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Kroton Educacional
Kroton, now Crotone, Italy, was an Achaean colony from on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto. Kroton may also refer to: * ''The Krotons'', a serial in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' * Kroton (Cyberman) Kroton is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine'' comic'' strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He was a companion of the Eighth Doctor. The character is separate from ..., character in the comic strips based on ''Doctor Who'' * Kroton Educacional, a Brazilian private educational company See also * Croton (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crotone
Crotone (, ; nap, label= Crotonese, Cutrone or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Calabria, Italy. Founded as the Achaean colony of Kroton ( grc, Κρότων or ; la, Crotona) in Magna Graecia, it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one. In 1992, it became the capital of the newly established Province of Crotone. , its population was about 65,000. History Croton's ''oikistes'' (founder) was Myscellus, who came from the city of Rhypes in Achaea in the northern Peloponnese. He established the city in c. 710 BC and it soon became one of the most flourishing cities of Magna Graecia with a population between 50,000 and 80,000 around 500 BC. Its inhabitants were famous for their physical strength and for the simple sobriety of their lives. From 588 BC onwards, Croton produced many generations of winners in the Olympics and the other Panhellenic Games, the most famous of whom was Milo of Croton. According to Herodotus (3.131), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Krotons
''The Krotons'' is the fourth serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 28 December 1968 to 18 January 1969. In the serial, the time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his travelling companions Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury) battle alongside the Gond race against the crystalline aliens the Krotons, who enslaved the Gonds in their city for thousands of years. Plot On an unnamed planet, a race called the Gonds are subject to the mysterious Krotons, unseen beings to whom they provide their brightest intelligences as "companions". Thara, son of the Gond leader Selris, is the only one to object to this practice; those who have become companions before have never been seen nor heard from again. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive in time to witness the death of the chosen companion Abu, who is vaporised by smoke sprayed from no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kroton (Cyberman)
Kroton is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine'' comic'' strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He was a companion of the Eighth Doctor. The character is separate from the Krotons, the villains of the 1968 serial ''The Krotons''. Kroton is a Cyberman, a member of the cybernetically augmented race that is one of the most persistent enemies of the Doctor. However, unlike other Cybermen, Kroton still retains human feelings despite undergoing cyber-conversion. Kroton first appeared in the comic strip ''Throwback — The Soul of a Cyberman'', published in ''Doctor Who Weekly'' #5-#7 (as it then was), written by Steve Moore and drawn by Steve Dillon. Character history In ''Throwback'', the Cybermen invade the planet Mondaran but continue to encounter heavy human resistance. Among the reinforcements from the Cyberman colony world Telos is Junior Cyberleader Kroton, who discovers that he sympathizes with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kroton Educacional
Kroton, now Crotone, Italy, was an Achaean colony from on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto. Kroton may also refer to: * ''The Krotons'', a serial in the science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' * Kroton (Cyberman) Kroton is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine'' comic'' strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. He was a companion of the Eighth Doctor. The character is separate from ..., character in the comic strips based on ''Doctor Who'' * Kroton Educacional, a Brazilian private educational company See also * Croton (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
