In Greek mythology, King Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, Ancient: [mǐːnɔːs] Modern: [ˈminos]) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every...
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far detector). The MINOS experiment started detecting neutrinos from the NuMI beam in February 2005. On 30 March 2006, the MINOS collaboration announced...
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Minotaur (redirect from Minos bull)
Μῑνώταυρος, a compound of the name Μίνως (Minos) and the noun ταῦρος 'bull', translated as '(the) Bull of Minos'. In Crete, the Minotaur was known by the...
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Minos was a mythical king of Crete. Minos may also refer to: Minos (dialogue), one of the dialogues of Plato Palace of Minos, a Bronze Age archaeological...
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92°14′30″W / 47.82000°N 92.24167°W / 47.82000; -92.24167 MINOS+ was a continuation of the MINOS experiment (Main injector neutrino oscillation search) to...
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Knossos (redirect from Palace of Minos)
wrote that Minos, the legendary king of Knossos, established a thalassocracy (sea empire). Thucydides accepted the tradition and added that Minos cleared...
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ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Minos, after the Minos of Greek mythology. The first HMS Minos (1840) was an early steam vessel, operating...
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Mino may refer to: Mino, Gifu, a city in Gifu Prefecture Mino, Kagawa, a former town in Kagawa Prefecture Mino, Tokushima, a town in Tokushima Prefecture...
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Mino ware (美濃焼, Mino-yaki) is a style of Japanese pottery , stoneware, and ceramics that is produced in Mino Province, mainly in the cities of Tajimi,...
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Rhadamanthus (redirect from Minos and Rhadamanthus)
— Plato's Laws, Book I King Asterius died childless and Minos inherited the throne. When Minos became the king of Crete, he drove Rhadamanthus out of Crete...
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