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Felis (Leo) melanochaita was a black-maned lion specimen from the Cape of Good Hope that was described by Ch. H. Smith in 1842. [3] [4] In the 19th century, naturalists and hunters recognised it as a distinct subspecies because of this dark mane colour. [1] In the 20th century, some authors supported this view of the Cape lion being a distinct ...
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Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
Archaeological work began on the entire city for the first time under this project. There was a sculpted lion's head above the legs and paws flanking the entrance, but the head collapsed years ago. Sigiriya consists of an ancient citadel built by King Kashyapa during the 5th century.
The site of The Black Lion Inn was occupied by Dolan's Hotel in the 1920s. Ambrose Leet's 1814 Directory spells the name as Black-lion. [11] Blacklion's urban growth was hampered until the mid nineteenth century by the nearby village of Red Lion, some miles to the west on the coach-road to Sligo.
Kirtimukha at Kasivisvesvara Temple at Lakkundi, Gadag district, Karnataka, India. Kirtimukha (Sanskrit: कीर्तिमुख , kīrtimukha, also kīrttimukha, a bahuvrihi compound translating to "glorious face") is the name of a swallowing fierce monster face with huge fangs, and gaping mouth, very common in the iconography of Hindu temple architecture in India and Southeast Asia, and ...
Black Lions, an Ethiopian anti-fascist resistance movement; Black Lions, nickname of 28th Infantry Regiment (United States) Operation Black Lion, 1972, in the Laotian Civil War Operation Black Lion III, 1972–1973; Operation Black Lion V, 1972–1973; Blacklions, nickname of VFA-213, an aviation unit of the U.S. Navy
The Black Lions were an anti-fascist resistance movement [1] formed to fight against Fascist Italy during the occupation of the Ethiopian Empire in World War II. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As Bahru Zewde notes, in spite of its "marginal impact on the Resistance" the Black Lions made "eloquent attempts to give the struggle coherent ideological and political ...