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  Pele - biography
Pele were formed on Merseyside in 1990 by guitarist and frontman Ian Prowse and keyboard player Andrew Roberts.
Musically Pele had set out their stall: unbelievably melodic pop music led by a fiddle or piano riff, married to a set of words that were never throwaway.
All the members of Pele have in fact played music locally under assumed names in the last few years but now is the time for a new Pele chapter to begin.
www.amsterdam-pele.co.uk   (1096 words)

  
  Pele Hawaiian Goddess of the Volcano: Mythical Realm presents people of myth and legend
Pele, the Hawaiian (Polynesian) goddess of the volcano, was born in Honua-Mea, part of Tahiti.
Pele's oldest brother, the king of the sharks, Kamohoali'i, gave her a great canoe, upon which she and her brothers traveled far from home, over the wide expanse of the seas, sailing on this great canoe eventually to find Hawaii.
Pele is often depicted as a wanderer, constantly traveling her domain.
www.mythicalrealm.com /legends/pele.html   (854 words)

  
  PELE - Goddess of Fire
Pele was among the first voyagers to sail to Hawai'i, pursued, legends say, by her angry older sister, Na-maka-o-kaha'i because Pele had seduced her husband.
Pele, Hi'iaka and another sister, Laka, goddess of hula, were all patronesses of the dance, but Hi'iaka was said to have hatched from an egg that Pele kept warm during the long canoe ride to Hawai'i by transporting it in her armpit.
Pele's jealousy flamed after she had a fling with a fickle young Maui chief named 'Ai-wohi-ku-pua, as he was traveling to the Big Island to court a mortal chiefess, Laie.
www.coffeetimes.com /pele.htm   (1427 words)

  
 PELE - International Football Hall of Fame
Pele was born in the poor district of Tres Coracoes in 1940.
Pele was forced off and, though Brazil were merely a shadow of the sides that had ruled the world, football won few friends by the manner of Portugal's 3-1 victory.
Pele, the boy who had played alongside Zito and Garrincha, the young man who had traded passes with Amarildo and Didi, was now a 29-year-old veteran lining-up in an attack that included Rivelino, Tostao and the incomparable Jairzinho.
www.ifhof.com /hof/pele.asp   (1639 words)

  
 All-Star Squad
Pele made his Santos debut a month before his 16 birthday, but he was introduced to the world when he started Brazil's third group match in the 1958 World Cup.
Pele was obviously a huge talent - in his first senior tournament he was the second highest goalscorer with 6 goals - but this was to be his last successful World Cup for 12 years.
Pele wasn't just a great footballer, he was a great role-model for the millions of fans who watched him, and indeed still see recordings of the moments that made him famous.
tim.rawle.org /football/stars.php?star=10   (781 words)

  
 Pele - Io: Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon
This is a temperature map of the Pele region imaged by the infrared spectrometer onboard the Galileo spacecraft.
The lava lake appears to be confined to the dark southern part of the caldera which covers an area of about 15 km by 10 km (10 miles by 6 miles).
The behavior of this lake is similar to that of Hawaiian lava lakes, although Pele's lake covers an area several thousand times larger than the lava lakes in Hawaii.
www.planetaryexploration.net /jupiter/io/pele.html   (425 words)

  
 PelĂ© / Edson Arantes do Nascimento - 360 Soccer
In claiming the award, Pele beat out a list of Olympic greats including Muhammad Ali and Carl Lewis.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- The world's National Olympics Committees have voted Brazilian soccer star Pele as No. 1 in their top five Athletes of the Century even though he's the only one of the five who didn't take part in the Olympics.
The NOCs also listed their top five leaders in sport with Baron Pierre de Coubertin, architect of the modern Olympics and International Olympic Committee president from 1896-1925, as No. 1 ahead of current IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who has held the position since 1980.
www.360soccer.com /pele   (384 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Beckham's US move echoes Pele
Beckham might be no Pele, but his arrival in the US to play for the LA Galaxy might spark an even greater interest in soccer than the one that was seen when the Brazilian player was brought to America by the now defunct New York Cosmos, in 1975.
The author, who reported that period in his book Pele's New World, says that the climate is far more favourable to the English player than it was to the Brazilian.
When Pele signed for the Cosmos for what was an unbelievable sum at the time, he not only resurrected his career, but also paved the way for many worldwide quality players to come to Cosmos and to the US, such as Franz Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto, Giorgio Chinaglia, Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and George Best.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/6258249.stm   (868 words)

  
 Pele
Of all the world's goddesses, Pele is one of the few still living in the belief of her people, not as metaphor but as metaphysical reality, to whom offerings are still made when volcanic eruptions threaten Hawaiian towns.
Pele, it was said, sometimes dozed in her crater, sending her spirit wandering through the islands.
Pele, meanwhile, found herself a lover of sturdier stuff in the combative hog god Kamapua'a, inventor of agriculture, whose idea of courting a goddess included all but dousing her flames with heavy rain and stampeding pigs across her craters.
www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/pele.html   (979 words)

