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  2. Lurchi - Wikipedia

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    Lurchi is the advertising comic character of the German Salamander shoe factories. He is a fire salamander. His adventures are told (in German) in small booklets titled Lurchis Abenteuer (Lurchi's adventures). They are targeted mainly at primary schoolers, written in calligraphic handwriting in simple rhyming couplets.

  3. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    Ará tinga means "bright bird" or "bright parrot". [24] Araucariaceae and Araucaria: conifer: Mapudungun via Spanish: Named for the Spanish exonym Araucano ("from Arauco"), ultimately from Mapudungun rag ko ("clayey water"). [25] [26] Arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza) umbellifer: Quechua: The common and generic names derive from raqacha, via ...

  4. List of avian humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...

  5. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  6. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Falkor (named Fujur in the Spanish version; the lead author is Spanish), The Neverending Story "From Fujur, the dog-dragon in the novel The Neverending Story by M. Ende + Greek phyes, the commonly used suffix in names of Allomalorhagid genera. The name adds to the list of kinorhynch (mud dragons) species named after dragons and also refers to ...

  7. This bird species was extinct in Europe. Now it's back, and ...

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    The migratory birds were also considered a delicacy, and the bird, known as the Waldrapp in German, disappeared from Europe, though a few colonies elsewhere survived.

  8. Cultural depictions of salamanders - Wikipedia

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    A later alchemical text, the Book of Lambspring (Das Buch Lambspring, 1556), depicts a salamander as a white bird, being kept in fire by a man with a polearm. The text in German states the salamander while in fire exhibits an excellent color hue, while the Latin inscription connects this to the philosopher's stone (lapidis philosophorum). [96]

  9. Watch Amber Heard Speak Fluent Spanish About Moving to ... - AOL

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    Amber Heard recently gave what's believed to be her first interview since moving to Europe, and she did so speaking flawlessly in Spanish.In video recorded last month by Univision's popular talk ...