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Cassiopeia
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tags: [astronomy] [mythology]
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Definition:The Ethiopean queen who was punished by Poseidon for her vanity. He strapped her to a chair in the heavens where she remains as a constellation.
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he had been back in the desert, wrapped in his bedroll, looking up and seeing nothing but Cassiopeia in her starry rocking chair.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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like a meteorite engraved with our name which we supposed to be unknown on Venus or Cassiopeia, an invitation to dinner or a piece of malicious gossip.Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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Why not endless till the farthest star? Darkly they are there behind this light, darkness shining in the brightness, delta of Cassiopeia, worlds.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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