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2 unusual facts about The Falcon


Death of a Scoundrel

This film and The Falcon's Brother are the only two films to feature real-life brothers George Sanders and Tom Conway.

The Falcon's Feathers

It is the sixth book in the A to Z Mysteries series following the sleuthing adventures of Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose.


Dan Andriano

Andriano played bass on The Falcon's 2004 EP, God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass, at the request of guitarist and lead vocalist Brendan Kelly, and would return in 2006 to play bass and provide vocals for Unicornography.

God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass

God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass is the debut EP of Chicago-based Punk Rock supergroup The Falcon, composed of Brendan Kelly and Neil Hennessy of The Lawrence Arms, Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio, and Todd Mohney, formerly of Rise Against.

Todd Mohney

He played guitar in the punk "super-group" band The Falcon, though he only appeared on the original EP, not being able to attend the recording session for the band's first full length, Unicornography.

Tom Conway

Conway is perhaps best remembered for playing "The Falcon" in ten of the series' entries, taking over for his brother Sanders in The Falcon's Brother, in which they both starred that lead him to be a contract star with RKO Pictures.


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Alan Steinberg

He wrote the libretto for the opera The Falcon and the Sailor Boy, which was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006, starring Stephanie Blythe.

Bristol F.2 Fighter

Rolls-Royce aero engines of all types were in chronic short supply in this period, and the Falcon was no exception.

Brush Electrical Machines

As the business grew in Lambeth due to the demand for new electrical apparatus, larger premises were required and the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation moved 100 miles north to the Falcon Works at Loughborough in 1889.

Canopic chest

The falcon on top represents Sokar, a funerary god and picture on the sides show the chest’s owner worshiping Osiris, god of the afterlife; Ra-Horakhty, a combination of the gods Horus and Ra; four sons of Horus, each of whom guards one of the viscera traditional removed during mummification; the dyed pillar, which represents Osiris, and the tyet, which represents Isis.

Coro TV

It was created in July 2004 and can be seen in the community of Santa Ana de Coro in the Miranda Municipality of the Falcón State of Venezuela on UHF channel 68.

Falcon 9 v1.0

The Falcon 9 v1.0 first stage was used on the first five Falcon 9 launches, and powered by nine SpaceX Merlin 1C rocket engines arranged in a 3x3 pattern.

Falcon 9 v1.1

The Falcon 9-R, a reusable variant of the Falcon 9 family, is being developed using systems and software technology being developed as part of the SpaceX reusable launch system development program by SpaceX to facilitate rapid reusability of both the first and second stages.

Falcon Motorcycles

The first motorcycle in The Falcon Ten series, The Bullet, was a customized 1950 Triumph Thunderbird built out with parts from other rare bikes as well as newly fabricated parts.

Flamingo Televisión

Flamingo Televisión is a Venezuelan regional television station that can be seen on channel 10 in the towns of Boca de Aroa, Tucacas, Ciudad Flamingo, Chichiriviche, and San Juan de los Cayos in the Falcón State.

Frontenac Secondary School

The Falcon football program has produced numerousCIS players, All Canadians and Vanier Cup participants and champions including Quarterback Warren Goldie who led the University of Western Ontario mustangs to the Vanier Cup in 1994.

Hollywood Tower

The Hollywood Tower appears prominently, by name, in the 1948 mystery film Devil's Cargo, part of The Falcon series.

John Gerrish

In addition to The Falcon, Gerrish's better-known works include Variations on a Burgundian Carol for 3 Recorders, based on the carol Patapan, published in New York by Associated Music Publishers in 1957.

John O'Neill (Jack) Gerrish (August 14, 1910 – November 29, 2010) was an American composer of the 20th century, best known for The Falcon, a cappella piece for SATB based on the Middle or Early Modern English Corpus Christi Carol.

Red Molly

In 2007 they toured with Pat Wictor and Ellis, the other winners of the Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist showcase, on the Falcon Ridge Preview tour and performed with them in the Most Wanted Song Swap at the Festival itself.

Renegade Falcon LS

The Falcon LS is a two-seat, low wing, light sport aircraft originally produced by Corvus Aircraft in Hungary as the Corvus Phantom and imported into the US by T&T Aviation between 2008–2010 and by Renegade Light Sport 2010–present.

SES-8

Both stages of the Falcon 9 arrived at Cape Canaveral for processing before October 2, 2013, after both had trouble-free test firings at the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility at McGregor, Texas.

Simon de Burley

In the same year, Burley was given the office of Master of the Falcon and Keeper of the Mews near Charring, and was appointed constable of Windsor Castle for life.

Southeastern Illinois College

The college's mascot, the falcon, is related to the Egyptian god, Horus.

The Falcon and the Snowman

The film is based upon the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and features the song "This Is Not America", written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.

Wings of Death

A version of the game, modified by D-Bug, allowed it to run on the Atari Falcon030, adding a much better soundtrack played by means of the Falcon's DSP.