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6 unusual facts about Unicorn


Academy@Worden

The students and staff are divided into four houses Dragon(red), Griffin(blue), Phoenix (yellow) and Unicorn (green).

Dan Swanö

Unicorn – vocals, drums, session bass, session saxophone on albums Ever Since (1993) & Emotional Wasteland (1995)

Flappy

Unicorns are green creatures that move in mostly-repetitive horizontal patterns.

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.


An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

These operations are compounding (or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn); transposing (or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur); augmenting (as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented); and diminishing (as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished).

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.

Collin Hegna

Cocaine Unicorn have opened shows for bands such as The Warlocks, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Out Crowd at various times throughout their career.

Falcatus

Falcatus was also shown in two Shark Week specials, one also labelled as "Prehistoric Sharks" (where both were shown in restored form by Paleoartist Ray Troll) and the other known as "Jurassic Shark" where it was labelled as a unicorn shark.

HMCS Unicorn

HMCS Unicorn is a shore-based Naval Reserve Division of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Humphrey IV of Toron

In Manuel Mujica Láinez's historical fantasy El unicornio (The Wandering Unicorn), he is portrayed as an effeminate homosexual, burdened by the expectation of living up to his grandfather's heroic reputation.

I've Never Met a Nice South African

He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.

Invisible Pink Unicorn

The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink.

Jack Lindeman

His more recent poetry appears in Commonweal, Argestes, Poetry Now, Compass Rose, Chiron Review, Blue Unicorn, Bellowing Ark, and CommonSense2, and he is included in the anthology From Both Sides Now, published by Scribner, 1998.

James Cambias

His first role playing book was published by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1994, and he has written or contributed to books for Last Unicorn Games, Hero Games, and Steve Jackson Games, including the Star Trek role-playing game (Last Unicorn), GURPS Mars, Star Hero, and GURPS Space.

John Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

Magna Stampede

Magna Stampede was repainted from a Beast Machines toy named Battle Unicorn originally created in 2001 which was, as his name suggests, a Unicorn but now with a color scheme similar to that of a Zebra.

Master with Cracked Fingers

Others include Xenon (2002), Beverly Wilshire (2002), Unicorn Video (2003) and Miracle Pictures (2005).

Matthew Mercer

Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - Zartu the Dark Unicorn, Elven King, Gnome Ruler

Monmouth Comprehensive School

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

Musaeum Clausum

Browne was an avid collector of antiquities and natural specimens possessing a supposed unicorn's horn, presented to him by Arthur Dee .

My World and Welcome to It

Fables for Our Time is another source, as when John Monroe sees a unicorn in the back yard, a reference to "The Unicorn in the Garden".

N. elegans

Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, Indian orange-spine unicorn, orange-spine unicorn or smoothheaded unicornfish, a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the Indian Ocean

Phil Seaman

Although some people suggested that he became a fabulous unicorn seller, particularly intrested in 10x winning universal unicorn racing champion Starshine Sparkle, although some argue he is smoking with 2Pac in Cuba, he is also to have been rumored to be Taher Shah, a Pakistani Singer known for his hit single 'Eye to Eye'.

Rodney Bay

At Rodney Bay one can climb aboard the brig Unicorn, used in the film Pirates of the Caribbean and see the west side of the island by sea from her decks.

Sergei Yakhontov

translation by Jerry Norman: "Chinese phonology of the 1st millennium BC, Part I", Unicorn 1 (1968): 47–65, "Chinese phonology of the 1st millennium BC, Part II", Unicorn 6 (1970): 52–75.

She-Ra

She releases He-Man and jumps from a window, crashing into the Horde stables, landing atop Spirit who is transformed into Swift Wind, a winged talking unicorn.

Southfield Public Library

Dr. Seuss sculptures:The Tufted Gustard, Two Horned Drouberhannis, Andulovian Grackler, Blue-Green Abelard, Seuss Sawfish, Mulberry Street Unicorn, Semi-Normal Green Lidded Fawn, Flaming Herring, Carbonic Walrus, Gimlet Fish, Sea Going Dilemma Fish, Powerless Puffer and Sludge Tarpon.

Star Wind

:Disambiguation: for the mate of Swift Wind with this name, see Star Wind (unicorn)

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 rhyme is also the basis of an episode in the novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman, in which the protagonists of the novel, Tristran Thorn and Yvaine, witness a lion and a unicorn fight over a crown during their travels through an enchanted forest.

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.

Unicorn Kid

Unicorn Kid was the support act for synth-pop musician Owl City on his rescheduled UK and European tour in September/October 2011.

Unicorn Variations

Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983.

Voyage of the Unicorn

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

You're Different and That's Super

Carson Kressley tells the story of a one-of-a-kind pony who learns that it's our differences that make us "super." Whimsical black-and-white illustrations from renowned equine artist Jared Lee corral humor and charm in a tale of a unicorn struggling to find his identity and place in the world.


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