  
 Pele Volcano & Pillan Patera
Pele is one of the largest visible volcanic features on Io and was also the first active volcano discovered on another world.
Scientists believe the Pele hot spot has a lava lake inside a volcanic crater or caldera, where cooled crust of the lava lake is breaking up against the wall and hotter lava appears from underneath.
Pele, which produced the larger plume deposit southwest of Pillan, also appears different than it did during the seventh orbit, perhaps due to interaction between the two large plumes.
www.solarviews.com /eng/iopele.htm   (693 words)

  
 pele
Pele was a Brazilian athlete, won fame as the greatest soccer player of his time and the most recognized athlete in world sports.
Pele is the only professional soccer player to score 1,000 goals in a career.
Pele retired as a player in 1974 but returned to competition in 1975 with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (N.A.S.L.).
www.geocities.com /nitro_guy2000/pele.html   (175 words)

  
 Pele
Goddess Pele was and still is famous for the different forms she can be and for the fiery rage she would go into when her temper got high.
Goddess Pele is like a normal human when it comes to feelings, but she is more of a Goddess when it comes to rage and anger.
Pele is a skilled rider of the holua, a wooden sled that rides down steep stone ramps.
library.thinkquest.org /03oct/01994/pele.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Pele
Born in Tres Coracoes, Minoas Gerias, Brazil, Pele was discovered at the age of 11 and a few years later was brought to Sao Paulo to play for Santos.
Pele was given a lifetime achievement award in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards, 2005.
Pele once explained how he wasn't too happy to get his nickname: "Pele isn't my real name, my real name is Edson.
www.biogs.com /famous/pele.html   (336 words)

  
 ESPN Classic - Pele, King of Futbol
Pele's father was a local professional soccer player who held the distinction of scoring five goals with his head in one game.
While Pele scored a goal in a 2-0 win over Mexico in the first game, he aggravated the injury in the following contest, against Czechoslovakia, and was sidelined for the rest of the tournament.
Pele was the first to play on three World Cup winners, as Brazil's win secured the right to take the Jules Rimet Trophy home for good.
espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Pele.html   (1328 words)

  
 Worldwide Soccer information at SoccerNetUsa.com | The Center of Soccer Tournaments and World Cup Soccer 2006
Pele had been injured, but upon his return from the treatment room, the team closed ranks and insisted upon his selection in a forward trio alongside Garrincha and Vava.
Pele was to go from strength to strength in the years to come, tormenting defences and confirming his status as a footballing idol.
Pele was indeed a legend, and he set some truly startling records in his long and distinguished career.
www.soccernetusa.com /pele.htm   (1261 words)

  
 Pele
Her favorite sister is Hi'iaka (or Hi'iaka i ka poli o Pele), the patroness of hula dancers.
Pele became very happy there because it was the Navel of the World, Ka Piko o ka Honua.
Pele appears in many forms, such as a young child, a beautiful young girl or an old crone.
www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/p/pele.html   (220 words)

  
 The Story of Pele
Pele is well known as a volcano goddess living in the crater of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, and for most people that's about it.
Pele's essence is fire and she dug into the island to find a firepit to live in, but was unsuccessful and went on to western Kauai.
Materializing the form of a beautiful young woman (Pele was a good shaman, able to change into many forms), she entered the dance, captured Lohiau's heart (his name means "retarded", if that has any significance) and lived with him for awhile.
www.sergeking.com /HAM/pele.html   (764 words)

  
 Pele
In one her people say, when Pele was young the centre of the earth glowed with her loveliness, and she was content for a million years to live in Her house in the centre.
Pele was honoured in Hawaii as the essence of earthly fire and another story tells of her fiery sexuality.
Pele however was a jealous spirit, and while her sister was journeying, had convinced herself of her infidelity.
www.angelfire.com /realm2/amethystbt/pele.html   (680 words)

  
 Pele (Oceanic goddess)
Pele was killed, but her father restored her to life as a goddess.
Pele is the only Hawaiian Goddess to appear in the Marvel Universe, although she could still appear in the pages of Thor.
Pele seems to have used as the basis for the fictional goddess Peliali, the Kamekeri goddess who appeared in Avengers III#28-30.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/pele.htm   (647 words)

  
 Creation Myths (Morgana's Observatory)
Pele, carrying her magic stick Pa'oa, went up to the mountain where a part of the earth collapsed into the ground.
Pele sent her sister Hi'iaka to fetch Lohi'au on Kaua'i to bring him back to Hawai'i to live with Pele.
Pele, with aloha, gave the two lovers her blessing and Hi'iaka and Lohi'au sailed back to Kaua'i.
www.dreamscape.com /morgana/ariel.htm   (2379 words)

