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In the News (Tue 18 Nov 08)

  
  Sea Dragon
Sea Dragon was a two-stage design of 1962 capable of putting 1.2 million pounds (550 tonnes) into low Earth orbit.
Prospects for Sea Dragon essentially disappeared, and Aerojet could no longer fund it on IR&D. Many thanks to Mark C Goll for providing some of the materials on which this article was based.
Sea Dragon was a two-stage design capable of putting 550 tonnes into low Earth orbit.
www.astronautix.com /lvs/searagon.htm   (825 words)

  
 The Dragon
In a confrontation, Dragons have a tendency to misjudge the situation, and are not too adept at extricating themselves from difficulties.
Since Dragons are not prone to marrying young, many committed bachelors and spinsters are born under the influence of this sign; truthfully, the Dragon may be happier alone.
But the male Dragon is perhaps happier in love than his female counterpart, for this, being a strongly masculine sign, often produces dominant women who tend to take over the relationship and rather blindly tread all over the sensitivities of their partners.
www.holymtn.com /astrology/dragon.htm   (920 words)

  
 The Sea Dragon
Sea Dragons also have scales but they are not hard and rigid like many dragons but have a softer rubbery texture.
Sea Dragons are quite at home in the water and are probably the fastest swimmer on or under the sea and can dive to great depths with ill affect.
These dragons seem to like to grab sailors from a ship, dive deep into the sea and return quickly dumping the hapless sailor on the deck of their ship to die writhing in twisted agony from the bubbling death.
www.santharia.com /bestiary/sea_dragon.htm   (1808 words)

  
 Enter the sea dragon
Due to their many similarities, sea dragons are classified, along with pipefish, in the same family as sea horses, i.e.
But probably the most incredible feature shared by sea dragons and sea horses is the role played by the male in hatching the young.
Design is a far better explanation than random mutations and selection to explain the specialized features of the sea dragon such as its sensational camouflage, its air bladder, and the reproductive technique displayed in the sea dragon.
www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v22/i1/sea_dragon.asp   (617 words)

  
 The Circle of the Dragon: Sea Monsters
Sea serpents are said to be large creatures (usually between forty and sixty feet long) with a snakelike head and the tail of a fish, usually with a mane of hair on its head or back.
To say that there were no sea serpents at all is perhaps too extreme, but to say that every sighting of a sea serpent or sea dragon was true is also too extreme.
Mythology was also effected; several dragons are said to hail from the sea at the command of a god, such as Cetus.
www.blackdrago.com /seamonsters.htm   (1028 words)

  
 Sea Dragon
Sea Dragon destroyers amassed an impressive record by year's end: 382 watercraft destroyed and 325 damaged; five coastal defense batteries destroyed and two damaged; and two radar sites destroyed with another two damaged.
During her first morning with Sea Dragon, the Iowa-class battleship destroyed a supply depot north of the Benhai River, a barracks area, roads, 300 meters of occupied trench lines, and an anti-aircraft battery that made the mistake of engaging a Marine F-4 Phantom while New Jersey lurked nearby.
Although Sea Dragon failed to stem the flow of men and supplies south, it forced the Communists to divert much of their logistics support to less efficient land routes, primarily the Ho Chi Minh trail.
www.dd-692.com /sea1.htm   (3696 words)

  
 Weedy sea dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The weedy sea dragon or common sea dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, is a marine fish related to the seahorse.
Weedy sea dragons are named for the weed-like projections on their bodies that camouflage them as they move among the seaweed beds where they are usually found.
The weedy sea dragon is an aquatic emblem of the State of Victoria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weedy_sea_dragon   (266 words)

  
 Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dragons are commonly portrayed as serpentine or reptilian, hatching from eggs and possessing long, typically scaly, bodies; they are sometimes portrayed as having large eyes, a feature that is the origin for the word for dragon in many cultures, and are often (but not always) portrayed with wings and a fiery breath.
The dragon Fafnir, killed by the legendary hero Sigurd, was called an ormr ('worm') in Old Norse and was in effect a giant snake; it neither flew nor breathed fire.
The dragon is the emblem of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dragon   (3587 words)

  
 Why I Doubt that Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs Exist
In Chapter 13 the dragon delegates authority to another beast that arises from the sea, taken to be a human figure, but it is still the dragon that is understood to be ultimately responsible for the temptation and deception of God's followers.
Dragons are large reptilian creatures with tough skin or scales, their bodies twisting and serpentine, sometimes possessing bat-like wings.
Yet beyond these details of description there is one association made with dragons that is constant throughout the various emergences of the dragon archetype that we may focus on to gain a deeper understanding of the dragon archetype, and that is the association between dragons and the sea.
www.edwardtbabinski.us /creationism/dragon.html   (6732 words)

