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16 unusual facts about Pegasus


62 Reserve Cavalry Squadron

The Guidgon of the latter included a Pegasus, which was incorporated into the 11 Cavalry (FCA) Regimental Guidgon after the Emergency.

Dmitry Khvostov

In 1772 Khvostov joined the prestigious Preobrazhensky regiment (where he, admittedly, "rarely mounted a horse, save Pegasus").

Existence

Thus if we reason from the statement "Pegasus flies" to the statement "Pegasus exists", we are not asserting that Pegasus is made up of atoms, but rather that Pegasus exists in a particular worldview, the worldview of classical myth.

Gná and Hófvarpnir

However, Grimm notes that unlike Fama, Gná is not described as winged but rather that Hófvarpnir, like the winged-horse Pegasus, may have been.

Harlington Upper School

The houses are named after mythical creatures and gods, Apollo, Europa, Hercules, Midas, Pegasus, Theseus.

Legio I Adiutrix

used along with the winged horse Pegasus, on the helmets the symbol used by I Adiutrix legionaries was a dolphin.

London Film Museum

This exhibition features original creatures from Ray Harryhausen's films including Pegasus, Medusa, and Talos

Nebraska Zephyr

Early typical motive power for these trains was provided by a pair of shovel-nose diesels named Pegasus (CB&Q #9904) and Zephyrus (CB&Q 9905).

No. 301 Polish Bomber Squadron

Initially the squadron's insignia featured a Pegasus or griffin "rampant" (occasionally drawn "passant") on a hexagonal shield.

Pegasus Airlines

In Greek mythology, Pegasus (Greek: Πήγασος, Pégasos, 'strong') was a winged horse sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa.

Pegasus-class hydrofoil

In the late 1960s, NATO developed a requirement for a small, fast warship to counter large numbers of Warsaw Pact missile boats, such as the Komar and Osa class missile boats, deciding that a hydrofoil would be the best way to meet this requirement.

SkyWeek

The signature constellations of summer are setting in the west, while bright Cassiopeia, Perseus, Andromeda, and Pegasus rise in the northeast.

Sleep and Poetry

Keats mounts an attack against Alexander Pope and many of his own fellow Romantic poets by downplaying their poetic departures into the imaginary: "with a puling infant's force/They sway'd about upon a rocking horse,/And thought it Pegasus. Ah dismal soul'd!" (185-7).

Speedpass

Rather, the units turned up via a query for "flying red horse", apparently since the units displayed a small Mobil logo—and the Mobil logo was and is a red Pegasus.

Tianma

Tianma, or Tenma, was a winged 'celestial' horse in Chinese folklore, similar to the Pegasus of Classical European tradition.

Willard Van Orman Quine

:"How can we talk about Pegasus? To what does the word 'Pegasus' refer? If our answer is, 'Something,' then we seem to believe in mystical entities; if our answer is, 'nothing', then we seem to talk about nothing and what sense can be made of this? Certainly when we said that Pegasus was a mythological winged horse we make sense, and moreover we speak the truth! If we speak the truth, this must be truth about something. So we cannot be speaking of nothing."


2-2-2

The Pegasus of 1839 was the first locomotive to be built by the Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in Chemnitz.

74503 Madola

In mid-2009, it was officially named Madola by the International Astronomical Union, in honor of Christian Marois (b. 1974), René Doyon (b. 1963) and David Lafrenière (b. 1978), who developed instruments and techniques that allowed the first direct photograph of an extrasolar planetary system, consisting of three planets orbiting the star HR 8799 in Pegasus.

Barry Garner

However, Garner redeemed himself and saved the ship in a noble sacrifice: he ordered his fellow engineers to seal him inside a depressurizing compartment while he repaired the stricken Pegasus' FTL drives.

Battle of Salaita Hill

The Allied assault began on the morning of February 12 with a preliminary bombardment of German positions by 4 inch guns salvaged from the sunken cruiser HMS Pegasus.

Battlestar Pegasus

Battlestar Pegasus appears in the original series two-part episode, "The Living Legend".

Bristol Classic Boat Company

In 2008 the Pegasus, a traditional designed by Burnett Yacht Design based on the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, built for the Island Trust.

Commander Cain

Cain appears in the original series two-part episode, "The Living Legend," where the Pegasus meets up with the Galactica, under the command of Commander Adama, and its refugee fleet.

Derek Birdsall

During his long career—among much other work—Birdsall designed Penguin book covers and Pirelli calendars; he art-directed several magazines (including Nova and Mobil Oil's Pegasus; and he designed books for the Yale Center for British Art, the Tate, the V&A and the British Council and redesigned the Book of Common Prayer in 2000.

