Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Modern fan illustration by David Demaret of the dragon Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 high fantasy novel The Hobbit. This is a list of dragons in popular culture.Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially in the fantasy genre.
In U.S. culture, despite its republican constitution and ideology, [4] royalist honorific nicknames have been used to describe leading figures in various areas of activity, such as industry, commerce, sports, and the media; father or mother have been used for innovators, and royal titles such as king and queen for dominant figures in a field.
Pages in category "Dragons in popular culture" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Dragon king theory; The Dragon (poem) F. Fantasmic! G.
US BB 1 – Apr 1979, Switzerland 1 – May 1979, Australia 1 for 1 weeks May 1980, Canada 2 – Apr 1979, Sweden (alt) 2 – May 1979, Norway 2 – Jun 1979, France 3 – May 1979, Austria 3 – Jun 1979, US BB 4 of 1979, Scrobulate 5 of disco, Germany 6 – May 1979, POP 6 of 1979, UK 11 – May 1979, US CashBox 14 of 1979, Netherlands 14 ...
My Sharona" by The Knack (singer Doug Fieger pictured) was the number-one song of 1979. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1979. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 22, 1979.
Stephen King – The Dead Zone; Russell Kirk – The Princess of All Lands; Milan Kundera – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (first published in French as Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli) John le Carré – Smiley's People; Morgan Llywelyn – Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru; Robert Ludlum – The Matarese Circle
'Nezha fights the sea') is a 1979 Chinese animated fantasy film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, [3] listed under the English title Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King, and was released in the United Kingdom as Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings.
In Canada, "Rasputin" was the A-side and became a major hit, topping the Canadian RPM magazine's Adult Contemporary singles chart for two weeks beginning 24 March 1979, and peaking at No. 7 on RPM's Top 100 pop singles chart that same week. [15] [16] Despite the Canadian success, the song failed to chart in the United States.