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History and formation. The Krewe of ALLA was formed November 1932, and was originally sponsored by the West Side Carnival and Social Club, Inc. [ 1] In 1978 the Krewe reorganized as the Golden Gryphon Society, Inc. The name ALLA is taken from AL giers, LA ., where the organization was originally formed.
The Griffin (or Gryphon) is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Combining the attributes of the "King of the Beasts" and the "King of the Air", it was thought to be especially powerful and majestic. Griffins appear widely as school sports team mascots, in heraldry and in corporate logos.
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
148 minutes (video release) 155 minutes (director's cut) Countries. United Kingdom. United States. Language. English. Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1969 British-American musical film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Terence Rattigan is based on James Hilton 's 1934 novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which was first adapted for the screen in 1939.
The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. The grave was discovered by a research team sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and led by husband-and-wife archaeologists Jack L. Davis and Sharon Stocker. [1] The tomb site was excavated from May to October 2015.
The story, now available as a solo e-book, is missing from the Oathblood collection due to being set in Elisabeth Waters's world, not Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar. The contents of Oathblood are as follows: "Introduction" (1998)—Originally published in Oathblood. "Sword-sworn" (1985)—Originally published in Sword and Sorceress III.
Turquoise Days – Originally published as a chapbook from Golden Gryphon (2002, no ISBN); reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003, ISBN 0-312-30860-4), Gardner Dozois, ed.; and in Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Year's Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2007, ISBN 0-312-36342-7), Gardner ...
Arkham House was an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft 's best works, which had previously been published only in pulp magazines. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional ...