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Encyclopedia > Dragon (disambiguation)
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Dragons are large and powerful mythological creatures that appears throughout the world's cultures. The term also identifies any of a number of large lizards. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... It has been suggested that European dragon be merged into this article or section. ...


Mythological dragons

Japanese name Kanji: Hiragana: Korean name Hangul: Hanja: Thai name Thai: Vietnamese name Quoc Ngu: Han Tu: The Chinese dragon is a mythical Chinese creature that also appears in other East Asian cultures, and is also sometimes called the Oriental (or Eastern) dragon. ... Chuvash dragons differ from their Turkic counterparts (such as Zilant), as they are supposed to reflect the pre-Islamic mythology of Volga Bulgaria. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dragon. ... Japanese Dragon water fountain in Fujiyoshida. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it more accessible to a general audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Dobrynya Nikitich slaying Zmey Gorynych, by Ivan Bilibin Dobrynya Nikitch rescues Princess Zabava from Zmey Gorynych, by Ivan Bilibin In Slavic mythology, European dragons have their peculiarities. ...

Animals

Binomial name Ouwens, 1912 Komodo dragon distribution The Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo Monitor[1], Komodo Island Monitor[1], Ora (to the natives of Komodo[2]), or simply Komodo, is the largest living species of lizard, growing to an average length of 2-3 metres (approximately... Species Pogona barbata Pogona henrylawsoni Pogona microlepidota Pogona minima Pogona minor Pogona mitchelli Pogona nullarbor Pogona vitticeps Bearded Dragon is the common name for any agamid lizard in the genus Pogona. ... Binomial name Physignathus lesueurii Gray, 1831 Subspecies Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii Physignathus lesueurii howitti The Australian Water Dragon, Physignathus lesueurii, is an arboreal agamid species native to Eastern Australia from Victoria north to Queensland, there is also a small population in the South-East coast of the State South Australia. ... This article is about the insect. ... Classification of genus Ctenophorus Ctenophorus caudicinctus Ctenophorus clayi Ctenophorus cristatus Ctenophorus decresii Ctenophorus femoralis Ctenophorus fionni Ctenophorus fordi Ctenophorus gibba Ctenophorus isolepis Ctenophorus maculatus Ctenophorus maculosus Ctenophorus mckenziei Ctenophorus nuchalis Ctenophorus ornatus Ctenophorus pictus Ctenophorus reticulatus Ctenophorus rufescens Ctenophorus salinarum Ctenophorus scutulatus Ctenophorus tjantjalka Ctenophorus vadnappa Ctenophorus yinnietharra Categories: Agamas... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1766 Subspecies Linnaeus, 1766 Shaw, 1804 Delacour, 1949 The Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus, also known as the Dragonbird, is a large member of the Galliformes order. ... Classification of genus Amphibolurus Amphibolurus muricatus Amphibolurus nobbi Amphibolurus norrisi Categories: Agamas ... Classification of genus Caimanops Caimanops amphiboluroides Categories: Agamas ... Species in genus Chelosania This genus contains one species: Chelosania brunnea Gray, 1845 (Australian Chameleon Dragon, or Ring-tailed Dragon) Categories: Agamas ... Classification of genus Cryptagama Cryptagama aurita Categories: Agamas ... Classification of genus Ctenophorus Ctenophorus caudicinctus Ctenophorus clayi Ctenophorus cristatus Ctenophorus decresii Ctenophorus femoralis Ctenophorus fionni Ctenophorus fordi Ctenophorus gibba Ctenophorus isolepis Ctenophorus maculatus Ctenophorus maculosus Ctenophorus mckenziei Ctenophorus nuchalis Ctenophorus ornatus Ctenophorus pictus Ctenophorus reticulatus Ctenophorus rufescens Ctenophorus salinarum Ctenophorus scutulatus Ctenophorus tjantjalka Ctenophorus vadnappa Ctenophorus yinnietharra Categories: Agamas... Classification of genus Diporiphora Diporiphora albilabris Diporiphora arnhemica Diporiphora australis Diporiphora bennettii Diporiphora bilineata Diporiphora convergens Diporiphora lalliae Diporiphora linga Diporiphora magna Diporiphora margaretae Diporiphora pindan Diporiphora reginae Diporiphora superba Diporiphora valens Diporiphora winneckei Categories: Agamas ... Classification of genus Hypsilurus Hypsilurus auritus Hypsilurus binotatus Hypsilurus boydii Hypsilurus bruijnii Hypsilurus dilophus Hypsilurus geelvinkianus Hypsilurus godeffroyi Hypsilurus modestus Hypsilurus nigrigularis Hypsilurus papuensis Hypsilurus schoedei Hypsilurus schultzewestrumi Hypsilurus spinipes Categories: Agamas ... Classification of genus Lophognathus Lophognathus gilberti Lophognathus longirostris Lophognathus maculilabris Lophognathus temporalis Categories: Agamas ... Categories: Animal stubs | Agamas ... Species Pogona barbata Pogona henrylawsoni Pogona microlepidota Pogona minima Pogona minor Pogona nullarbor Pogona vitticeps Categories: Stub | Agamas ... Classification of genus Tympanocryptis Tympanocryptis cephalus Tympanocryptis intima Tympanocryptis lineata Tympanocryptis parviceps Tympanocryptis tetraporophora Tympanocryptis uniformis Categories: Agamas ...

