Medusa
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When the monster emerges in the water tower, a moss-covered, faucet-dripping, steam-seeping laboratory punctuated by a screaming sculpture of Medusa, he’s as old as he is new.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Looking at Medusa, the hideous woman with snakes for hair, might turn the viewer to stone, but there’s power in offending the eye—or at least rejecting the pressure to be decorative.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024
Brittany Ferries' Mont St Michel was accompanied by a flotilla of vintage and serving warships, including World War Two-era motor gunboat 81, motor launch HMS Medusa and RAF rescue boat HSL 102.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024
The Medusa, a restaurant and music venue, is in Playa de Palma, near Palma, the capital and largest city of the island chain.
From New York Times • May 23, 2024
At the end of the corridor, in a cross-shaped room that flickered with torchlight, was a fifteen-foot-high stone figure with a catlike face, taloned fingers, fierce tusks, and Medusa hair.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Marine Biology - Middle School
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Marine Biology - High School
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