In Greek mythology, Pandora ("all gifted") was the first woman, fashioned by Zeus as part of his punishment of mankind for having stolen the secret of fire. Pandora - The legend. The titan Epimetheus ("hindsight") was responsible for giving a positive trait to each and every animal. However, when it was time to give man a positive trait, there was nothing left. Prometheus ("foresight"), his brother, felt that because man was superior to all other animals, man should have a gift no other animal possessed. So ...

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• Pandora - The legend
• Pandora - Commentary
• Pandora - Cultural allusions to Pandora and her box

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Pandora's Box album, Pandora's Box album - Track listing, Pandora's Box album - Disc one, Pandora's Box album - Disc two, Pandora's Box album - Disc three, Pandora's Box album - Songs recorded at, Pandora's Box album - Composers

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The story of Pandora's Box can be interpreted in more than one way, but one obvious moral is that of "curiosity killed the cat". Some scholars contend that Pandora's "box" may have been a mistranslation, and her "box" may have been a large jar or vase, forged from the earth. In fact, there is evidence that suggests Pandora herself was the jar. In Ancient Greece jars commonly bore images of women. The jar was said to have been in a jar form because of the similarit ...

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Pandora, Pandora - The legend, Pandora - Commentary, Pandora - Cultural allusions to Pandora and her box

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Wagnerian rock is a musical genre that was created by Jim Steinman due to his love for the music of Richard Wagner and Phil Spector. The genre is a merger (almost a musical hybrid) of twentieth century Rock & Roll and nineteenth century Opera reminiscent that of Wagner's and Spector's, and not to say the least, with a major distinctive touch of Steinman's own musical skills. The genre can be argued to be a subform of Rock opera. See also. anthem rock Holly Sherwood Fire I ...

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Daughter of Nyx in Greek mythology, Apate was the personification of deceit. She was one of the evil spirits in Pandora's box. Her Roman equivalent was Fraus. Other related archivesAdrasteia, Bia, Charites, Cratos, Eris, Eros, Greek mythology, Horae, Metis, Moirae, Muses, Nemesis, Nike, Nyx, Pandora's box, Thanatos, Themis, Zelus

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A Chinese Odyssey (Chinese: 大話西遊) is a series of two 1994 films, directed by Jeffrey Lau. They are some of actor Stephen Chow's most famous movies, the first one being A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒) and the second one being A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣). The two films together can be called a "sad comedy" showcasing Ste ...

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Alexey Pajitnov (Алексей Пажитнов, born 1956, Russia), whose last name is sometimes transliterated Pazhitnov, is a Russian computer engineer, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for the Computer Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D centre. Alexey Pajitnov - Biography. Pajitnov created Tetris with the help of Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov in 1985. The game, first available in the Soviet Union, appeared in the West in ...

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This article is about sinfulness. For the movie, see Original Sin (movie) Original sin is usually understood of the condition of sinfulness (lack of holiness) in which human beings, according to Christian tradition, are born. The term is also applied, with the definite article ("the original sin"), to mankind's first sin, to which evil effects for the whole human race are attributed. Christ ...

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• Original sin - The original sin the Fall
• Original sin - Classical Biblical and Orthodox Jewish view
• Original sin - Reform and Conservative Judaism's views
• Original sin - The original sin in Gnosticism
• Original sin - The original sin in the Unification Church
• Original sin - The original sin in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Original sin - The original sin according to Muslims
• Original sin - Original sin Christian doctrine
• Original sin - Original sin in the New Testament
• Original sin - Original sin in Roman Catholicism
• Original sin - Original sin in Eastern Orthodoxy
• Original sin - Original sin in mainstream Protestantism
• Original sin - Original sin in Restoration Movement

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A golden age is a temporal term originated from early Greek and Roman poets. The term refers to a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure and/or immortal. It usually ends with a devastating event, identified to the Fall of Man (see Ages of Man). Golden age - Mythology. In classical mythology, this took place during the reign of Cronus. Peace and harmony prevailed during this age. Humans did not grow old, but died peacefully. Spring was eternal and people were fed on acorns from a great oak as well ...

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• Golden age - Christianity
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Adam Curtis is a British television documentary producer. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. He is noted for making programmes which express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and for narrating the programmes himself. Curtis previously taught politics at Oxford University but left for a career in television. He got a job on the show That's Life! where he learned to find humor in serious subjects. He went on to make documentaries on mo ...

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Zombies Ate My Neighbours is a shooter-style video game for the Super NES and Genesis gaming systems. The game was produced by LucasArts as a comical tribute to both classic and schlocky horror films of the 1950s and 1960s. There was a sequel, Ghoul Patrol, which used more realistic graphics and more impressive monsters, but it was considered by many to lack the heart of the original, and to have thus killed the series off. Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Censorship. Due to the theme of the ...

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• Zombies Ate My Neighbors - In-game references

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Hephaestus (World Book «hih FEHS tuhs») (Greek: Ἡφαιστος Hêphaistos) is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is Vulcan; he is the god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals and metallurgy, and fire. He was worshipped in all the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece, especially Athens. Though his forge lay in the volcanic heart of Lemnos, Hephaestus became associa ...

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The titan Epimetheus ("hindsight") was responsible for giving a positive trait to each and every animal. However, when it was time to give man a positive trait, there was nothing left. Prometheus ("foresight"), his brother, felt that because man was superior to all other animals, man should have a gift no other animal possessed. So Prometheus set forth to steal fire from Zeus and handed it over to man. Zeus was enraged and decided to punish Prometheus and his creation: mankind. To punish Prometheus, Zeus chained him in unbreakable fet ...

