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daedalus

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Daedalus (1791 – after 1794) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . In a brief career that lasted from April to October 1794 he ran three times and won once. He won the Derby on his racecourse debut, beating the smallest field in the history of ...

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Not even Daedalus, not even Hephaestus or divine Asclepius, could extract a god-Face from inside a human head without killing the avatar.

Using a hint or two found in some Ulronian documents, a team led by Anita IKosi had developed a modified hypermagnetic generator and had four of them installed in a Daedalus missile.

It is also of course stupefyingly dangerous - those who don't die riding invariably die of sexual exhaustion at one of the Daedalus Club's Apres- Flare parties.

It is also of course stupefyingly dangerous - those who don’t die riding invariably die of sexual exhaustion at one of the Daedalus Club’s Apres-Flare parties.

Forward, he could see the SDF-1 propelling itself away from the crippled enemy, its pectoral boosters blowtorching and its Daedalus right arm flayed of metal and superstructure.

One where Victor Brodesser and Daedalus had survived, where that vessel, crippled by the explosion of its ion drive, had arrived in the Denari system only to be seized by then-Colonel Sadir, who then used Starfleet technology to overthrow his planet’s government.

That was one point on which Hagedorn wouldn’t have given in, even if Abute had handed the Daedalus to him on a silver platter.

At first I put it down to foul Chinese grub, and certainly something gave me the most vivid nightmares, in which I was playing a single-wicket match up and downstairs in Whampoa's house, and his silky little Chinese tarts were showing me how to hold my bat - that part of it was all right, as they snuggled up, whispering fragrantly and guiding my hands, but all the time I was conscious of dark shapes moving behind the screens, and when Daedalus Tighe bowled to me it was a Chinese lantern that I had to hit, and it went ballooning up into the dark, bursting into a thousand rockets, and Old Morrison and the Duke came jumping out at me in sarongs, crying that I must run all through the house to score a single, at compound interest, and I set off, blundering past the screens, where nameless horrors lurked, and I was trying to catch Solomon, who was flitting like a shadow before me, calling out of the dark that there was no danger, because he carried ten guns, and I could feel someone or .

It was inhuman, unalive, the mask of a machine built by some Daedalus, or of a leprously silver automaton stepped out of myth.

Nor should it be forgotten that long before Daedalus appeared in Attica and with his wooden statues so transformed sculpture as to make possible the schools of Corinth and AEgina, and their ultimate triumphs the Poecile and Capitolium--long before the age of Daedalus, I say, two Israelites, Bezaleel and Aholiab, the master-builders of the first tabernacle, said to have been skilled 'in all manner of workmanship,' wrought the cherubim of the mercy-seat above the ark.

There was no Minos to lead the rebuilding and no Daedalus to raise an even greater city out of the rubble.

Perhaps Orion and Daedalus could be used as multigeneration ships, so those arriving at a planet of another star would be the remote descendants of those who had set out some centuries before.