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     Sectional roundup: Close games in Class 4A; small-school blowouts

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   Jan 4, 2023 · The Origin of Mythical Dragons. According to medieval legend, the town of Klagenfurt in Austria was founded on a marsh that was home to a Lindwurm, or wingless dragon. Those wanting to settle in the area had to first deal with the dragon before founding Klagenfurt. As is traditional with dragons, this one gobbled up anyone who tried to cross ...

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   Feb 10, 2024 · The oldest word for dragon? More than 4,000 years ago, a scribe in ancient Mesopotamia – the Middle Eastern region that is now part of Iraq – wrote a curious word on a clay tablet: "ušum-gal ...

5. www.livescience.com › 25559-dragonsDragons: A brief history of the mythical beasts | Live Science

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   Jan 18, 2022 · The most celebrated of these was St. George the Dragon Slayer, who in legend comes upon a town threatened by a terrible dragon, according to English Heritage. He rescues a fair maiden, protects ...

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   The Surprising History of Dragons. Picture a dragon. Chances are that what comes to mind is the leathery, vicious monster with big wings that dominates the Western imagination. From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, the dragon is a creature of medieval legends and fantasy epics: snarling, evil, and probably breathing fire.

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   Oct 3, 2022 · The first of Gessner’s sources to assert that, as a rule, dragons could fly was Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE). He described dragons as Earth’s largest animals, living in caves and emerging to spread their wings. While Augustine mentioned this in an exposition of a psalm, not a work of natural history, natural historians adopted his ...

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   What are the different types of Dragons?

   • Zoologist Karl Shuker describes a wide variety of dragons in his book " Dragons: A Natural History " (Simon & Schuster, 1995), including giant snakes, hydras, gargoyles and dragon-gods, and the more obscure variants such as basilisks, wyverns and cockatrices.

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   What is a mythical dragon?

   • By 1287, the city’s coat of arms shows the monster as having the head of a wolf, the body of a bird and the tail of a snake. Within a few centuries, it had grown legs, evolving into something we would recognize today as a typical flying, fire-breathing dragon. Read more: The Science Behind Mythical Dragons

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   Did Christians know Dragons existed in medieval times?

   • In medieval times, most people who heard anything about dragons knew them from the Bible, and it's likely that most Christians at the time believed in the literal existence of dragons. After all, Leviathan — the massive monster described in detail in the Book of Job, chapter 41 — sounds like a dragon:

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   What is the oldest recognizable image of a western dragon?

   • The oldest recognizable image of a fully modern, western dragon appears in a hand-painted illustration from the medieval manuscript MS Harley 3244, which was produced in around 1260 AD.

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10. www.amnh.org › dragons › natural-history-of-dragonsNatural History of Dragons | AMNH

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    Natural History of Dragons. Part of the Mythic Creatures exhibition. "For using dragon's bones, first cook odorous plants; bathe the bones twice in hot water, pound them to powder and put this in bags of gauze. Take a couple of young swallows and, after taking out their intestines and stomach, put the bags in the swallows and hang them over a well.

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    A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the ... The motif of a hero trying to sneak past a sleeping dragon and steal some of its treasure is common ...