The famous late Gothic series of seven tapestry hangings The Hunt of the Unicorn are a high point in European tapestry manufacture, combining both secular and religious themes.

Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation ( ca.

Gideon's fleece, as symbol of Mary, in a " Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation " ( ca.

One of the tapestries in the series The Hunt of the Unicorn: The Unicorn is Found, circa 1495-1505, the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

* The Hunt of the Unicorn is a seven piece tapestry from 1495 to 1505, currently displayed at The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Since January 2002, the Tapestry Studio at West Dean College has been working on a recreation of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries, 4 of which are now hanging in the restored Queen's Presence Chamber in the Royal Palace.

# The Unicorn Hunt ( 1993 )

The Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry, dyed with Reseda luteola | weld ( yellow ), madder ( red ), and woad ( blue ).

Among the works of art are seven Flemish tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn, Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece, and the Romanesque altar cross known as the Cloisters Cross or Bury St. Edmunds Cross, which was acquired under the curatorship of Thomas Hoving.

In 1999, she played Alice in the romantic comedy Strange Planet and the Texan student Holly Maddux in The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer.

Image: Unicorn annunciation. jpg |" Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation " ( ca.

* The Hunt of the Unicorn

Hunt met Marc Bolan in 1969 when she went to the studio where Bolan's group was recording " Unicorn ".

The Unicorn in Captivity is part of a series consisting of seven tapestry panels known as The Hunt of the Unicorn by Franco Flemish from this time period.

The Hunt of the Unicorn, often referred to as the Unicorn Tapestries, is a series of seven tapestries dating from 1495 – 1505.

The original myths surrounding The Hunt of the Unicorn refer to a beast with one horn that can only be tamed by a virgin ; subsequently, Christian scholars translated this into an allegory for Christ's relationship with the Virgin Mary.

Since January 2002, the Tapestry Studio at West Dean College has been working on a recreation of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries.

Image: The Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry 5. jpg | The Unicorn Defends Itself

* About ‘ The Hunt of the Unicorn ’ and ‘ The Lady and the Unicorn ’

In 1993, it completed HMS Unicorn ( S43 ) – now HMCS Windsor ( SSK 877 ) – that to this day that is the last new-build ship completed at the yard.

* Wiley, Jack ; How to Make Propeller-Animated Whirligigs: Penguin, Folk Rooster, Dove, Pink Flamingo, Flying Unicorn & Roadrunner, Solipaz Publishing Co., 1993

Kearney made his name with the stand-alone novels The Way to Babylon ( 1992 ), A Different Kingdom ( 1993 ) and Riding the Unicorn ( 1994 ).

MIDI interfaces intended for use as the centerpiece of a studio, such as the Mark of the Unicorn MIDI Time Piece, were made possible by a " fast " transmission mode that could take advantage of these serial ports ' ability to operate at 20 times the standard MIDI speed.

Furthermore in the Director's Cut police officer Gaff ( played by Edward James Olmos ) leaves Rick Deckard an origami Unicorn a day after Rick dreamed of one.

" All the king's horses and all the king's men " come to Humpty Dumpty's assistance, naturally, and are accompanied by the White King along with the Lion and the Unicorn, who again proceed to act out a nursery rhyme by fighting each other.

Upon leaving the Lion and Unicorn to their fight, Alice reaches the seventh rank by crossing another brook into the forested territory of the Red Knight, who is intent on capturing the " white pawn " Alice until the White Knight comes to her rescue.

They bring the animal to bay with the help of a maiden who traps it with her charms, appear to kill it, and bring it back to a castle ; in the last and most famous panel, " The Unicorn in Captivity ," the unicorn is shown alive again and happy, chained to a pomegranate tree surrounded by a fence, in a field of flowers.

Among numerous finds of prehistoric bones found at Unicorn Cave in Germany's Harz Mountains, some were selected and reconstructed by the mayor of Magdeburg, Otto Von Guericke, as a unicorn in 1663 ( illustration, right ).

The lettering in the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion was designed by John Brinkley.

In The Unicorn and the Wasp, the Tenth Doctor is able to overcome the effects of cyanide by " stimulating the inhibited enzymes into reversal ", a process he referred to as going through " detox ".

Occasionally the classic harpies are referenced by name, such as the appearance of Celaeno in Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn.

He attempts to refuse the " test " but is confronted by the Powers That Be themselves, the Unicorn of Order and Serpent of Chaos.

He wrote Tompall Glaser's highest-charting solo single " Put Another Log on the Fire ", " One's on the Way " ( a hit for Loretta Lynn ), " The Unicorn " ( which became the signature piece for the Irish Rovers in 1968 ) and " 25 Minutes to Go ", sung by Johnny Cash, about a man on Death Row with each line counting down one minute closer.

* An Indian retelling of The Snow Queen, written by Anupama Chandrasekhar and directed by Rosamunde Hutt, was staged by the Unicorn Theatre, UK, in December 2011.

The record was to be distributed by now-defunct Unicorn Records, a subsidiary of MCA.

However, according to longtime SST employee Joe Carducci the " Anti-Parent " statement was not the real reason for MCA's refusing to distribute Damaged ; Carducci reported that Unicorn Records was so poorly managed and so deeply in debt that MCA stood to lose money by distributing the album, regardless of its content.

**" The Smallest Dragonboy ", by Anne McCaffrey ( 1973 ; short story previously collected in Get Off the Unicorn )

* Live Aid: World Wide Concert Book – Peter Hillmore with Introduction by Bob Geldof, ISBN 0-88101-024-3, Copyright 1985, The Unicorn Publishing House, New Jersey.

These include Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Manuel Mujica Láinez's fantasy El unicornio ( The Wandering Unicorn ), Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, Judith Tarr's historical fantasies Alamut and The Dagger and the Cross, The Knights of Dark Renown by Graham Shelby ( 1969 ), Nikos Kazantzakis's Saint Francis and The Crusader King by Susan Peek.

SST struck a deal with MCA Records to co-release Damaged on Unicorn Records, a smaller label distributed by MCA.

In fact, according to Carducci, Unicorn Records was so poorly managed and so deeply in debt that MCA would lose money in distributing Damaged, regardless of its content, and was eager to sever its relationship with Unicorn by any possible pretext.