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  Hydra
Hydra live attached to vegetation by the base of the tubular body or column, with their tentacles suspended free in the water.
Hydra will only rarely be spotted in their natural habitats, but if samples of aquatic vegetation are transferred to a clear glass or plastic container, they will often be found in considerable numbers.
Hydra (Chlorohydra) viridissima (green hydra) is a bright green species, owing to the presence of numerous algae called zoochlorellae, which live as symbionts within the endodermal cells.The zoochlorellae carry out photosynthesis and produce sugars that are used by the hydra.
www.northern.edu /natsource/INVERT1/Hydra1.htm   (1991 words)

  
 Hydra (mythology) - MSN Encarta
Hydra (mythology), in Greek mythology, nine-headed monster that dwelled in a marsh near Lerna, Greece.
A menace to all of Árgos, it had fatally poisonous breath and when one head was severed, grew two in its place; its central head was immortal.
Hercules, sent to kill the serpent as the second of his 12 labors, succeeded in slaying it by burning off the eight mortal heads and burying the ninth, immortal head under a huge rock.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562446/Hydra_(mythology).html   (118 words)

  
 Hydra
The Hydra which lived in the swamps near to the ancient city of Lerna in Argolis, was a terrifying monster which like the Nemean lion was the offspring of Echidna (half maiden - half serpent), and Typhon (had 100 heads), other versions think that the Hydra was the offspring of Styx and the Titan Pallas.
Also the stench from the Hydra's breath was enough to kill man or beast (in other versions it was a deadly venom).
After he had killed the Hydra, Heracles dipped the tips of his arrows into the Hydras' blood, which was extremely poisonous, making them deadly.
www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hydra.html   (426 words)

  
 Traditional Settlement of Hydra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
he roots of Hydra's social structure are to be sought in the second half of the 15th century and later, in the framework of the inland settlements made under Ottoman coercion.
Hydra reached the height of its achievement as a result of its nautical power during the later years of the 18th century and on down to 1815.
The settlement is concentrated along the length of a central path, parallel to the slope of the land.
www.culture.gr /2/21/212/21202a/e212ba02.html   (105 words)

  
 Hydra Home Page
Hydra is a new microarchitecture that combines shared-cache multiprocessor architectures, innovative synchronization mechanisms, advanced integrated circuit technology and parallelizing compiler technology to produce breakthroughs in microprocessor cost/performance and parallel processor programmability.
In Hydra, four high performance processors are integrated on a single die.
Hydra represents a new way to build microprocessors that will demonstrate that it is possible for a multiprocessor to achieve better performance and better cost/performance than wide superscalar mircroarchitecture on sequential applications.
www-hydra.stanford.edu   (238 words)

  
 Micrographia: Fresh Water Hydrozoa. An introduction to Hydra with photomicrographs.
Hydra fusca with buds: from Carpenter and Dallinger, 1891.
Hydra is included in the phylum Cnidaria, along with sea anemones, jellyfish and coral polyps, and is one of the few freshwater members of this group.
Hydras are often found hanging from the underside of the floating leaves of various pond plants.
www.micrographia.com /specbiol/cnidari/hydrozo/hydr0100.htm   (971 words)

  
 Greece Travel: The Island of Hydra
Hydra is the former home of Leonard Cohen and stomping grounds of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Pink Floyd and many other famous and not so famous people.
Hydra is a little expensive, but not as much as Mykonos and there are still bargains to be found on the backstreets in the way of food, hotels and entertainment.
Hydra is as traditional looking as even the most remote village once you break away from the masses.
www.greektravel.com /greekislands/hydra/intro.htm   (1602 words)

  
 Micscape - Microscopy Article: Hydra
The regenerative powers of hydra are quite remarkable, a single hydra may be cut into many pieces and provided that each piece contains a portion of the two body layers, ectoderm and endoderm, it will develop into a complete animal.
This is a symbiotic relationship in which the algae make use of those substances that the hydra would normally excrete, such as carbon dioxide, phosphates and nitrogenous substances.
Hydra can be found attached to water-plants, stones etc., with its cylindrical body hanging downwards, with the tentacles gently moving.
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/articles/hydra.html   (537 words)

  
 green hydra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hydras are tiny animals, which are closely related to jellyfish.
Green Hydras use a sticky body fluid at their base to attach to an object in a place where there is a lot of food swimming by.
The population (amount of hydras in one place at one time) is at its greatest in late Spring and early Summer.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/green_hydra.htm   (394 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Adams vs Hydra: Man 0.5 — Machine 5.5
Hydra, which made the same score, was running on its special-purpose hardware but Fritz was running on a laptop computer from the local department store.
Hydra hasn't played very much chess, and as it is a machine rather than a program, Mickey could not have a 'copy' to put under the microscope.
Hydra's style was as clear as crystal, its moves were direct, to the point, and rather devastating.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2476   (2113 words)

