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This can kill those who are inexperienced, but those who have swallowed fire and practised with glow-worms can achieve eternal youth. Fawkes, a male phoenix described as Professor Dumbledore's loyal pet in the Harry Potter series. In Terry Pratchett's novel Carpe Jugulum, the search for the phoenix forms an important side plot.
In most later entries of the strategy game series Bloons, certain towers can attain an ability which summons a Phoenix. In Bloons Pop!, the Phoenix is instead a Powerup. In the MMORPG Guild Wars, players can tame a Phoenix inspired by Chinese mythology in the Factions Campaign; World of Warcraft also has a flying phoenix mount, Ashes of Al'ar.
Shannon's law is named after Shannon Smith, a fourteen-year-old Phoenix girl killed by a stray bullet in June 1999. Smith's parents, after being informed that the assailant's activity constituted, at most, a misdemeanor offense, advocated stronger penalties, to prevent future incidents of this kind.
Officials in Arizona this week said nearly a half-dozen animals including a cheetah and a mountain lion at a Phoenix-area zoo died and others are sick after being exposed to the bird flu. Maricopa ...
For the past two years, the county has set new heat death records, with 323 people killed in 2020 and 331 in 2021, the bulk of those occurring in Phoenix. Yet people continue to flock to the so ...
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [1] Frederick Barbarossa 's strange drowning gave rise to legends that he was still alive
Phoenix crime: police investigate 2 separate stabbings that killed 2 men. ... Man killed and another injured after Phoenix stabbing Saturday evening. Show comments. Advertisement.
And Phoenix was given charge of the young Achilles, whom Phoenix reared as a son. [27] Having reminded Achilles of all this, Phoenix asks Achilles to "master thy proud spirit; it beseemeth thee not to have a pitiless heart. Nay, even the very gods can bend". [28] Phoenix next relates two stories meant to persuade Achilles to relent.