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	Medusa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded in her sleep by the hero Perseus with help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades' cap of invisibility, a sickle, and a mirrored shield.
		Medusa is used as one of the many symbols of the haute couture house Versace.
		Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale were monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medusa_(mythology) (1017 words)

	MEDUSA - LoveToKnow Article on MEDUSA
		Medusae often have the power of budding, and the buds are formed either on the manubrium, or at the margin of the umbrella, or on an outgrowth or stolon produced from the exumbral surface.
		Medusae, when they reproduce themselves by budding, always produce medusae, but when they reproduce by the sexual method the embryos produced from the egg grow into medusae in some cases, in other cases into polyps which bud medusae in their turn.
		T name medusa is suggested by the tentacles, usually long and often numerous, implanted on the edge of the umbrella and bear the stinging organs of which sea-bathers are often disagreeably aware.
	58.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MEDUSA.htm (1917 words)

	The Raft of the Medusa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medusa was to carry the passengers, including the appointed French governor of Senegal, Colonel Julien-Désire Schmaltz and his wife Reine Schmaltz.
		Three of the seventeen men that had decided to stay on the Medusa were later recovered alive.
		Medusas surviving surgeon Henri Savigny submitted his account to the authorities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa (1155 words)

	Medusa 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Pegasus is said to have leapt forth from the teeming neck of the slain Medusa 1, its mane bespattered with blood.
		Medusa 2 was a daughter of King Sthenelus 3 of Mycenae, son of Perseus 1.
		Medusa 4 was a daughter of King Pelias 1 of Iolcus, the man who sent Jason and the ARGONAUTS to fetch the Golden Fleece in Colchis (Caucasus).
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Medusa1.html (527 words)

	On "Medusa"
		The Medusa with the horror-stricken eyes is a reflection of the traumatized psyche, a memory of the mother caught in the revelation of sexuality but also the mirror image of a stricken self.
		In taking Medusa for their muse, women poets of the past two decades are owning themselves, that is, they are owning those aspects of their being that their families and society have invalidated by treating such qualities as unfeminine and unacceptable.
		In its death-like stasis, "Medusa" is a poem that, for all its artistic perfection, seems in retrospect tragically appropriate for a poet of extraordinary gifts who believed only 105 of her poems worthy of permanent record and who appears to have despised the very idea that she might be considered a woman poet.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/bogan/medusa.htm (4080 words)

	Medusa: Index
		Medusa is a large beowulf-class parallel computer, built and operated by the LSC group at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM).
		Medusa is used by members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and also serves as a resource for the GriPhyN collaboration.
		MEDUSA is a 300-node linux beowulf cluster with a mixture of 100 Mb/s and Gb/s ethernet.
	www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu /beowulf/medusa (389 words)

	Medusa
		Medusa was a Gorgon, one of three sisters and daughters of ancient, pre-titan gods, Phorcys and Ceto.
		Originally, Medusa was depicted as a horse with wings, then a woman with equine hindquarters and wings on her hair.
		Born beautiful, Medusa was seduced by Poseidon, disguised as a horse, in one of Athena's temples.
	monsters.monstrous.com /medusa.htm (653 words)

	Medusa in Myth and Literary History
		The fact that Medusa is a mask and that this mask hides a more human face, is borne out by the way in which her portrayal is developed from the pre-Classical era to the Hellenistic period.
		Medusa's head, an apparently simple motif linked to the myth of Perseus, was freed through being severed and cut loose from its 'moorings' by the hero in the remote depths of the world.
		The episode of Perseus' victory over Medusa represents the end of female ascendancy and the taking over of the temples by men, who had become the masters of the divine which Medusa's head had concealed from them.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/bogan/medusamyth.htm (3567 words)

	Medusa : Analysis
		Medusa is one of the last residuals of the earth goddesses, and as such she represents the earth mother who has, during Greek power, become evil and twisted.
		Medusa was once a powerful feminine symbol, with control over the natural cycle and in harmony with the worlds of earth and sky.
		Medusa could have been a very prototypical goddess of a matriarchal society.
	medusa.plush.org /analysis.shtml (1018 words)

