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Playlists on the watch page, which were formerly displayed as collapsible horizontal list fixed at the page bottom, became a scrollable vertical list next to the video player. [ 136 ] On December 21, 2012, the " Gangnam Style " music video by South Korean musician PSY became the first YouTube video to surpass one billion views.
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".
Bisterne Dragon, the New Forest folktale states that the dragon lived in Burley, Hampshire, and terrorised the village of Bisterne. It was finally killed in Lyndhurst, Hampshire by Sir Maurice de Berkeley and its body turned into a hill called Boltons Bench. Though the knight survived, the trauma of the battle drove him mad, and soon after he ...
Syrax. Rider: Rhaenyra Targaryen. The first fearsome creature to appear in House of the Dragon arrives in the memorable opening shot of season 1, episode 1: a yellow beast swooping through the sky ...
Modern fan illustration by David Demaret of the dragon Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 high fantasy novel The Hobbit. This is a list of dragons in popular culture.Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially in the fantasy genre.
The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.. The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines 163–201, [1] describing a shepherd battling a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing.
Concept-art done for Sintel, 3rd open-movie of the Blender Foundation. Artwork : David Revoy. This is a list of dragons in film and television.The dragons are organized by either film or television and further by whether the media is animation or live-action.
The dragon guarding the golden fleece, as in Apollonius's Argonautica. This is a list of dragons in literature. For fictional dragons in other media, see the list of dragons in popular culture. For dragons from legends and mythology, see the list of dragons in mythology and folklore.