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LEDA AND THE LACUNA SWAN

Daedalus : In CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY, an ingenious inventor, designer of the LABYRINTH, and one of the few to escape from it. He was the father of ICARUS. Daedalus is a symbol of inventiveness and craftsmanship.

Leda and the swan : The subject of a story from CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY about the rape of Leda, a queen of SPARTA, by ZEUS, who had taken the form of a swan. HELEN OF TROY was conceived in the rape of Leda. The visit of Zeus to Leda has frequently been portrayed in art. W. B. Yeats wrote a famous poem entitled "Leda and the Swan."

Swan Lake : A BALLET by PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY, in which a prince fights for the love of the Swan Queen. Swan Lake is one of the most famous ballets.

White Lake : Lake Pulls a Disappearing Act in Russia

A village wakes up to find its swimming and fishing spot is nothing but a muddy memory.

By Kim Murphy, Times Staff Writer

BOLOTNIKOVO, Russia ö For as long as anyone can remember, White Lake had been the local swimming and fishing hole. Deep, cold, fed by underwater springs, the lake regularly gave up carp as fat as birch trees. A kid could cannonball into its depths from the overhanging willows and never hit bottom.

And then one recent morning, the lake was simply gone.

............"Pretty much all the water went down that hole, and that's it," he said. "Everything ö fish, water, everything ö got sucked into that hole. And judging by the size of the crater, it must have happened pretty quickly, in a matter of a few hours."

Government officials theorize that a shift in soils underneath the lake opened access to an underground channel that drained the water, estimated from several thousand to more than a million cubic yards, into a subterranean cavern. From there, it may have flowed into the Oka River a few miles away.......

SEESAW

Okavango : A river of southwest-central Africa flowing about 1,609 km (1,000 mi) from central Angola to the Okavango Basin or Okavango Swamp, a marshy region of northern Botswana.

Botswana : Formerly Bechuanaland. A country of south-central Africa. A British protectorate after 1885, it gained full independence in 1966. Gaborone is the capital and Francistown the largest city.

The SculPTor
May 31, 2005

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CONNECTICUT 13

Ever have a bee in your bonnet about the connectivity of ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, JOHN KEATS, and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE's sonnets as it regards the Peloponnesian War between Trojans and Spartans?

Neither have I.

The SculPTor
May 30, 2005

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