  
 Hydras
Hydras managed to overcome this barrier and are found almost everywhere in clean water where they can attach themselves to a substrate (plants, stones).
Hydras had already been studied by Van Leeuwenhoek in 1703 and by Trembley in 1744, who did a lot of ingenious experiments and wrote a fine monograph about hydra.
The green hydra is hermaphroditic, meaning that male and female organs (gonads) are located on the same animal.
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/artjan99/janhydra.html   (521 words)

  
 DMRL: HYDRA - High-performance Data Recording Architecture
The goal of HYDRA is to improve current and enable new applications by acting as an efficient media stream coordinator that manages the transmission, recording, and playback of many different data streams simultaneously.
The objective of HYDRA is to use a unified paradigm that integrates multi-stream recording, retrieval and control in a synergetic manner.
HYDRA aims to provide the same services for all media, independent of their bandwidth requirements, resolution or modality.
dmrl.usc.edu /hydra.html   (1103 words)

  
 Hydra articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
hydra HYDRA [hydra], common name for freshwater organisms in the phylum Cnidaria, which includes jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals.
Hydras are widely distributed in lakes, ponds, and sluggish streams.
Hydra HYDRA [Hydra] in astronomy, southern constellation lying S of Corvus, Crater, Virgo, Leo, and Cancer.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06193.html   (489 words)

  
 Hydra
Hydra is ideal for applications that require direct connection to a PC for real-time data collection.
The 2635A Hydra Data Bucket has been designed for applications where data is gathered in a stand-alone manner "on location" and later uploaded to a PC for analysis and/or archiving.
The Hydra Data Logger is ideal for recording data during environmental stress screening, thermal testing, design testing, and other applications that require data logger with up to twenty analogue measurement channels.
www.fluke-test.com.au /hydra.htm   (1625 words)

  
 Hydra Essentials Extra Extra
Exfoliating Scrub - Hydra Essentials Exfoliating Scrub is formulated as a gentle abrasive wash which deep cleanses the pores and buffs off dead surface cells resulting in a gresh, glowing complexion.
Toner - Hydra Essentials Toner enriched with Shark Oil is an alcohol-free liquid formulated to remove the impurities brought to the surface of the skin by Hydra Essentials Cleansing Cream.
Throat Lotion - Hydra Essentials Throat Lotion is highly concentrated with Vitamins A, D and E and is perfect for delicate areas that require extra care and attention.
hydraessentials.tripod.com   (926 words)

  
 Hydra; The hydra is one of a few freshwater cnadarians
Hydra: any of a group (as genus Hydra) of small-bodied, freshwater polyps with a tubelike body and a mouth surrounded by tentacles.
The hydra is one of a few freshwater cnadarians, the bulk of which are marine.
Hydras stinging cells cannot be used again but are replaced by new ones migrating in from other parts of the body.
www.planet-pets.com /plnthydr.htm   (548 words)

  
 Hydra Aquatic Inc.
HYDRA was founded by Ross Coleman in 1989.
HYDRA has a full-service native wetland plant nursery specializing in seedlings grown for wastewater treatment, reclamation, and wildlife habitat enhancement.
HYDRA also offers custom growing and planting services, wetlands identification and delineation, and wetland and riparian vegetation surveys.
www.hydraaquatic.com   (143 words)

  
 Hydra island - Tourist and traveller's information - Saronic Gulf - Greek islands - Greece
At a later period Hydra was seized by Hermione, which subsequently sold it to Samos.
We know of no major historical events here down to the 17th century AD, when the island began gradually to acquire a powerful merchant fleet, which was later at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, to monopolise sea transport throughout the Mediterranean.
The superiority of the Hydriots and their companions in arms at sea was one of the determining factors in the success of the Greek Revolution.
www.greekislands.com /hydra/home.htm   (289 words)

  
 Hydra web server   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hydra is still on alpha stage, and currently is not a working web server, is an adventure.
Hydra is a small HTTP server, but this does not mean that lacks of features.
Hydra, is a modification of Boa web server, which supports multiple threads of execution, and has more features.
hydra.hellug.gr   (343 words)

