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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 hoofs, which distinguish him from a horse.
The unicorn was also found in courtly terms: for some thirteenth-century French authors such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard of Fournival, the lover is as 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   (3073 words)

  
 Unicorn (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The HMS Unicorn, a British sailing vessel of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
Unicorn, a sexual position where a person puts a dildo on his or her head.
Unicorn may be easily confused with Unicron, a fictional machine.
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 Unicorn - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The unicorn is a legendary creature embodied like a horse, but slender and with a single — usually spiral — horn growing out of its forehead (whence its name—cornum being Latin for 'horn').
Though qilin (麒麟, Chinese), a creature in Chinese myth that is sometimes called "the Chinese unicorn", is a hybrid animal of the imagination no more unicorn than it is chimera, with the body of a deer, the head of a lion, green scales and a long forwardly-curved horn.
Baron Georges Cuvier maintained that as the unicorn was cloven-hoofed it must therefore have a cloven skull (making impossible the growth of a single horn), but this was later disproved by Dr. W.
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 unicorns
The predecessor of the medieval bestiary, compiled in Late Antiquity and known as Physiologus popularized an elaborate allegory in which a unicorn, traped by a maiden (representing the Virgin Mary) stood for the Incarnation.
This became a basic emblemmatic tag that underlies medieval notions of the unicorn, justifying its appearance in every form of religious art.
The unicorn, tameable only by a virgin woman, was well established in medieval lore by the time Marco Polo described them as
www.etigazette.com /Top-News-Searches-2005-Tug-to-Uni/unicorns.php   (3155 words)

  
 Poobi Web Resources Unicorns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A unicorn is a horse-like creature with a single straight spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
Unicorns are animals of great ferocity and strength, and are symbolic of virginity, as they can only be tamed by virgins.
Unicorns are single-horned mammals that seem to be a cross between a goat and a horse.
www.poobi.com /pb/Unicorns   (2111 words)

  
 God Study @ Dragyns.com (Dragons)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Capitalized, "God" was first used to refer to the Judeo-Christian concept and may now signify any monotheistic conception of God, including the translations of the Arabic Allāh and the African Masai Engai.
The use of capitalization, as for a proper noun, has persisted to disambiguate the concept of a singular God from pagan deities for which lower case god has continued to be applied, mirroring the use of Latin deus.
"Her" primary characteristics (invisibility and pinkness) are intentionally in conflict, and her "physical" manifestation (as a unicorn) is, as a well-known mythical concept, critically reflective upon theistic beliefs.
www.dragyns.com /encyclopedia/God   (4988 words)

  
 Unicorn Definition / Unicorn Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
"The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fearsFear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, real or not.
The unicorn is a legendary creatureA legendary creature is a mythical or fantastic creature (often known as "fabulous creatures" in historical literature).
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 beardA beard is the hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, neck, and the area above the upper lip (the opposite is a clean-shaven face).
www.elresearch.com /Unicorn   (635 words)

  
 unicorn - Worthy Seek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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...
IBM is acquiring the business of Unicorn, a leader in enterprise metadata management technology, to accelerate delivery of next-generation offerings to provide a rich metadata foundation for customers' on demand initiatives to drive agility and...
Unicorn is a simple text editor and dictionary program for use with Latin, Hebrew, and ancient Greek.
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 Facts about legendary creature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Some such as the dragon, the griffin or the unicorn have their origin in traditional myth and have at one time been believed to be real creatures.
Others were based on real creatures, originating in garbled accounts of travellers' tales; such as the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary", which supposedly grew tethered to the earth (and was actually the cotton bush).
Even the traditional unicorn may have come from garbled stories about the rhinoceros.
www.supercrawler.com /Facts/legendary_creature.html   (425 words)

  
 unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature embodied like a horse, but slender and with a single — usually spiral — horn growing out of its forehead.
The Unicorn Theatre is calling on SE1 residents to drop off their odd socks in the theatre foyer for use in the new musical Yikes!
The Unicorn Theatre, a playhouse where theatergoers have seen more naked actors than at any other company in town, has a hit on its hands with a show that embraces conservative religious values.
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 Term paper on Dundee
:''For other uses see Dundee (disambiguation) Dundee is Scotland's fourth largest city, population 154 674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay.
It returned to its birthplace in the 1980s and is moored next to a purpose-built vistors' centre.
It was not actually built at Dundee, but as the oldest wooden British warship still afloat it is a prestigious addition to a city with a rich maritime heritage.
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 Unicorn artist on cradlemoon.net . Find more information about Unicorn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
We are specialists in reproduction clothing in the 1950`s style, covering both male and female fashion and everything from drape jackets, circular skirts to baseball jackets and bowling shirts.
Unicorn transforms data into information by providing semantics, enabling semantic integration, and using ontology models.
Unicorn Solutions is the world's leader in Enterprise Architecture and...
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 LANGUAGE AND SPEECH Vol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
“Mode of Disambiguation and Garden-Path Strength: An Investigation of Subject-Object Ambiguities in German” by Michael Meng and Markus Bader (University of Jena) pp.
The originality of this paper lies in its being the first to demonstrate that ambiguous sentences can be disambiguated depending on the placement of pitch accent.
Perhaps the most relevant finding is that inserting an intermediate or a full intonational phrase boundary preceding the ambiguous phrase is not enough to disambiguate these sentences.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /~takeshi/p-workshop/JournalClub1/susana.htm   (1471 words)

