As the leader of the X-Men, Cyclops should have been given more time.

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That leads John Hofilena of the Japan Daily Press to speculate that the Cyclops will probably have similar pricing.

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In the gallery stands a 15-inch-high marble head of one-eyed Polyphemus (aka Cyclops), who lived in a cave on Mount Etna.

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As Exalted Cyclops, CP met regularly with the white powers-that-be in Durham.

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The success of Little Cyclops however has helped him pay-off mounting student fees and encouraged him to further test his powers of invention.

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The Cyclops, on the other hand, just requires a battery.

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After all, who would have thought that Clayborn Paul (CP) Ellis, the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, would turn out to be one of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Ellis, a North Carolina gas-station operator who, having joined the Ku Klux Klan and attained in due course the lofty rank of Exalted Grand Cyclops, decided to hang up his robe and become an advocate for school desegregation.

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London 2012 has two one-eyed official mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, but Ennis has been the real mascot of the games for the host country -- and could probably outsell the cyclops if a plush-toy version of her went to market.

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