Thalia

Thalia, Thalía, Thaleia, or Thalian (/θəˈlaɪ.ə/; Greek: Θάλεια from θάλλειν "to bloom") may refer to:

Greek mythological figures

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Flora and fauna

Thalía

Ariadna Thalía Sodi-Miranda Mottola (Spanish pronunciation: [aɾiˈaðna taˈli.a ˈsoði miˈɾanda]; born 26 August 1971), known mononymously as Thalía, is a Mexican singer, published author, actress, and entrepreneur. She has sung in various languages apart from her native Spanish, including English, Filipino, French and Portuguese.

She is recognized as the most successful and influential female Mexican singer. She is often referred to as the "Queen of Latin Pop" by international media, mainly because of her legacy within the Latin pop music scene for the last 25 years. As a solo artist, she has sold over 40 million records worldwide, being considered one of the best-selling Latin musicians of all time. She has had 28 Top 10 singles, 16 of which went to No.1 and she has received numerous accolades including five Latin Billboard awards, several Premios Juventud awards and various Latin Grammy nominations.

As an actress, Thalía has starred in a variety of telenovelas, and in the 1990s was publicly referred to as the "Queen of telenovelas". The Spanish media company Televisa called her the best-paid telenovela.

Thalia (Muse)

Thalia (/θəˈlaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Θάλεια, Θαλία; "the joyous, the flourishing", from Ancient Greek: θάλλειν, thállein; "to flourish, to be verdant") was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means "flourishing", because the praises in her songs flourish through time. She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses.

According to pseudo-Apollodorus, she and Apollo were the parents of the Corybantes. Other ancient sources, however, gave the Corybantes different parents.

She was portrayed as a young woman with a joyous air, crowned with ivy, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand. Many of her statues also hold a bugle and a trumpet (both used to support the actors' voices in ancient comedy), or occasionally a shepherd’s staff or a wreath of ivy.

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Saphir

Saphir may refer to:

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French submarine Saphir (S602)

Saphir is a first-generation nuclear attack submarine of the French Navy. She was to be named Bretagne but was renamed Saphir in 1981 before commissioning.

She is the second of the Rubis series. Between October 1989 and May 1991, she undertook a major refit which upgraded her to the level of the lead vessel in the class, Améthyste.

Service history

In September 2001, she torpedoed and sank the ex-destroyer D'Estrées expended as a target ship off Toulon.

On 6 March 2015 it was reported in a blogspot of the French Navy and Defense Ministry that during a recent training exercise off Florida Saphir, in her role as part of the "enemy" attack group, had "sunk" the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. The blogspot was later erased.

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Saphir (train)

The Saphir was an express train operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn linking the port of Ostend with Dortmund as part of a link between London and the Ruhr. The name Saphir, German for sapphire, refers to the Belgian gemstone industry.

History

Beginnings

The initial service started in 1954 as post-war successor of the Ostend–Cologne Pullman Express. Its schedule was coordinated with an Ostend–Dover ferry run and a Dover–London train, and overall the schedule that came into effect with the Saphir's introduction "permitt[ed] passengers leaving London (Victoria) at 10:00 to reach destinations in the Rhine–Ruhr district of Germany some three hours earlier than formerly".

The service used a class DB Class VT 08 diesel multiple unit. In its early years, the Saphir was referred to as the "Sapphire" in English publications, but by 1963 even the English Cook's Continental Timetable was calling it by its German name, Saphir.

Trans Europ Express

The Saphir was upgraded to a first-class-only Trans Europ Express (TEE) on 2 June 1957. The VT 08 were replaced by DB Class VT 11.5 trainsets as soon as these were available, on 15 July 1957. The timetable was designed to provide a TEE link from Brussels to Frankfurt am Main as well as a connection with the TEE Rhein–Main in Cologne. After one year of service the Saphir's route itself was altered with Frankfurt instead of Dortmund being the German terminus. In 1966, the route was cut back from Ostend to Brussels, making the TEE Saphir's route Brussels–Frankfurt.