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Rhode Island Constitutional Unionists
Rhode may refer to: *In Greek mythology: :*Rhodos, goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes :*Rhode, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus *Rhode (spider), ''Rhode'' (spider), a genus of spiders *Rhode (surname) *Rhode, County Offaly, an Irish town *Rhode, now Roses, Girona, Spain *Rhode, a suburb of Olpe, Germany *Rhode River, Maryland *Rhode-Saint-Genèse, a Belgian municipality See also * *Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state by area *Rode (other) *Rhodes (other) *Rohde {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodos
In Greek mythology, Rhodos/Rhodus () or Rhode (), was the goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes and a wife of the Solar deity, sun god Helios. Parentage Various parents were given for Rhodos. Pindar makes her a daughter of Aphrodite with no father mentioned, although scholia on Pindar add Poseidon as the father; for Herodorus of Heraclea she was the daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon, while according to Diodorus Siculus she was the daughter of Poseidon and Halia of Rhodes, Halia, one of the Telchines, the original rulers of Rhodes. According to Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Apollodorus (referring to her as "Rhode") she was a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and full sister to Triton (mythology), Triton. However, for Epimenides, her father was Oceanus, while according to a scholion on ''Odyssey'' 17.208 (calling her "Rhode"), her father was the river-god Asopus, thus making her a Naiad. Perhaps misreading Pindar, Asclepiades ("presumably the mythographer" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daughters Of Danaus
A daughter is a female offspring; a girl or a woman in relation to her parents. Daughterhood is the state of being someone's daughter. The male counterpart is a son. Analogously the name is used in several areas to show relations between groups or elements. From biological perspective, a daughter is a first degree relative. The word daughter also has several other connotations attached to it, one of these being used in reference to a female descendant or consanguinity. It can also be used as a term of endearment coming from an elder. In patriarchal societies, daughters often have different or lesser familial rights than sons. A family may prefer to have sons rather than daughters and subject daughters to female infanticide. In some societies it is the custom for a daughter to be 'sold' to her husband, who must pay a bride price. The reverse of this custom, where the parents pay the husband a sum of money to compensate for the financial burden of the woman and is known as a do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhode (spider)
''Rhode'' is a genus of woodlouse hunting spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ... in 1882. Species it contains nine species: *'' Rhode aspinifera'' (Nikolic, 1963) – Slovenia *'' Rhode baborensis'' Beladjal & Bosmans, 1996 – Algeria *'' Rhode biscutata'' Simon, 1893 – Mediterranean *'' Rhode magnifica'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 1978 – Montenegro *'' Rhode scutiventris'' Simon, 1882 ( type) – Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria *'' Rhode stalitoides'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 1978 – Bosnia-Hercegovina *'' Rhode subterranea'' (Kratochvíl, 1935) – Bosnia-Hercegovina *'' Rhode tenuipes'' (Simon, 1882) – France (Corsica) *'' Rhode testudinea'' Pesarini, 1984 – Italy References Araneomorphae genera Dysderidae T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
