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It was a less expensive alternative to the Fiberfab Valkyrie, which looked like an Avenger GT with a short rear deck and had a custom chassis with room for a mid-mounted V8 engine. [2] Fiberfab started producing Avenger GT kits in Sunnyvale, California in Santa Clara County in 1966. [3] They moved to Fremont, California in 1967.
List of valkyrie names. "Walkyrien" (1905) by Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries ...
The standard 52-card deck [citation needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. The main feature of most playing card decks that empower their use in diverse games and other activities is their double-sided design, where one side, usually bearing a colourful or complex pattern, is exactly ...
Valkyries. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valkyries. Articles relating to Valkyries ("choosers of the slain"), a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin 's hall, Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar ( Old Norse "single (or once) fighters"). When the einherjar are not preparing for the events ...
The Founding Ceremony of the Nation is a 1953 oil painting by Chinese artist Dong Xiwen. It depicts Mao Zedong and other Communist officials inaugurating the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 1949. A prominent example of socialist realism, it is one of the most celebrated works of official Chinese art.
Death in Norse paganism. This image is usually interpreted as a Valkyrie who welcomes a dead man, or Odin himself, on the Tjängvide image stone from Gotland, in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. Death in Norse paganism was associated with diverse customs and beliefs that varied with time, location and social group, and ...
Valkyrie, also known as R5, is a humanoid robot developed by NASA. [1] Its design and development started in October 2012 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center . The primary objective was to create a robot capable of supporting future NASA missions, whether by performing tasks in advance of human arrival on other planets or by serving as an ...
Sigrún. A depiction of Sigrún with Helgi Hundingsbane (1919) by Robert Engels. Sigrún (Old Norse "victory rune " [1]) is a valkyrie in Norse mythology. Her story is related in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, in the Poetic Edda. The original editor annotated that she was Sváfa reborn.