  
 Leafy Sea Dragon main page, Phycodurus eques (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sea dragons feed on larval fishes and amphipods, such as and small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids ("sea lice"), sucking up their prey in their small mouths.
Sea dragons are protected under Australian law, and their export is strictly regulated.
A 1996 assessment by the Australian government's Department of Environmental Heritage indicates "It [the Leafy Sea Dragon] is now completely protected in South Australia because demand for aquarium specimens threatened the species with extinction." Currently the specific law which protects them is called the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
www.divegallery.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Leafy_Sea_Dragon.htm   (648 words)

  
 dragonherbs | gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Dragon is the spirit of change, and therefore of life itself.
The voice of the Dragon is heard in the storm, which scattering the withered leaves of the forest, quickens a new spring.
The Dragon is the symbol of renewal and regeneration, for the Dragon wields the power of transformation.
www.dragonherbs.com /gallery/gallery1a.asp   (171 words)

  
 Three Frogs
So the dragon, the sea beast, and the land beast (Rev. 13) would seem to be a counterfeit of the holy Three.
Now, if the dragon is a counterfeit of God the Father and the sea beast is a counterfeit of God the Son, then the land beast would seem to be a counterfeit of the Holy Spirit.
It is therefore clear that the dragon, the sea beast, and the land beast together are portrayed as a deliberate parody or counterfeit of the true Godhead.
www.sdanet.org /atissue/Escatology/ThreeFrogs.html   (2646 words)

  
 The Dragon in the Sea
The Dragon in the Sea, also known as Under Pressure, is a novel by Frank Herbert.
Set in a near-future earth, the west and the east have been at war for more than a decade, and resources are running thin.
The east has been very successful planting sleepers in the west's military and command structures, and the suspicion is that sleepers are sabotaging the subs or revealing their positions once at sea.
ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Dragon_in_the_Sea.html   (212 words)

  
 Dragons
In the West, dragons may have first appeared in ancient Babylon some 4,000 years ago with a myth that attributes the formation of the very universe to a dragon.
The emperor was called the "true dragon"; he sat on the "dragon throne" and wrapped himself in "dragon robes." So jealously did the royal household guard its five-clawed dragon that anyone who displayed the symbol without approval was punished by death.
It is striking that Michael, not Christ, defeats the dragon; this may reflect an underlying Jewish tradition equating the 'one like a son of man' with Michael.
philologos.org /bpr/files/d001.htm   (1529 words)

  
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In spite of the dragon’s extravagant sponsorship, the sea beast eventually suffers an apparently mortal wound.
That the sea beast was to blaspheme God’s dwelling recalls at once the introductory sanctuary scene, in which John’s attention was called to the ark of God’s covenant in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary.
Unlike the dragon and the sea beast, which has seven crowns, and the sea beast, which has ten, the lamb-horned beast has no crowns at all.
www.angelfire.com /pr/SDASA/Biblical_perspective_on_the_last_days.doc   (4883 words)

  
 The Dragon in the Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dragon in the Sea (also known as Under Pressure from its serialization) is a novel by Frank Herbert.
John Ramsey, a young psychologist from the Bureau of Psychology (BuPsych), is trained as an electronics operator and sent on the next mission, replacing the previous officer who went insane.
Typically for Herbert, psychology and religion (the title comes from a quote from the Book of Revelation) play a large role in the narrative, as Johnny comes to understand the nature of the subtug crews and how they carry out their missions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Dragon_in_the_Sea   (452 words)

  
 Song of Mark, Phase Fourteen: The Living Apparition (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
And from this day forward, fear ye not the baptismal water's of John, but rather be like a wise serpent that liveth in the sea, so that by so doing you may take away the reproach of John and cast away your own fear of death for ever.
That is to say, some of them thought that I would be devoured by the mythical dragon in the sea.
And whitersoever I entered, into towns or into villages about the sea of Hula, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought me that they might touch but the hem of my garment: And as many as touched me were made whole.
www.cosmeta.com.cob-web.org:8888 /_Newage/mark/phase14.html   (623 words)

  
 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Weedy and Leafy Sea Dragons presents sea dragon facts, information on conservation and other topics, and 22 seadragon thumbnail images.
Sea Dragon Images and Thumbnail Gallery presents over 20 seadragon images reduced to thumbnails, and other links to seadragon images.
Inspired by Seahorses and Sea Dragons holds odd bits of cultural froth—poems, songs, stories, cartoons, and thumbnails of public art.
www.isidore-of-seville.com.cob-web.org:8888 /seahorse   (385 words)

  
 MBS Academy - Dragon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains or coiled in the impenetrable depths of the sea, the dragon awaits.
The Dragon's laugh can be discerned in the playful sounds of a monkey's jabbering; its tears in the gently falling rain.
The Dragon breathes with us every breath we take and shows us the history of the universe with each thought.
www.flowinghands.com /mbs_htm/mbs.art.dragon.htm   (302 words)

  
 The Dragon Versus the Remnant - Part 2 (Revelation 13) : GoBible.Org -- a CameronLaw.Com project
Last week we learned "the sea" might mean either the Mediterranean or an area in which the population is in agitation.
("False Prophet." This unholy trio is identified as the Dragon, the Beast and the False Prophet.
The great desire of Satan, the Dragon, is to make man reject Jesus as the source of salvation and make man believe he can be saved by his own efforts.
www.gobible.org /study.php3?pid=189   (2000 words)

