(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(4) Sure, America did it almost 50 years ago but with each passing year Apollo seems to have less relevance to the modern exploration of space.
(5) Haydock spoke to a colleague who was living on a boat, stayed there to see whether she liked it, then started looking on a website called Apollo Duck .
(6) The test protocol was identical to that used in the first manned Skylab mission and the latter Apollo flights.
(7) Measurements of urinary hydroxylysine glycosides indicate that considerable collagen degradation occurred during the reentry into the earth's atmosphere of the American astronauts of the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
(8) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
(9) On Saturday, the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time will be performed at the Apollo Theatre in London, modified for people with autism, learning disabilities and sensory or communication needs.
(10) The Apollo guys , some of them hadn't had time to think about what this was going to be like.
(11) "Apollo 13 [the unsuccessful third mission to the moon in 1970] did not stop the space race," he said.
(12) Kate Bush plays 22 nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, London in August and September.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Tests were carried out on pocket mice to ascertain their tolerance to elevated oxygen pressures alone and to a combination of hyperoxta and heat in excess of that expected during the flight of the mice on Apollo XVII.
(16) Unlike the quick three-day Apollo flights to the moon, Ladee will need a full month to reach Earth's closest neighbour.
(17) Nasa showed how a stupendous goal could be achieved, amazingly fast, if the will and the resources are there,” said Professor Martin Rees, former head of the Royal Society and another member of the Apollo group.
(18) We constantly upgrade our phones, connect with each other through Facebook, pay our bills online, demand the most advanced medical treatments available when we get sick and drive cars that have more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon .
(19) Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal Read more The backers of the Global Apollo Programme , who also include Unilever CEO Paul Polman, economist Lord Nicholas Stern, MP Zac Goldsmith, former chair of the Financial Services Authority Lord Adair Turner and former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, urge the world’s nations to back the plan ahead of a crunch climate summit in Paris in December.
(20) Neil Armstrong , the Apollo 11 commander and first human to walk on the moon, died last August.
Daphne
Definition:
(n.) A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.
(n.) A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(2) The number of complaints about BBC1's Daphne du Maurier adaptation totalled 1,384 on Thursday morning, up from 798 the day before.
(3) For what it’s worth, I thought of Sadness and Joy as like Velma and Daphne from Scooby Doo , of equal importance in the long run.
(4) But only together | Daphne Wysham Read more “We believe we can play an important role in developing the Arctic’s energy resources.
(5) He is survived by his second wife, Marilyn (nee Gasson), whom he married in 1979; by their children, Thomas, Elizabeth, Gabriel and Joshua; and by his daughter, Imogen, from his first marriage, to Daphne Brewer, which ended in divorce.
(6) He left Daphne for Toronto, before then going to Egypt and finally Somalia.
(7) A new (-)-4-oxo-2,6-bis-(3',4'-methylenedioxy phenyl)-3, 7-dioxabicyclo[3, 3, 0] octane lignan, genkdaphin was isolated from the leaves of Daphne genkwa Sieb.
(8) He grew up in Daphne, a community of 20,000 outside Mobile, the son of a Christian mother and a Syrian-born Muslim father.
(9) He returned to the subject in 1993 with The Candlemass Road, a short novel which at times seems like one of Daphne Du Maurier's historical romances, except that the love interest stops dead, perhaps realistically so.
(10) Hb Daphne showed low cooperativity with high oxygen affinity.
(11) A Derbyshire farmer, Daphne Tilley, told the Guardian that her family business was left with £9,000 of unpaid bills after a restaurant she supplied with meat run by the celebrity chef Tom Aikens went bust.
(12) Deputy senior district judge Daphne Wickham adjourned the case because she did not have "sufficient" powers to pass sentence.
(13) The second instalment of the TV adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, starring Downton Abbey actor Jessica Brown Findlay, was watched by 4.5 million viewers, a 19.4% share of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm on Tuesday.
(14) Two mutant Hbs (Hb Nymphéas [Cys-93 beta----Ser] and Hb Daphne [Cys-93 beta----Ser, His-143 beta----Arg]) were constructed by site-directed mutagenesis using synthetic oligonucleotides.
(15) The audience for the second episode of the adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel fell by 1.6 million following hundreds of viewer complaints over mumbling in the first episode.
(16) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
(17) Daphne Cotton Twickenham, Middlesex • You are right to exonerate Twitter from blame for the summer riots.
(18) "He was only pretending to be a friend," Daphne tells herself, "something no interviewer, probably, had ever been."
(19) In an industry full of pomp he could cut through it with tailor's scissors, and he was, as his friend Daphne Guinness put it, "generous without noise".
(20) Daphne Selfe: 'I have my physical limitations – I can't wear high heels now, for instance.