During the Crimean War a letter was reportedly sent home by a British soldier quoting a Russian officer who had said that British soldiers were ‘ lions commanded by asses '.

The logo combines the zodiac signs of all four members: two lions for Leo ( Deacon and Taylor ), a crab for Cancer ( May ), and two fairies for Virgo ( Mercury ).

A pair of African lions rests on an overcast day

A similar four " Indian lion " Lion Capital of Ashoka atop an Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath which was destroyed during Turk invasions of India missing the larger Dharma Chakra / Ashoka Chakra atop the four lions, now preserved at Sarnath Museum has been adopted as the National Emblem of India and the smaller Chakra in the base on which the lions are standing has become a part of the National Flag of India.

It is based on the arms borne by Llywelyn the Great, the famous thirteenth-century Welsh prince ( blazoned quarterly Or and gules, four lions counterchanged langued and armed azure ), with the addition of the St. Edward's Crown atop a continuous scroll which, together with a wreath consisting of the plant emblems of the four countries of the United Kingdom, surrounds the shield.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.

In Revelation 9: 7-11, Abaddon is described as " The Destroyer ", the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions ' teeth, wings, and the tail of a scorpion that torment people for five months.

The curtain-wall and towers of the Mycenaean citadel, its gate with heraldic lions, and the great " Treasury of Atreus " had borne silent witness for ages before Heinrich Schliemann's time ; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or, at farthest, a rude Heroic beginning of purely Hellenic civilization.

He was clad in silk and velvet, with the royal lions of Aquilonia worked in gold upon his rich jupon, and the crown of Aquilonia shone on his square-cut black mane ; but the great sword at his side seemed more natural to him than the regal accoutrements.

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears ( pinnae ), relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours.

Until recently, fur seals were all grouped under a single subfamily of Pinnipedia, called Arctocephalinae, to contrast them with Otariinae – the sea lions – based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs.

He placed to hang around his neck a shield painted with golden lions.

The funerary enamel of Geoffrey ( died 1151 ), dressed in blue and gold and bearing his blue shield emblazoned with gold lions, is the first recorded depiction of a coat of arms.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

Triumphal games were held, with beast-hunts involving 400 lions, and gladiator contests.

* Jean Richard, due to his involvement with a zoo and a circus, is caricatured as a trainer of lions on page 40 of the comic Asterix and the Laurel Wreath.

Resident killer whales swim with porpoises, other dolphins, seals, and sea lions, which are common prey for transient killer whales.

This was a strange hybrid creature that combined the head and torso of a man with the legs and tail of a lion ( the cuneiform sign ' UR ' simply refers to a large carnivore ; lions, wolves and dogs are all included ).

Although some of the miniatures are framed by simple rectangles with corners embellished by the golden castles and lions of Castile and León, other are framed by medieval Spanish architectural motifs, including Gothic and Mudéjar arcades of columns and arches.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

The Burney Relief is an unusual elaborate and relatively large ( 20 x 15 inches ) terracotta plaque of a naked winged goddess with the feet of a bird of prey, and attendant owls and lions.

Some of the principal doorways were flanked by colossal stone door figures weighing up to ; they included many winged lions or bulls with a man's head.

However, it may have been for religious reasons, and would coincide with the development of religious practices thought to have occurred during the Upper Paleolithic .< ref > Nonetheless, it remains possible that Paleolithic societies never practiced cannibalism, and that the damage to recovered human bones was either the result of ritual post-mortem bone cleaning or predation by carnivores such as saber tooth cats, lions and hyenas.

Another opposite breeding system to this is polygyny in which one male mates with many females ( e. g., lions, deer, some primates, and many systems where there is an alpha male ).

Pillar capital with addorsed lions and Prakrit inscriptions in the Kharoshthi script, British Museum

The fact that females appear to have outnumbered males two to one suggests that, as with modern animals with size-related sexual dimorphism, such as sea lions and other pinnipeds, Pteranodon might have been polygynous, with a few males competing for association with groups consisting of large numbers of females.

On formal occasions the badge is worn by the members of the first class of the order ( i. e., Grand Master, Grand Priors and Grand Commanders ) from a gold collar formed of links in 1. the form of a gold rectangle, each bearing two or three letters of the motto of the order, IN FIDE JUSTITIA ET FORTITUDINE (" In faith, justice and fortitude "), with gold Bavarian royal crowns on the either side of this rectangle, between red enameled flames emitting from blue enameled strapwork on both the upper and lower sides of this link, alternating with links in 2. the form of two gold lions rampart combatant standing on a gold scroll, each supporting with one forepaw a central white enameled column surmounted by a gold orb and cross, the lion on the left holding a torch in its right forepaw and the lion on the right holding a sword in its left forepaw.

