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Roc (mythology)

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The Roc (from ruḵ) is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East. [1]

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Aaargh!

Aaargh! is an action video game released in 1987 in which the player controls a giant monster, either an ogre or a lizard, with the goal of crushing and destroying everything in its path across different lands and periods of history.

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Adventureland Bazaar

Adventureland Bazaar is the main entrance to Adventureland in Disneyland Paris, themed to the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

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Aepyornis

Aepyornis is a genus of aepyornithid, one of two genera of ratite birds endemic to Madagascar known as elephant birds.

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Age of Mythology: The Titans

Age of Mythology: The Titans is an expansion pack to the real-time strategy video game of Age of Mythology.

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Aladdin (1979 musical)

Aladdin is a musical written by Sandy Wilson for the newly-refurbished Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

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Aladdin (1992 Golden Films film)

Aladdin is a 49-minute animated film based on the classic Arabian Nights story, Aladdin and the magic lamp, translated by Antoine Galland.

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Arabian Knights

Arabian Knights is an animated segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures

is a 52 episode anime series directed by Fumio Kurokawa and produced by Nippon Animation which was first aired in 1975.

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Arabs

Arabs (عَرَب ISO 233, Arabic pronunciation) are a population inhabiting the Arab world.

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Atom Ant

Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965.

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Bar Juchne

Bar Juchne or Bar-Yuchnei is a colossal legendary bird from Jewish mythology which was believed to have a wingspan large enough to block out the sun.

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Baudolino

Baudolino is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco about the adventures of a man named Baudolino in the known and mythical Christian world of the 12th century.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Birds in culture

Birds have been a part of human culture, in the broad sense of social behaviour, customs and practices including but not limited to expressive forms such as art, music and religion, for thousands of years.

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Blackburn Roc

The Blackburn B-25 Roc was a British Second World War-era Fleet Air Arm fighter aircraft designed by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd.

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Blue Crow

Blue Jay (Gralha Azul) is a mythical giant bird from Southern Brazil that supposedly travels throughout the southern region of the country.

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Book of Imaginary Beings

Book of Imaginary Beings was written by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero and published in 1957 under the original Spanish title Manual de zoología fantástica.

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Challengers of the Unknown

The Challengers of the Unknown is a fictional group of adventurers appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

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Cimoliornis

Cimoliornis is a pterosaur genus containing the single species Cimoliornis diomedeus, meaning "long-winged bird of the chalk".

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Civic Center (Shenzhen)

Civic Center (Chinese:市民中心) is a government building Shenzhen, China.

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Danny Birt

Danny Birt is an American-born Music Therapist and Massage Therapist, but is more widely known as an award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy literary works, and as a composer and performer of filk and other music.

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Dire animal

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, dire animals are larger, tougher, meaner versions of regular animals.

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Djong (ship)

Djong (also called jong, jung, or junk) is a type of ancient sailing ship originates from Java.

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Elephant bird

Elephant birds are members of the extinct family Aepyornithidae.

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Faramarz Nama

Faramarz-nama (فرامرزنامه) is a Persian epic recounting the adventures of the hero Faramarz"FARĀMARZ-NĀMA" in Encyclopedia Iranica by Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh.

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Fågel Roc

Fågel Roc is a music collective founded in 2006.

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Fliegerstaffel 1

Fliegerstaffel 1 (No. 1 Squadron) was a professional military pilots squadron, therefore belonging to the Überwachungsgeschwader of the Swiss Air Force until its last service in 2003.

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Garrett P.I.

Garrett P.I. is a series of books by the author Glen Cook about Garrett, a freelance private investigator.

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Garuda

The Garuda is a legendary bird or bird-like creature in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain mythology.

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God of War (comics)

God of War is a six-issue American comic book limited series set in the Greek mythology era of the God of War universe.

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Grant Acedrex

Grant Acedrex is a medieval chess variant dating back to the time of King Alfonso X of Castile.

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Great auk

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

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Gustave Verbeek

Gustave Verbeek (August 29, 1867 – December 5, 1937) was a Dutch-American illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his newspaper cartoons in the early 1900s featuring an inventive use of word play and visual storytelling tricks.

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Haima Automobile

FAW Haima Automobile Co., Ltd., trading as Haima, is a Chinese automotive manufacturing company based in Haikou, Hainan and a subsidiary of FAW Group.

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Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus

Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus is a 1998 American animated action adventure direct-to-video film starring the voices of Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Michael Hurst, Renee O'Connor, Kevin Smith, and Alexandra Tydings, all reprising their roles from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.

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Hero System Bestiary

Hero System Bestiary is a compilation of creatures for use with Hero System role-playing game rules.

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Jean de l'Ours

Jean de l'Ours or John the Bear, John of the Bear, John-of-the-Bear, John Bear, is the leading character in the French folktale Jean de l'Ours classed as Type 301B in the Aarne-Thompson system; it can also denote any tale of this type.

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Junk (ship)

Junk is a type of ancient Chinese sailing ship that is still in use today.

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Kae and Longopoa

The story cycle around Kae and Sinilau is well known in Polynesian mythology, found in several places (see notes).

