The British Royal Navy ship HMS Serpent crashed into the rocks in Trece beach during a stormy night, November 10th, 1890. Occurred in NW Spain, off the coast of Finisterre (The Death Coast); 172 sailors died, 3 survived.
"The Serpent" is a nickname of serial killer Charles Sobhraj.
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Serpent is a word of Latin origin (serpens, serpentis) which is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit term serp, that is normally substituted for "snake" in a specifically mythic or religious context, in order to distinguish such creatures from the field of biology.
Serpents figured prominently in archaic Greek myths too: the myth-element of Laocoon, the ancient Hydra that was battled by Heracles, the serpent of the oldest Delphic oracle.
The chthonic serpent was one of the earth-animals associated with the cult of Mithras.
SERPENTINE, a mineral which, in a massive and impure form, occurs on a large scale as a rock, and being commonly of variegated colour, is often cut and polished, like marble, for use as a decorative stone.
It is generally held that the name was suggested by the fancied resemblance of the dark mottled green stone to the skin of a serpent, but it may possibly refer to some reputed virtue of the stone as a cure for snake-bite.
Serpentine was probably, at least in part, the XLOos 6cgrns of Dioscorides and the ophites of Pliny; and this name appears in a latinized form as the serpentaria of G. Agricola, writing in the 16th century, and as the lapis serpentinus and marmor serpentinum of other early writers.
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