Plants

  • Dragon Spruce (Picea asperata), a medium-sized evergreen tree
  • Dracaena (plant), a genus known as dragon trees
  • Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), a small annual flowering plant
  • Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus), a perennial herb sometimes known as dragon

Binomial name Mast. ... Species See text. ... Species This list is currently incomplete Section Antirrhinum Antirrhinum australe Antirrhinum barrelieri Antirrhinum boissieri Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii Antirrhinum charidemi Antirrhinum graniticum Antirrhinum grosii Antirrhinum hispanicum Antirrhinum latifolium Antirrhinum lopesianum Antirrhinum majus Antirrhinum meonanthum Antirrhinum microphyllum Antirrhinum molle Antirrhinum onubensis Antirrhinum pertegasii Antirrhinum pulverulentum Antirrhinum rupestre Antirrhinum sempervirens Antirrhinum siculum Antirrhinum... This article is about the herb; for the Freedom Call CD see Taragon. ...

Culture & arts

A Chinese dragon The Dragon ( 龍 ) is the only mythical creature in the Chinese zodiac. ... Dragon was the name of a popular New Zealand rock band, led by lead singer Marc Hunter and his brother Todd Hunter. ... Dragon is Jake Shimabukuros fourth solo album. ... Dragon is an action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler. ... Dragon is the eighth book in Steven Brusts Vlad Taltos series, published in 1998 by Tor Books. ... Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a highly fictionalized biographical film about Bruce Lee. ... Lifes Too Good, released in April 1988, was the first album by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes, which brought fame to lead vocalist Björk. ... The Last Dragon, known as Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real in the United States, is a docudrama made by Animal Planet that is described as the story of the natural history of the most extraordinary creature that never existed. It posits the theoretical evolution of dragons from the Cretaceous period... Dragon Records is a Swedish Jazz Record label which was founded by the journalist Lars Westin (born 15 October 1948) in 1975. ...

Games

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Mahjong dragon tiles

Image File history File links A mahjong tile. ... Image File history File links A mahjong tile. ... Image File history File links A mahjong tile. ... The cover of the 300th issue Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products. ... Fanciful image of a dragon playing Snap-dragon, from Robert Chambers Book of Days (1879) Snap-dragon (also known as Flap-dragon, Snapdragon, or Flapdragon) was an English parlour game popular from about the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. ... Billy and Jimmy Lee, the protagonists of the Double Dragon series. ... Dragon Quest logo Dragon Quest ), published as Dragon Warrior in North America until the 2005 release of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, is a series of role-playing games produced by Enix (now Square Enix). ... Dragonquest is a novel written by Anne McCaffrey and is part of her Dragonriders of Pern series. ... In chess, one of the main variations of the Sicilian Defense, the Dragon variation begins 1. ... Mahjong tiles are tiles of Chinese origin that are used to play many games, most notably Mahjong and Mahjong Solitaire. ... Perfect Dark is a 2000 first-person shooter video game for the Nintendo 64 game console. ... DragonFable (DF) is a free online browser-based single-player role-playing video game developed by Artix Entertainment. ... Pokémon logo This article deals with the video games. ... Type Chart Pokémon types represent the strengths and weaknesses of different Pokémon. ...

Sport

A Dragon boat (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a very long and narrow human powered boat used in the team paddling sport or Dragon boat racing which originated in China. ... Former Olympic Class The Dragon is a keelboat designed by Johan Anker in 1929. ... The Newport Gwent Dragons (Welsh: Dreigiau Gwent Casnewydd) are a Rugby Union team from Wales. ... The Saint George Dragons was a team in the National Rugby League competition in Australia. ... The St. ... The San Francisco Dragons are a lacrosse team based in San Francisco, California. ... First international England 30 - 0 Wales (19 February 1881) Largest win Japan 0 - 98 Wales (26 November 2004) Worst defeat South Africa 96 - 13 Wales (27 June 1998) World Cup Appearances 5 (First in 1987) Best result Third 1987 The Wales national rugby union team (also referred to as the... The Drexel Dragons are the athletic teams of Drexel University. ... The Welcoat Dragons is a team in the Philippine Basketball Association for the 2006-07 PBA season. ... The Chunichi Dragons have won the Central League pennant seven times (including 2006), and won the Japan Series in 1954. ... The Dublin Dragons are an American Football team from Dublin, Ireland who play in the Irish American Football League and play their home games out of Lucan Community College // The Dublin Dragons were formed 3rd Jan 2000 in a pub on the southside of Dublin city by John Durrad & Alan... Dublin city centre at night WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ...

Vehicles

The Dragon is a two-stage French solid propellant sounding rocket used for high altitude research. ... Several Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Dragon The 4th Rate Dragon, in 1674, had a lieutenant called John Tyrrell, who had been appointed by King Charles II of England. ... The SpaceX Dragon is a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule spacecraft, capable of carrying 7 people or a mixture of personnel and cargo, to and from low Earth orbit. ... The B-23 Dragon was a twin-engined aeroplane developed by Douglas Aircraft Company as a successor to (and a refinement of) the B-18 Bolo. ... The de Havilland Dragon was a commericial aircraft designed and built by the de Havilland company. ... The de Havilland DH 89 Dragon Rapide was a successful British short-haul passenger airliner of the 1930s. ... KMBs Dennis Dragon 12m with Alexander body and 2 doors. ... Iron Duke class engines waiting scrapping The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work. ... The ten Buffalo class locomotives were 0-6-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway, Cornwall Railway and West Cornwall Railway. ... Iron Duke class engines waiting scrapping The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work. ...

Mathematics and computing

A dragon curve is the generic name for any member of a family of self similar fractal curves, which can be approximated by recursive methods such as Lindenmayer systems. ... The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 were home computers built in the 1980s. ... Dragon is a stream cipher developed by Ed Dawson, Kevin Chen, Matt Henricksen, William Millan, Leonie Simpson, HoonJae Leem, and SangJae Moon. ... DragonDictate was the original speech recognition application from Dragon Systems and uses discrete speech where you - pause - between - each - word - that - you - say. Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows continuous speech recognition. ... For the purpose of brevity just the name NaturallySpeaking Dragon NaturallySpeaking is the market leader for desktop speech recognition software. ...

