Griffin, the Glossary
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; Late and Medieval Latin: 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.[1]
Table of Contents
382 relations: Aachen, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, Abul-Abbas, Achaemenid Empire, Adolphe Napoléon Didron, Adrienne Mayor, Aeschylus, Aethiopia, Aetites, Agate, Akkadian Empire, Al-Andalus, Alaska, Albertus Magnus, Albus Dumbledore, Alexander, Alke, Allegory, Alpine ibex, American Hockey League, Anatolia, Anchor Bible Series, Andean condor, André Godard, Anna Maria Bisi, Antipater, Anzû, Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius of Tyana, Applewood Books, Aquila (constellation), Architecture, Argolis, Argos, Peloponnese, Arimaspi, Aristeas, Armenian language, Art of ancient Egypt, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Arthur Evans, Attitude (heraldry), Avestan, Basilica of Saint-Denis, BBC Four, Beak, Beni Hasan, Bernard Goldman, Beverly Hills, California, Bird of prey, Bit (horse), ... Expand index (332 more) »
- Egyptian legendary creatures
- European legendary creatures
- Griffins
- Mythological birds of prey
Aachen
Aachen (French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Oche; Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.
Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies.
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Abul-Abbas
Abul-Abbas (– 810) was an Asian elephant brought back to the Carolingian emperor Charlemagne by his diplomat Isaac the Jew.
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Adolphe Napoléon Didron
Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1806–1867) was a French art historian and archaeologist.
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Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor (born 1946) is a historian of ancient science and a classical folklorist.
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος; /524 – /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.
Aethiopia
Ancient Aethiopia, (Aithiopía; Aethiopia and also Ethiopia) first appears as a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region of Sudan, areas south of the Sahara, and certain areas in Asia.
Aetites
In the magical tradition of Europe and the Near East (see: Magic in the Greco-Roman world), the aetites (singular in Latin) or aetite (anglicized) is a stone used to promote childbirth.
Agate
Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.
Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus (– 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the greatest medieval philosophers and thinkers.
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Albus Dumbledore
Prof.
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Alexander
Alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος) is a male name of Greek origin.
Alke
In Greek mythology, the name Alke or Alce (Alké, "prowess, courage") may refer to.
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Allegory
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
Alpine ibex
The Alpine ibex (Capra ibex), also known as the steinbock, is a European species of goat that lives in the Alps.
American Hockey League
The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Anchor Bible Series
The Anchor Bible Series, which consists of a commentary series, a Bible dictionary, and a reference library, is a scholarly and commercial co-venture which was begun in 1956, with the publication of individual volumes in the commentary series.
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Andean condor
The Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) is a South American New World vulture and is the only member of the genus Vultur.
André Godard
André Godard (21 January 1881 – 31 July 1965) was a French archaeologist, architect and historian of French and Middle Eastern Art.
Anna Maria Bisi
Anna Maria Bisi (1938–1988 or January 1990), known as A. M. Bisi, was an Italian archaeologist and academic, specialising in the Phoenicians and Punics.
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Antipater
Antipater (Ἀντίπατρος|translit.
Anzû
Anzû, also known as dZû and Imdugud (Sumerian: mušen), is a monster in several Mesopotamian religions. Griffin and Anzû are mythological birds of prey.
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Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius of Rhodes (Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios; Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.
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Apollonius of Tyana
Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious leader from the town of Tyana, Cappadocia in Roman Anatolia, who spent his life travelling and teaching in the Middle East, North Africa and India.
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Applewood Books
Applewood Books is a publishing company which specializes in reissuing original versions of historical books, founded by Phil Zuckerman in 1976.
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Aquila (constellation)
Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
Argolis
Argolis or Argolida (Αργολίδα,; Ἀργολίς, in ancient Greek and Katharevousa) is one of the regional units of Greece.
Argos, Peloponnese
Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe.
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Arimaspi
The Arimaspi (also Arimaspians, Arimaspos, and Arimaspoi; Ἀριμασπός, Ἀριμασποί) were a legendary tribe of one-eyed people of northern Scythia who lived in the foothills of the Riphean Mountains, variously identified with the Ural Mountains or the Carpathians.
Aristeas
Aristeas (Ἀριστέας) was a semi-legendary Greek poet and miracle-worker, a native of Proconnesus in Asia Minor, active ca.
Armenian language
Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family.
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Art of ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt.
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Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (28 February 1871 – 19 May 1928) was a British expert on heraldry.
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Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.
Attitude (heraldry)
In heraldry, the term attitude describes the position in which a figure (animal or human) is emblazoned as a charge, a supporter, or as a crest.
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Avestan
Avestan is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC).
Basilica of Saint-Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis (Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris.
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BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
Beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.
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Beni Hasan
Beni Hasan (also written as Bani Hasan, or also Beni-Hassan) (بني حسن) is an ancient Egyptian cemetery.
Bernard Goldman
Bernard Goldman (1922 – 2006) was an art historian and archeologist specializing in ancient Near Eastern art and archeology.
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Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Bird of prey
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).
Bit (horse)
The bit is an item of a horse's tack.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.
British Academy
The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Bundahishn
The Bundahishn (Middle Persian:, "Primal Creation") is an encyclopedic collection of beliefs about Zoroastrian cosmology written in the Book Pahlavi script.
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Busch Gardens Williamsburg (formerly Busch Gardens Europe and Busch Gardens: The Old Country) is a amusement park in James City County near Williamsburg, Virginia, United States, located approximately northwest of Virginia Beach.
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Camel
A camel (from camelus and κάμηλος from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canisius University
Canisius University is a private Jesuit university in Buffalo, New York.
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Carl Blegen
Carl William Blegen (January 27, 1887 – August 24, 1971) was an American archaeologist who worked at the site of Pylos in Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey.
Cedar Point
Cedar Point is a amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by Six Flags.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
Cherub
A cherub (cherubim; כְּרוּב kərūḇ, pl. כְּרוּבִים kərūḇīm, are one of the unearthly beings in Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden.
Chestnut Hill College
Chestnut Hill College is a private Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Child Ballads
The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century.
Chimera (mythology)
According to Greek mythology, the Chimera, Chimaera, Chimæra, or Khimaira (she-goat) was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature from Lycia, Asia Minor, composed of different animal parts. Griffin and Chimera (mythology) are mythological hybrids.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
City of London
The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.
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Classical Latin
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.
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Claudian
Claudius Claudianus, known in English as Claudian (Greek: Κλαυδιανός), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the Roman emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho.
Claudius Aelianus
Claudius Aelianus (Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, Greek transliteration Kláudios Ailianós), commonly Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222.
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Claw
A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
Coat of arms of Crimea
Both the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Russian Republic of Crimea use the same coat of arms (Герб Крыма, Герб Криму, Qırımnıñ tuğra), which has been in use since 1992.
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Coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a state of Germany.
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Coleman Barks
Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia.
College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Comb (anatomy)
A comb is a fleshy growth or crest on the top of the head of some gallinaceous birds, such as domestic chickens.
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Condor
Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus.
Cosmetic palette
Cosmetic palettes are archaeological artifacts, originally used in predynastic Egypt to grind and apply ingredients for facial or body cosmetics.
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Cretan hieroglyphs
Cretan hieroglyphs are a hieroglyphic writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete, during the Minoan era.
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Ctesias
Ctesias (Κτησίᾱς; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire.
Cuthbert
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (– 20 March 687) was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition.
Cylinder seal
A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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De Haar Castle
De Haar Castle (Dutch: Kasteel de Haar) is located outside Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Deir El Bersha
Deir El Bersha (دير البرشا; also written as Dayr al-Barsha, Deir el-Bersheh) is a Coptic village in Middle Egypt, in the Minya Governorate.
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Delphi
Delphi, in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world.
Dexter and sinister
Dexter and sinister are terms used in heraldry to refer to specific locations in an escutcheon bearing a coat of arms, and to the other elements of an achievement.
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Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources ("DMLBS") is a lexicon of Medieval Latin published by the British Academy.
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Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français
The Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français (Illustrated Latin–French Dictionary) is a dictionary of Latin, described in French.
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Digimon
, short for "Digital Monsters" (Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise, which encompasses virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films, and a trading card game.
Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.
Divinity
Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.
Douay–Rheims Bible
The Douay–Rheims Bible, also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.
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Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
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Eagle
Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.
Ear
An ear is the organ that enables hearing and (in mammals) body balance using the vestibular system.
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Earl of Carrick (Ireland)
Earl of Carrick, in the barony of Iffa and Offa East, County Tipperary, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
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Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period, also known as Archaic Period or the Thinite Period (from Thinis, the hometown of its rulers), is the era of ancient Egypt that immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in.
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Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)
The Early Dynastic period (abbreviated ED period or ED) is an archaeological culture in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) that is generally dated to and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods.
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Eclogues
The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
Egyptian mythology
Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them.
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Elam
Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.
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Enlil
Enlil, later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.
Estonian Internal Security Service
The Estonian Internal Security Service (Kaitsepolitsei, officially Kaitsepolitseiamet, KAPO for short) is a central national security institution of Republic of Estonia.
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Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.
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Eurasian griffon vulture
The Eurasian griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) is a large Old World vulture in the bird of prey family Accipitridae.
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Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.
Farther Pomerania
Farther Pomerania, Hinder Pomerania, Rear Pomerania or Eastern Pomerania (Pomorze Tylne; Hinterpommern, Ostpommern), is a subregion of the historic region of Pomerania in north-western Poland, mostly within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, while its easternmost parts are within the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Flag of the City of London
The flag of the City of London is based on the flag of England, having a centred red St George's Cross on a white background, with the red sword in the upper hoist canton (the top left quarter).
