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Rhoda Broughton was an English novelist. She was born in 1840 and died after 1905. The daughter of a clergyman, she was much less prolific than some English lady novelists, and her early works attracted much more attention than her later. Among the chief are Cometh up as a Flower (1867); Not Wisely but too Well (1869); Red as a Rose is She (1870); Good-bye, Sweetheart, Good-bye (1872); Nancy (1873); Joan (1876); Belinda (1883); Scylla or Charybdis (1895) ; Dear Faustina (1897); Lavinia (1902). Her earlier novels show a cleverness, vigour, and originality of plot and characterization hardly maintained in her later ones.
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In Greek mythology, the Charybdis was a whirlpool formed by a monster of the same name on one side of the narrow straits of Messina, Sicily, opposite the monster Scylla.
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In Greek mythology, according to Homer, Scylla was a monster, a daughter of Triton or Poseidon, who lived on a rock in the strait of Messina. She had necks twelve and a half feet long and heads armed with three rows of teeth with which she snatched sailors from passing ships which came too close. In later stories Scylla was a beautiful maiden beloved by the sea-god Glaucus who asked Circe for charms to help him win her love. Circe, however, in her jealousy threw magic herbs into the pool where Scylla used to bathe so that while above the water she remained human, below she was changed into a fish- like shape encircled by dogs.
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The Short L17 Scylla was an airliner of the 1930's used by the Continental services of Imperial Airways. She carried a crew of five, and had accommodation for thirty-nine passengers in three spacious saloons. The Scylla was equipped with a fully fitted kitchen and pantry, from which full-course meals or light refreshments were served in the air. Four 555 hp Bristol Jupiter engines provided a top speed of 105 mph.
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HMS Scylla was a British Dido Class cruiser of 5450 tons displacement launched in 1939. HMS Scylla was powered by Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. Armaments consisted of ten 5.25-inch guns, six mounted in three twin super firing turrets and four aft; sixteen smaller guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes arranged in two triples. One aircraft was also carried.
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HMS Scylla was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by the HM Shipyard at Devonport and launched in 1968. HMS Scylla was powered by two oil-fired boilers providing a top speed of 27 knots and a range of 6400 km at 15 knots. She carried a complement of 260 and was armed with one quad Seacat missile launcher; twin 4.5 inch guns and two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and a Limbo anti-submarine mortar. She carried a Wasp helicopter.
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