He pointed out the irony that the cockerel, an unofficial national emblem of France, was standing in a square commemorating a famous British victory over the French.
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Adrian Searle of The Guardian commented that "the scale and modelling and degree of detail feel right", with a "lifelike and other-worldly" feel to the sculpture.
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Hahn/Cock is a sculpture of a giant blue cockerel by the German artist Katharina Fritsch.
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Fallis's works first bought to public attention include a pair of framed hand stitched Union Jack underpants, entitled Cock-Eyed Jack, a comment on the Cool Britannia phenomenon.
In Primus's cover of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar", unlike the original, "That is really what we think - and by the way, which one's Pink?", the Primus version states, "Of the town you are the talk, and who the hell's this guy they call Bob Cock?"
In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads (one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.
The Europeans managed to drive off the attackers with the help of their foreign workers, and were relieved on 9 November by soldiers of the Force Publique led by De Cock and Hubin, who arrived from the east.
These Cinnamons were bred from a pair of Light Greens obtained from a dealer in Aberdeen, but the ring on the cock showed it came from a Mr Banham, who lived near Victoria Station in London.
As explained by Paddy Ashdown in a BBC Timewatch documentary, due to "a Whitehall cock-up of major proportions", de Baissac was preparing to take explosives on board German ships in the harbor of Bordeaux when he heard explosions from the partly successful Operation Frankton.
The coat of arms of Kurów and the Kurów municipality consists of a white cock with a gold crest, bill, talons and a white handkerchief in a red field.
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The first COA of Kurów (from January 6, 1442) depicted the cock without the handkerchief (probably because the Polish surname Kurowski who was owner of Kurów comes from the word kur (cock)).
In the aftermath of the 1461 Battle of Towton remnants of the Lancastrian forces fleeing the victorious Yorkists were forced to try to cross the Cock Beck, having already disposed of most of their arms.
The railway line to Marlow and the Thames Path run through Cock Marsh and a footbridge cantilevered from Bourne End Railway Bridge over the river links it with Bourne End in Buckinghamshire where the path continues towards Marlow.
Coq Roq, also typeset as COQ ROQ, and pronounced "Cock Rock", was an advertising program created in late 2004 to promote international fast food restaurant chain Burger King's chicken product, BK Chicken Fries.
The MSX game Don't Cock it Up used this painting for its box art.
De Cock Late Night, also being called DCLN, is a radio show on the Flemish radio MNM presented by Tom De Cock.
Johnny, Cock thy Beaver: popular music-making in 17th century England (1996)
Because the new manager, Joseph Cock, had yet to arrive in Nelson, a geological survey of the mines was conducted on 1 June 1864 by Dr James Hector, an assayer working for the Otago Provincial Government.
He often got bad reviews from the press, notably Expressen journalist Mats Olsson, to which Norstedt replied by writing even more offensive songs, such as Kuken står på Mats Olsson (Mats Olsson has a hard-on), Mats Olsson är en jävla bög (Mats Olsson is a damn fag) and Mats Olsson runkar kuken (Mats Olsson is wanking his cock).
The shallow waters between the two islands werre sold to a group of developers led by trader Nicolaas de Cock from Antwerp in 1835.
Fidelio Films was founded in 2010 by filmmakers David Figueroa, Mark Raso, Mauro Mueller and Mauricio Leiva Cock.
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Fidelio Films is a New York-based independent film production company founded by filmmakers David Figueroa, Mark Raso, Mauro Mueller and Mauricio Leiva Cock in 2010.
Among his independent publications are Who killed Cock Robin? (1897), Tales told in the Zoo (1900), two volumes of Froissart's Modern Chronicles, told and pictured by FC Gould (1902 and 1903), and Picture Politics—a periodical reprint of his Westminster Gazette cartoons, one of the most noteworthy implements of political warfare in the armoury of the Liberal Party.
Hedysarum coronarium, the French honeysuckle or cock's head, a perennial herb species native to Northern Africa and Spain
While the humble cock is being sacrificed, they turn, like the women in the Ion of Euripides, to admire the works of art; among them a small boy strangling a vulpanser – doubtless the work of Boethus that we know and a sacrificial procession by Apelles, "the Ephesian," of whom we have an interesting piece of contemporary eulogy.
In the 2005 comedy album The Right to Bare Arms by Larry the Cable Guy, Larry talks about Hooters Airlines and how he got "80,000 frequent boner miles" and how the flight waitresses took their shorts off when Larry asked where the "cock pit" was.
The watch was fitted with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 478BWS and featured seventeen jewels, a Breguet overcoil, a regulating spring on the balance-cock, a shock-absorber and a Glucydur® balance.
Their second album, Big Cock, was produced by Phil Wainman and released on Polydor in 1986, which included their cover of Bernstein and Sondheim's "America" from West Side Story.
When the evil king Zhou, the last ruler of Shang dynasty was rebelled against by his former subordinate King Wu, general Kong Xuan fought the rebel army in the Golden Cock Range.
Le Cock Sportif was the first album by the rap rock/nu metal group Brougham.
Robert Cock, a "first settler" who accompanied Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo, and for whom Cox's Creek was named, has been reported as founder of the malting business.
Maquipucuna harbors 4% of the world's bird biodiversity, including the Toucan Barbet, Cock-of-the-rock, Plate-billed Mountain Toucan, Lanceolated Monklet, Esmeraldas Antbird, Red-headed Barbet, and Golden-headed Quetzal.
In the Bayeux Tapestry of the 1070s, originally of the Bayeux Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux) and now exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, Normandy, there is a depiction of a man installing a cock on Westminster Abbey.
RAF Oxenhope Moor was a British Second World War radio station, located on Cock Hill Moor near the village of Oxenhope in Yorkshire.
However, this was unnecessary on a sporting rifle and the Mauser M98 and M1903 Springfield type cock-on-opening bolt was preferred by American sportsmen so the action was developed accordingly.
Writer Tanith Lee gave a quote for the back of the book which said : "A deceptively readable date with darkness – watch your step! This book is lit for the much more discerning chick (and cock) who likes to walk in the shadows. Relax with it, but be prepared for sudden jewels and little masterpieces – and the rug to be pulled from under your feet."
In 1935 T S Bowman of Carlisle bred a Skyblue Slate and a Cobalt Slate, both hens, from a Cobalt cock and a Skyblue hen.
Stephen Smith also effected the world’s first livestock transport when on 29 June 1935, a rocket carried a cock and hen together with 189 rocketgrams across the river Damodar.
In the sixth book of The Dresden Files, Blood Rites, Harry investigates a pornographic film crew and is mistaken for a stunt cock by one of the actors.
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In the 1976 film The First Nudie Musical, the character Rosie (played by Cindy Williams of Laverne & Shirley fame) announces the arrival of a "stunt cock" to complete the filming of a key porn scene.
There is a carving of "The Cock and the Cat" from the Bharhut stupa, dating from 150 BCE, which is now displayed in the Indian Museum in Calcutta.
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Tickle Cock Bridge is a pedestrian underpass in Castleford, England, under a railway line originally built by the York and North Midland Railway between York and Normanton.
The cock flew away towards the village later named Cogolin after it; the dog headed towards the village later named in its honor Grimaud.
The movie also features several songs used prominently in the film that were not included on the PS Classics soundtrack release, including "Relax, Take It Easy" by Mika, "The Magic Position" by Patrick Wolf and "Cock Star" by The Guts – sung by Tanner Cohen.
It was first printed by Gollancz in London in 1955 and then reprinted a year later in New York by Macmillan as part of their 'Cock Robin Mystery' series of books.