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Pandora, Pandora - The legend, Pandora - Commentary, Pandora - Cultural allusions to Pandora and her box

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Meat Loaf is working on Bat Out of Hell III: The Last at Bat. According to Jim Steinman he and his engineer Steve Rinkoff are "not involved with anything resembling Bat 3". Jim is instead working on a new album with a group he is forming called The Dream Engine. At the same time, he has also written several films that are yet to be made. He had been working on a musical version of Batman, though the project has collapsed. ...

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Jim Steinman, Jim Steinman - The Dream Engine, Jim Steinman - More Than You Deserve, Jim Steinman - Neverland, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman - Bad for Good, Jim Steinman - Dead Ringer, Jim Steinman - The Other Children, Jim Steinman - Bonnie Tyler, Jim Steinman - Fire Inc., Jim Steinman - Pandora's Box, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 2: Back into Hell, Jim Steinman - Musicals, Jim Steinman - Tanz der Vampire, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 3: The Last at Bat, Jim Steinman - Discography

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In 1981 a sequel album to Bat Out of Hell was ready, but Meat Loaf's voice, after years of continuing tour, was not. This time Jim Steinman co-produced all of the tracks. Todd Rundgren, the producer from "Bat Out of Hell" co-produced every track except "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", which was co-produced by Jimmy Iovine, who later headed Interscope Records. Steinman decided to sing the album himself, as he intended to do a solo album for a long time anyway. The album was released as Bad for Good. The album produced one hit, R ...

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Jim Steinman, Jim Steinman - The Dream Engine, Jim Steinman - More Than You Deserve, Jim Steinman - Neverland, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman - Bad for Good, Jim Steinman - Dead Ringer, Jim Steinman - The Other Children, Jim Steinman - Bonnie Tyler, Jim Steinman - Fire Inc., Jim Steinman - Pandora's Box, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 2: Back into Hell, Jim Steinman - Musicals, Jim Steinman - Tanz der Vampire, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 3: The Last at Bat, Jim Steinman - Discography

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Jim Steinman - Bonnie Tyler. The collaboration with Meat Loaf went on hiatus, and Steinman started working on other projects; he produced Bonnie Tyler's Faster Than the Speed of Night, with the hit song, written by Steinman, "Total Eclipse of the Heart". At the same time he had written a song for Air Supply, titled "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", so in October 1983, for four weeks in a row, he had two songs at the top of the US Billboard chart: Total Eclipse at number one, and Making LoveSee also:

Jim Steinman, Jim Steinman - The Dream Engine, Jim Steinman - More Than You Deserve, Jim Steinman - Neverland, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman - Bad for Good, Jim Steinman - Dead Ringer, Jim Steinman - The Other Children, Jim Steinman - Bonnie Tyler, Jim Steinman - Fire Inc., Jim Steinman - Pandora's Box, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 2: Back into Hell, Jim Steinman - Musicals, Jim Steinman - Tanz der Vampire, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 3: The Last at Bat, Jim Steinman - Discography

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In the late Nineties Steinman returned to his old love: musicals. He wrote lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind that went on stage in the US in 1996, and in London, rearranged in 1998, with much greater success. Many of the songs from Whistle Down the Wind were recorded by performers popular in England and released on a theme album in the U.K., produced by Jim Steinman. One track called "No Matter What," recorded by pop group Boyzone, became a hit in the U.K. See also:

Jim Steinman, Jim Steinman - The Dream Engine, Jim Steinman - More Than You Deserve, Jim Steinman - Neverland, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman - Bad for Good, Jim Steinman - Dead Ringer, Jim Steinman - The Other Children, Jim Steinman - Bonnie Tyler, Jim Steinman - Fire Inc., Jim Steinman - Pandora's Box, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 2: Back into Hell, Jim Steinman - Musicals, Jim Steinman - Tanz der Vampire, Jim Steinman - Bat Out of Hell 3: The Last at Bat, Jim Steinman - Discography

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1988: An Ocean Apart. Episode One "Hats Off to Mr. Wilson” (concerning the process by which the United States was involved in the First World War. 1992: Pandora's Box examined the dangers of technocratic and political rationality. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series. [2] 1995: The Living Dead investigated the way that history has been used by politicians and others. 1996: 25 Million Pounds a study of Nick Leeson and the collapse of Barings Bank. Won the Best Science and Nature Documentary in the 1998 San F ...

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Adam Curtis, Adam Curtis - Works

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Aerosmith - 1969. Steven Tyler, the lead vocalist for Aerosmith, was in, amongst others, a band called Chain Reaction (Not to be confused with Chain Reaction that formed in 1976 with future members of The Red Hot Chili Peppers), who recorded a single in 1966 (partly available on Aerosmith's 1991 box release Pandora's Box). He met Joe Perry, who was at the time playing in a band with bassist Tom Hamilton, while Perry was selling french fries (he was mad because he had to clean all the stuff that steven threw to the floor) in 1969, which eventually led to the formation of Aerosmith.

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Pandora (Greek) All-gifted; in Greek mythology, after Prometheus enlightened man by bringing him the celestial fire, the enraged Zeus revenges himself by seducing man, for which purpose he has Hephaestos create a woman,

Pandora, endowed with gifts from the great gods. She is brought to Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus ("after-thought," the brother of "fore-thought"), bringing with her a locked box containing all human ills, which she opens from curiosity, and the ills spread over the earth. Hesiod calls her the first woman, sent as a punishment to man for his theft of the divine fire.

It evidently means that as soon as he quits his passive irresponsible state and acquires active will and intellect, man subjects himself to temptations from the lower world. Pandora is an earthly aspect of all-bounteous nature; a later interpretation of the story of the box makes it the container of blessings, which however fly away when it is opened, leaving behind only hope.

(See also: Pandora, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)