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unusual facts about Dragon's blood


Blood of the Dragon

Dragon's blood, a bright red resin obtained from different species of plants


A Touch of Magic

The film begins with a designer at the drawing board, daydreaming about a 1920s couple who travel to the Middle Ages; the Man saves the Woman from a wizard ("an evil charmer") and a dragon, only to abruptly discover that they are all performing for an audience in the 1960s.

Astra 2D

Some channels on 2D are encrypted with Videoguard (a proprietary encryption method by the NDS Group) and only Sky Digiboxes with valid cards, or standard hardware with non-approved (with respect to the Sky/NDS end-user contract) "Dragon", or "T-Rex" Conditional Access Modules can decode these channels.

Body and the Beat

Body and the Beat is an album recorded by Australian/New Zealand rock band Dragon in 1984.

Church of All Saints, Norton Fitzwarren

The lower section of the screen depicts the story of the Dragon of Norton Camp.

Coins of Upper Canada

The obverse of the coins carried a representation of St.George slaying the dragon based on Benedetto Pistrucci's gold sovereign coinage design.

Ctenophorus

Ctenophorus decresii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) – tawny crevice dragon, tawny dragon

Dirck Halstead

The films he worked on included, Goodfellas, Memphis Belle, Shaft, Black Rain, Dragon, Dune, Conan the Barbarian series, Greystoke, and Cliffhanger.

Dog's Blood

The album was recorded and co-produced by Alexisonfire and Jon Drew, the latter of which has also recorded albums for the Canadian bands Fucked Up and Tokyo Police Club.

Double Dragon Neon

The game's dialogue and graphical style is heavily 80s-inspired, and features a soundtrack composed by Jake Kaufman, inspired by the original Double Dragon as well as 80's pop music and arcade game soundtracks.

Douglas Arthur Watkinson

Watkinson has also written plays for the stage including The Dragon’s Tail which also starred Penelope Keith, as directed by Michael Rudman and was performed at the Apollo Theatre and Richmond Theatre in London in 1985.

Dragon Festival

The Dragon Festival is a Spanish free festival which ran from 1997 to 2009, held at Los Cigarrones on the riverbed of the Rio Guadalfeo, 2 km to the south of Órgiva, and from 2010 at Santa Fé, Granada, Spain, during the month of March, and culminating on the weekend nearest the March equinox.

Dragon King

Chaotian Palace (朝天宮) of Beigang, Yunlin County in Taiwan, is devoted to the goddess Mazu, also has human-shaped statues for the four Dragon Kings, each riding on a dragon.

Dragon Lake

Lake Nacimiento, so called because of the dragon-like shape created by the positions of its arms

Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair

Animator and director Don Bluth, who produced the cartoon animation for the arcade original, also produced two new animated sequences for the opening and ending of the game.

Ed Parker Jr.

He portrayed his father in the 1993 Bruce Lee biography, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.

Eddie Chong

Bak Mei emphasizes the movements of the Tiger, but Bak Mei also uses the other four animal styles associated with the Henan Shaolin Temple as well such as the Tiger, the Crane, the Leopard, the Snake and the Dragon.

Fortubo

Fortubo's realm in Solania, the fourth of the Seven Heavens, is called the Empyrean Delve. Dragon #88 placed his realm in the Twin Paradises, however.

Fragarach

In Digimon series, Fragarach is a extensible greatsword carried by Slayerdramon a - Mega level - Dragon Man Digimon.

Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle

Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle is an EP by the band Carbon Leaf that was released on their own label, Constant Ivy Music.

HemisFair '68

The theme character of the fair was a dragon named Luther created by Sid and Marty Krofft, who was later renamed and starred in the Krofft's Saturday morning show H.R. Pufnstuf.

History of Kaohsiung

During this time, Lin was told by a feng shui master named Wu Ban-hsien (吳半仙) that if he were to bury his deceased father in a "dragon cave" near modern day Jiali, leave an offering of an arrow upon the altar

Hong Kong Dragon Garden

The Dragon Garden was featured in The Man with the Golden Gun, a James Bond movie released in 1974, starring Roger Moore as James Bond.

I Could Be with Anyone

I Could Be With Anyone is an EP released by Kevin Devine in support of his fifth album, Brother's Blood, and his winter 2008 tour with Manchester Orchestra.

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb

Kai also creates a shield to protect himself and summons a dragon to battle Jones, but Jones uses the Pa Cheng charged with mystical energy to penetrate Kai's shield and destroys the Heart.

