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Known as the Meltemi, these winds have occupied an outsize place in the Tinian psyche since antiquity, when a myth arose to explain them: Hercules, angry at Boreas for killing his friend, took revenge on the god of the north wind by killing Boreas’s children on Tinos.
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Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
Berners in the Park, an event celebrating Bernese Mountain Dogs, will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 3, at Rice Park in downtown St. Paul by the 2019 King Boreas, Monte Johnson, and the 2019 Lady Boreas, Mary Johnson, in memory of their dog, Murphy.
—Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
In 1619, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei named this phenomenon aurora borealis after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek god of the north wind, Boreas.
—Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
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Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2024
Berners in the Park, an event celebrating Bernese Mountain Dogs, will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 3, at Rice Park in downtown St. Paul by the 2019 King Boreas, Monte Johnson, and the 2019 Lady Boreas, Mary Johnson, in memory of their dog, Murphy.
—Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
In 1619, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei named this phenomenon aurora borealis after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek god of the north wind, Boreas.
—Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
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“Boreas.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Boreas. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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