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Lord Edward's Crusade, [2] sometimes called the Ninth Crusade, was a military expedition to the Holy Land under the command of Edward, Duke of Gascony (later king as Edward I) in 1271–1272. In practice an extension of the Eighth Crusade , it was the last of the Crusades to reach the Holy Land before the fall of Acre in 1291 brought an end to ...
Legendary creatures from Europe, supernatural animal or paranormal entities, generally hybrids, sometimes part human (such as sirens), whose existence has not or cannot be proven. They are described in folklore (including myths and legends ), but also may be featured in historical accounts before modernity .
Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws
In the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, which first appeared in 1991, the eponymous Sonic and his sidekick Tails are capable of moving by rolling. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The 1995 short story "Microbe", by Kenyon College biologist and feminist science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski , describes an exploratory expedition to an alien world whose plant ...
In the Judaeo-Christian religions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam—history is taken seriously, and linear time is accepted. [...] The Christian myth gives such time a beginning in creation, a center in the Christ-event, and an end in the final consummation." [109] In contrast, the myths of many traditional cultures present a cyclic or static ...
Progression of the most-viewed video on YouTube Video name Uploader Views at achievement* Publication date Date achieved Days after upload Days held Takedown date Ref Notes "Baby Shark Dance" [7] Pinkfong Baby Shark - Kids' Songs & Stories: 7,046,700,000: June 17, 2016: November 2, 2020 1600 1,536 "Despacito" [10] Luis Fonsi: 2,993,700,000 ...
The myth of Medusa is central to the Tales from the Cryptkeeper episode segment, Myth Conceptions. A greedy archaeologist is in Greece, searching for Medusa's temple . He tells a local village girl named Zola that contrary to popular belief, Perseus was just the name a thief used to get attention and had failed to slay Medusa; and that he is ...
Brigid or Brigit (/ ˈ b r ɪ dʒ ɪ d, ˈ b r iː ɪ d / BRIJ-id, BREE-id, Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲiːdʲ]; meaning 'exalted one'), [1] also Bríd, is a goddess of pre-Christian Ireland.She appears in Irish mythology as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres, with whom she had a son named Ruadán.