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  Transsylvania Phoenix
Transsylvania Phoenix, or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to inspire their music from ancient Romanian folk themes.
Phoenix was started off in the cosmopolitan town of Timişoara, in 1962, by a group of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci[?], Moni Bordeianu[?], Bela Kamocsa[?], Pilu Ştefanovici, Doru Creşneac, under the name of Sfinţii (The Saints).
Phoenix was born again the same year, with Covaci, Josef Kappl[?], Mircea Baniciu[?], Günther Reininger[?], Costin Petrescu[?] (replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan[?], nicknamed "Ţăndărică") and Valeriu Sepi[?].
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 Phoenix (mythology) - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises.
The new phoenix embalms the ashes of the old phoenix in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis ("the city of the sun" in Greek).
Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Transsylvania Phoenix
Transsylvania Phoenix or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to take musical inspiration from ancient Romanian folk themes.
Phoenix was launched in the cosmopolitan town of Timişoara in 1962 by a pair of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci and Bela Kamocsa, under the name of Sfinţii (The Saints).
In 1990 Phoenix made a triumphant comeback to Romania, with a highly emotional concert in their hometown Timişoara, the city that sparked the popular revolt in December 1989 that eventually led to the downfall of the Communist regime.
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 Phoenix (mythology) information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Phoenix and the silhouette of the soldier bearing a bayonet rifle was the emblem of the Junta.
The phoenix appears also on the city flags and seals of both Atlanta (torched in the US Civil War) and San Francisco (destroyed by earthquake and fire in 1906) to symbolize their respective rebirths from the ashes.
Sylvia Plath also alludes to the phoenix in the end of her famous poem "Lady Lazarus." The speaker of this poem describes her unsuccessful attempts at committing suicide not as failures, but as successful resurrections, like those described in the tales of the biblical character Lazarus and the Phoenix.
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 Phoenix - university of phoenix
Transsylvania Phoenix, or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, phoenix arizona mini storage and also the first one phoenix homes for sale to inspire their music from ancient Romanian folk themes.
Phoenix was started off in the cosmopolitan town of Timisoara, in 1962, by a group of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci, Moni Bordeianu, Bela Kamocsa, Pilu Stefanovici, Doru Cresneac, under the name of Sfintii (The Saints).
In 1990 Phoenix made a triumphant comeback to Romania, with a highly emotional concert in their hometown Timisoara, the city that sparked the popular revolt in December 1989 that eventually led to the downfall of the Communist regime.
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At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises.
The new phoenix embalms the ashes of the old phoenix in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis ("the city of the sun" in Greek).
Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.
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Phoenix was started off in the cosmopolitan town of Timiand#351;oara, in 1962, by a group of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci, Moni Bordeianu, Bela Kamocsa, Pilu and#350;tefanovici, Doru Creand#351;neac, under the name of Sfinand#355;ii (The Saints).
Phoenix was born again the same year, with Covaci, Josef Kappl, Mircea Baniciu, Günther Reininger, Costin Petrescu (replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan, nicknamed "and#354;and#259;ndand#259;ricand#259;") and Valeriu Sepi.
In 1990 Phoenix made a triumphant comeback to Romania, with a highly emotional concert in their hometown Timiand#351;oara, the city that sparked the popular revolt in December 1989 that eventually led to the downfall of the Communist regime.
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In mythology : * Phoenix (mythology), a mythological creature * Fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix * Phoenix (Iliad), a character in the Iliad, tutor of Achilles and father of Adonis; or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus
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 Transsylvania Phoenix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phoenix was launched in the cosmopolitan town of Timişoara in 1962 by a pair of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci and Bela Kamocsa, under the name of Sfinţii (The Saints).
Phoenix was born again the next year, with Covaci, Josef Kappl, Mircea Baniciu, Costin Petrescu (replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan, nicknamed "Ţăndărică") and Valeriu Sepi.
In 1973 Phoenix represented Romania at the "Golden harp" festival in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) and then in the "Disc festival" in Sopot (Poland).
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 Phoenix Resource Page - Phoenix
Transsylvania Phoenix, or, more commonly, just Phoenix, is one of the most prominent Romanian rock bands of the latest decades, and also the first one to inspire their music from ancient Romanian folk themes.
Phoenix was started off in the cosmopolitan town of Timişoara, in 1962, by a group of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci, Moni Bordeianu, Bela Kamocsa, Pilu Ştefanovici, Doru Creşneac, under the name of Sfinţii (The Saints).
By this time, the popularity of Phoenix had grown huge; people loved their songs not only for what they were, but also because they contained thinly-veiled allusions to the Communist regime.
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 Phoenix Transsylvania Rock Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Phoenix - A bird who sings a beautiful song and carries human prayers on its wings to heaven.
When the Phoenix dies, it dies in fire and from this fire, a new Phoenix rises from the ashes.
There are a few variations, but the basic idea is this: The Phoenix is a supernatural creature, living for 1000 years.
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 Phoenix information - Search.com
Phoenix (mythology), a mythical bird that dies in fire and is reborn from the ashes.
