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Founded in 2000, the brand launched a collection of high fashion sneakers differentiated by durable craftsmanship and distressed look. [2] [3] In 2007, they launched the Super-Star model and the signature five-point star iconography. [4]
For his kindness, Dummling receives a golden goose found within the roots of a tree he cuts down, guided by the little gray man. Dummling brings the golden goose to an inn for the night. Upon seeing the goose, the innkeeper's three daughters decide to steal some golden feathers when Dummling goes to sleep. While Dummling is sleeping, the eldest ...
The Golden Goose Award is a United States award in recognition of scientists whose federally funded basic research has led to innovations or inventions with significant impact on humanity or society. Created by Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee in 2012, recipients receive the award in a ceremony during the fall each year on Capitol Hill in ...
The opening verse of "Old Mother Goose and the Golden Egg", from an 1860s chapbook. Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. [1] She also appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery ...
John Letters was a Scottish golf club manufacturer. It began as Letters Logan & Company in Glasgow in 1918. The company was rescued from bankruptcy in 2005 and continued under new ownership and the John Letters name.
The only fully preserved part of the castle, the 26 meter tall Goose Tower (Gåsetårnet), is the symbol of the city. The name comes from the golden goose that perches on top of the tower's spire. Although legend has it that Valdemar Atterdag used the symbol to taunt the Hanseatic League, the truth is the goose was first erected in 1871. The ...
English saddleback goose (→Buff back goose) Euskal Antzara goose; Faroese goose (Færøske gæs) [5] Fighting goose [3] (= Steinbacher Goose) Flemish goose (Oie flamande) [5] Franconian goose (Fränkische Landgans) [5] Garbonosa goose [3] German laying goose (Deutsche Legegans) [5] Gorki goose (Горьковская or Линдовская ...
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.