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Would you like to become a P e r s o n a l Trainer? Read how Who was Pandora and one former what did she actually p r i s o n e r have inside that box? loves his new career. Inside this edition of: 04 - It’s all Greek to me! Much of our language and phraseology has its origin in Greek language. Here we look at how figures from Greek history and Myth have given their names to the problems, conditions and situations that we regularly refer to. 07 - Great Explorers & Unsung Heroes. 26 - The Conspiracy Theorist’s Moon Landing. While many of us know that Christopher How do you prove or disprove the Moon Columbus discovered America, very few landings? This feature includes some of will ever consider the men that worked the evidence that has been gathered by behind the scenes. These unsung heroes Andy Thomas. Even 50 years later there made the discoveries that made early are questions that NASA can’t answer. exploration possible. 12 - Walking on the Moon. The 21st July 2019 will mark the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. But the work to reach the moon had begun at the end of World War II when American soldiers discovered the Nazi V2 rocket factories. This in-depth feature explores the various stages of rocket development, the space race between and the high price that was paid in man’s ultimate quest to explore. 30 - Become a Personal Trainer. Planning for a life after prison can be a very daunting prospect - but there is no 24 - Whitey’s on the Moon. doubt that being employable is critical. Modern history focuses on the ticker-tape This feature explains how you can achieve parades while selling an image of all the qualifications you will need to forge a Americans united in celebrating the career in the ever-growing Health and Moon landings. In this feature you can Fitness industry. Read first hand how a read about the vast numbers who viewed former Erlestoke resident continues to space exploration as a rich man’s pursuit, achieve great success and how you can in a nation that was bitterly divided by do the same by preparing now. poverty and segregation. This sentiment is beautifully expressed in Gill Scott-Heron’s spoken word lyrics. Dear Readers, 30 - Become a Personal Trainer. While we were producing this magazine Planning for a life after prison can be a we heard the news that the Chinese had very daunting prospect - but there is no managed to land craft on the Dark Side doubt that being employable is critical. of the Moon. Even a small nation like Israel This feature explains how you can achieve have come close to landing an ROV the qualifications you will need to forge a career in the ever-growing Health and (Remotely Operated Vehicle) on the moon. Fitness industry. Read first hand how a Giant tech companies like Space-ex are former Erlestoke resident continues to working to break beyond the moon and achieve great success and how you can put colonists on Mars. do the same by preparing now. But these remarkable achievements are so 33 - Life in Prison Objects - A Book. often met with a shrug of the shoulders. We continue our feature exploring how everyday items have such an impact on We have become so used to technological our lives in prison. advances that we often fail to see the huge achievements that are being made around us everyday. All too quickly we can become complacent. In this edition we look back in some detail at the technological achievements that led to the first Lunar landing. Not bad when we consider that the first successful manned flight across the English Channel only took place in 1909. It is incredible to think that less than 50 years after that flight, Yuri Gagarin was in space. In those terms, there are a great number of things that any of us can achieve - if only we put our minds to it. As ever, we worked hard to produce this magazine and we hope that you find an article that you enjoy - we welcome your 34 - The Good German. feedback and suggestions. War is usually associated with so many stories of hatred and cruelty that we must We are always looking for feature writers celebrate the few occasions when mercy to help produce The Manor. All you need won out. Here we look at one occasion when a pilot chose to do what was right is a hobby, interest or idea. We will work instead of blindly following his sense of with you to help turn your concept into a duty. finished article. We are based in Room 5 40 - The Kitchen Debate. of the education building. It was a fake kitchen in an exhibition, a public relations exercise and a Cold War Written & Edited by photo opportunity, but when Khrushchev met Nixon the gloves came off and the Jailhouse Moose heated debate they had was very real. 42 - Origami Fridays We check in with the Origami team and the amazing work they do each week. So far they have raised more than £10,000 for the Friends of Erlestoke. It’s all Greek to me! There are countless legends and legendary characters that we know from Greek history. We examine just a few on these pages. Castor and Pollux Sphinx The twin sons of Jupiter, sailed with Jason to The Greek Sphinx was a monster with the head and torso find the Golden Fleece among their many of a woman, the body of a dog or lion, the wings of a adventures. They were worshipped as Gods bird, a serpent’s tail and lion’s paws. She killed herself and finally ascended into the heavens when Oedipus solved this riddle: “What goes on four feet, where they now reside as ’Gemini’. on two feet, and three, but the more feet it goes on the weaker it be?” Charon Oedipus identified that the answer was a man. He crawls The old man who ferried the dead across on all fours when he is born, learns to walk upright, but the river Styx into the afterlife for the fare needs a walking stick as he gets old. of an obulus - a small coin of little worth. Oedipus Circe He was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. His birth The sorceress that turned Odysseus and his coincided with a prophecy that he would murder his father crew into pigs. They only escaped Circe’s and marry his mother. Fearing this prophecy, his parents island, Aeaea, when Odyssues ate a root abandoned him to die on a mountainside - but he was given to him by the god, Mercury. saved and raised by a shepherd. When he reached manhood he unwittingly slew his father Colossus which left the crown of Thebes vacant. Having slain the The bronze colossus of Rhodes was one of king, Oedipus secured the throne when he answered the the original 7 wonders of the world. Said to Sphinx's riddle. As king, Oedipus won the right to the hand be 100ft tall, this bronze statue of the sun of Jocasta in marriage. But after their wedding night, when god, Helios, was made from the melted the facts finally came to light, Jocasta hanged herself and down weapons after the defence of Rhodes Oedipus tore out his own eyes. from Demetrius. It was said to have been destroyed by an earthquake in 224 BCE. Narcissus The son of Cephisus, Narcissus was a beautiful youth. He Cynic saw his reflection in a fountain and became convinced that The Cynics were a group of philosophers it was the presiding Nymph of that place. He became ob- who loathed the Athenian tendency towards sessed with the Nymph and strained repeatedly to reach ease, luxury and wealth. The movement was it, but all his attempts failed. Eventually Narcissus pined founded by Antisthenes and made famous away, wasted and died. When the nymphs arose to take by his pupil Diogenes. his body away for funeral honours all they could find was a flower which they named in his honour. Plutarch says that the plant is called Narcissus from he Greek narkě, meaning ’numbness’. Find out how you can study ‘The Classics’ in the Education Department. Prometheus & Pandora Sisyphus The earliest men spent their days hunting and fighting, The king Sisyphus raped Anticlea, the eldest followed by night’s feasting, with the fat and bones of daughter of Autolycus. But before he died, King their prey being burned as offerings to the gods. The Sisyphus persuaded his wife to forego any funeral Titan, Prometheus, angered Zeus by cheating him of his honours for him. When he arrived in Hades for his portion of meat from sacrifices. Zeus’ punishment was to judgement the devious Sisyphus sought leave to take back fire from men, but Prometheus sneaked into return to Earth for vengeance against his disloyal Olympus and stole it back. Zeus ordered, Hephaistos, his spouse. But rather than return as promised, when smith, to fashion a creature out of clay. The goddess he left the underworld, he lived to a great old Athena then draped this creature, the first woman, age. On his eventual death, when he returned to named Pandora, in flowers and silks, but she gave her a the underworld, special care was taken to prevent deceitful nature. Zeus’ gift to men was to be both a another escape. Sisyphus was given what he blessing and curse, the god intended that man would be thought was a simple task - to roll a boulder to the satisfied neither with her or without her.