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, (14 September 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford.
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Fresco
Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.
Garuda
Garuda (translit; Garuḷa; Vedic Sanskrit: गरुळ) is a Hindu deity who is primarily depicted as the mount (vahana) of the Hindu god Vishnu. Griffin and Garuda are mythological birds of prey.
GateKeeper (roller coaster)
GateKeeper is a steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
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General Atomics
General Atomics (GA) is an American energy and defense corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, that specializes in research and technology development.
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
George M. A. Hanfmann
George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann (born November 1911, in St. Petersburg, Russia; died March 13, 1986, in Watertown, Massachusetts) was a famous archaeologist and scholar of ancient Mediterranean art.
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George Willoughby Fraser
George Willoughby Fraser (baptized 5 August 1866 – 24 November 1923) was an English civil engineer who operated at the service of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
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Glebe Collegiate Institute
Glebe Collegiate Institute (GCI) is a high school in the Glebe neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Glenlyon Norfolk School
Glenlyon Norfolk School (GNS) is an independent, co-ed, university preparatory day school in Victoria and Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada.
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Gold nugget
A gold nugget is a naturally occurring piece of native gold.
Gold-digging ant
The gold-digging ant is a mythical insect described in classical and medieval bestiaries.
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Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla
The Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla is a gold Scythian collar or pectoral discovered in a burial kurgan at a site called Tovsta Mohyla in modern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, in 1971 by the Ukrainian archaeologist Borys Mozolevskyi.
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Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals.
Grand Rapids Griffins
The Grand Rapids Griffins are a professional ice hockey team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Greifswald
Greifswald, officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: Griepswoold, Kashubian: Grifiô) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg.
Griffin (mascot)
Reveley, also known as the Griffin, is the mascot of The College of William & Mary.
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Griffin (surname)
Griffin is a surname of Irish, English and Welsh origin.
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Gryf coat of arms
Gryf (Polish for "Griffin"), also known as Jaxa, is a Polish coat of arms that was used by many noble families in medieval Poland and later under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, branches of the original medieval Gryfita-Świebodzic family as well as families connected with the Clan by adoption at ennoblement or even by error.
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Gryfit family
The Gryfit, also known as Świebodzic, was a medieval Polish knightly family.
Gwynedd Mercy University
Gwynedd Mercy University (GMercyU) is a private Roman Catholic university in Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania.
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Hachette Livre
Hachette Livre (or simply known as Hachette) is a French publishing group that was based in Paris.
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Hanns-Peter Schmidt
Hanns-Peter Schmidt (1930 – 31 March 2017) was a German Indologist and Iranologist who was Professor of Indo-Iranian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Harpy
In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies,,; harpȳia) is a half-human and half-bird, often believed to be a personification of storm winds.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.
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Heinkel
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel.
Heinkel He 177 Greif
The Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin) was a long-range heavy bomber flown by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
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Henry Thomas Riley
Henry Thomas Riley (June 1816 – 14 April 1878) was an English translator, lexicographer, and antiquary.
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Heraklion
Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.
Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Heroes of Might and Magic
Heroes of Might and Magic, known as Might & Magic Heroes since 2011, is a series of video games created and developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing.
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Herrad of Landsberg
Herrad of Landsberg (Herrada Landsbergensis; 1130 – July 25, 1195) was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains.
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Heterogram (linguistics)
Heterogram (classical compound: "different" + "written") is a term used mostly in the philology of Akkadian, and Pahlavi texts containing borrowings from Sumerian and Aramaic respectively.
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Hindlimb
A hindlimb or back limb is one of the paired articulated appendages (limbs) attached on the caudal (posterior) end of a terrestrial tetrapod vertebrate's torso.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hippogriff
The hippogriff or hippogryph (ιππόγρυπας) is a legendary creature with the front half of an eagle and the hind half of a horse. Griffin and hippogriff are griffins, mythological birds of prey and mythological hybrids.
History of Crete
The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia.
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Hogwarts staff
The following is a list of Hogwarts staff in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.
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Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.
Hortus deliciarum
The (Latin for Garden of Delights) was a medieval manuscript compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace, better known today as Mont Sainte-Odile.
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HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc (滙豐; acronym from its founding member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint.
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Huma bird
The Huma (هما, pronounced Homā, Homāio), also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry.
Hybrid beasts in folklore
Hybrid beasts are creatures composed of parts from different animals, including humans, appearing in the folklore of a variety of cultures as legendary creatures. Griffin and Hybrid beasts in folklore are mythological hybrids.
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Hyperborea
In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (hyperbóre(i)oi,; Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern part of the known world.
Hypostatic union
Hypostatic union (from the Greek: ὑπόστασις hypóstasis, 'person, subsistence') is a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual personhood.
