Jason (Greek: Ίασων, Etruscan: Easun) is a hero of Greek mythology who lead the Argonauts in the search of the Golden Fleece. His father was Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus. Jason - The early years. Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother Tyro ("high born Tyro") daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killi ...

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• Jason - The early years
• Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece
• Jason - The Isle of Lemnos
• Jason - The arrival in Colchis
• Jason - The return
• Jason - Circe
• Jason - Sirens
• Jason - Talos
• Jason - Jason returns
• Jason - Jason on film

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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Medea, using her sorcery, claimed to Pelias' daughters that she could make their father younger by chopping him up into pieces and boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water and magical herbs. She demonstrated this remarkable feat with a sheep, which leapt out of the cauldron as a lamb. The girls, rather naively, sliced and diced their father and put him in the cauldron. Medea did not add the magical herbs, and Pelias was dead. Pelias' son, Acastus, drove Jason and Medea into exile for the murder, and the couple settled in Corinth. The ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother Tyro ("high born Tyro") daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killing him and hopefully his descendants, who might take revenge on him. Alcimede (wife of Aeson) already had an infant son by Aeson, Jason who she sent to the centaur (half man, half horse) Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him - sh ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother Tyro ("high born Tyro") daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killing him and hopefully his descendants, who might take revenge on him. Alcimede (wife of Aeson) already had an infant son by Aeson, Jason who she sent to the centaur (half man, half horse) Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him - sh ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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Cape Jason (or Cape Yasun) is a cape located at Çaytepe village, Perşembe (former Vona) town, Ordu province of Turkey. Its name is derived from the mythological leader Jason of the Argonauts. Cape Jason - History. Cape Yasun harkens back to ancient times when a temple of Jason stood at the edge of the sea, protecting the sailors of Black Sea's treacherous waters. A church later replaced the temple with similar mission. It now sits in total solitude in an overgrown cornfield next to a lighth ...

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Jonah (יוֹנָה "Dove", Standard Hebrew Yona, Latin Ionas, Tiberian Hebrew Yônāh) was a person in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, the son of Amittai, from the Galilean village of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth. He was a prophet of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. This prophecy was already fulfilled during the reign of Jeroboam II, under whom Jonah exercised his ministry. Timewise, this may mean he ...

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• Jonah - Jonah in the Quran
• Jonah - Jonah and Jason

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In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, the Argo which in turn was named after its builder Argus. They were sometimes called Minyans, after a prehistoric tribe of the area. Argonauts - Story. Pelias, king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos), had been warned to be on his guard against a man with one shoe and, one day, upon ...

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• Argonauts - Story
• Argonauts - Spoken-word myths — audio files
• Argonauts - The Argonauts on film
• Argonauts - Sources

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Jason Schwartzman - Composer. Orange County (2002) (Phantom Planet song "California") Slackers (2002) (song "Little Locked Room") The O.C. (2003) (Phantom Planet song "California") ...

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Jason Schwartzman, Jason Schwartzman - Filmography, Jason Schwartzman - Composer, Jason Schwartzman - Awards

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Living as a hermit in the camp's forest, Jason was drawn to the bank of Crystal Lake by the cries of two women fighting. He arrived just in time to witness his long-lost mother's bloody demise and was horribly devastated. Alice, his mother's murderer, was trying to get over the massacre when Jason attacked her in her home, stabbing her in the head with an ice pick. Jason then returned to the forest. Five years later, a man named Paul Holt opened up a camp counselor training ground near the Camp Crystal Lake site. Jason, wearing a pillowcase ...

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Jason Voorhees, Jason Voorhees - Childhood years, Jason Voorhees - Pamela Voorhees' revenge, Jason Voorhees - Jason resurfaces, Jason Voorhees - Jason comes back from the grave, Jason Voorhees - Freddy versus Jason, Jason Voorhees - What the future may hold, Jason Voorhees - Other appearances, Jason Voorhees - The men behind the mask, Jason Voorhees - External link

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Years later, Jason would be resurrected once again. This time, by Freddy Krueger, another mass murderer with supernatural powers. Disguising himself as Mrs. Voorhees, Krueger manipulated Jason into killing the children of Elm Street. Freddy's plan was for the murders to make people relate the teens' deaths to the almost-forgotten memory of Freddy Krueger. Thereby, Freddy would once again be feared, which was key to his power. Eventually, Jason interrupted Krueger's plan by killing so many teens in public places that he left behind witnesses. ...

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Jason Voorhees, Jason Voorhees - Childhood years, Jason Voorhees - Pamela Voorhees' revenge, Jason Voorhees - Jason resurfaces, Jason Voorhees - Jason comes back from the grave, Jason Voorhees - Freddy versus Jason, Jason Voorhees - What the future may hold, Jason Voorhees - Other appearances, Jason Voorhees - The men behind the mask, Jason Voorhees - External link

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Dohring is the son of NeoPets chairman Doug Dohring and wife Laurie, and the oldest of five children (his younger siblings are two sets of identical twins). All of his siblings are also actors. He has been married to his wife Lauren since 2004. He is a second-generation member of the Church of Scientology.[1] ...

