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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.
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 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
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 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." Armstrong's unrehearsed change of call sign from "Eagle" to "Tranquility Base" emphasized to listeners that landing was complete and successful. [ 133 ] Duke expressed the relief at Mission Control: "Roger, Twan—Tranquility, we copy you on the ground.
Dreaming of an Eagle Spiritual Meaning. You can dream about pretty much anything when you drift off to sleep. However, if you dream about this particular bird, Pickett says it most likely has to ...
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