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A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
The Vietnamese dragon is the combined image of crocodile, snake, cat, rat and bird. Historically, the Vietnamese people lived near rivers, so they venerated crocodiles as "thuồng luồng" or "Giao Long", the first kind of Vietnamese dragon. There are some kinds of dragons found on archaeological objects.
This is a list of lists of dragons . List of dragons in mythology and folklore. Dragons in Greek mythology. Germanic dragon. Slavic dragon. European dragon. Chinese dragon. Japanese dragon. Korean dragon.
Akira Toriyama (Japanese: 鳥山明, Hepburn: Toriyama Akira, April 5, 1955 – March 1, 2024) was a Japanese manga artist and character designer.He first achieved mainstream recognition for creating the popular manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his most famous work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series ...
Wings of Fire (novel series) Wings of Fire. (novel series) Wings of Fire is a series of epic dragon fantasy novels written by author Tui T. Sutherland and published by Scholastic Inc. [1] Over 14 million copies of the books have been sold, and it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 214 weeks.
History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.
Sparky the Dragon is a large bipedal dragon mascot for the New York Islanders. He had served as the mascot for the New York Dragons Arena Football team until the team's 2009 demise. What made him unique was the fact that he wore two sets of colors, depending on the team he rooted for.
32 (unpaginated) ISBN. 9781407115597. OCLC. 972513647. Zog (rendered on the cover and title page as ZOG) is a 2010 children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, about a young accident-prone dragon, named Zog, who wants to be the best student in dragon school.