Scylla (other)
Scylla is a monster from Greek mythology traditionally located at today's town of Scilla, Calabria. Scylla may also refer to: * ''Scylla'' (crustacean), a genus of swimming crabs including the economically important ''Scylla serrata'' * Scylla (database), a NoSQL database * Scylla (daughter of Nisus), a princess of Megara, a figure from Greek mythology unrelated to the monster * ''Scylla'' (Gatti), an opera first performed in the Paris Opera in 1701 * Scylla (Hugo), a character from the ''Hugo'' franchise, and an evil witch who is hungry for power * Scylla (mountain), a summit in California * Scylla Mountain, a summit in British Columbia * Scylla (Prison Break episode), ''Prison Break''s season four premiere * HMS ''Scylla'', a number of ships of the British Royal Navy * Siege of Scylla, two sieges of the fortress of Scilla, Calabria, in July 1806 and January 1808 * Operation Scylla, a 1943 Italian naval operation in the Second World War * 155 Scylla, an asteroid * Henry Davi ...
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Scylla
In Greek mythology, Scylla), is obsolete. ( ; grc-gre, Σκύλλα, Skúlla, ) is a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass dangerously close to Scylla and vice versa. Scylla is first attested in Homer's ''Odyssey'', where Odysseus and his crew encounter her and Charybdis on their travels. Later myth provides an origin story as a beautiful nymph who gets turned into a monster. Book Three of Virgil's ''Aeneid'' associates the strait where Scylla dwells with the Strait of Messina between Calabria, a region of Southern Italy, and Sicily. The coastal town of Scilla in Calabria takes its name from the mythological figure of Scylla and it is said to be the home of the nymph. The idiom "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being forced to choose between two similarly danger ...
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Operation Scylla
Operation Scylla ( it, Operazione Scilla) was the transit of the (Italian Royal Navy) Capitani Romani-class light cruiser on the night of 17/18 July 1943, during the Second World War. The cruiser sailed from La Spezia in the Tyrrhenian Sea to Taranto in the Ionian Sea during the Allied invasion of Sicily. ''Scipione Africano'' fought a night engagement against four British motor torpedo boats (MTBs) during its passage of the Strait of Messina. One MTB was destroyed and one damaged; ''Scipione Africano'' received superficial damage after being fired on by mistake by Axis coastal artillery. The action was the only time that an Italian warship made effective use of surface radar during an engagement in the war. Background Allied blockade of Sicily During the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky, 9 July – 17 August 1943) British Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) and Motor Gun Boats moved from Algeria to Malta and then to captured ports in Sicily. The Axis withdrawal from ...
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Silla (name)
Silla may refer to the following people: Given name * Silla Bjerrum, Danish restaurateur Surname * Agostino Scilla (1629–1700), Italian painter, also known as Silla * Arman-Marshall Silla (born 1994), Belarusian taekwondo athlete * Felix Silla (1937–2021), Italian stuntman and actor *Titina Silla (1943–1973), Guinea-Bissauan activist * Virginie Besson-Silla (born 1972), French film producer See also *Scilla (name) *Scylla (other) *Sillah *Sylla *Priscilla Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin ''Prisca'', derived from ''priscus''. One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer. The name first appears in the New Testament of Christianity variously as ...

Scilla (other)
''Scilla'' is a genus of perennial herbs. Scilla may also refer to *Scilla (name) *Scilla, Calabria, a town in Italy *Scilla Lighthouse in Italy * Dorsum Scilla, a wrinkle ridge on the Moon *Scylla, a monster in Greek mythology *A short form of Priscilla, a female given name *Scilla, a smart contract programming language for Zilliqa See also *Scylla (other) *Silla (name) *Sillah *Sylla Sylla can refer to: People Basketball players * Abdel Kader Sylla (born 1990), Seychelles basketball player Football players * Abdoul Karim Sylla (born 1981), Guinean football player * Abdoul Karim Sylla (born 1992), Guinean-Dutch football play ...

King Of The Monsters (2019 Film)
King of the Monsters may refer to: * ''King of the Monsters'' (video game), a 1991 video game ** ''King of the Monsters 2'', a 1992 video game * ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'', a 1956 film co-produced in the United States and Japan ** ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters'' (comic book), a comic book series published by Marvel Comics ** '' Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 3D'', an unproduced American film ** ''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' (2019 film), a 2019 American film See also * Godzilla is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film ''Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produc ...

Toni Halliday
Antoinette "Toni" Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the alternative rock band Curve, along with Dean Garcia. She was also a member of the bands Photofitz, The Uncles, State of Play and Scylla. Halliday released solo work as Toni Halliday and Chatelaine. She collaborated with artists like Robert Plant, Recoil, The Future Sound of London, Leftfield, Paul van Dyk, Freaky Chakra, DJ? Acucrack, Headcase, The Killers, Acid Android, and Orbital. Halliday has a contralto vocal range. Early life and career Halliday was born on 5 July 1964 in Parsons Green, London, and brought up in various locations across Europe, before eventually settling in Washington New Town, Tyne and Wear. From 1978 to 1980, Halliday was the lead vocalist in a punk rock band named Photofitz (initially called The Incest), after which she left to start a solo career. The first commercially released recording to feature Hall ...
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Marathon Man (film)
''Marathon Man'' is a 1976 American thriller film directed by John Schlesinger. It was adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller. In the film, "Babe" Levy, a graduate student (Hoffman), becomes embroiled in a plot by Nazi war criminal Christian Szell (Olivier) to retrieve stolen diamonds from a safe deposit box owned by Szell's dead brother. Babe becomes unwittingly involved due to his brother Doc's (Roy Scheider) dealings with Szell. It was a critical and box office success, with Olivier earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Szell, the film's antagonist. Plot Thomas "Babe" Levy is a history Ph.D. student and an avid runner researching the same field as his father, H. V. Levy, who died by suicide after being investigated during the Joseph McCarthy era. Babe's brother, Henry "Doc" Levy, poses as an oil company executive, but is actuall ...
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Brothers (Goldman Novel)
''Brothers'' is a thriller novel by William Goldman. It is the sequel to his 1974 novel '' Marathon Man'' and is Goldman's final novel. Daniel Woodrell wrote in ''The Washington Post'' that "The ultimate significance of the title becomes clear only in the surprising, explosive twist at the end." The BBC later aired a radio adaptation. It had mixed reviews, with Goldman himself rating it unfavorably. Plot In the sequel, Henry David "Hank" Levy (nicknamed "Doc" and "Scylla"), brother of '' Marathon Mans protagonist Thomas Babington "Tom" Levy (a.k.a. "Babe"), survives his stabbing. The plot concerns an effort to instigate World War III by means of simultaneous, worldwide terrorist attacks, which Scylla attempts to stop. Scylla's job is to kill American scientists who made three inventions meant to give the United States a military advantage against the Soviet Union. There are two factions in the U.S. government, the Bloodies, advocating war, and Godists, who wish for more peacefu ...
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Marathon Man (novel)
''Marathon Man'' is a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman. It was Goldman's most successful thriller novel, and his second suspense novel.D'Ammassa, Don. ''Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction''. Infobase Publishing, 2009139 Retrieved from Google Books on January 31, 2012. , . In 1976 it was made into a film of the same name, with a screenplay by Goldman, starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider and directed by John Schlesinger. Plot synopsis A former Nazi SS dentist at Auschwitz, Dr. Christian Szell, now residing in Paraguay, has been living on the proceeds of diamonds he extorted from prisoners there. The diamonds are kept at a bank in New York by his father. The sales and transfers of proceeds are facilitated by a secret US agency called "The Division" for whom Szell has provided information about other escaped Nazis. When his father dies in a car accident, Szell must come to New York himself to retrieve the diamonds, as there is no one else ...
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155 Scylla
Scylla (minor planet designation: 155 Scylla) is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa at the Austrian Naval Observatory on 8 November 1875, and named after the monster Scylla in Greek mythology. Two weeks after its discovery this asteroid became lost and was not recovered for 95 years. It was finally found by Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland with the aid of an ephemeris created in 1970 by Conrad M. Bardwell at Cincinnati Observatory. Photometric observations of this asteroid during 2008 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, gave an asymmetrical, bimodal light curve with a period of 7.9597 ± 0.0001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.46 ± 0.03 in magnitude Magnitude may refer to: Mathematics *Euclidean vector, a quantity defined by both its magnitude and its direction *Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object *Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector *Order of .... Reference ...
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Siege Of Scylla
The first siege of Scylla (Scilla) in Calabria took place from 12 to 24 July 1806 during the British expedition to Sicily to oppose the French invasion of Naples. Scylla Castle held out until 24 July when its 231-man garrison from the 23rd Light surrendered to Colonel Oswald's 2,600 soldiers. Oswald's command consisted of the 10th Foot, 21st Foot, and the Chasseurs Britanniques. The British garrisoned the fort, and intended to use the defensive position as an advanced post to the army in Sicily. However, the French retook the castle in a second siege in February 1808, and the British force was evacuated by sea. Background After pursuing the flying French for two days after the Battle of Maida, British General Sir John Stuart returned to Monteleone, and took measures for the recovery of the fortified posts round the extremity of the peninsula, chief of which was the Castle of Scylla. For this purpose he despatched a brigade under Colonel John Oswald, with some light artill ...
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Scylla (crustacean)
''Scylla'' is a genus of swimming crabs, comprising four species, of which '' S. serrata'' is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the .... The four species are: References Portunoidea Decapod genera Taxa named by Wilhem de Haan {{crab-stub ...
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