Cythera (other)
Cythera may refer to: ;Places * Cythera (island), an island of Greece, also written Kythira, Kythera, Kithira ** Cytherean: pertaining to the island Cythera * Cythera (ancient town), an ancient town on the island of Cythera ;Ships * USS ''Cythera'', the name of two United States Navy ships * ''Cythera'' (yacht), a steel ketch, designed and built by Peter A. Fenton, launched in 1962 * ''Cythera'', a yacht lost with all aboard during the Great Blizzard of 1888 ;Other * ''Cythera'' (video game) a computer game by Ambrosia Software * ''Cythera'' (novel), a 1998 novel by Richard Calder * In Cythera, a 2012 song by Killing Joke See also * Cytherea (other) *''The Embarkation for Cythera ''The Embarkation for Cythera'' ("L'embarquement pour Cythère") is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. It is also known as ''Voyage to Cythera'' and ''Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera''. Watteau submitted this work to the ...

Cythera (island)
Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, although it is distant from the main group. Administratively, it belongs to the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region, despite its distance from the Saronic Islands, around which the rest of Attica is centered. As a municipality, it includes the island of Antikythera to the south. The island is strategically located between the Greek mainland and Crete, and from ancient times until the mid 19th century was a crossroads of merchants, sailors, and conquerors. As such, it has had a long and varied history and has been influenced by many civilizations and cultures. This is reflected in its architecture (a blend of traditional, Aegean and Venetian elements), as well as the traditions and customs, influenced by centuries ...
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Cytherean
Cytherean is an adjective literally meaning ''of Cythera'' (Latin ''Cytherēa'', from the Greek adjective Κυθέρεια ''Kythereia'', from Κύθηρα ''Kythēra'' 'Cythera'). Cythera is a small Greek island, southeast of the Peloponnesus, and a legendary birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus). The word ''Cytherean'' was first applied to the goddess and later, due to word taboo, to the planet Venus that had been named after the goddess. When planetary scientists began to have a need to discuss Venus in detail, an adjective was needed. Based on the principles of Latin names in English, the regular adjectival form of the name is Venerean (or ''Venerian'', either pronounced ). However, these forms have an unfortunate similarity to the related word ''venereal'', as in venereal disease (related to "Venerean" as ''martial'' is to "Martian"), and is not generally used by astronomers. The term Venusian is etymologically messy (similar to saying "Earthian" or "Jupiterian") ...
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Cythera (ancient Town)
Cythera or Kythera ( grc, Κύθηρα) was the name of a town on the island of the same name. In antiquity it was part of Laconia. History In 424 BCE, during the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians made an expedition against the island of Cythera, with sixty ships. When they reached the island they first took Scandeia and then they went against Cythera town, which was then far from the sea. Its inhabitants resisted a time but then they agreed to submit to the Athenians, who afterwards established a garrison there. Some inhabitants of Cythera were moved for security reasons and the rest of the inhabitants had to pay a tribute of four talents. In the Peace of Nicias of the year 421 BCE it was stipulated that the Athenians should return Cythera to the Spartans; however, in the expedition to Sicily year 415 BCE, the Cythereans fought beside the Athenians. In the year 393 BCE, an expedition under the command of Pharnabazus II occupied Cythera and its inhabitants w ...
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USS Cythera
USS ''Cythera'' may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

Cythera (yacht)
''Cythera'' ( ), a steel ketch, designed and built single-handedly by Peter A. Fenton, was the first subject of modern-day piracy in Australian history and set a legal precedent to laws in effect from 1858. Background and design In the 1940s, after being discharged from the Royal Navy and spending one cold winter back in his native England, Peter Fenton left for warmer climates and moved to Epo, Indonesia. There, he ran a tin mine until the 1945 revolution compelled him to leave. Fenton arrived in Sydney in 1947. He eventually married and had one child. In 1961, aged 37, Fenton decided he would build a boat and go sailing. He spent a year teaching himself about yacht design and started night school to learn welding, since he had decided to build his boat of steel for strength instead of wood as previously planned. (It would have been a schooner named ''Misty Isles''). The renowned yacht designer Alan Payne commented that it was a "very hazardous undertaking to build of steel" ...
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Great Blizzard Of 1888
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Snow fell from in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and sustained winds of more than produced snowdrifts in excess of . Railroads were shut down and people were confined to their homes for up to a week. Railway and telegraph lines were disabled, and this provided the impetus to move these pieces of infrastructure underground. Emergency services were also affected. Storm details The weather was unseasonably mild just before the blizzard, with heavy rains that turned to snow as temperatures dropped rapidly. On March 12, New York City dropped from to , and rain changed to snow at 1am.
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Cythera (video Game)
Cythera may refer to: ;Places * Cythera (island), an island of Greece, also written Kythira, Kythera, Kithira ** Cytherean: pertaining to the island Cythera * Cythera (ancient town), an ancient town on the island of Cythera ;Ships * USS ''Cythera'', the name of two US Navy ships * ''Cythera'' (yacht), a steel ketch, designed and built by Peter A. Fenton, launched in 1962 * ''Cythera'', a yacht lost with all aboard during the Great Blizzard of 1888 ;Other * ''Cythera'' (video game) a computer game by Ambrosia Software * ''Cythera'' (novel), a 1998 novel by Richard Calder * In Cythera, a 2012 song by Killing Joke See also * Cytherea (other) *''The Embarkation for Cythera ''The Embarkation for Cythera'' ("L'embarquement pour Cythère") is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. It is also known as ''Voyage to Cythera'' and ''Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera''. Watteau submitted this work to the ...

