Order of Icarus
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The Order of Icarus is the highest aviation award next to the Trans-Canada Trophy that is awarded to Canadian aviators who have made a lasting contribution to crewed flight. The order ceased existence
Order of Icarus
Minos
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In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrint
Order of Icarus
…mythologies, the early members settled on the Greek story of Icarus. According to myth, Icarus' father Daedalus, under an unjust sentence of death by King Minos of Crete, created wings of feather and wax with which he and his son could fly to freedom. When an exhilarated Icarus flew too high, the heat of the…
Minos witnesses the killing of the Minotaur on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater by the Syriskos Painter, c. 500-475 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Greece.
Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens
17th-century engraving of Scylla falling in love with Minos
A Roman mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene (now in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum) depicting Daedalus, his son Icarus, Queen Pasiphaë, and two of her female attendants