Sutcliff wrote in a foreword that she created the story from two elements: the disappearance of the Legio IX Hispana ( Ninth Legion ) from the historical record, following an expedition north to deal with Caledonian tribes in 117 ; and the discovery of a wingless Roman eagle in excavations at Calleva Atrebatum ( Silchester ).

" Pure wingless " clearly does not fit the winged alate forms, which were discovered several years after the wingless forms had been described.

The England team became known as the " wingless wonders ", on account of their then-unconventional narrow attacking formation, described at the time as a 4 – 3 – 3.

According to Tolkien, he sired the rest of his race, or at least the brood of Urulóki, wingless fire-breathing dragons.

These two enhancers are responsive to the Wnt signaling pathway, which is activated by ‘’ wingless ’’ expression at all of the pigmented locations.

Thus, in the evolution of the complex pigmentation phenotype, the yellow pigment gene evolved enhancers responsive to the wingless signal and wingless expression evolved at new locations to produce novel wing patterns.

As of the end of the second book in the series, Merry's titles are Princess of Flesh and Blood ; at the end of the 4th book, The Red And White Goddess is added to her title by demi-fey who gave her the title when her magic gave wings to wingless demi-fey.

Usually only one or two scales at the apex of the cone are fertile, each bearing a single wingless seed, but in Saxegothaea several scales may be fertile.

It is black in color, and has a wide, glossy body, and appears at first glance to be wingless, however it does have very short wings just beneath its head, which are used for flying.

The female Oriental cockroach has a somewhat different appearance to the male, appearing to be wingless at casual glance but has two very short and useless wings just below her head.

BAe Dynamics ' original S225XR proposal was a wingless design.

The trade-off between winged and wingless configurations was very closely balanced but the wings offered increased roll damping which was believed to be useful given the asymmetric intake configuration so the German A3M configuration was adopted for the European proposal, called Meteor.

Following extensive pre-contract wind tunnel testing and MBDA's growing experience with guidance and control technologies for wingless configurations, such as ASRAAM, a wingless design was believed to offer the best solution to meeting the performance requirements.

This system was coined as " the wingless wonders ".

Nike was originally the " winged victory " goddess ( see the winged Nike of Samothrace ) The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros ( wingless victory ), and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city.

* Another variant of the nursery rhyme was an animated film on Sesame Street, in which instead of the pieman, Simple Simon meets three weird looking animals ; a wingless duck with boots, a sheep with two small legs, and a snake with wings and boots.

The colonies, the first of which was found in a rotting log, may contain as many as 10, 000 workers, winged males and several wingless queens ( the majority of ant species feature winged queens ).

Although a prototype of the airframe was never constructed, the SLAM was to be a wingless, fin-guided aircraft.

Although the wingless gene was originally identified as a recessive mutation affecting wing and haltere development in Drosophila melanogaster, wingless has been important towards understanding the Wnt signaling system in other organisms.

2, # 50 ( cowl lenses, " wingless " boots, the belt-line V-shape, and the darker red color of the suit ), which were slipping in and out of usage when the character was drawn by different artists.

Miles reluctantly complied but was concerned by the wingless 72's handling on the straights.

The specimen was large, wingless, and had strong legs — Marsh considered it a diving species.

" His only work after Gould's death was for the Birds of Asia and a plate for Sir Richard Owen's Memoirs on the extinct wingless birds of New Zealand ( 1878 — 9 ).

In 2011, the first wingless glider, SeaExplorer was released with a large payload capacity, dedicating the first third of the vehicle to interchangeable payloads, in addition to typical CTD sensors.

The nymphs physically resemble wingless adults, but often have external gills, which may be present on almost any part of the body.

Louse ( plural: lice ) is the common name for members of over 3, 000 species of wingless insects of the order Phthiraptera ; three of which are classified as human disease agents.

The subphylum Hexapoda ( from the Greek for six legs ) constitutes the largest ( in terms of number of species ) grouping of arthropods and includes the insects as well as three much smaller groups of wingless arthropods: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura ( all of these were once considered insects ).

However, some true flies have become secondarily wingless, for example many members of the superfamily Hippoboscoidea and some species that are inquilines in social insect colonies.

They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood.

Fleas are wingless insects ( 1 / 16 to 1 / 8-inch ( 1. 5 to 3. 3 mm ) long ) that are agile, usually dark colored ( for example, the reddish-brown of the cat flea ), with tube-like mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of their hosts.

As a result Sampaati lived wingless for the rest of his life.

They are brownish in color and rather humpbacked in appearance, always wingless, and up to two inches / 5 cm long in body and 10 cm ( 4 inches ) for the legs.

Lindworm ( cognate with Old Norse linnormr ' constrictor snake ', Norwegian linnorm ' dragon ', Swedish, lindorm, Danish, lindorm ' serpent ', German Lindwurm ' dragon ') in British heraldry, is a technical term for a wingless bipedal dragon often with a venomous bite.

They are an important winter food for many birds, which disperse the wingless seeds.

The name Zoraptera, given by Filippo Silvestri in 1913, is misnamed and potentially misleading: " zor " is Greek for pure and " aptera " means wingless.

In his article LaFarge says, " There is a general agreement that the term " Flea Market " is a literal translation of the French marché aux puces, an outdoor bazaar in Paris, France, named after those pesky little parasites of the order Siphonaptera ( or " wingless bloodsucker ") that infested the upholstery of old furniture brought out for sale.

* Snow flea, small jumping insects in the order Collembola and a term sometimes also used for wingless scorpionflies in the family Boreidae

However, wingless forms are favored due to competition for ovarian development and wings and reproductive success is the main goal due to the selfish gene theory.

For that reason, it is recommended for use mainly against hoppers, the wingless early stages of locusts.

Nymphs are wingless, and being light green in color, are often mistaken for aphids.

As a result, Sampati lived wingless for the rest of his life.

Sampati lived wingless for the rest of his life.