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Victory of Samothrace

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Victory of Samothrace: see Nike Nike (nī`kē), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of victory, daughter of Pallas and Styx.
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Her gilded sculpture is a winged palm figure, based conceptually on The Winged Victory of Samothrace, and is intended to be evocative of the Biblical Tree of Life.
For the Italian Futurists, who celebrated velocity, tumult, and the headlong thrust toward tomorrow, a speeding car was more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
 
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