Companies and institutions

  • The Dragon Academy, a small, private high school in Toronto, Ontario
  • Dragon Automobile Company, a defunct American automobile manufacturer
  • Dragon Models Limited, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer of plastic model kits and military figures
  • Dragon Models USA, their American branch
  • Dragon School, a renowned British preparatory school in Oxford, named after their rugby team, "The Dragons"

The Dragon Academy is a small co-ed private school in the historic Annex district of downtown Toronto. ... Detroit & Philadelphia — (1906-1908) — The Dragon Automobile Company hired an excellent engineer to design its automobile: Leo Melanowski, who had apprenticed with the Otto Gas Engine Company in Vienna, worked for Panhard-Levassor and Clement-Bayard in France and Waltham in the United States and had been manufacturing foreman for... Dragon Model Limited (DML for short) is a Hong Kong based manufacturer of plastic model kits and military figures. ... Dragon Models Limited (Dragon or DML for short) is a Hong Kong based manufacturer of plastic model kits and military figure. ... Dragon School logo School House at the Dragon School, on Bardwell Road. ...

People

Vlad II (also known as Dracul or The Dragon) (c. ... Vlad III the Impaler ( IPA: in common Romanian reference; also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad Drăculea and Kazıklı Bey in Turkish; November or December, 1431 – December 1476) was Prince (voivode) of Wallachia, a former polity which is now part of Romania. ... Justin Dragon (born 1976) is a pornographic actor (porn star) from the United States. ...

Fictional dragons

See also List of fictional dragons.
  • Dragon (Middle-earth), featured J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth
  • Dragon (Wheel of Time), featured in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series
  • Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons), featured in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game
  • Dragons (Dragon Prince), featured in Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series
  • Dragons (Pern), featured in Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern series
  • Dragon (Shrek), featured in the Shrek film series
  • Krayt dragon, a large carnivorous reptile native to Tatooine in the Star Wars universe
  • Luckdragon, featured in Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story
  • Monkey D. Dragon, a fictional character in the anime and manga One Piece
  • Savage Dragon, or simply "the Dragon", a fictional Image Comics superhero
  • Swamp dragon (Draco vulgaris), featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with dragons in literature and fiction. ... J. R. R. Tolkiens universe of Middle-earth features dragons closely based on those of European legend. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Draconomicon image of the Chromatic and Metallic Dragons In modern fantasy fiction, dragons are often depicted as having many different races, each usually based on a particular color of their scales or an affinity with an element; much of this originated in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game... The Dragons of Dragon Prince are mythical beasts that inhabit the fictional world of Melanie Rawns Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies. ... The Dragons of Pern are a fictional race created by Anne McCaffrey as an integral part of the science fiction world depicted in her Dragonriders of Pern novels. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A krayt dragon is a fictional creature native to Tatooine, a planet in the Star Wars universe. ... Atreyu rides Falkor the Luckdragon over Fantastica in the first film adaptation Luckdragons (Glücksdrachen) are a fictional dragon species featured in Michael Endes novel The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte). Only one luckdragon by the name of Fuchur (Falkor in English translations) appears in the book (although five... Spoiler warning: Monkey D. Dragon ) is a fictional character from the anime and manga series One Piece. ... The Savage Dragon, often called simply “the Dragon,” is an Image Comics superhero. ... Swamp dragons (draco vulgaris) are fictitious creatures from Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels. ...

Other uses

Draco (IPA: , Latin: ) is a far northern constellation that is circumpolar for many northern hemisphere observers. ... Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas Overall Length: 1,154 mm (45. ...

See also


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Dragon 32/64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (778 words)
In terms of raw computational power, the Dragon beat most of its contemporary rivals (which were based on the older MOS Technology 6502 and Zilog Z80) but this made little difference in a market where graphical capabilities and software library were much more important to consumers.
A broad range of peripherals existed for the Dragon 32/64, and on top of this there were add-ons such as the Dragon's Claw which gave the Dragons access to the BBC Micro's large range of accessories (a particularly important factor in the UK home market).
A minor difference between the two Dragon models was the outer case color; the Dragon 32 was beige and the 64 was light grey.
Dragon - Simple English Wikipedia (303 words)
Because dragons can look as dinosaurs and other extinct (not living any more) animals of millions of years ago, it is easy to have the idea that those animals have been an example for the dragons as they are created in the history of mankind.
In the ancient China a dragon was a symbol of the emperor.
Unlike dragons of European legend, the Chinese dragon was considered a symbol of luck.
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