Jambhala

He sits on a snow lion, although some artists depict him sitting on a dragon, and a mongoose in his left hand spits out precious diamonds and ornaments.

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

According to Christopher Paolini, it also served as inspiration for his book Eragon, as he had loved the story's dragon-hatching storyline.

Jerry Sherlock

Sherlock left textiles to establish his own film production company, within six-months of establishing his company he had produced his first film, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981, starring Michelle Pfeiffer (in one of her first major roles), Peter Ustinov and Angie Dickinson.

Kaiser Dragon

The name, Dragon, came from the vinyl upholstery claimed to resemble dragon skin.

Loew's Jersey Theatre

The clock featured a white faced clock that was illuminated from behind with a statue of Saint George and a statue of a dragon.

Mi-Sex

They were soon signed to the Australian division of CBS Records by the label's then A&R manager/House producer Peter Dawkins, himself an expatriate New Zealander who is best known for his productions with another former NZ group based in Australia, Dragon.

MINIs on the Dragon

MINIs on the Dragon is an annual gathering of MINI Coopers in Robbinsville, North Carolina.

Monmouth Comprehensive School

The buildings have been given names chosen by the students, based on mythical creatures: Phoenix, Pegasus, Gryphon, Sphinx, Dragon and Unicorn.

Multistage rocket

From an illustration and description in the 14th century Chinese Huolongjing of Jiao Yu is the oldest known multistage rocket; this was the 'fire-dragon issuing from the water' (火龙出水, huo long chu shui), used mostly by the Chinese navy.

Ninja Hayate

Like earlier laserdisc games such as Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair, Ninja Hayate contains traps and creatures that requires players to dodge or attack them at specific moments, by watching for the warning buzzer (like Dragon's Lair) in addition to flashing objects (e.g. arrows, buttons, light, etc.).

Orneta

The town coat of arms depicts the worm (English: worm, dragon), German: Worms, Wurm as in Tatzelwurm, Lindworm).

Ping Shan Heritage Trail

Shiwan dragon-fish and pottery unicorns decorate the main ridges and roofs.

Raúl Antonio Coreas

Raúl Antonio Coreas Pérez (born February 7, 1989 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Dragón in the Salvadoran Second Division.

Raymond Thompson

In the same year he also received an Honours Award at Dragon*Con.

Roger Oakley

He's most recent theatre productions being The NightWatchman, Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker and The Golden Dragon, by contemporary German Playwright, Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Scented Gardens for the Blind

Dragon formed in Auckland, New Zealand, in January 1972 with a line-up that featured Todd Hunter on bass guitar, guitarist Ray Goodwin, drummer Neil Reynolds and singer/pianist Graeme Collins.

St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham

One shows parts of Saint George killing the Dragon, another is thought to have contained Saint Christopher, and another possibly is of The Three Living and the Three Dead.

Tears of the Dragon

"Tears of the Dragon" is the first single from Bruce Dickinson's second solo album, Balls to Picasso, released on 28 May 1994.

The Dragon Pearl

The Dragon Pearl is a 2011 family film that follows the story of two teenagers who meet in China to encounter a real live Chinese dragon, and also discover the mystery behind the whereabouts of his all powerful pearl.

The Mark of the Golden Dragon

The Mark of the Golden Dragon is a historical fiction novel by L.A. Meyer.

Tom Wheare

He has been a governor of a number of schools over the years, including Blackheath High School, the Dragon School, Exeter School, and Port Regis School.

Welsh Dragon

Note that Arthur's father was named Uther Pendragon ('Pendragon': 'Pen' (Head) and 'Dragon', being translated by Geoffrey as "dragon's head").

Wong Yuk-long

Oriental Heroes (龍虎門; "Dragon-Tiger-Gate"), originally titled Little Rascals (小流氓).

Xuanwu Lake

According to the local legend, a black dragon was seen in the lake and was believed by Chinese Taoists to be a god of water protection called Xuanwu which gave it its name.

Yinglong

Porter (1996:44-45) interprets the tail of the terrestrial Yinglong, which "uses its tail to sketch on the land a map of channel-like formations whereby the floodwaters were allowed to drain", as the tail of the celestial dragon Scorpius, which is "situated precisely where the Milky Way splits into two branches".


see also

Sigurd stones

In parts of Great Britain under Norse culture, the figure of Sigurd sucking the dragon's blood from his thumb appears on several carved stones, at Ripon and Kirby Hill, North Yorkshire, at York and at Halton, Lancashire.