Cythera (novel)
''Cythera'' is a science fiction novel by British writer Richard Calder, first published in 1998. While it is not explicitly advertised as a continuation of Calder's previous novels it does appear to be set in the same universe as his "Dead Girls" trilogy, as it references some of the background of the earlier novels and features two supporting characters - Kito and Mosquito - who were introduced in ''Dead Girls'', though knowledge of these novels is not required to understand this stand-alone novel. Due to the timeline given the events of ''Cythera'' appear to take place before those of ''Dead Girls'', making this a prequel of sorts. Richard Calder has said that the inspiration for the novel came from a series of news reports that he heard on the BBC World Service whilst living in Thailand which suggested that England was gripped by hysterical fear that bands of children were committing crime and mayhem and threatening to destroy society as we know it.His Own Aesthetic Richard C ...
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MMXII (Killing Joke Album)
''MMXII'' ("''2012''" in Roman numerals) is the fourteenth studio album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, released on 2 April 2012 by Spinefarm Records, distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group. Recording and production Following up the 2010 release of ''Absolute Dissent'', Killing Joke's original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Martin "Youth" Glover and Paul Ferguson worked on the new album in 2011, writing and recording about twenty-six tracks, mainly at The Doghouse Studio, Oxfordshire, England. The album, produced by the band, was programmed, engineered, mixed by Clive Goddard, Tom Dalgety, Michael Rendall, with additional work by Reza Udhin at Studio Faust Records in Prague, Czech Republic. Making guitar overdubs were avoided. Content Music ''MMXII'' is a dense and dark end-of-time album that explores the 2012 phenomenon with political, anti-capitalist and forward-looking themes, which is also able to find moments of optimism and hope, and ...
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Killing Joke
Killing Joke are an English rock music, rock band from Notting Hill, London, England, formed in 1979 by Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards), Paul Ferguson (drums), Geordie Walker (guitar) and Youth (musician), Youth (bass). Their first album, ''Killing Joke (1980 album), Killing Joke'', was released in 1980. After the release of ''Revelations (Killing Joke), Revelations'' in 1982, bassist Youth was replaced by Paul Raven (musician), Paul Raven. The band achieved mainstream success in 1985 with both the album ''Night Time (album), Night Time'' and the single "Love Like Blood (song), Love Like Blood". The band's musical style emerged from the post-punk scene, but stood out due to their heavier approach, and has been cited as a key influence on industrial rock. Their style evolved over many years, at times incorporating elements of gothic rock, synth-pop and electronic music, often baring Walker's prominent guitar and Coleman's "savagely strident vocals". Killing Joke have influenced ...
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Cytherea (other)
Cytherea refer to: * Cytherea, or Aphrodite, a goddess in Greek mythology Arts and entertainment * Cytherea (actress) (born 1981), an American pornographic film actress * ''Cytherea'' (film), a 1924 lost silent film based on the Joseph Hergesheimer novel * ''Cytherea, Goddess of Love'', a 1922 novel by Joseph Hergesheimer Biology * ''Cytherea'' (fly), a genus of bee flies (Bombyliidae) * ''Cytherea chione'', or ''Callista chione'', the smooth clam * ''Cytherea multistriata'', or ''Notocallista multistriata'', a marine bivalve mollusc * ''Acropora cytherea'', a species of coral * ''Cytherea'', a synonym for the orchid genus '' Calypso'' See also * Cythera (other) Cythera may refer to: ;Places * Cythera (island), an island of Greece, also written Kythira, Kythera, Kithira ** Cytherean: pertaining to the island Cythera * Cythera (ancient town), an ancient town on the island of Cythera ;Ships * USS ''Cythe ... * " Cytherean", a term referring to Cythera or Ven ...
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