Eagle and Snake, 6th century mosaic flooring ­ Constantinople, Great Palace of Constantinople | Grand Imperial Palace.

The large flags shown in the corners are the Flag_of_the_United_States # Historical_progression_of_designs | 37-star flag of the United States ( flown 1867-1877 ), the Royal Standard of the United Kingdom, the Russian Imperial Standard, and the Flag of France | French tricolore with inset French Imperial Eagle | Imperial Eagle.

It was named in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, for Juan de Fuca, the Greek navigator who sailed in a Spanish expedition in 1592 to seek the fabled Strait of Anián.

The Lozoya Valley supports a large black ( monk ) vulture colony, and one of the last bastions of the Spanish Imperial Eagle in the world is found in the Park Regional del Suroeste in dehesa hills between the Gredos and Guadarrama ranges.

The bronze Imperial Eagle was stolen in 1990.

Maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley also visited the area in the Imperial Eagle, a British ship falsely flying the flag of the Austrian Empire.

The Eastern Imperial ( A. heliaca ) and Spanish Imperial Eagle ( A. adalberti ) are the most similar in size to the Golden Eagle among Eurasian Aquila but are distinguished by their longer neck, flatter wings in flight, white on their shoulder forewing-coverts and generally darker coloration.

The Eastern Imperial Eagle ( Aquila heliaca ) is a large species of bird of prey that breeds from southeastern Europe to western and central Asia.

The Spanish Imperial Eagle, found in Spain and Portugal, was formerly lumped with this species, the name Imperial Eagle being used in both circumstances.

Detail of an Imperial Eagle.

The Eastern Imperial Eagle is a large eagle with a length of, a wingspan of and a weight of.

It closely resembles the Spanish Imperial Eagle, but has far less white to the " shoulder " and it is slightly larger.

In Europe, the Eastern Imperial Eagle is threatened with extinction.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

Imperial Standard of Napoleon I.

Imperial blue is a representation of the blue color of the Imperial Standard of Napoleon I.

Before this date, the most precise measurement of the Imperial Standard Yard was metres.

Imperial Standard of Napoleon III

Imperial Standard of Napoléon.

Imperial Standard of Bokassa I.

Imperial Standard of Bokassa I.

Imperial Standard of Napoléon III.

In 1933, Imperial Oil Ltd., a Standard Oil subsidiary, erected a memorial in Camp Hill Cemetery in Halifax to pay tribute to Gesner's contribution to the petroleum industry.

* December 12 – The Panay Incident occurs, when Imperial Japanese Navy Yokosuka B4Y ( Allied reporting name " Jean ") bombers and Nakajima A4N fighters sink the U. S. Navy gunboat and three nearby Standard Oil tankers on the Yangtze River near Nanking.

In the US, extraterritorial impacts in this field first arose from Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, where Imperial Oil in Canada was ordered to be divested from Standard Oil.

The date is sometimes known as Victory over Japan Day, although that designation is more frequently used to refer to the date of Emperor Hirohito's Gyokuon-hōsō ( Imperial Rescript of Surrender ), the radio broadcast announcement of the acceptance of the terms of the Potsdam Declaration at noon Japan Standard Time on August 15.

Imperial Standard of the Regent

Imperial Standard of the Tsesarevich.

In modern usage, the dry volume is usually only nominal, with bushels referring to standard weights instead. Queensland Government Standard Imperial Bushel.

It was the 7th Cavalry whose troopers were charged with guarding the Imperial Palace of the Emperor.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, the unity of the Imperial Aramaic script was lost, diversifying into a number of descendant cursives.

The city remained a Free Imperial City, subject to the Emperor only, but was politically far too weak to influence the policies of any of its neighbours.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

Achaemenid Assyria ( 539 BC – 330 BC ) retained a separate identity ( Athura ), official correspondence being in Imperial Aramaic, and there was even a determined revolt of the two Assyrian provinces of Mada and Athura in 520 BC.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

There is evidence it was used as early as the Roman Imperial period, and as recently as the American Civil War.

Berlin's previous history as united Germany's capital was strongly connected with Imperial Germany, and more ominously with Nazi Germany.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Marsin had been operating with the Elector of Bavaria against the Imperial commander, Prince Louis of Baden, and was somewhat isolated from France: his only lines of communication lay through the rocky passes of the Black Forest.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Finally, in the German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912 the consensus was that Germany would not be ready for war until at least mid-1914 and passed notes to that effect to the Habsburgs.

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

In 1495, Basel was incorporated in the Upper Rhenish Imperial Circle ; the Bishop of Basel was added to the Bench of the Ecclesiastical Princes.

Eventually, and long after the Imperial army had begun its retreat, the gallant Schiltron was ridden down and annihilated by a charge of three thousand men-at-arms.

Rome was too far from the frontiers, and hence from the armies and the Imperial courts, and it offered an undesirable playground for disaffected politicians.

Before their departure, the ship of the commander Belisarius was anchored in front of the Imperial palace, and the Patriarch offered prayers for the success of the enterprise.