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  Atropos
In Greek mythology, Atropos was one of the three Moirae, the Fates, the female deities who supervised fate rather than determine it.
Atropos was the fate who cut the thread or web of life.
She was known as the "inflexible" or "inevitable" and cut this thread with the "abhorred shears." She worked along with Clotho, who spun the thread, and Lachesis, who measured the length.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/atropos.html   (124 words)

  
  273 Atropos
Asteroid 273, Atropos, was discovered on March 8, 1888 by Johann Palisa at Vienna, Austria.
Atropos (in Greek, "the unbending") was named after one of the three Fates.
Atropos was the one with the shears with which she cut the thread of a person's life when his or her time was up.
www.geocities.com /mahtezcatpoc/atropos.html   (914 words)

  
 Five Star Stories - GEARS Online
Like her sister, Atropos was not subjected to the typical mind control of other fatimas, and as such, she is free to do whatever she chooses, even so far as to not select a master to serve.
At the beginning of the tale, Atropos fled her father's estate and took to wandering the barren steppes of Kastenpo (a region on planet Both).
Atropos is one of the finest fatimas in the galaxy and is a fair bit stronger than the average headdliner (she even managed to defeat Kaien by taking him by surprise).
www.gearsonline.net /fss/fatimas/atropos.html   (256 words)

  
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HARDGOTHIC RECORDS, which had seemed to be interested in releasing "Silent Touch", did not acquit themselves of this task and after a half year of the talks the band quit the co-operation and decided to release the material on their own (but not to stop seeking for a label).
ATROPOS used many experiments and maintained their specific atmosphere of the music.
Some gigs are on their ways, as well as new tracks which, together with those recorded for the EP, will be recorded for the full LP by the end of the year.
atropos.rockmetal.art.pl /atropos/english/bioe.html   (1316 words)

  
 Atropos
Atropos flailed its claw wildly, catching one Zealot in the side of the head, but still he had twenty more to contend with.
Atropos struggled to move his head; his jaw was protruding into his chest.
Atropos exited the Manifestation and discovered, to its horror, A line of Terran Siege tanks, covered by Protoss Scouts, hammering away at the central hive cluster.
www.angelfire.com /ca2/starcraft9/atropos.html   (1930 words)

  
 Machine Assisted Translation - Atropos : string cutter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Atropos takes a set of concordance files from the Silas compilation system and, using a set of parameters supplied by the editors, automatically selects the portion of each reference verse which best fits the concordance column.
ATROPOS is used to cut the strings of Bible verses for inclusion in text columns in concordances.
ATROPOS was written to give the MAT Team the ability to automate the string cutting process for concordances.
www.bfbs.org.uk /programs/prgatropos.html   (398 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The functions of this website are to act as a source of information about Atropos, to keep in touch with subscribers between issues and to provide a forum for discussion/identification.
At Atropos we are constantly looking for quality articles, photographs and information.
Organised by the RSPB in conjunction with Atropos and Dungeness Bird Observatory.
www.atropos.info   (111 words)

  
 Chrono Compendium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Atropos XR was a creation of the ultimate supercomputer Mother Brain and Robo's one true "love".
In the Origin of Machines Sidequest, Atropos XR and the Mother Brain were responsible for informing Robo of his previous quest to study and eliminate humanity.
In fact, after Robo defeated Atropos XR in single combat, Atropos XR regained her senses and handed Robo a certain Ribbon that would boost Robo's Speed and Magical Defense if plugged into his circuits.
www.chronocompendium.com /Term/Atropos_XR.html   (451 words)

  
 Hierarch Skuld Atropos
The Sacred Site focal point of Hierarch Skuld Atropos is the Willamette Park, which is located by the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. As Skuld (Norns), she was a Norse Germanic goddess of "that which shall be", who was one of the three Great Norns who lived at the Urdawell during ancient times.
As Atropos (Moirai, Moires, Fates), she was a Pre-Homeric Greek life thread transitions goddess who was depicted with a pair of scales.
One of the the Moirai Triad (the Three Fates) who determined the course of human life, she was responsible for the final part of a human life span when a mortal enmeshed in irreversible entropy had to undergo the transition across the thresholds of biochemical shell death.
www.blessingscornucopia.com /Hierarchs_of_Twelve_Universal_Rays_Hierarch_Skuld_Atropos_Moirai_Moires_Norns_Fates.htm   (507 words)

  
 www.houstonmunicipalart.org
Atropos Key refers to the Greek Goddess of Fate, Atropos, (the cutter of the thread of life).
According to Greek mythology, Atropos, and her sisters Clotho (the spinner of the thread of destiny) and Lachesis (the measurer of the thread) were responsible for human destiny.
Atropos Key is a polished, tooled-surface, cast-bronze sculpture mounted on a concrete trapezoidal base faced with fl slate.
www.houstontx.gov /municipalart/atropos.html   (186 words)

