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7 unusual facts about The Eagle


Downhill Challenge

Downhill Challenge is a view-from-behind 3d skiing game developed by Microïds in 1988, published in the US by Brøderbund Software and in France by Loriciel (as Super Ski; in the UK it also had an Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards license).

Express Weekly

Express Weekly (later TV Express Weekly) was a rival to "The Eagle" of Dan Dare fame.

Macdonald Hastings

He was editor of the Strand Magazine between 1946 and 1950, after which he was recruited by Rev Marcus Morris to write for a new boys' comic, The Eagle.

The Eagle-Tribune

He said the paper championed economic redevelopment in its editorials and news articles, and persuaded companies such as Avco, Honeywell and Raytheon to open plants in Lawrence.

During the late 1980s, The Eagle-Tribune ran nearly 200 articles on Michael Dukakis and the Massachusetts prison furlough program, with a special focus on Willie Horton.

Rogers passed the role of publisher to his son, Irving E. Rogers Sr., in 1942; he passed it along to his son, Irving Jr., 40 years later.

The Eagle's Mate

The Eagle's Mate is a 1914 silent film produced by the Famous Players film company and released through Paramount Pictures.


Achiltibuie

The Roman epic The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009.

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

While studying at the Danish National School of Theatre, Sørensen made her television debut in 2005 in the minor role of a receptionist in The Eagle.

Damien Walters

Walters has had the role of stunt double or stunt performer in the films: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Ninja Assassin, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Eagle, I Am Number Four, Blitz, Colombiana, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Captain America: The First Avenger.

Tahar Rahim

Rahim has demonstrated multilingual skills and an ear for accents, having played in Corsican and Arabic in addition to French in A Prophet, and in Scottish Gaelic for his role as the Seal Prince in Kevin Macdonald's The Eagle.

Wieńczysław Gliński

At the 1st Moscow International Film Festival he won a Silver Medal for acting for his role in the film The Eagle.

Will the Wolf Survive

Will the Wolf Survive, produced by Jimmy Bowen, was Jennings' last #1 album and his next-to-last top ten record, the final one being 1990's The Eagle.


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AMC Eagle

The Eagle also bridged the sizable price gap between the low-end imported 4WD Subaru and the large-sized domestic four-wheel-drive vehicles like the Jeep Wagoneer.

Arnold, Nottinghamshire

Due to the local topography Arnold can never have been a haunt of eagles, because they inhabit areas of rocky outcrops, which have formed cliffs; the nearest such location being Creswell Crags, some 20 miles north-west as the eagle flies, although the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.

Box lacrosse

The rebirth of professional box lacrosse in the United States came on March 13, 1986, with the formation of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League, which was incorporated by Russ Cline and Chris Fritz.

Brunswick Corporation

Navico now owns those three brands in addition to the Eagle, Lowrance, B&G, and Simrad lines.

Castello Estense

The vault, conversely, is decorated with frescoes portraying the Four Evangelists against a light blue background, surrounded by cherubs, each of them respectively recognizable by the lion (Saint Mark), the eagle (Saint Luke), the angel (Saint Matthew) and the bull (Saint John) in accordance with the iconographic tradition.

Charles Xavier Thomas

With the Sun (soleil) symbol of previous kings of France and the Eagle (aigle) reminiscent of Napoleon, he had all bases covered to attract a wide range of customers in a very divided 19th century France.

Commemorative coins of Poland: 2001

Obverse: An image of the Kraków's crib with an image of the Eagle as the State Emblem of the Republic of Poland incorporated in a gate.

Contship Containerlines

In the 90s, the pace quickened even more with new vessels for the Eagle service, a revision of the Costa operation and start of the Salerno Terminal operations.

Crug Eryr Castle

Cryg Eryr, which means "the eagle's mount," was likely situated to block the mountain pass into Maelienydd.

Daimler Fleetline

A number of the "Eagle Fleetlines" were sold for service in Shenzhen, with the last bus being withdrawn in October 2008.

Darko Rundek

Darko Rundek has written and produced much film music, and has occasionally appeared as an actor (Doctor Kljaić in A View from Eiffel Tower, by N. Vukčević; Karlo in 100 minuta Slave, by D. Matanić; Youngster in The Eagle (Orao), by Z. Tadić, Marjan film).

Dexter and sinister

In 1945, one of the changes ordered for the similarly arranged Flag of the President of the United States by President Harry S. Truman was having the eagle face towards its right (dexter, the direction of honor) and thus towards the olive branch.

Double-headed eagle

The eagle later became the supporter of the arms of the district of Perth and Kinross (1975).

Eagle Bluff Light

The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin.

Eagle P3

On 21 October 2011, Wabtec signed a $63 million contract with Denver Transit Partners to construct the positive train control system for the Eagle P3 commuter rail lines.

Eagle Rock Music Festival

The Eagle Rock Music Festival is an annual street festival in Eagle Rock, California, that takes place in October.