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Khutu

Khutu was the name given to a material used by medieval Islamic cutlers for knife handles.

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Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Legends of the coco de mer

Nut and tree of the coco de mer, a rare species of palm tree native to the Seychelles archipelago in the Indian Ocean, is subject of various legends and lore.

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List of Aladdin episodes

Aladdin is an animated television series made by Walt Disney Television Animation which aired from 1994 to 1995, based on the original 1992 feature film of the same name.

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List of English words of Arabic origin (N-S)

The following English words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English.

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List of English words of Persian origin

As Indo-European languages, English and Persian are daughter languages of their common ancestral Proto-Indo-European, and still share many cognate words of similar forms.

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List of Fablehaven's magical creatures

This is a list of magical creatures and beings in the fantasy book series Fablehaven and the sequel series Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull.

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List of flying mythological creatures

This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures.

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List of Galaxy Express 999 episodes

This is a list of episodes for the Japanese anime television series, Galaxy Express 999, which aired 113 episodes from 14 September 1978 to 26 March 1981.

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List of legendary creatures (R)

* Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place.

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List of legendary creatures by type

This is a list of legendary creatures from mythology, folklore and fairy tales, sorted by their classification or affiliation.

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Malagasy crowned eagle

The Malagasy crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery), also known as the Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle, was a large bird of prey, comparable in size to the African crowned eagle, that inhabited Madagascar until 1500 AD.

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Maneater (film series)

Maneater Series is the name, logo and line look given to a series of made-for-television natural horror films on DVD produced by RHI Entertainment for the Syfy Channel, and distributed by Vivendi Entertainment.

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Media about Yue Fei

Yue Fei, a Chinese general of the Song Dynasty remembered for his exploits in the Jin–Song wars, has appeared in various types of media; including black-and-white films, plays, games, wuxia novels, and folktales.

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Megafauna (mythology)

A giant animal in mythology is unusually large, either for their species or in relation to humans.

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Mon Colle Knights

Mon Colle Knights, known as in Japan, is an anime and manga series.

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Monster in My Pocket

Monster in My Pocket is a media franchise developed by American company Morrison Entertainment Group, headed by Joe Morrison and John Weems, two former senior executives at Mattel.

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Mount Qaf

Mount Qaf, also known as Qaf-Kuh, Cafcuh or Kafkuh, (قاف‌کوه Qâf-Kūh or کوهٔ قاف Kuh-e Qaaf; جبل قاف Jabal Qāf or Djebel Qaf) is a mountain in Middle Eastern mythology.

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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 8)

The eighth season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, developed by Lauren Faust, is currently airing on the Discovery Family channel in the United States.

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NRIST UAV

NRIST UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by (NRIST), also known as the 60th Research Institute of People's Liberation Army General Staff Department (总参六十所), an ISO 9001 ceritified research/production facility headquartered in Nanjing.

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Peng (mythology)

Peng or Dapeng (大鵬) is a giant bird that transforms from a Kun giant fish in Chinese mythology.

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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27, 1936 by Paramount Pictures.

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Roadkill (2011 film)

Roadkill is a 2011 American television horror film.

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Roc

Roc, ROC, or R.O.C. may refer to.

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Roc (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the roc is a gargantuan, eagle-like animal, based on an earlier creature from myth and fantasy also named the Roc.

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Roc Books

Roc Books is a fantasy imprint of Penguin Group, as part of its New American Library.

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Rukh

Rukh may refer to.

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Scaled Composites Stratolaunch

The Scaled Composites Stratolaunch is an aircraft being built for Stratolaunch Systems by Scaled Composites to carry air launch to orbit rockets.

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Shahrokh

Shahrukh or Shahrokh may refer to.

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Shahrokh (mythical bird)

Shahrokh, Shahrukh, Shahroze, or Shah Rukh (شاهرخ.) is the name of a mythological bird in Iranian literature.

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Simurgh

--> --> Simurgh (سيمرغ), also spelled simorgh, simorg, simurg, simoorg, simorq or simourv, is a benevolent, mythical bird in Iranian mythology and literature.

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Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad (or Sindbad) the Sailor (as-Sindibādu l-Baḥriyy) is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin.

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Sinbad the Sailor (1935 film)

Sinbad the Sailor is a 1935 animated short film produced and directed by Ub Iwerks.

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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 American animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, using traditional animation with some computer animation.

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Stereotypes of animals

When anthropomorphising an animal there are stereotypical traits which commonly tend to be associated with particular species.

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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 Technicolor heroic fantasy adventure film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles H. Schneer, directed by Nathan H. Juran, that stars Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, and Alec Mango.

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The Circus of Dr. Lao

The Circus of Dr.

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The Enchanted World

The Enchanted World was a series of twenty-one books published in the 1980s.

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Thunderbird (cryptozoology)

Thunderbird is a term used in cryptozoology to describe large, bird-like creatures, generally identified with the Thunderbird of Native American tradition.

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Vogel Rok

Vogel Rok ("Bird Rok" in English) is an enclosed roller coaster in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands.

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Ziz

The Ziz (Hebrew) is a giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology, said to be large enough to be able to block out the sun with its wingspan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc_(mythology)

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