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Lyra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lyra Belacqua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lyra Belacqua (also known as Lyra Silvertongue ) (born in 1984) is the heroine of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra is a young girl who inhabits a universe parallel to our own. Br...
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Lyra is thought to represent the harp of Orpheus. On older skymaps Lyra ist represented as a bird: Vultur, the Vulture. Together with the Cygnus, the Swan, and Aquila, the Eagle, it is hunted by Hercules. Another story says that Mercury invented the lyre by placing strings across the back of a tortoise shell.
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Japan manufacturer of MC phono cartridges and other products related to phonograph record playback. ... Based in Tokyo, LYRA is headed by Stig Bjorge from Norway, with American design engineer Jonathan Carr, and Japanese master craftsman Yoshinori Mishima making cartridges and supervising production.
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The Sumerians and Babylonians saw Lyra not as a harp but a vulture. This is suggested by early records of the constellation as a harp being carried by a vulture. So instead of being the Harp star it may once have been the Vulture Star.
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Lyra is one of the ancient musical instruments. The constellation is positioned at the West Side of summer's Milky Way around the zenith, and formed with tiny triangle and parallelogram. ... Galaxies In Lyra...
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