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The band Foals have a song titled "Albatross". Using the metaphor "You've got an albatross around your neck" The band Foxing has an album called "The Albatross". And reference the word albatross on the songs "Bloodhound", and "Tom Bley". Gorillaz refers to the albatross in the song "Hip Albatross", as a metaphor for the burden of the undead.
This maneuver allows the bird to cover almost 1,000 km/d (620 mi/d) without flapping its wings. Slope soaring uses the rising air on the windward side of large waves. Albatross have high glide ratios, around 22:1 to 23:1, meaning that for every metre they drop, they can travel forward twenty-two metres. [7]
L'Albatros (French for The Albatross) is a poem by decadent French poet Charles Baudelaire. [ 1 ] The poem, inspired by an incident on Baudelaire's trip to Bourbon Island in 1841, was begun in 1842 but not completed until 1859 with the addition of the final verse.
The song "Albatross" by Wild Beasts re-tells the story of the poem. [citation needed] American punk band Alesana's song "Heavy Hangs the Albatross" is named in reference to the poem. [citation needed] The Big Wreck song "Albatross" alludes to the poem, particularly via the lyric "I'll wear the albatross for one more day". [citation needed]
The channel was launched on December 18, 2006, [1] and airs a mix of animated and live-action programming. Current programming. American Dragon: Jake Long ...
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In the lyrics of the song, Ekberg describes a woman whom she calls a mouse. The word albatraoz is made-up but refers to the albatross [6] and is also the name of a Swedish electronic group that AronChupa is a member of. The song's use of "mouse" is a play on words, [citation needed] as mus (the Swedish word for "mouse") is also a slang term for ...
Bigo Live is a live streaming platform owned by a Singapore-based BIGO Technology, [18] [19] which was founded in 2014 by David Li and Jason Hu. As of 2019, BIGO Technology is owned by JOYY, a Chinese company listed on the NASDAQ. [20] [21] Like YouTube Live, users can watch trendy live streams and comment on the broadcast. Unlike YouTube Live ...