  
 The chess games of Hydra (Computer)
Hydra most likely has a way to "hibernate" where a snapshot of the memory can be taken and stored.
Hydra has faced several grandmasters under classical time control conditions and hasn't lost a single game to them yet.
Hydra is not an engine, it is a combination of hardware and engine.
www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=87303   (1726 words)

  
 Struggle of Hercules with the Hydra of Lerna - Picture - MSN Encarta
In the painting Struggle of Hercules with the Hydra of Lerna (1634, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain), Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán showed Hercules engaged in one of his twelve great labors, battling a nine-headed serpent called the Hydra.
Each time one of its heads was cut off, the Hydra would grow two more in its place.
Standing to one side with a torch is Hercules's nephew Iolaus, who, according to one version of the story, helped to cauterize the necks of the monster after Hercules cut the heads off, thereby preventing them from growing back.
encarta.msn.com /media_461569546_761562446_-1_1/Struggle_of_Hercules_with_the_Hydra_of_Lerna.html   (117 words)

  
 Hydra
As a constellation Hydra sinuously winds down from the northern hemisphere, bordering Cancer, to as far in the southern hemisphere as Centaurus, stretching out to around one hundred degrees in the process.
Beta Hydrae is a pair of nearly equal stars (4.5, 5) at PA 8º and a separation of 0.9".
The star is useful to determine the visual magnitude of T Hydrae to the south.
www.dibonsmith.com /hya_con.htm   (1581 words)

  
 Introduction to the Hydrozoa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hydra never goes through a medusoid stage and spends its entire life as a polyp.
However, Hydra is not typical of the Hydrozoa as a whole.
Most hydrozoans alternate between a polyp and a medusa stage — they spend part of their lives as "jellyfish" which are hard to distinguish from scyphozoan jellyfish.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /cnidaria/hydrozoa.html   (172 words)

  
 Hydra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Check out the Hydra Region page which is part of the Texas Astronomical Society's Constellation of the Month Series.
Hydra, also called the serpent of Lerna, was a beast with the body of a hound and 100 serpentine heads.
Corvus (the crow) and a new, reduced Hydra.
www.astro.wisc.edu /~dolan/constellations/constellations/Hydra.html   (271 words)

  
 HYDRA
HYDRA has always been (and has been most successful as) an instrument of the infamous Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, the last in a long line of Prussian noble men with impeccable military backgrounds.
HYDRA was close to obtaining nuclear weaponry, and thus achieving the means to conquer Earth, when its Pacific base, Hydra Island, was invaded by Captain Simon Savage’s U.S. Marine Commandos and their Japanese counterparts, the so-called Samurai Squad.
The remnant of HYDRA in New York City was led first by Madame Hydra, and later by the Grim Reaper and the Space Phantom.
www.norse-man.net /Marvel/Char-H/HYDRA.htm   (2246 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Magazine | Only a pawn in its game
Hydra is the latest chess supercomputer to lay down the gauntlet to the world's top players.
Hydra's backers claim it can analyse 200 million chess moves in a second and project the game up to 40 moves ahead.
The only consolation is that Hydra had already worked out it had won some moves before.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4576383.stm   (750 words)

  
 Hydra: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A constellation is a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration....
See Hydra (constellation)[For more info, click on this link].
Hydrus (latin for hydra, also referred to as "male hydra" or "little hydra") is a minor southern constellation....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hy/hydra.htm   (386 words)

  
 Hydra (astronomy) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hydra (astronomy)
In astronomy, the largest constellation, winding across more than a quarter of the sky between Cancer and Libra in the southern hemisphere.
Hydra is named after the multi-headed sea serpent slain by Hercules.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hydra+(astronomy)   (146 words)

  
 Hydra
Hydra is a rocky island in the Aegean Sea, about an hour away from Athens.
Hydra does not posses any of the golden beaches that grace the other Greek islands, but its rocky shores have their own wild charm.
Hydra played a major role in the war of independence against the Ottoman empire.
www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/hydra.html   (538 words)

  
 The Lernaean Hydra
A long time ago, Greek people believed that a long strip of stars was really an image of a gigantic serpent known as the Hydra.
Heracles was so brave and strong that he succeeded in killing the Hydra, with the help of his nephew, Iolaus.
During their fight, an enormous crab emerged from the swamp to aid the Hydra.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/hydra_lernaean.html   (229 words)

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