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It concluded with the release of the fourth title, Doom of the Dragon, in 2016. The authors stated in an afterword in Bones of the Dragon that the series was dedicated to Weis and Hickman's long-time friend, editor, and mentor, Brian Thomsen. Thomsen died of heart failure as Bones of the Dragon was going to press. Thomsen was fifty-four when he ...
Fr. d'Incarville, a French Jesuit, noted that "petrified bones" were among the pharmacopeia sold by druggists in Beijing in 1751. However, he did not refer to these as dragon's bones. [13] Robert Swinhoe described the use of dragon's teeth in 1870: Shanghai is a great center for [fossil trade]; and the raw article can be procured here in quantity.
Longji (Dragon's Backbone) Terraced Rice Fields received their name because the rice terraces resemble a dragon's scales, while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the dragon. In early June, water is pumped over the rice paddies , and young plants are transferred to the main terraces.
The story takes place on the fictional fantasy world of Osten Ard. The history of the world and the races present in Osten Ard have a great impact on the current events in the books.
An early appearance of the Old English word dracan (oblique singular of draca) in Beowulf [1]. The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which, in turn, comes from Latin draco (genitive draconis), meaning "huge serpent, dragon", from Ancient Greek δράκων, drákōn (genitive δράκοντος, drákontos) "serpent".
Euphorbia lactea is a species of spurge native to arid and subtropical regions of South Asia, mainly the Indian Subcontinent. [3] Common names include mottled spurge, [4] frilled fan, elkhorn, [5] candelabra spurge, [4] candelabrum tree, candelabra cactus, candelabra plant, dragon bones, [4] false cactus, [4] hatrack cactus, [4] milkstripe euphorbia, mottled candlestick.
A body farm within a forensic training facility is featured in the beginning of episode 9.17 of Fox's television series The X-Files. The episode, titled "Release", mentions that the facility is located in Joplin, Virginia. Simon Beckett's novel Whispers of the Dead is set in and around the body farm in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the third book ...
Homo longi is an extinct species of archaic human identified from a nearly complete skull, nicknamed 'Dragon Man', from Harbin on the Northeast China Plain, dating to at minimum 146,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene.