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Rankin's dragon

The specific epithet is a reference to the Australian author Henry Lawson.


Adam Johnson

Stovepipe Johnson (Adam Rankin Johnson, 1834–1922), Brigadier general of the Confederate States of America

Austin Museum of Digital Art

The Austin Museum of Digital Art is the brainchild of Harold Chaput, then a Computer Sciences doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, and Christopher Rankin, an art history graduate of Trinity University and experienced museum worker.

Breakin' News

The song "Act A Ass" featuring singer Rankin Scroo (with uncredited vocals from rappers Kaveo & Young Mugzi) is featured in the film "Be Cool" (2005).

Christmas elf

A team of elves features prominently in the Rankin-Bass 1964 special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, including a "misfit" elf named Hermey who does not desire to make toys and instead wants to pursue a career in dentistry.

Colin Rankin

During World War I Rankin served briefly in 1915 with the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt before appointment to command the 11th Brigade in the newly formed 3rd Division, as temporary brigadier general from 1 May 1916.

Coun Douly Rankin

He was born at Breachacha Castle on the Isle of Coll, the son of Neil Rankin, the resident piper at the castle, and Catherine Maclean.

Dunlap, Tennessee

U.S. Route 127 (called "Rankin Avenue" in Dunlap), which traverses the Tennessee section of Sequatchie Valley, connects Dunlap to Crossville and the upper plateau area to the north and Chattanooga opposite Signal Mountain to the southeast.

Elmer's Adventure: My Father's Dragon

;Elmer no Bōken:Released 1998-12-05 (both limited and regular), color, VHS (NTSC), Shochiku

Gallery Project

O'Reilly Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video, by Kyle Rankin.

George Rankin

Rankin served in the 4th Light Horse Regiment and reached Gallipoli in May 1915, was wounded in July, became a captain in December, and a major in March 1916.

Gia Johnson

As a result, Gia has worked with noted fashion photographers including Ellen von Unwerth, Rankin, Robin Derrick, and Dan Smith.

Home Theater Network

Prior to The Disney Channel's April 1983 launch, Walt Disney Pictures licensed select live-action films to many premium cable networks (including HBO, Showtime and Spotlight); as a result, HTN featured Disney fare such as Freaky Friday, Snowball Express, Pete's Dragon, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The North Avenue Irregulars.

Japanese reggae

The dancehall style was brought to Japan by Rankin' Taxi in the mid 1980s, and rock group The Roosters incorporated ska into some of their songs which influenced artists such as the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, and Kemuri.

Jeannette Rankin

Rankin's brother Wellington D. Rankin, a power in the Montana Republican Party, financed and managed her first campaign for the Congressional election of 1916.

Kathleen Bryson

Bryson has done some part-time modeling, and had appeared both in Rankin's SNOG art exhibition in Brick Lane, London 2000 and in his Snog book as well.

Kenny Rankin

On Saturday, November 4, 1972, Kenny Rankin performed live on Broadway, at Manhattan's Palace Theatre as the opening act for The George Carlin Show.

Louis Rankin

Rankin played football, basketball, and track for the Lincoln High School Trojans of Stockton, California.

Lucius Seymour Storrs

Storrs was born in Buffalo, New York, USA to Janet (Rankin) Storrs and Origen (or Origon) Seymour Storrs, 1st Sgt. in the Cortland County, New York Civil War 12th Regiment.

Mack Rankin

Rankin entered the oil business working for an oilfield company in Post, Texas.

Mad Monster Party?

In 1972, Rankin/Bass produced a "prequel of sorts" with the TV special Mad Mad Mad Monsters which aired on September 23, 1972 as part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie.

Malcolm Marmorstein

Peyton Place, Love Bites, Dead Men Don't Die, ABC Weekend Specials, The Witching of Ben Wagner, Konrad, Rose Petal Place: Real Friends, Poochie, Return from Witch Mountain, Pete's Dragon, Whiffs, Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, S*P*Y*S, Night Gallery, Dark Shadows and The Doctors.

Mefford Field Airport

Rankin Field was established by Tex Rankin in 1940 when he signed a contract with the War Department contract to open a school to train United States Army Air Corps flight cadets.

