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A two-winged wheel on a Deutsche Bahn (German railways) building in Dresden. A winged wheel or flying wheel is a symbol used on monuments by the ancient Greeks and Romans and more recently as a heraldic charge. The symbol is mostly formed with one or two wheels and one, two, or three wings—with one wheel and two wings being the most common form.
Other archeological finds represent the symbol of Yahweh as a winged disk. Other scholars have proposed that the seated figure may represent a syncretic deity influenced by both Eastern and Greek traditions. The falcon and seated posture are reminiscent of depictions of Zeus, while the winged wheel may reflect the Persian iconography of Ahura ...
William Cecil "Billy" Christmas (1899–1901), inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. Tom Paton (1885–1893), early goaltender with the club James E. Norris (1898), later went on to be very successful in the grain, sports, entertainment and transportation industries, and founder of the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL , and adapted ...
The Mercury dime is a ten-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from late 1916 to 1945. Designed by Adolph Weinman and also referred to as the Winged Liberty Head dime, it gained its common name because the obverse depiction of a young Liberty, identifiable by her winged Phrygian cap, was confused with the Roman god Mercury.
The only significant changes have been the replacement of the word Detroit with the "winged wheel" logo in 1932, and vertical arch lettering for the players' names and block letters in 1983. [258] The Red Wings wear the vertical arched letters in the regular season and playoffs, but use straight serifed nameplates during the preseason. [259] [260]
A color wheel for use with an aluminum Christmas tree, from the collection of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The aluminum Christmas tree was used as a symbol of the over-commercialization of Christmas in the 1965 Peanuts holiday special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. [4]
Everyone loves a good “Wheel of Fortune” fail and we’ve been gifted a great one this holiday season. During the Dec. 17 episode of the popular game show, a contestant named Phil McManus ...
The album contains six songs not featured on the special, including an alternate version of "Angels We Have Heard On High". The song "O Christmas Tree", as featured in the special, was excluded from the soundtrack. The special was released on the Hen's Tooth Video DVD Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Plus Halloween & Easter Celebrations in 2003.