• Julius Pollux (Greek: Ἰούλιος Πολυδεύκης, Ioulios Polydeukes; fl. 2nd century) was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naucratis, Ancient Egypt. Emperor...
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    Timandra, Phoebe and Philonoe, and the stepfather of Helen of Troy and Pollux. Tyndareus had a brother named Hippocoon, who seized power and exiled Tyndareus...
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    The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group, after San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain, the location of the palace of La Granja at which...
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    For his expedition's ship, Borchgrevink purchased in 1897 a steam whaler, Pollux, that had been built in 1886 in Arendal on the south east coast of Norway...
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    Charaxes pollux, the black-bordered charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Charaxes pollux can be found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia,...
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  • of 8.8 m (29 ft). Pollux was built for Trelleborgs Ångfartygs Nya A/B of Trelleborg and, after 17 years service, was sold in 1900 to Rederi A/B Avena...
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    Draught water buffalo in the Foro Romano, 1900; on the left are the three columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux....
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    Grafrath was sired (fathered) by Kastor (1), the son of the championship dog Pollux (1), and whelped by Lene (Sparwasser). Horand had a grey-yellow sable coat...
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    take the town all failed, the siege was eventually broken on 28 February 1900. Both Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were present at the siege, the...
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    Triangle will be high in the southwest. Aldebaran, Arcturus, Capella and Pollux are other first-magnitude stars which may be seen, although they will be...
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