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IDAIda| Mountain range in northwest Turkey (Asiatic), to the north of the Gulf of Edremit, forming part of the border between the provinces of Çanakkale and Balikesir. Mount Gargarus (Turkish Kirklar Tepesi) is its highest peak, rising to 1,774 m/5,820 ft. |
| The northern slopes of the range command the ancient plains of Troy. In Greek mythology, it was the traditional site of the Judgement of Paris; the Trojan prince choosing Aphrodite as the fairest goddess, in return for her offer of Helen, the most beautiful woman. The event was considered the starting point of the Trojan wars. A temple to the Phrygian earth goddess Cybele was established on Mount Gargarus. |
Ida (lived 547–59)| First Anglian king of Bernicia. His rule probably did not extend south of the Tees. The kingdom of Deira, between the River Tees and the Humber estuary, was founded after his death. |
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Anchises
Brighton Rock
Candeille, Amélie-Julie
Conran, Shirley Ida
Gemma di Vergy
Glover, Jane
Haendel, Ida
Hughes, Harold E
Krauss, Ruth
Lupino
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McKinley, Ida
Muckrakers, the
Princess Ida
rhenium
Steffens, Lincoln
Straus, Isidor
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| The great scales of Fate had been held on a level for him; for where in all great London could one find two sweeter girls, more loving, more intelligent, and more sympathetic than Clara and Ida Walker? Through their veil Archer caught the glint of the Lime Rock, with its white-washed turret and the tiny house in which the heroic light-house keeper, Ida Lewis, was living her last venerable years. The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Venus bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida. |