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The Eagle Has Landed is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1975. [1] It was quickly adapted into a British film of the same name , released in 1976.
The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British war film directed by John Sturges, and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall. Based on the 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins , the film is about a fictional German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill in the middle of the Second World War .
The phrase "when pigs fly" (alternatively, "pigs might fly") is an adynaton—a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question (the adynaton, and the circumstances to which the adynaton is being applied) will never occur.
Eyrie, a novel by Tim Winton "Hope Eyrie" (a.k.a. "The Eagle Has Landed"), a song by Leslie Fish; The Eyrie, a castle in A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones
Tranquility Base (Latin: Statio Tranquillitatis) is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module Eagle at approximately 20:17:40 UTC. Armstrong exited the ...
The Eagle Has Landed, 1983 song by the band Saxon on Power & the Glory; The Eagle Has Landed – Part II, 1996 album by the band Saxon; The Eagle Has Landed – Part III, 2006 album by the band Saxon "The Eagle Has Landed", a song by Nebula from their 2006 album Apollo "The Eagle Has Landed", 2016 song from Feathers & Flesh by the band Avatar
Where does the phrase "the eagle has landed" originate? I know the Apollo 11 astronaut Armstrong uttered "Houston, Tranquility Base here.The Eagle has landed." as his Eagle lunar module touched down on July 20th, 1969, it has been the name of various warcraft, and it was the title of this 1975 World War II novel, but where/when did it originate?
His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies [1] and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title. [2] Some of his other notable books are A Prayer for the Dying (1973), The Eagle Has Flown (1991), Thunder Point (1993), Angel of Death (1995), Flight of Eagles (1998), and Day of Reckoning (2000). [1]