may be indistinct because of fan-like spreading or contortions in the ridges. Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae are the most closely related families. Genera The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family: *'' Astrea'' Lamarck, 1801 *''Australogyra'' Veron & Pichon, 1982 *'' Boninastrea'' Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 *''Caulastraea'' Dana, 1846 *''Coelastrea'' Verrill, 1866 *''Cyphastrea'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 *''Dipsastraea'' Blainville, 1830 *''Echinopora'' Lamarck, 1816 *'' Erythrastrea'' Pichon, Scheer & Pillai, 1983 *''Favites'' Link, 1807 *''Goniastrea'' Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 *''Hydnophora'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 *'' Hydnophyllia'' † Reis, 1889 *'' Isastraea''† Milne Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommaso Traetta
Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including reducing ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers. Biography Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari in the Apulia region, in Italy. He eventually became a pupil of the composer, singer and teacher Nicola Porpora in Naples, and scored a first success with his opera ''Il Farnace'' in Naples in 1751. Around this time, he came into contact with Niccolò Jommelli. From here on in, Traetta seems to have had regular commissions from all around the country, running the gamut of the usual classical subjects. Then in 1759, something untoward happened that was to trigger Traetta's first operatic re-think. He accepted a post as court composer at Parma. Parma, it has to be said, was hardly an important place in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dryden
'' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Romanticist writer Sir Walter Scott called him "Glorious John". Early life Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and Parliament. He was a second cousin once removed of Jonathan Swift. As a boy, Dryden lived in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, where it is likely that he received his first education. In 1644 he was sent to Westminst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Astraea
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Astraea'', HMS ''Astree'' or HMS ''Astrea'', after the figure of Astraea in Greek mythology: * was a storeship, formerly a Spanish ship captured in 1739. She was burnt by accident in 1743. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1781 and wrecked on the Anegada Reefs in the Virgin Islands in 1808. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1810, on harbour service from 1823 and broken up in 1851. * was a 38-gun fifth rate, formerly a French ship captured in 1810. She was renamed HMS ''Pomone'' in 1811 and was broken up in 1816. *HMS ''Astrea'' was a wooden screw frigate ordered in 1861, but canceled in 1863. * was an launched in 1893 and sold in 1920. She was then resold and finally broken up in Germany. Battle honours Ships named ''Astraea'' have earned the following battle honours: * Groix Island, 1795 *''Gloire'', 1795 *St Lucia, 1796 *Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincenzo Monti
Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the ''Iliad'' is considered one of the greatest of them all, with its iconic opening ("''Cantami, o Diva, del Pelide Achille,/L'ira funesta ..'", lib. I, verses 1-2) becoming an extremely recognizable phrase among Italians (for example, being the text shown when opening a font file in Microsoft Windows). Biography Monti was born in Alfonsine, Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna the son of Fedele and Domenica Maria Mazzari, landowners. He was educated at the seminar in Faenza and at the University of Ferrara, where he studied medicine and jurisprudence. Chronology In 1775 he is admitted to membership in the Academy of Arcadians and the next year his first book is published: "La visione di Ezechiello" ("Ezekiel's vision"). In 1778 Monti moves to Rome, invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrea, West End
Astrea is a heritage-listed duplex (building) at 19 Bank Street, West End, Queensland, Australia. It was built for Fedder Jensen. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Astrea, a two-storeyed timber building, was constructed as a pair of semi-detached houses. The architect may have been John Ibler, who in February 1888 called tenders for a pair of semi-detached brick and wood residences in Bank Street. They were erected for Fedder Jensen as an investment, and rented to white collar tenants. These included his son Magnus Jensen, a solicitor and Member of the Queensland Legislative Council 1904-15, who is first listed in the post office directories as resident on the east side of Bank Street in 1888. In 1909 the building was sold to Thomas and Harriet Walters, who converted it into a single residence, and possibly gave it the name Astrea. After falling into a state of disrepair Astrea was sold in 1981 and refurbished as a pair of semi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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