  
 PELE, Fire Goddess
Side be side the sleds kept together, when without warning, Pele’s holua suddenly struck a loose piece of lava rock and rolled over, and she was thrown bodily from her sled while Kahawali fled on to victory.
But Pele and her torrent of fire was to close upon him.
Pele’s lava poured into the chasm like the cascades of a waterfall, bubbled over the top and continued on its course after the fleeing Kahawali and his friend Alua.
members.aol.com /ParadzCove/PELE1.html   (1364 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Boys for Pele: Music: Tori Amos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage.
Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's).
The photograph of Amos on the sleeve, guarding a primitive back-hills cabin with a shotgun, rattlesnakes around her feet, is interesting, as is the photo inside of Amos, in a rocking chair, nursing a piglet at her breast like an indiscriminate earth goddess, teat available to all in need.
www.amazon.com /Boys-Pele-Tori-Amos/dp/B000002J88   (2201 words)

  
 Pele
Pele is a fire goddess according to the people of Hawaii.
She is a savage and wrathful divinity who is said to reside in the crater of the volcano Kilauea.
Pele covered him with insults, but Kamapua'a was strongly determined in the pursuit of Pele's love.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/pele_vulcano.html   (179 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Pele
Pele became famous around the globe at the age of 17, following his spectacular World Cup debut in 1958.
Pele was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, a small village in Brazil.
Pele began playing futebol at the age of five, and polished shoes to help support his family.
www.askmen.com /men/sports/51_pele.html   (638 words)

  
 Pele: Home
Pele Mountain Resources is discovering and developing the mineral wealth of northern Ontario.
Pele Mountain Resources is focused on its objective of developing a world-class mining and processing facility at its 100-percent owned Elliot Lake Uranium Project in northern Ontario.
Pele also holds a diverse portfolio of gold, diamond, and base metal projects located across Northern Ontario.
pelemountain.com /index.shtml   (207 words)

  
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Her uncle, Lonomakua, the keeper of the flames saw that Pele was the one to whom he was going to teach his secrets.
After Pele learned the secrets of the flames, her older sister Namaka, the goddess of water, forced Pele out of her home.
So Pele set off with her dearly beloved brothers and sisters and found a new island called Hawaii.
library.thinkquest.org /5191/pele.htm   (286 words)

  
 MatriFocus, Goddess in the Spotlight, Pele
True to her opposite nature, Pele is usually described appearing in the form of a beautiful young woman or as a haggardly old woman.
Pele’s greatest conquest was the Prince Lohiau, of the island Kauai.
Sadly, Pele was gone a very long time, and thinking that she had left him, Lohiau died of a broken heart.
www.matrifocus.com /LAM02/spotlight.htm   (613 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet World Cup Legends - Pele (Brazil)
Though his achievement of scoring over 1,000 career goals is amazing, the Pele of 1958 and 1970 is the most potent image.
At just 17, then the youngest player to play in the finals, Pele took the 1958 tournament by storm, scoring six goals, including two in the final against Sweden.
Mexico 1970 is the tournament that fully cemented the Pele's position at the head of World Cup legends.
www.soccernet.com /worldcup/editorial/legends_pele.html   (306 words)

  
 USGS Photo Glossary: Pele's hair
Hundreds of strands of Pele's hair intertwined on the surface of a pahoehoe flow at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i.
The strands are formed by the stretching or blowing-out of molten basaltic glass from lava, usually from lava fountains, lava cascades, and vigorous lava flows (for example, as pahoehoe lava plunges over a small cliff and at the front of an `a`a flow).
Pele's hair is often carried high into the air during fountaining, and wind can blow the glass threads several tens of kilometers from a vent.
volcanoes.usgs.gov /Products/Pglossary/PeleHair.html   (170 words)

  
 Pele Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pele (born 1940), called "the Black Pearl," was the greatest soccer player in the history of the game.
Edson Arantes Do Nascimento Pele, who took the name Pele, was born October 23, 1940, in Tres Coracoes, Brazil, the son of a soccer player.
Pele retired for good after that victory, but continued to be active in sports circles, becoming a commentator and promoter of soccer in the United States.
www.bookrags.com /biography/pele   (460 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pele, My Life and the Beautiful Game: Books: Pele,Robert L. Fish   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I was too young to see Pele while he still was an active footballer, but growing up in a football loving home I've been fed with the legend of this fantastic athlete.
Pele' is perhaps the only athlete to ever stop a war.
Pele' was declared a national treasure by his native Brazil.
www.amazon.com /Pele-My-Life-Beautiful-Game/dp/0385121857   (1665 words)

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