	Medusa for beginners
		Medusa may be intangible at the moment, but its spirit is alive and well in the poets who made up the group.
		Due to a variety of factors, Medusa is dissolving for the time being.
		Medusa is a guerilla poetry group spawned in 1997 from the ancient kitchen grease of a sandwich shop where we employed our liberal arts degrees.
	medusa.sunflower.com (207 words)

	Medusa
		From Medusa's dead body the giant Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus, her son by Poseidon, sprang forth.
		Medusa was killed by the hero Perseus with the help of Athena and Hermes.
		He killed her by cutting of her head and gave it to Athena, who placed it in the center of her Aegis, which she wore over her breastplate.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/m/medusa.html (126 words)

	Medusa and the Image of Rape
		Medusa is a goddess of death because this is what motivates the images in the first place.
		This talisman gave rise to the story that Medusa was a goddess of death, although she was mortal.
		Medusa, herself, had that power when she was young, but, according to the myth, she lost it when she was raped in the Temple of Athena.
	www.fjkluth.com /medusa.html (5149 words)

	Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Perseus
		Medusa would retain the power of her gaze even in death, and it was vital to hide the head unless occasion called for whipping it out and using it on some enemy.
		A quick escape would be essential after slaying Medusa, since she had two equally monstrous sisters who would be sure to avenge her murder, and they had wings of gold or brass which would bear them in swift pursuit of the killer.
		And so Perseus sought out Medusa's lair, surrounded as it was by the petrified remains of previous visitors, and he found the Gorgon sleeping; Yes, even though he had the good old magic arsenal, Perseus was not so foolhardy as to wake Medusa.
	www.mythweb.com /encyc/gallery/perseus_c.html (1726 words)

	Medusa
		Perseus was then able to use Medusa's head as a weapon during other battles (which included rescuing Andromeda), but he eventually returned it to Athena, who then placed it at the center of her Aegis as a symbol of her power, and her own capacity to turn her enemies into stone.
		Medusa's sisters, the Gorgons, chased after him, but were unable to catch him because his magic cap made him invisible.
		Psychoanalytic interpretations of the Medusa myth focus upon Medusa's snake-like hair representing bleeding female genitals, and the frightening power of the wounded (perhaps "castrated"), devouring mother over the fragile male psyche.
	www.webwinds.com /thalassa/medusa.htm (1173 words)

	Welcome to Medusa Scientific Corporation
		Medusa is currently available for consultation in the United States, Canada, and the European Union.
		Medusa is a foremost provider of turn-key business and knowledge management solutions.
		The geographical regions Medusa services are based upon the requirements of each project, and other tangibles.
	www.medusaonline.net (228 words)

	Medusa: A High-Performance Internet Server Architecture
		Medusa's core async-socket library is very stable; it has been in use virtually unchanged since 1995.
		Medusa is an architecture for building long-running, high-performance network servers in Python.
		Medusa is in use now in several mission-critical applications, ranging from custom web servers at extremely high-traffic sites to distributed data processing systems.
	www.nightmare.com /medusa (235 words)

	Medusa: A High-Performance Internet Server Architecture
		Medusa is written in Python, a high-level object-oriented language that is particularly well suited to building powerful, extensible servers.
		Medusa is different from most other servers because it runs as a single process, multiplexing I/O with its various client and server connections within a single process/thread.
		Medusa can be extended and modified at run-time, even by the end-user.
	www.nightmare.com /medusa/medusa.html (1376 words)

	Medusa at Six Flags Marine World Ride Review
		Medusa, one of the new "floorless" roller coasters made its debut in 2000 at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, California.
		As the 2nd generation model, Medusa was designed to closely resemble the original Medusa that is located at Six Flags Great Adventure on the opposite coast in Jackson, New Jersey.
		Not ready to give up Medusa pulls another move forcing positive G's to run free through your body as it throws riders into a powerful banked turn before you approach to see a tightly coiled mess of steel ready to unleash one final strike.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/reviews/medusa (705 words)

