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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This deposit may be the largest landslide in the solar system, with the possible exception of the Olympus Mons aureoles on Mars (which may or may not be landslide deposits).
Adjacent to Euboea Montes is Creidne Patera, a 170-kilometer-long volcanic caldera.
Voyager 1 detected thermal radiation from Creidne Patera, suggesting that these flows may have been active at the time (1979).
www.lpi.usra.edu /resources/stereo_atlas/HTDOCS/IEUB-BL2.HTM   (239 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 315 - 14 June, 1979 - Estimates, 1979. - Vote 46: Defence (Resumed).
The sail training vessel Creidne completed its full programme of cruises during 1978 despite the fact that the weather during the season was the worst experienced since the sail training scheme began about ten years ago.
Creidne spent a total of 156 days on cruises covering a total of 5,296 miles and 121 adults, 170 boys and 46 girls went to sea on the vessel.
In this race Creidne finished in 12th position out of eighteen vessels in her class, a very creditable performance in view of the types of vessel against which she was competing.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0315/D.0315.197906140025.html   (9211 words)

  
 Beware Any Who Would See Here
"Creidne..." A glance up revealed that stubborn expression the regent always got when someone was resisting her determination to take care of some member of her family.
Inside the hut, Creidne frowned and stopped by the cunningly built handwashing station to remove the evidence of the morning's work from her hands and under her fingernails.
Creidne could always tell when her youngest sister was remembering now, because she chewed her fingernails when upset.
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 Catalog Page for PIA00327
The partly fl-filled caldera at far left is Creidne Patera.
The composition of the prevalent volcanic plains of Io could consist dominantly of sulfur with a thin discontinuous coating of sulfur dioxide frost or of silicates (such as basalt) coated with sulfurous condensates.
The fl material in Creidne Patera is where sulfur or silicates are probably still molten, whereas the brown material in the caldera is probably where the sulfur has solidified.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA00327   (142 words)

  
 fatherhood.ca - Creidne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Creidne In Irish mythology, Creidne was a female warrior.
For any who may end up wondering: Eomer is pronounced ee-mer, and Creidne is pronounced Crayd nah...
He is usually named together with Luichtne the carpenter, Creidne the wright, and Dian Cecht the...
www.fatherhood.ca /Creidne/reference/fullview/wikipedia/558998   (116 words)

  
 a female in transition...
He knew she didn't want the mare saddled by anyone but her but she did like to have the tack ready when she was.
Creidne paused at the door while her eyes adjusted to the dim light inside the stable.
Ceri was well aware by now of Creidne's presence and stomped her hoof in anticipation of getting out into the fresh air.
home.maine.rr.com /sfe2/wblog/archives/2003_03_30_index.html   (462 words)

  
 Io
Haemus Montes is the rectangular-shaped mountain at lower left and Euboea Montes is the elliptical-shaped mountain at center.
Creidne Patera, a large dark volcanic complex at image center, is a site of effusive volcanism similar to volcanic calderas on Earth (such as Hawai'i).
Just above Creidne is Maasaw Patera, a series of radiating brownish lava flows emanating from a volcanic caldera (or collapse pit).
www.lpi.usra.edu /resources/outerp/io.html   (1116 words)

  
 Dáil Éireann - Volume 289 - 25 March, 1976 - Vote 45: Defence.
The Yacht Creidne, which was purchased last year to enable sail training [333] to be continued pending the construction of the proposed new vessel Brendan, carried out a full programme of training cruises during the 1975 sailing season.
Creidne spent a total of 137 days on cruises covering a distance of nearly 5,000 miles.
Over 50 persons in all will be involved as crew members on Creidne from the time she leaves Dún Laoghaire until her return to Galway in late August.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /D/0289/D.0289.197603250009.html   (15364 words)

  
 Airmid's Story
It is for this reason that the God of Medicine, DianCécht, and the God of Craftsmen, Creidne, were summoned to the Hill of Tara (home of kings).
Creidne said he could make a new arm for Nuada of silver but that it would only be a mechanical device, not as good as the original.
To resolve this dilemma, the two gods worked together and it was determined that Creidne could make an arm of silver in the likeness of the original, and that DianCécht could give this arm the life and movement of a real arm.
www.summerlands.com /_members/blfsnhdtcqmgngstraoueieaoiuiioae/members/airmids/airmids_story.htm   (2276 words)

  
 World Mysteries - Articles by Robert Baird
There is an extant treatise on an alchemical process credited to one of them and it may even be the one we see as temptress in the movies and books about the Antonine Roman Emperors.
That one certainly did a cosmetics to herbalist authorship and may also have copied or been inspired by Creidne’s work on weights and measuring systems which I believe would have been in the Great Library where people of station like Jesus also probably went.
Her tutor or teacher by the name of Commarius also probably taught Jesus and the other Biblical characters who actually tried to know what they were talking about.
www.world-mysteries.com /gw_rb5.htm   (1508 words)

  
 Famous Members of the Amazon Nation
Creidne was one such Amazon, numbered among the Fianna 'the warriors of destiny.' This was no small achievement, and says a great deal about how Amazons were trained, for like all of the Fianna, Creidne had to be an excellent athlete, warrior, and poet.
Her courage had to be such that she could stand unflinching as spears were hurled at her.
The combination of Amazon and early Celtic tradition and memory of Amazons like Creidne led to women in northern and insular Europe remaining openly equal with and independent of men well after the forcible introduction of christianity.
www.moonspeaker.ca /Amazons/amembers.html   (6840 words)

