(urth) Nessus, House Absolute, etc.

[Lane Haygood]

Nessus, if I remember correctly, is the centaur that trains Achilles.

Lane

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:09 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>wrote:

> To all:
>
> I have to step back from my statement that Buenos Aires is not on the Rio
> de la Plate. It IS in fact on the estuary of that river---an estuary that is
> so wide at that point that it may as well be a sea. So yes, Nessus was
> originally probably a native settlement by the sea/where Gyoll meets the
> sea, and Buenos Aires has already moved north from where it was "founded" by
> Spaniards. However, the Wiki doesn't mention any previous settlement at all:
>
> Seaman Juan Díaz de Solís<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_D%C3%ADaz_de_Sol%C3%ADs>,
> navigating in the name of Spain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain>, was
> the first European to reach the Río de la Plata<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata>in 1516. His expedition was cut short when he was killed, supposedly during
> an attack by the native Charrúa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charr%C3%BAa>tribe in what is now
> Uruguay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay>.
>
> The city of Buenos Aires was first established as *Ciudad de Nuestra
> Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre*[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#cite_note-Short_history-6>(literally "City of Our Lady Saint Mary of the Fair Winds") on February 2,
> 1536 by a Spanish expedition led by Pedro de Mendoza<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Mendoza>.
> The city founded by Mendoza was located in what is today the San Telmo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Telmo>district of Buenos Aires, south of the city centre.
>
> More attacks by the indigenous peoples forced the settlers away, and in
> 1541 the site was abandoned. A second (and permanent) settlement was
> established in 1580 by Juan de Garay<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Garay>,
> who arrived by sailing down the Paraná River<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paran%C3%A1_River>from
> Asunción <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asunci%C3%B3n> (now the capital of
> Paraguay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay>). Although upon the
> refounding, the city itself was named Holy Trinity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Buenos_Aires>(
> Spanish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language>: *Santisima
> Trinidad*) and only the port was still called Buenos Aires, over the next
> two centuries the port's name won out.
>
>
> So, whatever. Does anyone know of any origins/meanings for the name
> "Nessus"?
> Son of Witz---Where did you get the textfiles of TBotNS?
>
> Also, my guess as to the futurity of Urth is no more than 100,000 years. My
> 2 cents.
>
> Dave
>
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