	Foofus Networking Services - Medusa
		Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer.
		Medusa has been compiled on Darwin 8.1 and several cursory checks were performed.
		JoMo-Kun was the chief dork and wrote the core of Medusa along with several of the modules.
	www.foofus.net /jmk/medusa/medusa.html (1405 words)

	History House: The Raft of the Medusa
		They had another task too: they were supposed to retrieve a store of gold left behind in the hull of the Medusa.
		The Medusa, an ill-piloted ship in the nineteenth century, runs aground and sets sailors adrift in a rickety raft.
		Wreck of the Medusa, The Tragic Story of the Death Raft.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/medusa (2735 words)

	The X-Files: Medusa - TV.com
		Medusa was slain by the Greek hero Perseus, who used a polished shield as a mirror (thus avoiding Medusa's direct gaze) to guide his swordstroke, with which he beheaded her.
		Medusa is a character from Greek Mythology, one of the three "Gorgons".
		The most well-known of the Medusa myths describes her with hair of snakes and a gaze that turns a creature to stone.
	www.tv.com /xfiles/medusa/episode/12444/summary.html (298 words)

	The Medusa Applications Environment
		The number of displays in the Medusa office varies considerably, but often includes a standard workstation or X terminal and a flat screen LCD display, known as the Video Tile, connected directly to the ATM network which can be hung on the wall or moved around the desk.
		Medusa offices have typically four microphones and speakers to provide CD quality audio and four cameras - although up to sixteen cameras is possible.
		Unlike other multimedia systems where the input-output devices are attached to a workstation bus, the workstation is connected to the network, Medusa peripherals are attached directly to the ATM network.
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /Research/DTG/attarchive/medusa.html (220 words)

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		Medusa Password Cracker Version 1.1 Now Available For Download Medusa is a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network...
		This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged medusa.
	technorati.com /tag/medusa (535 words)

	Medusa on Mars :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		The Medusa Fossae formation is an extensive unit of enigmatic origin found near the Martian highland-lowland dichotomy boundary' between the Tharsis and Elysium centres of volcanic activity.
		It is commonly agreed that the materials forming Medusa Fossae were deposited by pyroclastic flows or similar volcanic ash falls.
		The plateau walls of the volcanic massif are partly covered by lava flows and crossed in places by valleys which were most likely carved by fluvial activity.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article1507.html (799 words)

	Medusa Productions
		Medusa is producing the score and foley for The Prodigal an independent Kung Fu movie produced by Desmond Jackson.
		Medusa is dedicated to providing today's artist with the tools needed for their success.
		This gifted songwriter has written over 40 songs and is currently recording his debut album Fault Line at Medusa Studi...
	www.medusasounds.com (384 words)

	Medusa Model 47
		The Medusa was an attempt to solve this because most of the weapons he carried were in the 9 mm /.38 range.
		The Medusa is a very unusual revolver produced by Phillips & Rodgers that have the ability to chamber multiple calibers in the same revolver.
		He was also a computer specialist for NASA and a competition shooter and he regularly carried multiple guns of different calibers to the range every time he went to shoot.
	www.kitsune.addr.com /Firearms/Revolvers/Medusa_Model_47.htm (371 words)

	JBL Statues - Medusa Gorgon
		When that goddess was imported by the Greeks as patroness of Athens, Medusa's fierce visage was embossed on Athena's shield.
		Medusa is identical with the Crone or Destroyer aspect of the dark Egyptian goddess Nieth; she was also one member of the triple personae of the North African goddess An-Ath.
		That her wrath turned men to stone may be a folk memory of the theft of wise woman culture by the patriarchy.
	jblstatue.com /pages/medusa_gorgon.html (125 words)

	Medusa 1981
		Remains of other mortal men who have tried to conquer Medusa are found throughout the temple like trophies of her deadly stare.
		Medusa makes her appearance and continues to kill the two soldiers.
		Medusa haunts down Persues as he hides behind the so many pillars in the chamber.
	www.theseventhvoyage.com /medusa.htm (513 words)

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