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Heracles Cleans the Augean Stables: The Hero’s Fifth Labor
For his fifth labor, King Eurystheus ordered Heracles to clean the stables of King Augeas in a single day. The Augean Stables housed over 3,000 immortal cattle and had not been cleaned in decades ...
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THE NATION: Hercules in a Hard Hat
When Hercules agreed to clean the stables, Augeas was pleased—although he later gypped the strong man out of his reward. But that is running ahead of this week’s news that New York’s Federal ...
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THE PRESIDENCY: Hercules Is Unwilling
The mighty man stepped gingerly into the Augean stables, sniffed once and backed out again. Hercules was unwilling ... he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena ...
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Catholic Church in no mood to clean its Augean stables
But not the Catholic Church, oh no. This week, once again showing their, ahem, flexible approach to the teachings of the good book, the Vatican has announced that it is giving up any form of ...
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Condition of Russian-US relations reminiscent of Augean stables — Kremlin spokesman
TASS/. So many unresolved issues have been accumulated in Russian-US relations, that several hours of talks will be hardly enough for cleaning up these "Augean stables," Russian presidential ...