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“Pleione” is an ill track and I swear I hear someone signing under the track.
What’s New In Dart’s iPod #9 AKA The Dirty Midwest Edition Dart Adams 2007
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Epiphytes are numerous in this montane cloud forest environment and include Aeschynanthus, Agapetes, Rhododendron cuffeanum, various aroids, and the orchid taxa Dendrobium and Pleione.
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It seems that the Pleiades are not, after all, the seven grieving daughters of Atlas and Pleione, sent up there to console them for the death of their sisters.
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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By his wife Pleione he had seven daughters, who went by the general names of Atlantĭdes, or
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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In Greece the Pleiades were the ghosts of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and in
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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The names given to the individual stars are those of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione; thus Milton terms them the Seven Atlantic Sisters.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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Some of the stars are known to be slightly variable, and one of the fainter stars in the cluster may have shone more brightly in olden time; -- the gaseous spectrum of Pleione renders it credible that this star may once have had great brilliancy.
The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889
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It is probable that only the best sight could then distinguish Pleione, as in our own day.
Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883
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The angular distance from Atlas to Pleione is 5 '.
Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883
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Pleione, the surmised lost Pleiad, P Cygni, noted for instability of light in the seventeenth century, and the extraordinary southern variable, Eta Carinæ.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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