  
 ATROPOS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Atropos was the last and most important of the Three Fates, daughters of Night.
Criseyde asks Atropos to break in pieces her thread of life if she is false to Troilus, Tr IV.1545-1546.
Atropos means "not to be averted" or "the inevitable." Both forms are pronounced alike, the doubled consonant indicating an initial unstressed vowel, and may be scribal variants.
www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/A/atropos.htm   (143 words)

  
 Atropos
Of course, you must actually add the disk location of where the Kintecus NSC matrix files are actually stored on your computer, it could also be: -PREF:"C:\programme\kintecus\sensit".
This is important for Atropos to comment out the correct reactions.
Below is part of the NEW reduced ethanol combustion model created by Atropos.
www.kintecus.com /atropos.htm   (518 words)

  
 "THE FATES (ATROPOS)"
They were three and each of them had a different task: Lachesis spun the thread of life, Clotho wound it and Atropos, the most terrible of the three, cut it.
Atropos is on the right, holding scissors to fulfil her mission of cutting the thread of men's lives, who are symbolically represented by the figure of a small puppet hold by other fate.
The third one holds a circular instrument that has not been identified as unidentified is the presence of the fourth character.
museoprado.mcu.es /icuadro_julio_2001.html   (395 words)

  
 Death's-head Hawkmoth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
atropos is also very large, with a wingspan of 90-130 mm (three to five inches), being the largest moth in some of the regions in which it is found.
The species names atropos, styx and lachesis are all death-related.
atropos is Afrotropical and Mediterranean, occurring as far east as Kuwait and western Saudi Arabia, and as far west as the Canary Islands and Azores.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acherontia   (630 words)

  
 Moirae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Stephen King's 1994 Insomnia, the Moirae are depicted in the form of three doctors who visit people at the end of their life to cut their thread.
Atropos is depicted as a creature of Random while the other two are workers of Fate.
The Fates are depicted in the Incarnations of Immortality novels, and are the focus of With a Tangled Skein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fates   (882 words)

  
 Atropos Aniconica
A surreal and colourful fantasy oil painting of two figures that have left their footprints in the sand and stopped to stare upon a huge morphological structure which casts a deep reflection on the calm surface of the sea which appears to be floating above the sand of the foreshore.
The 'Atropos' is the fate that cuts through the thread of life.
It has the ability to elude all of the senses and can only be imagined from an 'Aniconical' and imaginative viewpoint.
www.steve-ackerman.com /page12.htm   (118 words)

  
 Hornblower and The Atropos 5
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain.
Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size.
www.bluewaterweb.com /NauticalBooks/Book.asp?SKU=0316289299&TopicID=156   (128 words)

  
 Atropos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atropos is also a British entomological journal - see Atropos (journal).
In Greek mythology, Atropos ("without turn", "she who cannot be turned away") was the third of the Moirae.
This page was last modified 14:56, 6 November 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atropos   (133 words)

  
 Hornblower and the Atropos - C. S. Forester - Penguin UK
After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet’s assault upon Napoleon, and Captain Hornblower must execute a bold and daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turk waters.
Under the guns of a suspicious port captain and the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos’s size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed and triumphant...
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141025049,00.html   (163 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Atropos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Atropos by Atropos - Magazine Subscription - 3 issues / 12 months
Hronblower and the Atropos by C. Forester (Hardcover - 1953)
Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Atropos by C. Forester (Hardcover - 1953)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Atropos&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (279 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/atroposproject
In the future, if a full time vocalist is found to work with, the older stuff will be revisited.
The Atropos Project is basically my take on music.
I'd write that "this is a band that defies classification", but you've read that TEN THOUSAND TIMES already.
www.myspace.com /atroposproject   (404 words)

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