Phoenix (Iliad), a character in the Iliad, tutor of Achilles and father of Adonis; or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus
Phoenix Islands, a sparsely populated island chain in Kiribati
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 Phoenix
Phoenix (mythology), a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes
Phoenix (comics), a fictional cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe, and the associated characters:
Phoenix, a camera-guided anti-vehicular weapon of the New Conglomerate in the MMOFPS PlanetSide.
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 Phoenix
The genus Phoenix of trees within the palm family Arecaceae (including the date palm)
The Phoenix operating system shell developed at Cambridge University for their IBM mainframe
Phoenix (boat), first steamboat to sail the open ocean
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 Wikipedia: Phoenix
The genus Phoenix of trees within the palm family Arecaceae (including the date palm)
A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus; see; A Phoenix (Iliad)
The Phoenix operating system shell developed at Cambridge University for their IBM mainframe
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 phoenix
Phoenix Ikki, a bronze saint in the anime/manga Saint Seiya
Phoenix is also rumored to be the name of Michelle Williams' third studio album, but not confirmed yet.
Phoenix, Physics with Homemade Equipments and Innovative Experiments : The objective of the Phoenix project is to change the situation for the better by giving school/college students an opportunity to use the computer for observing and analyzing real-world phenomena.
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Phoenix, the handle of Nahshon Even-Chaim, the first major computer hacker to be arrested by Australian Federal Police after intruding into United States defense and nuclear weapons research computer systems
Phoenix, a nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II The Phoenix, a roller coaster in Knoebels amusement park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania
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 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock PH-PL
Nevertheless, Phoenix is one of the few bands from Romania (Sfinx is another one that crosses my mind) and they are definitely worth checking out.
Phoenix Eye would be much better described as a '70's style power keyboard band, though this one also has an excellent guitarist.
Phoenix Eye is just two Canadian guys, Julien Valiquette (keyboards/vocals) and Mic Myette (guitars), and on this album they're augmented by two excellent guest musicians, Martin Maheu (although the credits omit the final "x", this is drummer Martin Maheux from Spaced Out) credited with "some" drums and Denis Labrosse on fretless bass.
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 Phoenix in Popular culture
In Neil Gaiman's short story 'Firebird', a party of Epicureans finally answer the question of what happens when a Phoenix is roasted and eaten; you burst into flames, and 'the years burn off you'.
Trading Card Game, one of the more popular cards is called Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, and has what is fundamentally a phoenix-like "rebirth" power-whenever it is destroyed by some sort of card effect, it is revived from the Graveyard (discard pile).
Phoenix was one of the characters in the 1980s computer game Archon, originally released for Atari but later ported for various other platforms, including Apple II, Commodore 64, Amiga and IBM PC.
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 Heavy Rock Spectacular
Phoenix was the best, or at least the best known, Romanian rock/progressive rock outfit.
Phoenix was one of the very few Romanian bands that managed to, or was allowed to, produce three albums in only a few years in the 1970's.
The band's music on these three albums was a mixture of rock/progressive rock and Romanian traditional music (the latter notable in the rhythms, melodies, the use of traditional instruments, percussion and unison singing).
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 Phoenix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phoenix (mythology), a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes
Phoenix (comics), a fictional cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe, and the associated characters:
Phoenix Ikki, a bronze saint in the anime/manga Saint Seiya
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 Transsylvania Phoenix
After the success with this LP, the band is invited at the festivals "The golden lira" (April 1973, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia), "Festival of the disk" (October 1973, Sopot, Poland) as well as in tours in Hungary and Yugoslavia.
In the same year PHOENIX sings at Paris in "La cigalle" and prepares the first tour in Romania with the same composition as in the 70’s.
Starting with 1991 PHOENIX concerts as well in Romania as in various countries in Eastern and Western Europe.
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In the United States the heyday of folk rock is likely between the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies, not only aligning itself but also becoming the medium of expression for the hippie movement.
Cities such as San Francisco, Denver, New York and Phoenix became centers for the folk rock culture, playing on their central locations among the original folk circuits.
In Romania Transsylvania Phoenix (known in Romania simply as Phoenix), founded in 1962, introduced significant folk elements into their rock music around 1972 in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with government repression of rock music.
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 Phoenix at AllExperts
* Phoenix (mythology), a mythical bird that dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes
*"Phoenix", an alias of X-Men mutant Jean Grey
Phoenix, a nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II Phoenix (roller coaster), a roller coaster in Knoebels amusement park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania
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 PHOENIX discography, MP3 and reviews
The beginnings of Romanian band PHOENIX must called back from the 60's.
Their journey to old Romanian folklore begin with "Cei Ce Ne-au Dat Nume" continues with "Mugur De fluier" (subtitled Introduction for an old Romanian music concert) and ends with "Cantofabule", a poem inspired by medieval books (bestiars) dedicated to mythical creatures.
The work of PHOENIX is a pleasant guide through Romanian spirit and meanwhile some really progressive pages.
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 Search results for Phoenix
Phoenix Squadron is a group of starships and stations that is part of the Federation Gaming Network.
Phoenix Station is a state of the art starbase.
Phoenix is being written and developed with contributions from other amateur sci-fi writers.
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 online radio > Phoenix+Christian+music
Born in St- Anna bay, Jamaica and raised in Miami, FL Patrick Phoenix a creative songwriter and singer who pushes the limits on music.
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