Isis (band)

Isis (stylized as ISIS) was a Los Angeles-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010. They borrowed from and helped to evolve a sound pioneered by the likes of Neurosis and Godflesh, creating heavy music consisting of lengthy songs that focus on repetition and evolution of structure.

The band's last album, Wavering Radiant, was released on 5 May 2009. They disbanded in June 2010, just before the release of a split EP with the Melvins.

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Formation and early releases (1997–2001)

Mons Vitruvius

Mons Vitruvius is a mountain on the Moon that is located in the Montes Taurus region just to the north of Mare Tranquillitatis and to the southeast of Mare Serenitatis. This massif is located at selenographic coordinates of 19.4° N, 30.8° E, and it has a diameter across the base of 15 km. It rises to a maximum height of about 2.3 km near the northeastern end. This mountain was named after the crater Vitruvius, located to the south-southeast. (The eponym for this feature is Marcus P. Vitruvius.)

The Apollo 17 mission landed in the Taurus–Littrow valley to the north of this mountain. Several small craters in the vicinity of this peak and the landing site have been assigned names by the IAU. These are listed in the table below.

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Hera Agathon

Hera Agathon or Isis is a fictional character from the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.

Isis or Hera is the first, and only, known Cylon-Human hybrid child to be born and she first appears in the episode "Downloaded". She is the daughter of the Cylon Sharon "Athena" Agathon and human father Karl "Helo" Agathon. They name her "Hera" after the Colonial goddess.

Background and details

The humanoid Cylons are as biological as they are technological and can potentially mate with humans and produce offspring. This fact seems to be part of the "plan" of the Cylons who want to repopulate the human colonies with a new generation of hybrid beings. Once the Cylons learn of Athena's pregnancy, they decide the child must be protected at all costs and thus have impact on the Cylon agenda in pursuing the refugee fleet. Hera is believed to be the only successful hybrid born, which is believed to be due to the love between her parents. Attempts at producing hybrids in "farms" on the occupied Colonies have all presumably failed in the early stages of gestation, if they ever got that far.

Root (disambiguation)

A root is the part of a plant that is below ground.

Root or roots may also refer to:

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Roots franchise

Root (chord)

In music theory, the concept of root denotes the idea that a chord could be represented and named by one of its notes. It is linked to harmonic thinking, that is, to the idea that vertical aggregates of notes form a single unit, a chord. It is in this sense that one can speak of a "C chord", or a "chord on C", a chord built from C and of which C is the root. The root needs not be the bass note of the chord: the concept of root is linked to that of the inversion of chords, itself deriving from the notion of invertible counterpoint.

In tertian harmonic theory, that is in a theory where chords can be considered stacks of thirds (e.g. in common practice tonality), the root of a chord is the note on which the thirds are stacked. For instance, the root of a triad such as C-E-G is C, independently of the order in which the three notes are presented. A triad knows three possible positions, a "root position" with the root in the bass, a first inversion, e.g. E-G-C, and a second inversion, e.g. G-C-E, but the root remains the same in all three cases. Four-note seventh chords know four positions, five-note ninth chords know five positions, etc., but the root position always is that of the stack of thirds, and the root is the lowest note of this stack (see also Factor (chord)).

Root (surname)

Root is a surname, and may refer to:

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Thorn (dog)

Thorn was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War.

The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross.

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