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Dragon Facts Images I found:

Image from page 146 of “Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints” (1902)
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Identifier: cu31924020507939
Title: Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D’Anvers, N., d. 1933
Subjects: Saints Saints Christian art and symbolism Painting
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image:
legend of St. Catherine ashis leading motive in the beautiful window in ChristchurchCathedral, Oxford, in memory of Edith Liddell, who died fivedays after her betrothal. The martyred maiden wearing hercrown occupies the central light, having on one side an angel,wit;h a flaming wheel at her feet, typical of suffering patientlyborne, and on the other, an angel typical of Divine deliverancefrom pain, crushing the wheel and extinguishing the flames;In the lower lights are represented the Dispute with thePhilosophers, the Dream in which the Blessed Virgin leadsthe maiden into the presence of Christ, and the Burial of themartyr by angels. In the choir of the same church is aquaint figure of very early date of St. Catherine, holding theremains of a sword in one hand, and a piece of a wheel in theother; and in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral is afine modern statue of the martyr treading on a dragon, andholding her sword and wheel. In England the f^te-day of St. Catherine, November 25,

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ST. EUPHEMIA 97 was long kept as a public holiday, and passages from her Acts used to be read in all Roman Catholic churches. Thereare, perhaps, more churches and chapels dedicated to her in theBritish Isles than to any other Saint, and her name has beengiven to many features of natural scenery, especially in theSouth of England. Near to Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight,alone are St. Catherines Point, St. Catherines Beacon, andSt. Catherines Downs; and a mile from Christchurch, Hants,is St. Catherines Hill. The Catherine Wheel was long afavourite sign with inn-keepers, although after the Reforma-tion, an attempt was made by Protestants to change it intothe Cat and Wheel. In fact, the romantic story of the moreor less apocryphal maiden has taken a remarkably stronghold on the popular imagination, and even in some EngHshchurches dedicated to St. Catherine, a banner bearing hereffigy leaning on her wheel is carried round in procession onthe great feast-days, although her example was scarcel

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The CRS8 Falcon9 returns to Cape Canaveral
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Image by Michael Seeley
As of 11pm on Monday night (April 11), no one knew for sure when the #SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” carrying the #CRS8 #Falcon9 would arrive in port. Forums, Twitter, the SpaceX reddit page and Facebook were all full of theories that predicted arrivals as early as midnight and as late as mid-day Tuesday (April 12).

I arrived at Jetty Park at around 11:45pm and found a small group of people already assembled, including ever-talented (and always entertaining) colleagues Julian Leek, Jeff Seibert and Lane Hermann. It was a lovely night, so I set up a camera looking east down the channel and started shooting star trails. Someone had a marine band radio and at around 12:15am we heard the news we were all eagerly awaiting: the captain of the tugboat Elsbeth III told the port pilot boat that they expected to be at “the dogleg” at around 1:30am, after some personnel loading and unloading – this detail started the rumor that Elon Musk himself was being ferried out to the drone ship to inspect the rocket. (As best I know, Elon was not present.)

The tugboat captain also declared via radio that it was “the prettiest night in the history of the world”. While perhaps not the prettiest ever (in the history of the world), it was most certainly a great night to be standing under the stars, waiting for the first stage of a Falcon9 rocket to come home.

About this image: I started the time lapse at 1:02am and let it run until 1:49am. My settings through most of the lapse were ISO400, f4 with an exposure time of 30 seconds. The whole thing is shot through an EF17-40L lens, set to 17mm.

At this point I should also explain that there was one report on Reddit that the Falcon9 was lit, but we weren’t really sure if that was in fact true. (Everything you read on the interwebs, on Reddit in particular, that’s of course all true, right?) As we waited, Julian tested a flash that was so bright Jeff insisted Julian needed to shout “clear” before firing it. We also lined up our cars so they were facing the water so that if the rocket weren’t lit, we’d all turn on our headlights and hope that we could light the rocket.

So imagine our delight when, behind the buildings to the right of the frame (and east of us, toward the pier), we began to just make out the top of the rocket, creeping closer…and it was lit.

As the “OCISLY” carrying the Falcon9 entered the channel, I adjusted the settings to ISO1000 and an exposure of 6 seconds for the last frames in order to bring out just a bit of detail in the rocket – that’s the staggered white line curving around the entrance to the channel. I included one more frame, taken 2 minutes after I stopped the lapse (at 1:47am), to show the lit Falcon9 separate from the streak it created as it moved into the channel. The purple lights are from the tugboat Elsbeth III, and the green and white lines are from the pilot’s boat leaving the channel and there was at least one more tugboat that exited the channel before the rocket entered the port.

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Image by wallstalking.org
Posted by:Tomo B.
Graffiti translation:Dragon in a cave
Taken on:18.10.2010
Place:
City:Postojna
Country:SLOVENIA
Comment:This is a nicely drawn graffiti of a dragon in a cave (assuming it is a Postojna cave). A book was written about a dragon who lived in a Postojna cave. Every local person knows these facts and the dragon is a sort of a simbol to them. Nowdays he lives in a form of a "human" fish who only lives in underground waters in Kras.
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