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India (Herodotus)
In ancient Greek geography, the basin of the Indus River (in northwestern Indian subcontinent, present-day Pakistan) was on the extreme eastern fringe of the known world.
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Iran Air
The Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Havāpeymāyi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslāmiye Irān), branded as Iran Air, is the flag carrier of Iran, which is headquartered at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran.
Iranian languages
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Isidore of Seville
Isidore of Seville (Isidorus Hispalensis; 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville.
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Islamic art
Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited or ruled by Muslim populations.
Issedones
The Issedones (Ἰσσηδόνες) were an ancient people of Central Asia at the end of the trade route leading north-east from Scythia, described in the lost Arimaspeia of Aristeas, by Herodotus in his History (IV.16-25) and by Ptolemy in his Geography.
Jack the Giant Killer
"Jack the Giant Killer" is a Cornish fairy tale and legend about a young adult who slays a number of bad giants during King Arthur's reign.
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Jemdet Nasr period
The Jemdet Nasr Period is an archaeological culture in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).
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Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
Jewish mythology
Jewish mythology is the body of myths associated with Judaism.
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John Bostock (physician)
John Bostock, Jr. FRS (baptised 29 June 1773, died 6 August 1846) was an English physician, scientist and geologist from Liverpool.
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John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond
John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond (died 14 December 1476) was considered one of the first gentlemen of the age in which he lived.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.
Julius Wellhausen
Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist.
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Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Keibu Keioiba
Keibu Keioiba, also known as Kabui Keioiba, is a mythical creature with the head of a tiger and the body of a human in the Meitei mythology and folklore of Manipur.
Knossos
Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.
Kornelimünster Abbey
Kornelimünster Abbey (Benediktinerabtei Kornelimünster), also known as Abbey of the Abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane and Pope Cornelius, is a Benedictine monastery that has been integrated since 1972.
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Krater
A krater or crater (κρᾱτήρ|krātḗr|mixing vessel,; crātēr) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.
Kurdistan province
Kurdistan Province (استان کردستان) is one of 31 provinces of Iran.
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Kylix
In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (κύλιξ, pl.; also spelled cylix;: kylikes) is the most common type of cup in the period, usually associated with the drinking of wine.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 168921 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
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Lamassu
Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu (Cuneiform:,; Sumerian: lammař; later in Akkadian: lamassu; sometimes called a lamassus) is an Assyrian protective deity.
Late Latin
Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.
Latitude Zero (film)
is a 1969 tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
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Leadership High School
Leadership High School is a public charter high school located in San Francisco.
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Legendary creature
A legendary creature (also called a mythical or mythological creature) is a type of fantasy entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before modernity.
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Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Linear A
Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC.
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.
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List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan
A description of most characters featured in various mythology series by Rick Riordan.
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List of hybrid creatures in folklore
The following is a list of hybrid entities from the folklore record grouped morphologically. Griffin and list of hybrid creatures in folklore are mythological hybrids.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lorestan province
Lorestan Province (استان لرستان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.
Luristan bronze
Luristan bronzes (rarely "Lorestān", "Lorestāni" etc. in sources in English) are small cast objects decorated with bronze sculpture from the Early Iron Age which have been found in large numbers in Lorestān Province and Kermanshah in western Iran.
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Mandeville's Travels
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic world as far as India and China.
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Manichaeism
Manichaeism (in New Persian آیینِ مانی) is a former major world religion,R.
Mark P. Witton
Mark Paul Witton is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and palaeoartist best known for his research and illustrations concerning pterosaurs, the extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs.
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV;; Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany.
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Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Mermaid
In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Griffin and mermaid are fairy tale stock characters and heraldic beasts.
Merv Griffin
Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television show host and media mogul.
Merv Griffin Enterprises
Merv Griffin Enterprises was an American television production company founded by Merv Griffin, in operation from March 7, 1963, to June 4, 1994.
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Merv Griffin Entertainment
Merv Griffin Entertainment is an American production company founded by American media mogul Merv Griffin on May 13, 1996.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
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Midland Bank
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century.
Minoan art
Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC.
Minoan chronology
Minoan chronology is a framework of dates used to divide the history of the Minoan civilization.
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Minoan Genius
The Minoan Genius is a legendary creature that was common in the Minoan art of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization in ancient Crete. Griffin and Minoan Genius are greek legendary creatures and mythological hybrids.
Minoan language
The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary.
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Mitanni
Mitanni (–1260 BC), earlier called Ḫabigalbat in old Babylonian texts,; Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in Assyrian records, or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) with Indo-Aryan linguistic and political influences.
Monogamy
Monogamy is a relationship of two individuals in which they form an exclusive intimate partnership.
Monotreme
Monotremes are mammals of the order Monotremata.
Mural crown
A mural crown (corona muralis) is a crown or headpiece representing city walls, towers, or fortresses.
Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated television series based on Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
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Nekhen
Nekhen (nḫn), also known as Hierakonpolis (Hierákōn pólis; either: City of the Hawk, or City of the Falcon, a reference to Horus; lit) was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of prehistoric Egypt (3200–3100 BC) and probably also during the Early Dynastic Period (3100–2686 BC).
Nimrud
Nimrud (ܢܢܡܪܕ النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, south of the city of Mosul, and south of the village of Selamiyah (السلامية), in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia.
Nue
The Nue (鵺, 鵼, 恠鳥, or 奴延鳥) is a legendary yōkai or mononoke from Japanese mythology. Griffin and Nue are mythological hybrids.
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Numismatics
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.
Oak Bay, British Columbia
Oak Bay is a municipality incorporated in 1906 that is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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Oenochoe
An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe (οἰνοχόη; from οἶνος, oînos, "wine", and χέω, khéō,, sense "wine pourer";: oinochoai; Neo-Latin: oenochoë,: oenochoae; English: oenochoes or oinochoes), is a wine jug and a key form of ancient Greek pottery.
Old Assyrian period
The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state under Ushpia 2080 BC, and consolidated under Puzur-Ashur I 2025 BC to the foundation of a larger Assyrian territorial state and empire after the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC, which marks the beginning of the succeeding Middle Assyrian period.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Old World vulture
Old World vultures are vultures that are found in the Old World, i.e. the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and which belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, buzzards, kites, and hawks.
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Olifant (instrument)
Olifant (also known as oliphant) was the name applied in the Middle Ages to a type of carved ivory hunting horn created from elephant tusks.
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Olympia, Greece
Olympia (Ολυμπία; Ὀλυμπία), officially Archaia Olympia (Αρχαία Ολυμπία), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.
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Osiris
Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.
Oxford Palette
The Oxford Palette, also known as the Two Dog Palette or the Minor Hierakonpolis Dogs Palette, is an Ancient Egyptian cosmetic palette discovered in Hierakonpolis.
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Oxford Union
The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford.
Panther (legendary creature)
A Panther is a creature in ancient legend that resembles a big cat with a multicoloured hide. Griffin and Panther (legendary creature) are heraldic beasts.
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pākhangbā
Pakhangba is a primordial deity, often represented in the form of a dragon, in Meitei mythology and Sanamahism, the indigenous religion of Manipur. Griffin and Pākhangbā are mythological hybrids.
Pegasus
Pegasus (Pḗgasos; Pegasus, Pegasos) is a winged horse in Greek mythology, usually depicted as a white stallion. Griffin and Pegasus are greek legendary creatures and heraldic beasts.
Pella
Pella (Πέλλα) is an ancient city located in Central Macedonia, Greece.
Percy Jackson
Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
Persepolis
Persepolis (Pārsa) was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Persian literature
Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures.
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Persian mythology
Iranian mythology, or Persian mythology in western term (اسطورهشناسی ایرانی), is the body of the myths originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian peoples and a genre of ancient Persian folklore.
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Perugia
Perugia (Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
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Philostratus
Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus (Φιλόστρατος; 170s – 240s AD), called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period.
Phoenicia
Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
Phoenix (mythology)
The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Griffin and phoenix (mythology) are greek legendary creatures and heraldic beasts.
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Pierre Amandry
Pierre Amandry was a French hellenist, especially interested in ancient Greece and its relationships with south-west Asia.
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Pierre Demargne
Pierre Demargne (8 February 1903 – 13 December 2000) was a French historian and archaeologist.
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Pisa
Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
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Pisa Cathedral
Pisa Cathedral (Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale di Santa Maria Assunta; Duomo di Pisa) is a medieval Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the three structures in the plaza followed by the Pisa Baptistry and the Campanile known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Pisa Griffin
The Pisa Griffin is a large bronze sculpture of a griffin, a mythical beast, that has remained in Pisa, Italy since the Middle Ages despite its Islamic origin, specifically late 11th or early twelfth century Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain). Griffin and Pisa Griffin are griffins.
Pixiu
Pixiu (貔貅|p. Griffin and Pixiu are mythological hybrids.
Platypus
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Pomerania
Pomerania (Pomorze; Pommern; Kashubian: Pòmòrskô; Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany.
Pomponius Mela
Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer.
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Pontic Olbia
Pontic Olbia (Ὀλβία Ποντική; Olviia) or simply Olbia is an archaeological site of an ancient Greek city on the shore of the Southern Bug estuary (Hypanis or Ὕπανις) in Ukraine, near the village of Parutyne.
Pope Cornelius
Pope Cornelius (Κορνήλιος) was the bishop of Rome from 6th or 13th March 251 until his martyrdom in June 253.
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Poubi Lai
Poubi Lai was an ancient dragon python, who dwelled in the Loktak Lake of Manipur, in Meitei mythology and folklore.