My Father's Dragon

The illustrations within the book are black and white done with a grease crayon on a grained paper, done by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, who also illustrated other children's books such as My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Paco Goes to the Fair, Miss Hickory, Hipo the Hippo, and adult books such as Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck and Cream Hill by Lewis Stiles Gannett, the author's father and husband of the book's illustrator.

Naomi Novik

Novik's first novel, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire in the UK), which commences the Temeraire series, is an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars in a "Flintlock Fantasy" world in which dragons are abundant and are used in aerial combat.

Nellie Bellflower

She has also been in The Last Unicorn (voice), Rankin/Bass The Return of the King, Americathon, the miniseries East of Eden, and guest roles on various TV shows such as Barnaby Jones, Barney Miller, Starsky and Hutch, and Happy Days as Fonzie's ex-fiancée.

North Braddock, Pennsylvania

In April 2012, a film titled Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, and Zoe Saldana, was filmed in North Braddock, Braddock, and Rankin.

Oh Mother

It was written by Aguilera, Derryck Thornton, Mark Rankin, Liz Thornton, Christophe Barratier, Bruno Coulais and Kara DioGuardi.

"Oh Mother" was written by Aguilera, Derryck Thornton, Mark Rankin, Liz Thornton, Christophe Barratier, Bruno Coulais and Kara DioGuardi.

Paul Rankin

In 1989 Paul Rankin changed the face of culinary Northern Ireland when he opened Roscoff, the restaurant that was to become the first to win a Michelin Star in the country.

Rankin Inlet

Under the alternate formula for determining the boundary between arctic and subarctic climates posited by Otto Nordenskiöld, however, Rankin Inlet, along with Arviat and Baker Lake, qualify as arctic based on the relationship between the temperatures of the coldest and warmest months; in the case of Rankin Inlet, with a coldest-month (January) mean of -30.8° C, said boundary for the warmest month would be 12.1° C, and Rankin Inlet's warmest month (July) averages only 10.5° C.

Robert William Rankin

Rankin was promoted lieutenant commander in August 1937 and sent to Britain on exchange duty, he was posted to HMS Gleaner, a minesweeper and following courses at HMS Dryad, he was posted to the repair ship HMS Resource as first lieutenant.

Robyn Lawley

She has worked with notable photographers including Kenneth Willardt, Lee Broomfield, Michel Haddi, Thierry Le Goues, Rankin, Raphael Mazzucco and Steven Meisel.

Skip Hinnant

In 1977, he voiced the Easter Bunny in the Rankin/Bass made-for-television feature The Easter Bunny Is Comin' To Town, and in 1980 he provided a voice for the TV special Pogo for President: I Go Pogo.

Sodium vapor process

It was used in the 1970s for scenes in Island at the Top of the World, Gus, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Freaky Friday, Escape to Witch Mountain, Pete's Dragon, and The Black Hole.

Speculative Grammarian

Lingua Pranca includes humorous pieces by several linguists who, 30 years later, have gone on to become well known in the field, including Bernard Comrie, Elan Dresher, Norbert Hornstein, D. Terence Langendoen, James D. McCawley, Ken Miner, Robert L. Rankin, and Leonard Talmy.

The Bermuda Depths

The partnership between Rankin/Bass and Tsuburaya Productions also resulted with two more monster-based adventure films The Last Dinosaur (1977), and the extremely obscure The Ivory Ape (1980).

The Ox

The Oxford Bar, a pub on Edinburgh's Young Street which features in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels

The Wacky World of Mother Goose

The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967) is an animated feature film made by Rankin/Bass, written by Romeo Muller and directed by Jules Bass based on Charles Perrault's stories and nursery rhymes.

United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, 2008

The candidates are Republican Gregg Harper, attorney and chairman of the Rankin County Republican Party; Democrat Joel Gill, Pickens town alderman and a cattle broker; and independent candidate Jim Giles, a former systems engineer and white supremacist.

Walt Horan

A fruit grower and packer, Horan was born and raised near Wenatchee, the younger son of Michael and Margaret A. (Rankin) Horan.


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