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Jason Dohring, Jason Dohring - Biography, Jason Dohring - Career, Jason Dohring - External link

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1997: Bellini earned a bachelor's degree in history from Georgetown University. 1998: Bellini began his career with CNN as a production assistant in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau. 1999: Bellini made his on-air debut with CNN Newsroom, now CNN Student News – CNN's news program for high school students. He also served as a field producer for CNN International, covering the NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia. One of his Kosovo stories achieved Medalist Stat ...

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Jason Bellini, Jason Bellini - Career, Jason Bellini - Personal, Jason Bellini - Bellini on Bellini

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Born in Chicago, son of Jason Robards Sr., who was among the better-known actors of the first half of the twentieth century, starring regularly on the stage and in such early films as The Gamblers (1929). The family moved to New York City when young Jason was still a toddler, and then moved for good to Los Angeles when he was six years old. Later interviews with Robards suggested that the trauma of his parents' divorce, (which occurred during his grade-school years) left an indelible mark on his personality and worldview. Jason ...

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Jason Robards, Jason Robards - Childhood, Jason Robards - Naval service in World War II, Jason Robards - Early acting career, Jason Robards - Awards and honors, Jason Robards - Trivia, Jason Robards - List of credits, Jason Robards - Broadway Theatre, Jason Robards - Film, Jason Robards - Films for Television

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Jason Reso - Championship succession. ...

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Jason Reso, Jason Reso - Early career, Jason Reso - World Wrestling Entertainment, Jason Reso - Edge and Christian, Jason Reso - Singles competition, Jason Reso - Captain Charisma, Jason Reso - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, Jason Reso - Finishing and signature moves, Jason Reso - Championships and accomplishments, Jason Reso - Championship succession, Jason Reso - Personal life

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Jason Wingreen - Film. Oh, God! You Devil (1984) .... Hotel Manager Airplane! (1980) .... Dr. Brody (Mayo Clinic) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (voice) (uncredited) .... Boba Fett Marlowe (1969) (uncredited) .... Camera Store Clerk The Dunwich Horror (1970) .... Sheriff Harrison Jason Wingreen - Television. General Hospital (1963) TV Series .... Judge Matson ...

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Jason Wingreen, Jason Wingreen - Selected filmography, Jason Wingreen - Film, Jason Wingreen - Television, Jason Wingreen - External link

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Years later, Tommy Jarvis, now in his early 20s, was released from the mental institution, but was still plagued by nightmares about Jason and a man named Roy Burns, whom he had killed a year earlier because he was masquerading as Jason and killing people in the mental institution. After he got out of the institution, Tommy and a friend went to Eternal Peace Cemetery to dig up Jason's grave and cremate him. After they dug him up, Tommy stabbed a metal rod from a cemetery fence into Jason's rotting corpse and threw his hockey mask into the grave. As they were about to cremate him, however, ...

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Jason Voorhees, Jason Voorhees - Childhood years, Jason Voorhees - Pamela Voorhees' revenge, Jason Voorhees - Jason resurfaces, Jason Voorhees - Jason comes back from the grave, Jason Voorhees - Freddy versus Jason, Jason Voorhees - What the future may hold, Jason Voorhees - Other appearances, Jason Voorhees - The men behind the mask, Jason Voorhees - External link

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Since 2004, Michaels has been a regular on the Phillies major league roster, accumulating a batting average of .291 with 235 hits, including 21 home runs, through the end of the 2005 season. In the outfield, he has become the go-to backup outfielder for the Phillies. However, Michaels' shot at a starting position with Phillies in the 2005 season came to a halt when the Phillies acquired outfielder Kenny Lofton from the New York Yankees in the offseason. Lofton was replaced by Aaron Rowand in the 2005 off-season, which still blocks Michaels' c ...

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Jason Michaels, Jason Michaels - In the Phillies farm system, Jason Michaels - With the Phillies, Jason Michaels - July 3 2005: Arrested in Philadelphia, Jason Michaels - Assault charges, Jason Michaels - Community service and probation

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Jason started his television career in 1967, at the same time as Michael Palin in Do Not Adjust Your Set and appeared in variety shows in support of stars such as Dick Emery. He appeared, most notably, as a spoof super-hero Captain Fantastic, in Do Not Adjust Your Set. He was somewhat ahead of the Austin Powers and Johnny English film genre in an inventive TV series about an inept spy called The Secret Life of Edgar Briggs. Humphrey Barclay, who recruited Sir David to Do Not Adjust Your Set pa ...

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David Jason, David Jason - Early career, David Jason - Maturity and success, David Jason - Notable work, David Jason - Radio, David Jason - TV, David Jason - Films, David Jason - Animation

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Unsurprisingly, as a career backup in college Maas drew little interest through the professional ranks. On April 23, 1999, Maas signed with the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens during preseason. He appeared in a single preseason game and did not impress the coaching staff enough for them to give him a spot on the roster. Jason Maas - Joining the CFL. For the 2000 CFL season, Maas signed with the Edmonton Eskimos, the coaching staff intending to use him as a backup and (with Dan Crowley) the hold ...

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Jason Maas, Jason Maas - Amateur career, Jason Maas - Professional football, Jason Maas - Joining the CFL, Jason Maas - Professional setbacks, Jason Maas - Opportunity knocks, Jason Maas - Return to the bench, Jason Maas - Personal

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