Private schools in the United Kingdom
Private schools in the United Kingdom (also called independent schools) are schools that require fees for admission and enrollment.
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Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels
Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels (Prologue to the History of Israel) is a book by German biblical scholar and orientalist Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) that formulated but did not found the documentary hypothesis, a theory on the composition history of the Torah or Pentateuch.
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Proto-Elamite (period)
The Proto-Elamite period, also known as Susa III, is a chronological era in the ancient history of the area of Elam, dating from.
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Protoceratops
Protoceratops is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 75 to 71 million years ago.
Psittacosaurus
Psittacosaurus ("parrot lizard") is a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Asia, existing between 125 and 105 million years ago.
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Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.
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Purgatorio
Purgatorio (Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso.
Puttkamer
The Puttkamer family (also abbreviated to v. Puttkamer) is a widely extended German noble family whose earliest ancestor is first recorded between 1257 and 1260 in Schlawe (Sławno), Farther Pomerania.
Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop
Kathleen Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop, (née Clay, 27 March 1914 – 9 May 2011) was an English archaeologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East.
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Raffia palm
Raffia palms are members of the genus Raphia.
Raffles Institution
Raffles Institution (RI) is an independent educational institution in Singapore.
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Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online (라그나로크 온라인, Rageunarokeu Onrain marketed as Ragnarök, and alternatively subtitled The Final Destiny of the Gods) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Gravity based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin.
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Reaktion Books
Reaktion Books is an independent book publisher based in Islington, London, England.
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Red-figure pottery
Red-figure pottery is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the natural red or orange color of the clay.
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Reed College
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Republic of Genoa
The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.
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Rick Riordan
Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
Riphean Mountains
In Greco-Roman geography, the Riphean Mountains (also Riphaean;, or; Ῥιπαῖα ὄρη; Latin: Rhipaei or Riphaei montes) were a supposed mountain range located in the far north of Eurasia.
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Robert S. P. Beekes
Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.
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Robin Lane Fox
Robin James Lane Fox, (born 5 October 1946) is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great.
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Royal Air Force Police
The Royal Air Force Police (RAFP) is the service police branch of the Royal Air Force, headed by the provost marshal of the Royal Air Force.
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Royal New Zealand Air Force
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF; Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa) is the aerial service branch of the New Zealand Defence Force.
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Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلالالدین محمّد رومی), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
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Saab AB
Saab AB (originally,, acronym SAAB), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group (Saabgruppen), is a Swedish aerospace and defense company primarily operating from Sweden.
Saab Automobile
Saab Automobile AB was a car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile.
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Saab JAS 39 Gripen
The Saab JAS 39 Gripen (English: The Griffin) is a light single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab AB.
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Sahure
Sahure (also Sahura, meaning "He who is close to Re") was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the second ruler of the Fifth Dynasty (c. 2465 – c. 2325 BC).
Saint George's Cross
In heraldry, Saint George's Cross (or the Cross of Saint George) is a red cross on a white background, which from the Late Middle Ages became associated with Saint George, the military saint, often depicted as a crusader.
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Samos
Samos (also; Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese archipelago, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the Mycale Strait.
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky is a city in and the county seat of Erie County, Ohio, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, Sandusky is located roughly midway between Toledo (west) and Cleveland (east). According to 2020 census, the city had a population of 25,095, and the Sandusky metropolitan area had 115,986 residents.
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Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza – Università di Roma), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ("wisdom"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy.
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Saqqez
Saqqez (سقز) is a city in the Central District of Saqqez County, Kurdistan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York.
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Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood.
Scania AB
Scania AB, stylised SCANIA in its products, is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Södertälje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses.
Sea-griffin
The sea-griffin (German: Fischgreif; Polish: rybogryf, gryf morski) is a heraldic charge in form of an aquatic griffin with the head, upper-half, wings, and talons of an eagle and the lower-half of a fish. Griffin and sea-griffin are griffins, heraldic beasts and mythological hybrids.
Septuagint
The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.
Servius the Grammarian
Servius, distinguished as Servius the Grammarian (Servius or Seruius Grammaticus), was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian.
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Sharabha
Sharabha (शरभ) or Sarabha is an eight-legged part-lion and part-bird deity in Hindu religion, who is described as more powerful than a lion or an elephant, possessing the ability to clear a valley in one jump in Sanskrit literature. Griffin and Sharabha are mythological hybrids.
Sheldon Cooper
Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D., is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory and its spinoff series Young Sheldon, portrayed by actors Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage respectively (with Parsons as the latter series' narrator).
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Silesia
Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.
Simurgh
The simurgh (سیمرغ, also spelled senmurv, simorgh, simorg, simurg, simoorg, simorq or simourv) is a benevolent bird in Persian mythology and literature. Griffin and simurgh are mythological hybrids.
Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.
Snow Lion
The Snow Lion (sometimes spelled snowlion) is a celestial animal of Tibet.
