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unusual facts about The Unicorn



Will Millar

In 1968, under the production of Bud Dant of Decca Records, the group's recording of the Shel Silverstein song "The Unicorn" went to #1 in Canada and #3 on the Billboard pop chart in the U.S. and became the Irish Rovers' signature song.


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Betty Lou Varnum

McVay and her special friends, “Gregory Lion” (a perpetually 4-year-old lion), “Catrina Crocodile” (a witch who had changed herself into a beautiful crocodile) and “Dusty the Unicorn” (more formally known as “Stardust Glimmer”, who was 3000 years old – young for a unicorn), would chat with visitors, teach a clever craft, and watch wholesome cartoons such as “Felix the Cat” and “Tales of the Riverbank,” a Canadian live-action short about “Hammy the Hamster”, “Roderick the Rat” and friends.

Cascoplecia

Cascoplecia, commonly known as the unicorn fly, is a monotypic genus of extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous.

HD 49976

HD 49976, also known as V592 Monocerotis, is a variable star in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn).

Ira Einhorn

His moniker, "the Unicorn," came from his name, Einhorn — unicorn in German.

Sidney Sax

Herrmann also recorded his own Symphony with the National Philharmonic for the Unicorn label.

T. A. Waters

He himself wrote The Probability Pad (1970), a sequel to The Unicorn Girl; these two novels, together with Chester Anderson's earlier The Butterfly Kid (1967), make up the collaborative Greenwich Village Trilogy.

The Killing of the Unicorn - Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980

Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980 is a book by Peter Bogdanovich detailing the relationship between Bogdanovich and Dorothy Stratten, the making of They All Laughed and Stratten's murder.

The Lich

In the opening scene, Herpich used unicorn symbolism, most notable the tapestry The Unicorn is in Captivity and No Longer Dead, a piece of the seven-part tapestry The Hunt of the Unicorn, to illustrate the themes of the episode.

The Lion and the Unicorn

This rhyme was played upon by Lewis Carroll, who incorporated the lion and the unicorn as characters in Through the Looking-Glass.

The Log of the Ark

Like many later fictionalisations of the Noah story, from Gary Larson to Julian Barnes, it introduces mythical beasts such as the unicorn into the Ark's passenger list, a device with obvious dramatic potential: we assume that such creatures are unlikely to survive the voyage.

The Unicorn Chronicles

The Unicorn Chronicles consists of four young adult fantasy novels by Bruce Coville about the fantasy world of Luster that lies parallel to our own.

Voyage of the Unicorn

Voyage of the Unicorn is a 2001 television film starring Beau Bridges, Chantal Conlin and Heather McEwen.