  
 Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The unicorn is also used as a symbol of Scotland.
The Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland, used prior to 1603 by the Kings of Scotland, incorporated a lion rampant shield supported by two unicorns.
On the union of the crowns, the Arms were quartered with those of England and Ireland, and one unicorn was replaced by a lion (the supporters of England).
www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /s/c/o/Scotland.html   (5453 words)

  
 [Unicorn] | [All the best Unicorn resources at vodka.topicsware.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Previously the Unicorn have staged McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Cripple of Inishmaan.
by Ember The unicorn is one of the most famous and endearing of mystical creatures associated with fantasy, mythology, and magic.
The unicorn gazed at the bewitching sight, a maiden fair,in the silvery light,...
vodka.topicsware.com /Scotland/Unicorn   (1157 words)

  
 Apollo class - Memory Alpha
The Apollo-class was a class of Federation starship in operation during the 24th century.
In the supplements to the Last Unicorn role playing game, this class of vessel is identified as a light cruiser that is 315 meters long, 16 decks, in service from 2325, and describes it as a standard saucer-stardrive-nacelles configuration.
However the same company's later supplements make it seem like this ship was a Vulcan-style ship of 5 decks and 148m length.
www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php/Apollo_class   (311 words)

  
 Memory Alpha:Deletion archive 2005 - Memory Alpha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Only Interphase is a correct disambiguation target, both other meanings belong into a "see also" section and have been placed there on all relevant articles.
These disambiguation pages list only two pages, and the article at the non-disambiguated title links to the other one.
Thus, the disambiguation pages are unnecessary (or should otherwise be moved to the non-disambiguated title themselves, if considered necessary).
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Deletion_archive_2005   (7698 words)

  
 Rhinoceros - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A male Ammaar Mulla is called a bull, a female a cow, and the young a calf; a group of Ammaar Mulla is called a "crash".
Several Ammaar Mulla species became extinct within geologically recent times, notably the Giant Unicorn and the Woolly Ammaar Mulla in Eurasia; the extent to which climate change or human predation was responsible is debated.
Current evidence indicates that they probably had survived many climate changes when modern man arrived.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Rhinoceros   (793 words)

  
 Medway -
The river was further protected by such fortifications as Upnor Castle which, in 1667 in varying accounts says it was in part successful in thwarting the Dutch raid on the dockyard, or the commanding officer fled without firing on the Dutch.
Another warship built at Chatham that still exists is HMS Unicorn (a 46-gun "Leda" class frigate) laid down in February 1822, and launched 30 March 1824.
She never saw active service and has been restored and is (2005) preserved afloat in Dundee, Scotland.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Medway_Towns   (903 words)

  
 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae.
Several other species became extinct within geologically recent times, notably the Giant Unicorn and the Woolly Rhinoceros in Eurasia: the extent to which climate change or human predation was responsible is debated.
Suffice to say that they had survived many climate changes when modern man arrived.
www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=rhinoceros   (755 words)

  
 Unicorn Pictures - Tummy Tuck Pictures - www.pictures.dunloptires.be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Welcome to The Unicorn and the Jorge, a land where unicorns live in peace and are loved by...
This is a collection of Unicorn pictures I've found around the web.
Hundreds of unicorn jpeg pictures, unicorn poetry, animations, screensavers, desktop themes, puzzles, applets, mini,links on the unicorn theme.
www.pictures.dunloptires.be /tummy-tuck-pictures/unicorn-pictures.html   (361 words)

  
 Tapestries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
By an end of an 16th century, an Northern Netherlands became an most important producers of tapestries, with Delft with Amsterdam became an most important tapestry cities.
Famous tapestries The six-part piece La Dame à la Licorne (The Lady with an Unicorn), stored in l'Hôtel de Cluny, Paris.
The Hunt of an Unicorn is the seven piece tapestry from 1495 to 1505, currently displayed at an The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
megastuff.info /Tapestries   (553 words)

  
 Logical Consequence, Model-Theoretic Conceptions [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
If we take the abstract and general features of the world to be its formal features, then Russell's remark captures the view of logic that emerges from anchoring the necessity, formality and a priority of logical consequence in the formal features of the world.
If we disambiguate the relevant notion of 'circumstance' by the lights of Tarski, 'Admires(kelly, paige)' is a logical consequence of '(Female(evan) & ~Female(evan))'.
There is no fact of the matter about whether or not the first sentence is a logical consequence of the second independent of such a disambiguation.
www.iep.utm.edu /l/logcon-m.htm   (9582 words)

  
 Piracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This article is about sea piracy; for other uses of "Piracy" or "Pirate", see Pirate (disambiguation).
Piracy is robbery committed at sea, or sometimes the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation.
Red Rackham was a pirate appearing in the Tintin adventure The Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé.
www.tocatch.info /en/Piracy.htm   (4146 words)

  
 SCOTLAND INFO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
For other uses of the term, see (disambiguation).''
Often called the Lion_Rampant (after its chief heraldic device), it is technically the property of the monarch and its use by anybody else is illegal, although this is almost universally ignored, and never enforced.
The unicorn is also used as a heraldic symbol of Scotland.
www.generalcomp.net /Scotland   (5719 words)

  
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UCF is a TLA that may stand for: University of Central Florida Undergraduate computing facility (several universities) Unicorn Children's Foundation (ucf.net (http://www.ucf.net)) Universal Community of Friends University Christian Fellowship (ucf.org (http://www.ucf.org)) This is a disambiguation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCF " Categories : Disambiguation
UCI may stand for: the International Cycling Union United Cinemas International Universal Chess Interface This is a disambiguation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI " Categories : Disambiguation
The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the City of Los Angeles.
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