Sopdu
Sopdu (also rendered Septu or Sopedu) was a god of the sky and of eastern border regions in the religion of Ancient Egypt.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Sphinx
A sphinx (σφίγξ,; phíx,; or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. Griffin and sphinx are Egyptian legendary creatures, greek legendary creatures and mythological hybrids.
St Mark's Basilica
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as St Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco; Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.
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St Mary's College, Durham
St Mary’s College is a constituent college of Durham University.
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Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Susa
Susa (Middle translit; Middle and Neo-translit; Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid translit; Achaemenid translit; شوش; שׁוּשָׁן; Σοῦσα; ܫܘܫ; 𐭮𐭥𐭱𐭩 or 𐭱𐭥𐭮; 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.
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Suwon Samsung Bluewings
The Suwon Samsung Bluewings (수원 삼성 블루윙즈) are a South Korean football club based in Suwon that competes in the K League 2, the second tier of South Korean football.
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Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Syro-Hittite states
The states called Neo-Hittite, Syro-Hittite (in older literature), or Luwian-Aramean (in modern scholarly works) were Luwian and Aramean regional polities of the Iron Age, situated in southeastern parts of modern Turkey and northwestern parts of modern Syria, known in ancient times as lands of Hatti and Aram.
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Szlachta
The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.
Taiaha
A taiaha is a traditional weapon of the Māori of New Zealand; a close-quarters staff weapon made from either wood or whalebone, and used for short, sharp strikes or stabbing thrusts with efficient footwork on the part of the wielder.
Taxidermy
Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal's body by mounting (over an armature) or stuffing, for the purpose of display or study.
Temple of Apollo (Delphi)
The Temple of Apollo, also known as Apollonion, (Greek) was a major part of the Panhellenic religious sanctuary located in Central Greece at Delphi.
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Tetradrachm
The tetradrachm (tetrádrachmon) was a large silver coin that originated in Ancient Greece.
The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free and open-source turn-based strategy video game with a high fantasy setting (similar to J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium), designed by Australian-American developer David White and first released in June 2003.
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The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers and head writers on the series, along with Steven Molaro.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 high fantasy film directed by Andrew Adamson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the 1951 novel Prince Caspian, Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, the second published and fourth chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 high fantasy film directed by Andrew Adamson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ann Peacock and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, based on the 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a 1973 fantasy adventure film directed by Gordon Hessler, with stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen.
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The Griffin (fairy tale)
"The Griffin" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 165). Griffin and the Griffin (fairy tale) are griffins.
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The Singing Bone
"The Singing Bone" (Der singende Knochen) is a German fairy tale, collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 28.
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The Singing, Springing Lark
"The Singing, Springing Lark", "The Singing, Soaring Lark", "The Lady and the Lion" or "Lily and the Lion" (Das singende springende Löweneckerchen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, appearing as tale no.
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The Son of Neptune
The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series of children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.
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The Twa Sisters
"The Twa Sisters" ("The Two Sisters") is a traditional murder ballad, dating at least as far back as the mid 17th century.
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Thomas Pope
Sir Thomas Pope (c. 150729 January 1559), was a prominent public servant in mid-16th-century England, a Member of Parliament, a wealthy landowner, and the founder of Trinity College, Oxford.
Throne Room, Knossos
The Throne Room was a chamber built for ceremonial purposes during the 15th century BC inside the palatial complex of Knossos, Crete, in Greece.
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Trinity College, Oxford
Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
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Uchek Langmeitong
The story of Uchek Langmeitong (Uchek Langmeidong) or Chekla Langmeitong (Chekla Langmeidong) is a Meitei folktale of Ancient Kangleipak (early Manipur). Griffin and Uchek Langmeitong are fairy tale stock characters.
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Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. Griffin and unicorn are fairy tale stock characters.
University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum
The Copenhagen Zoological Museum (Danish: Zoologisk Museum) was a separate zoological museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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University of Guelph
The University of Guelph (abbreviated U of G) is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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UPM (company)
UPM-Kymmene Oyj is a Finnish forest industry company.
Urartu
Urartu (Ուրարտու; Assyrian:,Eberhard Schrader, The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament (1885), p. 65. Babylonian: Urashtu, אֲרָרָט Ararat) was an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands.
Urbano Monti
Urbano Monti (16 August 1544 – 15 May 1613) (alternate spelling: Urbano Monte) was an Italian geographer and cartographer.
Uruk period
The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the history of Mesopotamia, after the Ubaid period and before the Jemdet Nasr period.
Utti Jaeger Regiment
The Utti Jaeger Regiment (Utin jääkärirykmentti, (UTJR) Special jaegers) is the Finnish Army training and development centre for special forces and helicopter operations in charge of the Army Special Forces Unit and the Special Forces Qualification Course.
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Vahana
Vahana (translit) or vahanam denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle.
