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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 ...
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
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 .
Own work based on: Ninth Crusade-fr.svg. References: Prestwich, Michael (1997) Edward I, Yale University Press, pp. 75–77 ISBN: 9780300146653. OCLC: 890476967. Runciman (1994) A history of the crusades: The Kingdom of Acre and the later crusades, 3, The Folio Society, pp. 278−279, 280–281 OCLC: 1344506479.
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A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.
Put Saquon Barkley into the NFL history books. On Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles star became the ninth running back in NFL history to reach 2,000 rushing yards in a single season.
The term also occurs in the 1959 William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch and in the 1962 Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, both times to describe fantastical creatures. It remains unknown which elements of political and cultural history, if any, influenced the naming of the creature which Dent documented, referencing ...