  
 Shay McCarthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Shay loved his time in the reserve and was an excellent ERA when the sail training yacht "Creidne" took to sea.
You always felt that sense of security when he was on board particularly as we always seemed to have a dodgy engine fitted to Creidne.
However true to form he could keep that engine going at all times, particularly when it was badly needed in very rough weather heading into Port.
homepage.eircom.net /~shaymccarthy/shay.htm   (234 words)

  
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In some areas, such as at Euboea Fluctus (lat 46¡ S., long 350¡), the depressions are elongate and appear to be bounded by subparallel, curvilinear scarps.
Interpretation: Volcanic flows, pyroclastic deposits, sulfur-rich fumarolic deposits, and possibly active or extinct lava lakes in calderas or fissures; materials may be composed of sulfur, sulfur compounds, or silicates CONE MATERIAL c Cone materialÑForms raised rims surrounding some occurrences of patera floor material.
Interpretation: Tectonically deformed ancient silicate crust or extremely viscous silicate lava flows, possible association with tectonism and local reheating due to thermal anomaly in Creidne Patera (Schaber and others, 1989) ms Smooth materialÑForms elevated, relatively smooth terrain protruding above present surface.
astrogeology.usgs.gov /Projects/PlanetaryMapping/DIGGEOL/galsats/io/iotxt.asc   (4794 words)

  
 MacCulloch's Religion of the Ancient Celts: Tuatha de Danann
Luchtine, god of carpenters, provided spear-handles for the battle, and with marvellous skill flung them into the sockets of the spear-heads.
Diancecht, whose name may mean "swift in power," was god of medicine, and, with Creidne's help, fashioned a silver hand for Nuada.
His son Miach replaced this by a magic restoration of the real hand, and in jealousy his father slew him--a version of the Märchen formula of the jealous master.
www.celtic-twilight.com /otherworld/druidism/macculloch/tuatha.htm   (9231 words)

  
 USGS Astro: Planetary Nomenclature - Io Nomenclature Patera
Chors Patera 69.0N 251.0W 69.2 UR SL 3 0 83 PE Slavic sun god.
Creidne Patera 52.4S 343.5W 125.0 EU CE I1549 JI04 5 1979 27 PE Celtic smith god.
Cuchi Patera 1.0S 145.0W 70.0 OC AU I1550 5 2000 83 PE Australian snake demon whose growl is thunder.
planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov /jupiter/iopate.html   (2428 words)

  
 Celtic Female Names of Ireland
Cori — derived from the word meaning "from the hollow".
Creidne — a woman warrior of the Fianna.
Cuimhne — (COOV-nee?) an Otherworld woman who helped Morgan get his wife back from Brandubh, who kidnapped her.
www.daire.org /names/celtirishfem.html   (4800 words)

  
 Irish Naval Service Reserve
This training starts with small boat handling skills under both power and sail.
Training takes place on the larger vessels such as S.T.Y. Creidne a 50-foot Yacht and Freya a 35-foot Motor Launch.
Members will also train onboard Naval Service vessels and undertake operational patrols with the Naval Service.
homepage.eircom.net /~navalreserve/training.htm   (152 words)

  
 AN SLUA MUIRI
You will also have an introduction to seamanship and will experience some seatime afloat on the vessels used by An Slua Muiri.
In Dublin the vessels include a modern motor launch MTL "Niamh" and a 52ft large sail training vessel STY "Creidne" which is equipped with Radar.
Echo Sounder, Decca navigation, Global positioning equipment and much more to make your weekends away at sea very interesting and enjoyable.
indigo.ie /~mattcom/slua.htm   (875 words)

  
 The Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands
When Goewin was kidnapped by Gilfaethwy, he also captured the means of stealing the throne.
Description: One of a triad of crafsmen with Luchtaine the wright and Creidne the brazier.
He forged all of the Tuatha De Danann's weapons which always hit their mark and every wound created by the weapons were fatal.
www.scns.com /earthen/other/seanachaidh/godcelt.html   (9973 words)

  
 PSR Discoveries: Mountains on Io
The map allowed them to make height measurements.
Euboea Montes is a football-shaped mountain (175 km by 240 km) about 40 kilometers east of Creidne Patera caldera.
Schenk and Bulmer mapped a curved ridge crest (10.5 +/- 1 km at its highest point) which divides Euboea Montes into two sections: the steep, southern flank with an uneven surface of rounded mounds and the smoother, northern flank sloping about 6
www.psrd.hawaii.edu /April98/io.html   (1198 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: On the Edge of a Dream: The Women of Celtic Myth and Legend: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Exerting all the primal pull of great storytelling, these haunting and lyrical tales activate ancient memories buried deep within our collective unconscious.
From the sea goddess Fand to Cerridwen who can change her shape at will to the great warrior Queen Creidne, the women of Celtic literature are here celebrated for their ingenuity, spirit, physical courage, and deep instinctual nature.
Featuring startling transformations and sweet revenge, bawdy humor and melancholy lyricism, the tales gathered in this collection celebrate primal female experience and the deep reverence the Celts had for all natural phenomenon.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0452279380   (915 words)

  
 Pagan Cellar
Creiddylad Daughter of the Sea God Llyr and a Sea Queen, later known as the Welsh Goddess Cordelia in Shakespeare’s play.
Creidne Master sword maker named “The Bronze Worker.”
He was born with the strength of a man and a burning rage to conquer all in his path, Champion of Erin.
groups.msn.com /PaganCellar/celticdeities.msnw   (988 words)

  
 FREUMH À TALAMH TIORAM
Their recipe for health was cheerfulness, temperance and exercise.
When Nuadha, an early King of Ireland, lost his hand -- Creidne an artificer put a silver hand upon him.
The fingers of that hand were capable of motion.
homepage.mac.com /macfhionn/FREUMH/FeallsanachdDiadhaireachd/FNLee/Stonehenge.html   (11398 words)

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