Vauxhall Motors
Vauxhall Motors Limited,;Company No.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.
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Vishnu
Vishnu, also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
Visor (armor)
A visor was an armored covering for the face often used in conjunction with Late Medieval war helmets such as the bascinet or sallet.
Visual impairment
Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.
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Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment.
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Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin
The Vorderasiatisches Museum (Near East Museum) is an archaeological museum in Berlin.
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The (abbreviated as VU Amsterdam or simply VU when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880.
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Walter Bruno Henning
Walter Bruno Henning (August 26, 1908 – January 8, 1967) was a German scholar of Middle Iranian languages and literature, especially of the corpus discovered by the Turpan expeditions of the early 20th century.
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Warcraft
Warcraft is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment.
Warhammer (game)
Warhammer (formerly Warhammer Fantasy Battle or just Warhammer Fantasy) is a tabletop miniature wargame with a medieval fantasy theme.
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Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.
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West Pomeranian Voivodeship
West Pomeranian Voivodeship is a voivodeship (province) in northwestern Poland.
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Western Pomerania
Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (Vorpommern; Pomorze Przednie), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania forming the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in north-western Poland.
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World of Quest
World of Quest is a 2008 science fiction comedy animated television series based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Jason T. Kruse.
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Worshipful Company of Barbers
The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the livery companies of the City of London, and ranks 17th in precedence.
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Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire
Wycliffe College is a public school (co-educational, fee-charging, boarding and day school) in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England, founded in 1882 by G. W. Sibly.
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Yali (mythology)
Yali, (Tamil: யாழி) also called Vyala, is a Hindu mythological creature, portrayed with the head and the body of a lion, the trunk and the tusks of an elephant, and sometimes bearing equine features. Griffin and Yali (mythology) are mythological hybrids.
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Yin Yang Yo!
Yin Yang Yo! is an animated television series created by Bob Boyle for Jetix.
Zakros
Zakros (Ζάκρος also Zakro or Kato Zakro) is a Minoan archaeological site on the eastern coast of Crete in Lasithi, Greece.
Ziwiye hoard
The Ziwiye hoard is a treasure hoard containing gold, silver, and ivory objects, also including a few gold pieces with the shape of human face, that was uncovered on in Ziwiyeh plat near Saqqez city in Kurdistan Province, Iran, in 1947.
Ziz
The Ziz (Hebrew) is a giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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12th Combat Aviation Brigade
The 12th Combat Aviation Brigade is a Combat Aviation Brigade of the United States Army.
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15th Infantry Division (Greece)
The 15th Infantry Division (translit) was an infantry division of the Hellenic Army.
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367th Training Support Squadron
The 367th Training Support Squadron, located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
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See also
Egyptian legendary creatures
- Aani
- Abtu
- Akhekh
- Bennu
- El Naddaha
- Griffin
- Hieracosphinx
- Index of Egyptian mythology articles
- Medjed (fish)
- Serpopard
- Set animal
- Sphinx
- Sphinxes
- Teka-her
- Uraeus
European legendary creatures
- Animalia Paradoxa
- Changeling
- Demogorgon
- Elementals
- European dragons
- Fairies
- Fairy
- Fossegrim
- Gancanagh
- Gnomes
- Goblin
- Griffin
- Hag
- Hags
- Hellhound
- Lampago
- Melusine
- Merfolk
- Merman
- Ouroboros
- Pig-faced women
- Puck (folklore)
- Questing Beast
- Schrat
- Sleih beggey
- Sprite (folklore)
- Swan maiden
- Tarand (animal)
- The Swan Queen
- Vampire
- Werewolf
- Yuxa
Griffins
- Acacia Griffins
- Anqa
- Asterix and the Griffin
- Column of Arcadius
- Griffin
- Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
- Gryphon (film)
- Hippogriff
- House with Griffins (Baku, Azerbaijan)
- James W. Barney Pickaweekee Story Grove
- List of griffins as mascots and in heraldry
- Pisa Griffin
- Sea-griffin
- Skin Deep (webcomic)
- The Griffin (fairy tale)
- Two Hearts (story)
Mythological birds of prey
- Þjazi
- Adar Llwch Gwin
- Aderyn y Corff
- Anzû
- Blodeuwedd
- Cikap-kamuy
- Coronis (lover of Apollo)
- Double-headed eagle
- French Imperial Eagle
- Garuda
- Griffin
- Griffins
- Hábrók
- Harpies
- Hippogriff
- Hræsvelgr
- Huitaca (goddess)
- Jatayu
- Karura
- Khenti-kheti
- Muut
- Pariacaca (god)
- Pouākai
- Roc (mythology)
- Shahbaz (bird)
- Strix (mythology)
- Thunderbird (mythology)
- Triple-headed eagle
- Turul
- Veðrfölnir and eagle
- Yalungur
- Zacatzontli
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin
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