The Argive king Tantalus began a pattern of destruction for Argos after he offended the gods by feeding them his son Pelops at a banquet. |
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The gap between his aspirations and achievements slowly drove Tantalus mad. |
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In May, a civilian helicopter airlifted the components to their final site in the Tantalus mountain range, a seven-minute flight from Squamish. |
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In 1844 a German chemist, Heinrich Rose, discovered what he considered to be a new element occurring along with tantalum and named it niobium after Niobe, the mythological goddess who was the daughter of Tantalus. |
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He will remember that Tantalus was punished because, having been admitted to rub shoulders with the Greek gods at heaven's high feast, he failed to curb the intemperance of his tongue. |
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The Sea-to-Sky Volunteer Centre is at the north end of Squamish, only 35 minutes south of Whistler, in the new Spectacle Building at 40437 Tantalus Road. |
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According to an Olympian Ode written by Pindar in the 5th century BC, Pelops, the son of Tantalus, came from Asia Minor to Peloponnese to compete in a chariot race organised by Oenomaos, the king of Pisa in Peloponnese. |
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More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus, a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters. |
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Green monkeys are also called vervets, tantalus, sabeus, and grivet monkeys. |
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Over all, there brooded the shadow of his injuries and the tantalus of their slow healing. |
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Yes, there was a tantalus containing brandy and whisky on the sea-chest. |
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