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  Unicorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though the popular image of the unicorn is that of a white horse differing only in the horn, the traditional unicorn has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail, and cloven hooves, which distinguish him from a horse.
The unicorn also figured in courtly terms: for some thirteenth-century French authors such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard of Fournival, the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.
In heraldry, a unicorn is depicted as a horse with a goat's cloven hooves and beard, a lion's tail, and a slender, spiral horn on its forehead.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unicorn   (3504 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
1667-Niels Stensen (Steno) describes his dissection of the head of a giant white shark and correctly identifies shark teeth, still generally thought (despite arguments to the contrary from Rondelet and Colonna in the preceding century) to be serpent tongues.
Cephalopod expert Addison Verrill describes the blob as the remains of a giant octopus but, after examining a tissue sample, reverses his decision and describes it as a decomposing whale.
Found near the remains of giant lizards and pygmy elephants, it is formally named Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the "hobbit." Though some suspect it's a kind of malformed, small-brained midget, this interpretation will be answered by braincase scans and the announcement of several more individuals of the same species.
www.strangescience.net /timeline.htm   (11851 words)

  
 RenĂ© Descartes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries, Descartes' philosophical ghost was always present; Locke, Hume, Leibniz and even Kant felt compelled to philosophical entanglement with this intellectual giant.
(Note that 'unicorn' is not materially false; it represents a possible object that happens not to exist.) For the most part, it is the judgements we make about ideas that are true or false ('formally' true or false): e.g.
'There is a unicorn in your rose garden' is (probably!) false.
www.iep.utm.edu /d/descarte.htm   (19639 words)

  
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