Eagle Squadrons

The basic requirements for those interested in joining the Eagle Squadron were a high school diploma, being between 20 and 31 years of age, eyesight that was 20/40 correctable to 20/20, and 300 hours of certified flying time.

Eagle Street College

The Eagle Street College was an informal literary society established in 1885 at the home of James William Wallace in Eagle Street, Bolton, to read and discuss literary works, particularly the poetry of Walt Whitman, (1819–91).

Eagle Talon

The Eagle Talon has appeared in several video games such as the Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport series.

Emblem of Yemen

The chest of the eagle contains a shield that depicts a coffee plant and the Marib Dam, with four blue and three wavy stripes below.

George Psychoundakis

During this period, he wrote the book The Eagle's Nest, which deals with the life and customs of the mountain people in the villages near his home of Asi Gonia.

Gwythaints

In The High King, they attack and injure Kaw, the crow, as he spies on Annuvin, and they nearly kill the sorceress Achren, and she is only saved by an "army of crows" so great in number to drive away the eagle-sized gwythaints.

Island in the Sea of Time

The Eagle leaves for Nantucket but takes with them Isketerol, a Tartessian merchant who hopes to learn from the Americans.

Jeep-Eagle

Chrysler made a good-faith effort to give the Eagle brand an identity by offering an all wheel drive (AWD) Eagle Talon, a carryover from the all-wheel drive AMC Eagle for which the brand was named.

Joel John

John can be seen with his old karate nemesis Billy Blanks in the movies Talon of the Eagle and TC 2000.

Juvencus

Lastly, eight preliminary verses, Juvencus's authorship of which is disputed, characterize the Evangelists and assign emblems to them; but they assign the eagle to St. Mark and the lion to St. John.

Lake Bonney

Bonny Lakes,Two high mountain ponds in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon, United States

Let the Eagle Soar

"Let the Eagle Soar" is a song written by former Missouri Senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who is seen singing the song at a Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary function in 2002.

Mr. Poodlepants

His most prominent appearance was in the Eagle's Nest sketch in Episode 103: Billy Crystal, in which an exasperated Sam the Eagle served as his comic foil.

Municipal Borough of Bexley

Gold apples stood for traditional fruit-growing and the eagle came from the arms of Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley, one time chancellor of the exchequer.

National Lacrosse League

The rebirth of major professional box lacrosse in the United States came on March 13, 1986, with the formation of the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League (EPBLL), which was incorporated by Russ Cline and Chris Fritz.

New Hampshire Historical Society

The society owns three properties, all in Concord, the state capital: a 1911 library designed by Guy Lowell; a mid-19th-century commercial structure renovated and opened as the society's museum in May 1995; and the Eagle Stable, a brick building adjacent to the museum, purchased in October 1993 and currently used as office rental space.

Nicknames of Houston

The first words transmitted by Neil Armstrong from the moon, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed", are written in 15 languages on bronze plaques placed along the main entrance of Tranquility Park in downtown Houston.

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.

Pond and Pond

The brothers were founding members of the Cliff Dwellers Club of Chicago, of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Ogle County, Illinois, and associated with Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, for whom they designed various buildings.

Reichsadler

The Reichsadler can be traced back to the banner of the Holy Roman Empire, when the eagle was the insignia of the Imperial power as distinguished from the Imperial states.

St Margaret's Church, Durham

The eagle lectern dates from 1909, and was given in memory of members of the Shafto family killed in the Boer War.

Stora Hammars stones

Gunnlöð and Suttungr are shown to the right of the eagle.

Talons of the Eagle

Talons Of The Eagle is a 1992 American martial arts action film starring Billy Blanks, Jalal Merhi, Matthias Hues and James Hong and directed by Michael Kennedy.

The Eagle and Child

The formal meetings ended in October 1949 when interest in the readings finally petered out, but the meetings at the Eagle and Child continued, and it was at one of those meetings in June 1950 that C.S. Lewis distributed the proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

United States v. Dion

The Eagle Protection Act, by its express terms, made it a federal offense to hunt bald or golden eagles anywhere within the United States unless provided a permit by the Secretary of the Interior.

USS Lancaster Eagle

In December 1920, Admiral Samuel Robison, Commander of the Boston Navy Yard, inquired about the eagle and its condition in hopes of acquiring it for a Boston Naval Museum that was being proposed, but was never created.

Värmlands Filmförbund

In 1978 they started a short film festival, named Filmörnen (the Golden Eagle-Film festival), named after the eagle that exist in the coat of arms of Värmland.

Vilhelm Swedenborg

Swedenborg left for Paris in March 1897 together with Knut Frænkel where they received training in ballooning by Henri Lachambre, the manufacturer of the balloon "The Eagle" that was to be used in the polar expedition.

Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

"Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" is a title of a song written by Kenny Beard, Casey Beathard, and co-written and recorded by American country music singer Aaron Tippin.

WHIO-FM

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986.

Willie Loomis

Meanwhile, leaving Jason to his own scheme, Willie Loomis went secretly searching for the legendary Collins family jewels at the Eagle Hill Cemetery outside of Collinsport, Maine.