  
 ANIMAL BYTES - Leafy Sea Dragon
The male sea dragon incubates the fertilized eggs in a specialized spongy textured brood patch on the ventral surface of his tail.
Researchers have even observed sea dragons curling up to present predators with the row of menacing spines.
The "Dragon Search" project managed by Australia's marine and Coastal Community Network records sightings by the public in an effort to monitor the number and size of sea dragon populations.
www.seaworld.org /animal-info/Animal-Bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/osteichthyes/syngnathiformes/leafy-sea-dragon.htm   (332 words)

  
 Leafy Sea-Dragon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Any specimens illegally caught by amateurs usually die quickly because of their captor's inability to provide them with the correct live food daily.
This rare and vulnerable relative of the sea-horse might be only around 45 centimetres long and live in an element foreign to its fierce mythical cousin, but in appearance it is unmistakably a dragon.
Sea-dragons actually belong to the same family as sea-horses (Sygnathidae) but differ in appearance from the latter by possessing leaf-like appendages on their head and body, and having a tail that cannot be coiled up.
home2.pacific.net.sg.cob-web.org:8888 /~donchew/sotme/leafy_seadragon.htm   (609 words)

  
 Weedy Sea Dragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Though relatively common compared to Leafy Sea Dragons, Weedy Sea Dragons are also government protected, and subject to strict export controls.
Though they are similar in appearance to sea horses, Weedy Sea Dragons do not have prehensile (gripping) tails, but rather appear to use them for steering.
The beautiful colors of this sea dragon are highlighted by the iridescent blue bands along the upper body.
www.divegallery.com /Weedy_Sea_Dragon.htm   (130 words)

  
 The dragon of the sea & the space shuttle-diabetes connection
The dragon of the sea and incidence of diabetes
Electric metals give power to the beast, as the dragons radiation gives power to the electric metals which the people consume, and wear upon their bodies.
The dragon feeds with the beast, but even when we are free from the electric beast, and the dragon, we must remember that the electric metals bring illness by their own wicked strength.
www.thetemple.cc /story/dragon_diabetes_study.htm   (499 words)

  
 7/3/02: CD Reviews Green Dragon and The Sea Hawk
Green Dragon is one of those elegant, delicate films whose dramatic tension arises from constrained emotion.
Although the composers, who are brothers, are both veterans in the world of film composition, their collaborations are quite rare, and their score for Green Dragon is a treat for the ears.
The story, which concerns the lives of Vietnamese refugees in American camps in the mid-1970s, is all about being a stranger in a strange land; the film, itself a collaboration between brothers Tony and Timothy Linh Bui, is derived at least in part from their mother's stories of her arrival in the United States.
www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2002/03_Jul---CD_Reviews_Green_Dragon_and_The_Sea_Hawk.asp   (730 words)

  
 MH-53E Sea Dragon Helicopter
The Sea Dragon is, in fact, the largest and most powerful aircraft put into production outside the former Soviet Union, only being surpassed in size by the Mil Mi-6 Hook and Mil Mi-26 Halo.
The Sea Dragon is equipped with a fuel dump system, a rescue hoist, and dual external rearview mirrors.
The Sea Dragon has a tow boom, approach/hover coupler, tow coupler, precise navigation system, and provisions for mine hunting and mine sweeping.
members.aol.com /mh53e   (417 words)

  
 USS Mansfield DD-728 Operation Sea Dragon
While at first restricted to coastal waters south of 17 31'N, by February 1967 the Sea Dragon force was authorized to operate as far north as the 20th parallel.
She also spent periods of duty on Operation Sea Dragon, employed in the destruction of enemy waterborne logistics craft off the coast of North Vietnam and on numerous occasions was engaged in
Although Sea Dragon failed to stem the flow of men and supplies south, it forced the Communists to divert much of their logistics support to less efficient land routes, primarily the Ho Chi Mihn trail.
web.meganet.net /kman/nfseadrg.htm   (3308 words)

  
 Scuba Diving in Thailand - About Us
in 1993, Sea Dragon was the first Dive Center in Khao Lak.
Sea Dragon is a PADI 5 STAR IDC DIVE CENTER - a member of the world’s largest diver training agency.
Sea Dragon is officially registered with the TAT (Tourist Authority of Thailand) operators license no: 33/0608 and is a member of the DOCT (Dive Operators Club of Thailand).
www.seadragondivecenter.com /about.htm   (643 words)

  
 business trip to Vietnam
Halong means "where the dragon descends into the sea", in reference to the bay’s legendary origins.
According to an ancient tale, Halong Bay was formed by a dragon, which descended from the northern mountains.
When the dragon sank into the sea, water flowed into these valleys, leaving thousands of steep peaks.
www.business-in-vietnam.com /halong.html   (110 words)

  
 Chartering the Sea Dragon
From there, you walk to the edge for a six foot (2m) jump into the water or descend a short ladder to the dive platform on the back of the boat from which any standard pool-side water entry is easy.
A: The Sea Dragon pioneered the use of "flopper stoppers", a stabilizing system that provides a remarkably smooth ride.
A: Optional deep sea fishing with hook and line is available between dive sites on the ocean side of the cays, particularly in spring.
www.seadragonbahamas.com /faq.html   (1195 words)

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