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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is the same as the coat of arms of the former Obrenović dynasty (first adopted in 1882) and features the white bicephalic eagle of the House of Nemanjić (which in turn took on the eagle from the Palaiologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire).
The inescutcheon stands for the Serbian Nation; in a red shield, a cross between four silver firesteels arranged in the quarters around it, all of them facing horizontally outwards.
A blazon in heraldic terms is: Gules, a bicephalic eagle Argent armed Or, two fleurs-de-lys Or.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Coat_of_arms_of_Serbia   (687 words)

  
  Cephalic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are many congenital disorders relating to the head which are known as cephalic disorders.
Bicephalic (alternatively dicephalic) is an adjective attributed most commonly to a two-headed animal.
Prefixes bi and di mean "two", and more than two heads is polycephalic, using the prefix poly (many).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cephalic   (140 words)

  
 Bob and Sid, the Bicephalic Squid - TONMO.com Forums
This summer, I found what appeared to be a bicephalic squid in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
It turned out to be a small squid stuck inside a large one.
But the large one's organs were atrophied and shrivelled, meaning that the small one (Sid) had been living there for a while prior to capture.
www.tonmo.com /forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=1131   (358 words)

  
 Carpet Python wkith two heads.
A Bicephalic Coastal Queensland carpet snake, Morelia Spilota macdowelli (Serpentes: Pythonidae).
A clutch of eggs hatched in 1996 from a mating between a pair of coastal Queensland carpet snakes in the collection of Victoria reptile breeder Dale Gibbons included a single bicephalic offspring, with head and anterior necks separated (Fig.
Both heads of the bicephalic hatchling were active and flicked out their tongues and the snake externally appeared healthy.
www.smuggled.com /BicCar4.htm   (134 words)

  
 THE JOURNEY THUS FAR
But, as I realized while painting it, this Aztec 'cross' is not a cross at all, but an extremely ornate rendering of the 'bicephalic' serpent - a mythological serpent with a head at both ends, facing in opposite directions.
To the right was another, Christian version of the Harrowing theme: a soul, his hands clasped in prayer, rises from purgatorial flames, cleansed and renewed.
As the phoenix who rises renewed from the ashes, this alchemical image is also a symbol of death, rebirth, and renewal.
www.lcaruana.com /webtext/jourfar/jourfar11.html   (1254 words)

  
 Mesoweb Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stela B. Celebrating the 9.15.0.0.0 period ending, Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil is depicted here using the typical Copan "turban", while his bicephalic ceremonial bar emits two tiny images of the rain deity Chaak.
It has been suggested that this is due to the fact that, on 9.15.0.0.0, Venus was at its maximum elongation in the area of the sky that corresponds to our constellation Virgo, which the Maya saw as associated with Chaak.
Aside from talking about the monument's erection, Stela B's text specifically mentions that the monument was meant to display the king as the Lord of the Macaw Mountain, which may have been either a real or mythical place associated with Copan.
www.mesoweb.com /copan/tour/24.html   (113 words)

  
 Canon Multipass MP730 Cover open error - fixyourownprinter.com
Canon Multipass MP730 Cover open error by bicephalic (6/22/06 6:23 PM)
HI All - I thought I had posted this already but can't seem to find my post - if they both end up appearing sorry for the duplicate!
The reason I couldn't find any switching mechanism is becase it came out of whee it should be.
www.fixyourownprinter.com /forums/inkjet/39216   (262 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Northern Stars : The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction: Books: David G. Hartwell,Grant,Glenn Grant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
William Gibson contributes "The Winter Market," where a talented and driven young woman sells her dreams to the world and moves into a computer network.
In "One," Heather Spears tells of a child growing up solo and feared in a bicephalic world where no one is ever alone, while the characters in David Duncan's "Under Another Moon" are hermaphrodites, born as females and becoming male in middle age.
Phyllis Gotlieb tells of giant space creatures used by other species for mining in "Mother Lode." Glenn Grant's "Memetic Drift" comes closer to home in its portrayal of a nomadic society crossing and recrossing the blighted plains of Canada in giant trailers.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312864752   (581 words)

  
 C.O.W. - #046: Trash Monster - VOTING! - ConceptArt.org Forums
The rattus bicephalic, or two-headed rat came about as the major folly of a genetics research company.
It was found that rats exposed to a precise cocktail of bio-hazardous chemicals were more likely to be born bicephalic with a low rate of death and other disorders.
Scientists took the mutation as an opportunity to study the effects of experimental drugs on neurological deficits.
www.conceptart.org /forums/showthread.php?t=68514   (2961 words)

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