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As Maria mulata: known as the bird of Cartagena, Columbia. Local artist Enrique Grau fed a celebration of the bird to honor its “intelligence, adaptability, cheerfulness, sociability and collaborative tendencies, diligence, craftiness, and ability to take advantage of adversity.” Reports wiki.
1. Native American mythical creature, an enormous eagle controlling lightning, thunder, rain
2. model of automobile manufactured by Ford Motor Company
Western forms follow. Middle English (thonder, thunder, thondren). Old English (thunor, thunrian). Dutch (donder). German (Donner). Old Norse (thōrr or Thor, as thunder). Latin (tonāre).
Middle English (byrd, bryd). Old English (bridd).
Algonquian Thunderbird: controller of the upper world (underworld controlled by a horned serpent). Creator of lightning, plus thunder with its wingbeats. The X-form, face forward, is standard.
Menominee Thunderbird: as live in the floating mountain of the western sky. Controllers of rain and hail, fighters against good things. Defeaters of great horned snakes, who would otherwise consume man and take over the world. Messengers of the Great Sun.
Ojibwe Thunderbird: fighters of underwater spirits, from their creator Nanabozho. Punishers of human wrong-doers. Migrator with other birds.
Winnebago Thunderbird: in dreams, omen of a future chieftain.
Examples of Native American Thunderbird and eagle styles.
Images available become a mix of traditional and modern (includes tattoo) art
and current Ford Thunderbird models, currently on their 11th.
Disclaimer: which is not a Pontiac Firebird (that, actually a phoenix).
Nor a Trans Am or Firehawk variation.
A special edition like this begs the appropriate plate and frame.
Halle Berry has (or had) one in black. I like.
Small shakes compared to her black Aston Martin. She already had my respect, this just piles on.
by the United States Air Force, using various jets over the years.
F-84G Thunderjet built by Republic Aviation
F-84F Thunderstreak
F-105B Thunderchief
Mirror pass by more modern Thunderbirds.
British 60s-era television program Thunderbirds had Bond veteran special effects expert Derek Meddings on board. No relation.
Wrote Townes Van Zandt:
Among the strangest things I ever heard
Was when a friend of mine said "Man, let's get some Thunderbird"
I said "What's that?" he just started to grin
Slobbered on his shirt, his eyes got dim
He said "You got fifty-nine cents?"
I said "Yeah, I got a dollar, but don't be a smartalec
I ain't gonna spend it on no Indian relic"
And he said "Thunderbird's not an old Indian trinket,
It's a wine, man, you take it home and drink it."
I said "It sure don't sound like wine to me"
And he said he'd bet me the change from my dollar...
No worries, it ends well.
Townes Van Zandt, "Talkin' Thunderbird Blues"
Billy Joe Shaver, "When the Word Was Thunderbird"
Marc Cohn, "Silver Thunderbird"
John Hiatt, "Thunderbird"
Chuck Berry, "Thunderbird and Jaguar"
The Delicates, "Black and White Thunderbird"
Did own a basic 80s-era V6 Camaro, nothing special. Had a blast in '81-82 driving my brother's 1981 Pontiac Trans Am (dark blue, no bird on the hood, but very noticeable with the hood scoop) all over the place. A friend had a '78, silver.
The 1969 Pontiac Firebird, to me that's the jewel of those mentioned. A very beautiful automobile.
At one time my dream was to possess a Chevrolet Cosworth (V-8) Vega. How times change.
First with a smart cover design from New American Library publishers.
Meaning, collected other editions of the same Fleming book.
1. creature of myth, half eagle (head, wings, front talons), half lion (body)
Old French (grifoun). Latin (gryphus). Greek (γρύψ, grýps grups, grup γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn).
Griffin (Gryphus, also Griffon, Gryphon): already described above as part lion; part eagle. Notice the combination of the eagle (king of birds) and lion (king of beasts)—therefore the Griffin takes on that stature, a king of earthly creatures. Guardian of treasures, especially gold. Said to lay eggs in nests containing nuggets of gold.
Heraldic Griffin: front legs of an eagle.
Opinicus has four lion legs, a more camel type neck and tail.
Without wings known as an Alce or Keythong, a Male Griffin.
In folklore, Adrienne Mayor suggested the source of the Griffin as a misunderstanding of Protoceratops, based on fossils found in gold mines.
Regardless, the Griffin symbolizes a powerful guardian of divinity.
Egypt examples (3300-3100 B.C.).
Ancient Greece (1400 B.C.), frescoes—an ongoing favorite for Greek Classical art.
