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My Country

"My Country" is an iconic patriotic poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) at the age of 22 while homesick in the United Kingdom.


Mayflower

This voyage has become an iconic story in the earliest annals of American history with its tragic story of death and of survival in the harshest New World winter environment.


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Cameroonian Highlands forests

Seven species of birds are strictly endemic: the Bamenda Apalis (Apalis bamendae), Bangwa Forest Warbler (Bradypterus bangwaensis), White-throated Mountain-babbler (Kupeornis gilberti), Banded Wattle-eye (Platysteira laticincta), Bannerman's Weaver (Ploceus bannermani), Mount Kupe Bush-shrike (Telophorus kupeensis) and Bannerman's Turaco (Tauraco bannermani), which is a cultural icon for the Kom people who live in the area.

Catherine Capozzi

She was a founder of the band Ziaf, a tribute to French singer and cultural icon Édith Piaf.

Francine Gottfried

She was referenced as a cultural icon of the era in Thomas Hauser's novel Finding the Princess.

Hiroshi Fujioka

Fujioka is a cultural icon in Japan, even having the minor planet 12408 Fujioka, discovered by Akimasa Nakamura, named in his honor.

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home was also cited as a cultural icon in Jane and Michael Stern's 1992 book, Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.

The Singing Butler

As a contemporary cultural icon, The Singing Butler has been compared to Grant Wood's American Gothic.

War Times: Reports from the Opposition

It had a radical anti-war theme and it was hosted by the controversial cultural icon Mumia Abu-Jamal, of whom Van Jones had been a political supporter.