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Anonymous ID: c4923d Dec. 27, 2018, 8:20 p.m. No.4494927   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5068

John Jacob Astor Astoria was the richest person to die on the Titanic.

 

A look at Greek and Latin only makes things more complicated. It appears that forms with an “r” appear in both Greek and Latin and show up in words like astronomy and disaster. And note that the “r” can be either before the final vowel, as in astro-, or after it, as in aster (the star-like flower). Yet sometimes there is no “r” at all, but an “l,” as in Stella and Estelle, names both derived from the word “star.”

 

ASTE′RIA (Asteria), a daughter of the Titan Coeus (according to Hygin. Fab. Pref. of Polus) and Phoebe. She was the sister of Leto, and, according to Hesiod (Theog. 409), the wife of Perses, by whom she became the mother of Hecate. Cicero (de Nat. Deor. iii. 16) makes her the mother of the fourth Heracles by Zeus. But according to the genuine and more general tradition, she was an inhabitant of Olympus, and beloved by Zeus. In order to escape from his embraces, she got metamorphosed into a quail (ortux), threw herself into the sea, and was here metamorphosed into the island Asteria (the island which had fallen from heaven like a star), or Ortygia, afterwards called Delos. (Apollod. i. 2. § 2, 4. § 1; Athen. ix. p. 392; Hygin. Fab. 53; Callimach. Hymn. in Del. 37; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 73.)

 

Source: https://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisAsteria.html

Anonymous ID: c4923d Dec. 27, 2018, 8:24 p.m. No.4494989   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5005 >>5050

Book written by John Jacob Astor about the future (year 2000)

 

What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far ahead of the nineteenth century to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system. Jupiter proves to be a wilderness paradise, full of threatening beasts and landscapes of inspired beauty, where the explorers must fight for their lives. Dangers less tangible but equally deadly await the Callisto crew on Saturn, which yields profound secrets about their fate and the ultimate destiny of mankind. Thoughtful, adventurous, and replete with a dazzling array of futuristic devices, A Journey in Other Worlds is a classic, unforgettable story of utopias and humankind’s restless exploration of the stars.

 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1132373.A_Journey_in_Other_Worlds