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A labyrinth is a maze like structure.
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The Climbing Perch (Anabas scandens) is a freshwater fish about 20 centimetres long, with a compressed body and a long spiny dorsal fin. It is found in India and countries to the east, and can travel long distances on land, breathing air by means of a bony labyrinth richly supplied with blood- vessels and situated in the upper part of the bronchial chamber.
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In Greek mythology Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him out of the labyrinth with a thread in exchange for him promising to take her back to Athens and marry her. She was abandoned by Theseus on the Isle of Naxos where she subsequently met and married Bacchus.
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In Greek mythology, Daedalus was an Athenian artisan whose skill rivalled that of Hephaestus. He was ordered by King Minos to construct a vast underground palace linked by a labyrinth of rooms into which Minos imprisoned his wife Pasiphae and her monstrous child the Minotaur. Daedalus fled from Crete because he knew the secret of the labyrinth and didn't trust Minos not to kill him. He fled with his son Icarus using wings made by them from feathers fastened with wax, Daedalus warning his son not to fly to close to the sun less the heat melted the wax. Icarus ignored his father's advice, the wax melted and he fell to his death. Daedalus however escaped to Sicily or mainland Italy, depending upon accounts.
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Icarus was the son Daedalus. They went to Crete and were prevented from leaving by ship by king Minos. They escaped from the Minos labyrinth by means of wings made by his father Daedalus of feathers stitched to ribs of willow and the feathers held together by wax. In escaping Icarus showed off and flew too close to the sun, the wax holding the feathers to the wings melted and
Icarus fell into the sea and was drowned.
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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a monster, half man and half bull, the offspring of Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull sent to Minos from Poseidon. The Minotaur lived in the Labyrinth built by Daedalus at Knossos, and its victims were seven girls and seven youths, sent in annual tribute by Athens, until Theseus, sent in one contingent with the express purpose of freeing Athens from tribute, killed the Minotaur, and with the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, found his way back out of the Labyrinth.
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The ear is the organ used for hearing. It converts sound into electrical impulses that are fed to the brain. The external ear is composed of the auricle (the pinna), and the auditory canal (the meatus auditorius externus). The Pinna or auricle surrounds the entrance to the auditory canal. It consists of cartilage covered by skin, with small muscles connecting it to the scalp. At the base of the ear is a fleshy lobe. The meatus auditorius is a canal about three centimeters long in the adult, partly bony and partly cartilaginous, leading from the pinna of the ear to the drum. The lining cells secrete the waxy substance found in the canal. In young children the canal is much shorter. The ear drum (tympanic membrane) is a thin oval-shaped membrane, inserted into a groove around the auditory canal. Normally it is white, glistening and somewhat transparent, so that some of the structures of the middle ear are partly visible when viewed through an auroscope. It separates the auditory canal from the middle ear.
The Tympanum or middle ear is a cavity within the temporal bone. It contains several important structures, including three small bones which connect the drum with the internal ear; they are the malleus or hammer, the incus or anvil, and the stapes or stirrup bone. They transmit the vibrations of sound waves to the inner ear. The Eustachian Tube is a channel of communication between the tympanum and the upper part of the pharynx. It admits air from the throat to the tympanum and so maintains an equal pressure on both sides of the drum. The Labyrinth or internal ear is a series of chambers through the petrous bone, comprising the vestibule, a three-cornered cavity within the tympanum; the semicircular canals communicating with the vestibule; and the cochlea, which makes two and a half turns around an axis called the modiolus. The human ear is capable of detecting sounds in the frequency range 20 hz to 20 khz, approximately.
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The vestibulocochlear nerve (nervus vestibulaocochlearis) is a group of sensory nerves that innervate the receptor cells within the labyrinth of the cochlea. It is a branch of the eighth cranial nerve. The acoustic nerve is the eighth cranial nerve, extending from the ear to the brain. The cochlear portion of the acoustic nerve conveys sound impulses from the inner ear to the brain and the vestibular portions convey the sensations of balance from the semicircular canals in the inner ear to the brain. The acoustic nerve is an important nerve to the sense of hearing and the sense of balance.
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Chislehurst is a village in Kent. It was an important Druid centre in ancient times. It is the site of a labyrinth of caves and tunnels which were used during the Second World War as an air-raid shelter for some 15000 people.
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In architecture a labyrinth is a pattern or design representing a maze. They are often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
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