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His Brother Pointed: RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
An attempt was made to market licenses for the use of Talbot's American patent by Frederick and William Langenheim, pioneer daguerreotypists of Philadelphia. William visited Talbot at Lacock Abbey in 1849 and paid him £1000 for the exclusive American rights. He and his brother pointed out in a broadside addressed to daguerreotypists that paper portraits and views were "devoid of all metallic glare," and could be multiplied "to an unlimited extent with very little expense and labor."
"It's just how great Barbaro is,'' Brother Derek's trainer Dan Hendricks said.
Barbaro is the even-money favorite for the shortest of the Triple Crown races. Brother Derek, the talented California-bred who finished in a dead heat for fourth at the Derby, is the second choice at 3-1, with Sweetnorthernsaint at 4-1 off his seventh-place Derby finish. |
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