Griffin segreant wearing the mural crown of Perugia, 13th century
Soldier fights Griffin, 'Alphonso' Psalter, 13th Century.
Martin Schongauer etching: The Griffin, 15th Century
Bronze sculpture Pisa Griffin held in Italy from the Middle Ages, origins in Arab Spain.
A replica appears on the Pisa Cathedral.
Portucullises
Bars
Bezants
Where beasts are concerned, here are griffin examples.
Griffin Statant Guardant (standing, face toward viewer)
A Griffin Segreant (or rampant, Old French: to rear up)
Griffin Rampant Regardant (rearing up, looking back over shoulder)
Griffin Passant (Old French: to stride, walk; one paw raised)
Griffin Statant (standing, all fours)
Griffin Sejant (Middle French, to sit, four paws down)
Griffin Couchant (Old French, lying)
Sleeping Griffin, John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland.
Moby Griffin...Underwater team – Moonraker; Boatmaster – Never Say Never Again.
Steve Griffin...Specialist driver; Stunts - Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough.
Andy Griffin...Sound assistant (uncredited) - Tomorrow Never Dies.
Cyril C. Griffin...Boom operator: Bahamas; Production assistant: sound - Casino Royale.
Gareth Griffin...Locations runner (uncredited) – Skyfall.
For Bond films, Hovercraft first appeared in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971, using the Seaspeed Channel service from Dover to Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Specifically an SR-N4 hovercraft (The Princess Margaret, rather than the Princess Anne) appeared on screen.
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Die Another Day, 2002, upped the ante from transport to high action with the Griffon 2000TD hovercraft.
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Griffon 2000TD hovercraft, known to the military as the LCAC/Landing Craft Air Cushion.
Built by Griffon Hoverwork, United Kingdom, these specialize in amphibious assault activity but also disaster response, humanitarian relief, rescue actions. Keeping the British end up. And then some.
Swedish Coast Guard.
Commercial use, global transporter Crowley.
All have their applications.
Other great British icons in hovercraft (posted this before but love it to pieces):
Should have given proper recognition to Griffon Hoverwork, of course their logo is of interest. Buy British!
The Bland Group. Established 1810.
"Hover" (to linger in a place/space) as a cryptic euphemism.
So, yeah, I'm thinking time travel. The Doctor is no joke.
Nothing to see here! Move along!
What an absolutely exciting military career. Did you participate in Grenada? I'm thinking no.
Interesting you mention Grenada. Its coat of arms includes the (endangered) Grenada dove in front of a banana plant (opposite an armadillo in front of a cornstalk).
1. a large scavenger bird
2. an exploiter of the weaknesses of others
Anglo-Norman French (vulture). Latin (vulturius). German (geier). Hebrew (geyer, or peddler). Vultures: birds of prey that feed on carrion, or in rare instances kill the weak or sickly. Old World vultures depend on sight to find food; conversely, New World vultures have a keen sense of smell. Gorgers of food while it’s available. Don’t carry food to their nesting young, instead regurgitate stomach contents for re-ingestion. Digestively predisposed to allow consumption of harmful substances (botulism, cholera, anthrax), removing those threats from the natural environment. May vomit when approached, as assisting a hasty departure (lightening the takeoff load, and as misdirection to the approacher). Urinate down their own lower parts to kill bacteria and cool themselves.
So overall, pretty charming creatures. Also patient: may wait for their next meal to die, or even allow other predators to dine first when they need assistance piercing a carcass. Groups are alternately called wakes (feeding), committees (roosting), kettles (flying), and venues or volts (generally applied).
Old World forms (Gypaetinae, Aegypiinae): Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), Griffon vulture or Eurasian griffon (Gyps fulvus), White-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis), Rüppell's griffon vulture (Gyps rueppelli), Indian vulture (Gyps indicus), Slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris), Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis), White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus), Cape vulture, (Gyps coprotheres), Hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus), Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus), Lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) White-headed vulture, (Trigonoceps occipitalis), Bearded vulture or Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), Egyptian vulture or White scavenger vulture or Pharaoh’s chicken (Neophron percnopterus), Palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis).
New World species in the Americas (appear under the broad umbrella of Accipitriformes): Black vulture (Coragyps atratus), Turkey vulture (Cathartes), Lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus), Greater yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes melambrotus), California condor(Gymnogyps californianus), Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa).
Rüppell's griffon vulture
White-backed vulture
White-headed vulture
Egyptian vulture or White scavenger vulture or Pharaoh’s chicken
California condor
King vulture
King Features vulture