HISTORY: The Legend of the Minotaur

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Since we are talking about this legend, here is a short synopsis of it and mention of the key players. What is interesting is the unraveling of the silk; I thought there was an allusion about that somewhere in the book. I will have to look.

Here is the short synopsis of the legend: (very interesting in view of Jesse's comments)

http://www.greekfoodanddrink.com/culture/mythology/LegendsMinotaur.htm

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The Cicero Homepage:

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Cic.html

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The Meditations:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/marcuaurelius1.html

Biography of Marcus Aureilius:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

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The Aeneid by Virgil:

http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html

Bibliography: (U of Penn)

http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/home/bibliography.html

Biography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil

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The History Guide:

http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/thucydides.html

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http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_ayn_rand_aynrand_biography

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

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Regarding Thomas Hardy:

http://www.andover.edu/english/hardymisc/home.html

Regarding Locke:

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/locke.htm

Regarding Rousseau:

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/rousseau.htm

Regarding the legend of Medusa:

http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/medusa.htm

Who was Dorothy Hamill (figure skater)?

http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/medusa.htm

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The Ainu:

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2244.html


The Moors (Moorish):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors

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Moonboots:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_boot


Funny Girl - Barbara Streisand:

http://members.aol.com/streisandsite/funnygirl.html

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Legend of the Golden Fleece:

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/mythnet/html/quest.html


Maria Callas: 311

http://www.callas.it/english/dischi.html

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http://www.maharishi.org/overview/maharishi.html

Nietzche:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

Apollonian v Dionysian: 294

http://personal.centenary.edu/~vkintner/debate.html

http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/ApollonianVsDionysian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonian_and_Dionysian

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Lake St. Clair:

http://www.great-lakes.net/lakes/ref/stclfact.html

Chris Crafts (boats)

http://www.chriscraftboats.com/leg_yesterday.aspx

John Birch Society:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

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Paris Peace Accords:

http://www.aiipowmia.com/sea/ppa1973.html

Napalm:

http://www.killerplants.com/plants-that-changed-history/20021008.asp

Decoupage:

http://www.decoupage.org/

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Darius:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_I_of_Persia

Stradivarius:

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmah/stradv.htm

Troy and Schliemann:

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320Hist%26Civ/chapters/04TROY.htm

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Queen Victoria (317)

http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/

Coleman Young (282)

http://www.cnn.com/US/9711/29/young.obit.pm/

Marxism and more than you ever wanted to know: (315)

http://www.marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm

Aaron Copland (320)

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Tower of Pisa (277)

http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/index_eng.html

Apollo 11:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo11.html

Sammy Davis - Bojangles Song:

http://www.lyricwiki.org/Sammy_Davis_Jr.:Mr._Bojangles

Chaucer (293)

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm

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Shakespeare (293)

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

Donne (293)

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/

Swift (293)

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761575255/Swift_Jonathan.html

Wordsworth: (293)

http://www.bartleby.com/145/wordchrono.html

Dickens (293)

http://www.helsinki.fi/kasv/nokol/dickens.html

Tennyson: (293)

http://tennysonpoetry.home.att.net/

EM Forster (293)

http://www.musicandmeaning.com/forster/

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2001 Space Odyssey (312)

http://www.filmsite.org/twot.html

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This is the Dorothy Hamill url that I meant to post earlier and mistakenly posted the previous legend one instead.

http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_13371.htm