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  2. Symbolic chickens - Wikipedia

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    A rooster pictured in the coat of arms of Laitila, a town in Finland. Chickens have been widely used as national symbols, and as mascots for clubs, businesses, and other associations. The chicken is a national symbol of France and is used as an (unofficial) national mascot, in particular for sports teams. See also: Gallic rooster.

  3. National symbols of France - Wikipedia

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    She holds a fasces and is supported by a ship's tiller with a rooster printed on it. At her feet is a vase with the letters "SU" (Suffrage Universel', French for 'universal suffrage'). At her right, in the background, are symbols of the arts (painter's tools), architecture (Ionic order), education (burning lamp), agriculture (a sheaf of wheat ...

  4. Gallic rooster - Wikipedia

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    Gallic rooster on top of a war memorial in La Rochelle. The Gallic rooster (French: coq gaulois, pronounced [kɔk ɡolwa] ⓘ) is a national symbol of France as a nation, as opposed to Marianne representing France as a state and its values: the Republic. [citation needed] The rooster is also the symbol of the Wallonia region and the French ...

  5. List of chicken colours - Wikipedia

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    Blue Brassy Back Blue Light Brown Blue-red Brown Brown Red Sometimes called Gold Birchen. Coloured Coronation Cream Light Brown Dark brown Exchequer only in the Leghorn [4]: 187 Ginger Red Golden Neck Golden-necked mille fleur Gray Lemon Blue Light Brown Pyle Alternatively spelt Pile. Red Pyle Quail Salmon Silver Blue Silver Gray Splash Tolbunt

  6. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    The flag of Wallonia features a red rooster Rooster on the coat of arms of Tomilino (Moscow Oblast, Russia) Today, the Gallic rooster is an emblem of France. The rooster is also an emblem of Wallonia and the Turkish city of Denizli. Among Roman deities, Priapus was sometimes represented as a cock, with its beak as a phallus and its wattles as ...

  7. Chicken - Wikipedia

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    The red junglefowl is well adapted to take advantage of the vast quantities of seed produced during the end of the multi-decade bamboo seeding cycle, to boost its own reproduction. [53] In domesticating the chicken, humans took advantage of the red junglefowl's ability to reproduce prolifically when exposed to a surge in its food supply.

  8. If You See a Cardinal, Here's the True, Unexpected ... - AOL

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    2 Red Cardinals: Spiritual Meaning Life gets quite interesting when you are being visited by two red Cardinals. The spiritual meaning behind seeing two of them is that you should take a closer ...

  9. Army Medical Department regimental coat of arms - Wikipedia

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    The colors Argent (silver/white) and Gules (red) are those associated with the flag of the United States. The rooster is also associated with Asclepius/Aesculapius, the ancient Greek and Roman god of healing and medicine. The ancient Greeks believed that the rooster's crowing at dawn drove away the evil disease spreading demons from the temples ...