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  2. Category:Swans in art - Wikipedia

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    Depictions of swans (genus Cygnus) in art. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks . Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini .

  3. Black swan emblems and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Roman satirist Juvenal wrote in AD 82 of rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno ("a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan"). [6] He meant something whose rarity would compare with that of a black swan, or in other words, as a black swan was not thought to exist, neither did the supposed characteristics of the "rare bird" with which it was being compared.

  4. Wings of Love (Pearson) - Wikipedia

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    The swan was "cemented in the imagination as a creature of romance for a whole generation of impressionable working class suburban kids". The anthropomorphic projection may not have been entirely random; [2] swans are believed to take a mate for life, and the graceful white birds might symbolize monogamous felicity. [2]

  5. Elizabeth Greenfield - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (1817 – March 31, 1876), dubbed "The Black Swan" (a play on Jenny Lind's sobriquet, "The Swedish Nightingale" and Catherine Hayes's "The Irish Swan"), [1] [2] was an American singer considered the best-known Black concert artist of her time.

  6. Swan - Wikipedia

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    The Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) is completely black except for the white flight feathers on its wings; the chicks of black swans are light grey. The South American black-necked swan has a white body with a black neck. [18]

  7. File:Black swan jan09.jpg - Wikipedia

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