Earth technology in Stargate

The McKay-Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge (named as such by its co-creator Rodney McKay, recognizing Samantha Carter for the original idea) consists of seventeen stargates from the Pegasus network and another seventeen from the Milky Way network.

Ferranti Pegasus

Donald B. Gillies was another of the people who worked on the Pegasus.

Fusaichi Pegasus

For several years, Fusaichi Pegasus served as a "shuttle stallion" standing at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season and at Coolmore Australia near Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, but since the 2010 breeding season has stood exclusively in Kentucky.

Gerry Alexander

He also won a Blue at football, and went on to win an England amateur cap and an FA Amateur Cup winner’s medal in 1953 playing for Pegasus.

Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade

By means of fantastic beasts of the same combinatorial nature as Hume’s Pegasus, Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade asks the players to twist the creative capabilities described in the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding on their heads and use them as game mechanics: impossible paper beasts will parade across the screen (the page of a fantastic bestiary) only to be recognized as combinations of parts of existing animals.

In Hume’s vision, most people possess the mental concept of a Pegasus (Hume, 1748).

Helena Cain

However, all the weaknesses seem to stem from the Pegasus's command: Admiral Cain demonstrated a complete disregard for the lives and safety of civilians, ruthlessness toward her fellow officers, and contempt for her own commander-in-chief, President Laura Roslin; Col. Jack Fisk was deeply involved in an illegal black market operation; Chief Engineer Barry Garner proved so incompetent that even Kara Thrace felt compelled to comment on his uselessness.

Internet OS

Microsoft and Intel in response to this challenge put forward a standard for a competing model called the NetPC, a diskless PC that would be primarily adapted to web browser use and would run a simplified version of Windows 95, codenamed Pegasus.

John Richard Dedicoat

Apprenticed to James Watt, he went on to become a bicycle manufacturer and made and sold the "Pegasus" bicycle.

Lieutenant Sheba

Daughter of the legendary Commander Cain, Sheba first appeared as the leader of the Silver Spar Viper squadron from the Battlestar Pegasus in the two part episode "The Living Legend."

MGM-134 Midgetman

The legacy of its lighter graphite-wound solid rocket motor technology lived on in the GEM side boosters used on the Delta rockets, and the Orion stages of the Pegasus air-launched rocket.

Milan Orlić

He is the winner of the following literary prizes: “Isidora Sekulić,” “Milan Rakić,” “Branko Miljković,” “The Award of Prosveta,” “The Seal of Town of Sremski Karlovci,” “Pegasus,” “Marble Medallion and Sounds.”

Monmouth Comprehensive School

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

Morwell, Victoria

The LaTrobe City Stadium was home to the Gippsland Falcons, which competed in the National Soccer League until they disbanded in 2001, an offshoot club competes as the Falcons 2000 Gippsland Soccer League along with Fortuna 60 and Morwell Pegasus.

Ninja Kid

The familiars are also different, being characters from the manga: the Pegasus was originally Nurikabe, the Eagle was Konaki Jiji, and the Mirror was Sunakake Babaa.

NoB

With Make-Up, he recorded several songs for the anime Saint Seiya, including the first opening song Pegasus Fantasy and the first ending song Blue Forever.

Oxford Youth Theatre

1988 - Simon Mellor leaves Pegasus to work in the Education Department on the South Bank and to administrate Neil Bartlett's new company Gloria.

Pegasus Ladies' Hockey Club

Pegasus have been so successful that they hold the record for most Ulster Shield and Ulster Senior League wins.

Shiro Izumi

He played two different central characters therin: Yuuma Oozora/Change Pegasus in Dengeki Sentai Changeman, and the role for which he gained the most attention, Burai/Dragon Ranger in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.

SHIWA project

SHIWA developed workflow interoperability solutions for several workflow systems, namely ASKALON Fahringer, et al. 2005, MOTEUR Glatard, et al. 2008, Pegasus Deelman 2005, PGRADE Kacsuk, et al. 2003, Galaxy, GWES, Kepler, LONI Pipeline, Taverna, ProActive and Triana Majithia et al. 2004.

Stéphanie Montreux

In April 2007, Montreux appeared in Pegasus Opera Company's production of Delius' Koanga at Sadler's Wells Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.

Stewart Island / Rakiura

The island received its European name in honour of William W. Stewart, who was first officer on the ship Pegasus, which visited from Port Jackson (Sydney), Australia, in 1809 on a sealing expedition.

The Living Legend

After Pegasus thwarts Baltar's attack on the Fleet, Commanders Adama and Cain plan to attack Gamoray for its desperately needed fuel supplies, in the midst of this is a visit from the Imperious Leader himself.