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hercules

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hercules \Her"cu*les\, n. (Gr. Myth.) A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or ``labors.'' (Astron.) A constellation in the northern ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hercules is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books , the character is based on Heracles of Greek mythology , although the name " Hercules " is associated with the version ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 19488 Housing Units (2000): 6546 Land area (2000): 6.478230 sq. miles (16.778537 sq. km) Water area (2000): 11.820971 sq. miles (30.616173 sq. km) Total area (2000): 18.299201 sq. miles (47.394710 sq. km) FIPS code: 33308 Located within: ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hero, son of Zeus and Alcmene, c.1200 (originally in reference to the Pillars of Hercules), also Ercules , from Latin Hercles , from Greek Herakles , literally "Glory of Hera;" from Hera (q.v.) + kleos "glory, renown" (see Clio ). Used figuratively of strength ...

Usage examples of hercules.

What scene was exhibited from the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the temples of Hercules, and Theseus, and the Winds?

In similar fashion, the Antonian family, of which Mark Antony was a member, claimed to be descended from Anton, a mythical son of Hercules.

March was mild, pure blue skies soaring overhead, brilliant sunlight spilling over the pathways in the park, and in April, as the trees began to green, as the first daffodils opened up delicate yellow faces to the sun, Cynara and I were racing right alongside Clinton and his stallion, aptly named Hercules.

I learned that his Auntie Vestina, a freedwoman of the imperial house, had lived for many years right beside the Temple of Hercules Invictus.

Garden of Hercules is the most northerly of the gardens, and is also the way to the stables, a fact most gentlemen can be relied upon to remember.

Hercules, we are going to discover just what effect the special weapon of the Giants has on you.

The infant Hercules destroys the pernicious snakes detested of the gods, and ever, like St.

Republic, Granacci had also sent invitations to Gonfaloniere Soderini, the members of the Signoria, the Boards of the Wool Guild and the Duomo, to the Strozzi family to whom he had sold the Hercules.

He would finish by May, and then either go to work on the marble figures for the tomb or return to the Hercules block which Gonfaloniere Soderini had brought to Florence for him.

With Gonfaloniere Soderini and the Signoria in exile from Florence, his commission to carve the Hercules for the front of the Signoria had vanished.

Medici as Pope, Baccio Bandinelli was given the commission to carve the Hercules for the front of the Signoria, the one Michelangelo had been offered by Gonfaloniere Soderini some seventeen years before.

The smoke of the burning Hercules was a beacon the Hinds would have spotted from fifty miles out.

But Hercules has a record of the time every ship and mass has arrived, and I know for a fact that all the ships attempting jumps for the last two years have been the exact same models as ours.

Leaving the Treasury stuffed to the rafters with money and bullion, not to mention various emergency hoards of bullion in the temples of Ops, Juno Moneta, Hercules Olivarius and Mercury, and thousands of chests of money in Juno Lucina, Iuventus, Venus Libitina and Venus Erucina.

All that there was left to cleave to was the cannoning flight of the planet of He toward the metagalactic center, the struggle to finish the machinery that would be needed on arrival, the desperate urgency to be there before the Web of Hercules.