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The October Draconids, in the past also unofficially known as the Giacobinids, are a Northern hemisphere meteor shower whose parent body is the periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. They are named after the constellation Draco, where they seemingly come from. Almost all meteors which fall towards Earth ablate long before reaching its surface ...
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Uther Pendragon (/ ˈ j uː θ ər p ɛ n ˈ d r æ ɡ ən, ˈ uː θ ər /; [1] Welsh: Uthyr Pen Ddraig, Uthyr Pendragon, Uthr Bendragon), also known as King Uther, was a legendary King of the Britons and father of King Arthur.
In Chinese culture, dragons are considered spirits of water and have the power to control the weather. During a drought, therefore, Wen Shi asked her dragon children to summon the rain for her village. When rain came and ended the drought, the grateful villagers gave Wen Shi the name "Mother of Dragons" (龍母) or "Divine Human" (神人).
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma.
In the final episode of the second season of House of the Dragon, titled "The Queen Who Ever Was", Daenerys is briefly seen following the birth of her three dragons (as depicted in "Fire and Blood") during a series of visions witnessed by Prince Daemon Targaryen, husband of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, from whose line Daenerys is directly descended.
In the original video game, Dragon Quest, Lorik is the ruler whose Kingdom of Alefgard has been under attack by the Dragonlord, an evil dragon who steals the powerful Ball of Light gifted from the legendary hero Erdrick many years prior and captures Lorik's daughter Princess Gwaelin for a bride (see princess and dragon). Erdrick's descendant is ...
Traditional Arabic astronomy does not depict a dragon in modern-day Draco, which is called the Mother Camels. Instead, two hyenas , represented by Eta Draconis and Zeta Draconis are seen attacking a baby camel (a dim star near Beta Draconis ), which is protected by four female camels, represented by Beta Draconis , Gamma Draconis , Nu Draconis ...