Ixion
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They called the concept of a rocket stage-turned-habitat Ixion, after the grandfather of the Centaurs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018
Its implicit suggestion was that your selfish brats were doomed to repeat your biography, that humanity could never get off the burning wheel of Ixion.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2017
Devatat of Siam, Ixion of Rome, Apollonius of Tyana in Cappadocia, are all reported in history as having "died the death of the cross."
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
His works are these: "Vivian Grey," 1817; "The Infernal Marriage;" "Ixion in Heaven," and "Popanilla," 1828; "Contarini Fleming," and "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy," 1832; "The Young Duke," about that time; "What is he?"
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
Ixion defies him, tells him he apes the man who made him; it is Zeus who is hollowness.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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