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Cassandra (other)
Cassandra is a prophetess in Greek mythology who was blessed with foresight but cursed, never to be believed. Cassandra may also refer to: Arts and entertainment *Cassandra (novel), ''Cassandra'' (novel), a 1984 novel by Christa Wolf *Cassandra (short story), "Cassandra" (short story), a 1978 short story by C. J. Cherryh *Cassandra (album), ''Cassandra'' (album), a 1997 album by Zoar *Cassandra (Theatre of Tragedy song), "Cassandra" (Theatre of Tragedy song), 1998 *Cassandra (ABBA song), "Cassandra" (ABBA song), 1982 *Cassandra (Red Dwarf), "Cassandra" (''Red Dwarf''), an episode of the television series ''Red Dwarf'' *Cassandra (film), ''Cassandra'' (film), a 1987 Australian horror film *''Cassandra: Warrior Angel'', a Filipino television series *Sun (Thomas Bergersen album), Cassandra (Two Steps From Hell song), 2014 * Cassandra (Sherbet song), "Cassandra" (Sherbet song), 1973 People and fictional characters * Cassandra (name), a given name (including a list of persons and cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra
Cassandra or Kassandra (; Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρα, , also , and sometimes referred to as Alexandra) in Greek mythology was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed. In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed. Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her elder brother was Hector, the hero of the Greek-Trojan war. The older and most common versions of the myth state that she was admired by the god Apollo, who sought to win her love by means of the gift of seeing the future. According to Aeschylus, she promised him her favours, but after receiving the gift, she went back on her word. As the enraged Apollo could not revoke a divine power, he added to it the curse that nobody would believe her prophecies. In other sources, such as Hyginus and Pseudo-Apollodorus, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Paulo Cassandra from 20 June 2006 to 5 October 2006. Cassandra is a member of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD)
João Paulo Cassandra (born 1961) is a São Toméan politician. He was President of the Regional Government of Príncipe Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of (including offshore islets) and a population of 7,324 at the 2012 Census; References Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandre (artist)
Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie MouronNotice d'autorité personne : Cassandre BnF, according to the international pseudonym convention described in the BnF authority file. (24 January 190117 June 1968) was a French painter, commercial poster artist, and designer. Early life and career He was born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in , Ukraine, to French parents. As a young man, he move ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Cassandra
Project Cassandra was an effort led by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to undercut Hezbollah funding from illicit drug sources in South America. Launched in 2007, the project was investigating the terrorist organization's funding. The DEA, Eurojust, and Europol found that Hezbollah was increasingly involved with drug trafficking and organized crime as a method of funding its activities. The investigation was tracking how hundreds of millions of dollars were being laundered from North America through Europe and West Africa to Lebanon and into Hezbollah's coffers. "Members of Hezbollah established business relationships with South American drug cartels responsible for supplying large quantities of cocaine to the European and United States drug markets. An intricate network of money couriers collect and transport millions of euros in drug proceeds from Europe to the Middle East. The currency is then paid in Colombia to drug traffickers using the Hawala dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apache Cassandra
Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, wide-column store, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients. Cassandra was designed to implement a combination of Amazon's Dynamo distributed storage and replication techniques combined with Google's Bigtable data and storage engine model. History Avinash Lakshman, one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo, and Prashant Malik initially developed Cassandra at Facebook to power the Facebook inbox search feature. Facebook released Cassandra as an open-source project on Google code in July 2008. In March 2009, it became an Apache Incubator project. On February 17, 2010, it graduated to a top-level project. Facebook developers named their database afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra (metaphor)
The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relates to a person whose valid warnings or concerns are disbelieved by others. The term originates in Greek mythology. Cassandra was a daughter of Priam, the King of Troy. Struck by her beauty, Apollo provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions. People have applied the metaphor in a variety of contexts, such as psychology, environmentalism, politics, science, cinema, the corporate world, and philosophy; it has been in circulation since at least 1914, when Charles Oman used it in his book '' A History of the Peninsular War'', Volume 5, published in 1914. "both of them agreed to treat the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandreia
Cassandreia, Cassandrea, or Kassandreia ( grc, Κασσάνδρεια, ''Kassándreia'') was once one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia, founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC. It was located on the site of the earlier Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek city of Potidaea, at the isthmus of the Pallene, Chalcidice, Pallene peninsula.POTEIDAIA (Nea Poteidaia) Chalkidike, Greece entry in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. The fact that Cassander named it after himself suggests that he may have intended it to be his capital, and if the canal which cuts the peninsula at this point was dug or at least planned in his time, he may have intended to develop his naval forces using it as a base with two harbours on the east and west sides. Cassa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra, Pennsylvania
Cassandra is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 147 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Cassandra is located in eastern Cambria County at (40.408989, -78.641040), in the valley of the Little Conemaugh River. Pennsylvania Route 53 passes just south of the borough limits, leading northeast to Cresson and southwest to Portage. Ebensburg, the county seat, is to the northwest, Altoona is to the northeast, and Johnstown is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Cassandra has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 136 people, 54 households, and 36 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 57 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 100.00% White. There were 54 households, out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra, Georgia
Cassandra is an unincorporated community in Walker County, in the U.S. state of Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the .... History A post office called Cassandra was established in 1855, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1950. The community was named after the ''Cassandra'', the ship an early settler had traveled in on a transatlantic voyage. An early variant name was "Hiniard's Crossroad". References Unincorporated communities in Walker County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) {{WalkerCountyGA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Connor
Sir William Neil Connor (26 April 1909 – 6 April 1967) was an English newspaper journalist for the ''Daily Mirror'' who wrote under the pen name of "Cassandra". Biography William Connor wrote a regular column for over 30 years between 1935Dennis Griiffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1492–1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 199 and 1 February 1967 with a short intermission for the Second World War, his column restarting after the war with the words "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, it is a powerful hard thing to please all of the people all of the time." He took his pen-name from Cassandra in Greek mythology, a tragic character who is given the gift of prophecy by Apollo but is then cursed so that no one will ever believe her. The very popular column helped the ''Mirror''s readership to grow to the highest in its history during the 1950s. His columns were simply written, in keeping with his working class readership, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Cassandra from 2006 to 2020.
Cassandra is leader of the Union for Change and Progress in Príncipe (UMPP), a regionalist independent group supported by the ruling Force for Change Democratic Movement- José Cardoso Cassandra (born 17 February 1964 in Príncipe) is a São Toméan politician. He was President of the Regional Government of Príncipe Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of (including offshore islets) and a population of 7,324 at the 2012 Census; [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra (name)
Cassandra, also spelt Kassandra, is a feminine given name of Greek origin. Cassander is the masculine form of Cassandra. In Greek mythology, Cassandra (Greek: Κασσάνδρα) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. She had the gift of prophecy, but was cursed so that none would believe her prophecies. The name peaked in popularity in the United States in 1990 with over 7000 girls named Cassandra born that year; the name is now rarer in the United States for babies, with only about 493 American girls called Cassandra in 2021. It is a common name in Greece and countries where Germanic and Romance languages are spoken. People *Cassandra Austen (1773–1845), English artist and elder sister of Jane Austen * Cassandra Bankson (born 1992), American model, student and YouTube personality *Cassandre Berdoz, Swiss event manager and Watchman of Lausanne Cathedral *Cassie Bernall (1981–1999), victim of the Columbine High School massacre *Cassandra Clare (born 1973) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