Egyptian lotus palmette: sun and open flower The hieroglyph ' akhet ( hieroglyph and season ) | akhet ' of the horizon guarded by the twin lions of AkerAmong the oldest forms of the palmette in ancient Egypt was a ' rosette ' or daisy-like lotus flower emerging from a ' V ' of foliage or petals resembling the ' akhet ' hieroglyph depicting the setting or rising sun at the point where it touches the two mountains of the horizon – ' dying ', being ' reborn ' and giving life to the earth.

" As one writer put it: " The result was a gorgeous, dreamlike book of mysterious symbols, concise essays and colorful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of the sea, and angelic beings with lions ' heads presiding over somber initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man.

The national Coat of Arms of Estonia, three blue lions on a golden shield, is almost identical to the Coat of Arms of Denmark, and its origin can be traced directly back to King Valdemar II and Danish rule in Estonia 1219-1346.

The subjects hold tenaciously to Minoan traditions, whether directly derived or through Cycladic intervention, and have in some cases been reduced to decorative formulas, embodying themes appropriate to their locations: lions and wingless griffins in audience chambers, processional figures in corridors, etc.

* Yet another origin of the name could be the literal meaning land of lions ( from Singh for lion and Bhumi for land ), referring directly to the animals.

The Chimera is generally considered to have been female ( see the quotation from Hesiod above ) despite the mane adorning its lion's head, the inclusion of a close mane often was depicted on lionesses, but the ears always were visible ( that does not occur with depictions of male lions ).

Furthermore, lions are evidently susceptible to hydrostatic shock when impact velocities are above.

The 10p coin depicts the first quarter of the shield, showing the lions passants from the Royal Banner of England, with the words above the shield design.

Croatian horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue inherited its colours, of course, from the Croatian coats of arms: Croatian chequered red and silver, Dalmatian blue with three golden lions, and Slavonian blue with red field with black marten bordered with two white wavy lines, and golden star above.

This can be translated as: a shield divided into quarters, the top left and bottom right blue with three golden fleurs-de-lis ( for France ), and the top right and bottom left red with three golden lions passant with their faces toward the viewer, one above the other ( for England ).

The distinctive sound of sea lions is produced both above and below

Many large carnivores that hunt regularly, such as hyenas, but also animals rarely thought of as scavengers such as lions, tigers, and wolves, will scavenge if given the chance or use their size and ferocity to intimidate the original hunters ( the cheetah is a notable exception ); on the other hand, almost all scavengers above insect size will hunt if there is not enough carrion available, as no ecosystem provides enough dead animals year-round to keep its scavengers fed on that alone.

In the Kalahari desert, brown hyenas are often the dominant mammalian carnivores present because of their dominance over the other predators listed above, and because of the scarcity of lions, spotted hyenas, and packs of African wild dogs.

E hatched ... but found no sea lions, turtles and tortoises and so great a man wearing one above, and many who are like serpents higuanas.

In the middle, flanked by two gilded lions, is the Monogram of Christ, surrounded by a glory, above the text ( in Latin ): " Rex Regum et Dominus Dominantium " ( translation: " Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords ".

In particular, he allowed the boy to turn over Ridinger's Animals, of which Herr Gruner had a collection ; some of these Mind tried to imitate with the lead pencil, preferring above all lions.

Flanking the entrance archway are the The Sword of Victory, a bas-relief above the opening, and two stone lions, each bearing a shield ; on the left hand side of the passage is the Dragon of Destruction, with the shield showing a dragon and the date 1914, while on the right hand side is the Dove of Peace, with the shield showing a dove perched on a crown and the date 1918.

Other clues are the form of the roof, which, seen from a lateral perspective, has the form of a bird, to be exact a dove, and above the altar there are two stone lions, united by their tails.

African ( above ) and Asiatic ( below ) lions, as illustrated in Johnsons Book of Nature

The coronation mantle of the Holy Roman Emperors ( Vienna ; Schatzkammer ( Vienna ) | Imperial treasurySimilarly, from the early 13th century to 1806 the divine right of the Holy Roman Emperors was conferred by investiture in the imperial regalia, which included the coronation mantle displaying the twin lions ( recalling the twin lions of Aker above ) guarding the palm in the form of a tree of life, with its two pendant clusters of fruit.

For this purpose, he builds a cage and attaches four giant eagles to it, with the meat of dead lions above their heads to draw them upward.

There are here large concentrations of lions, leopards, wild dogs, Roan antelopes, Sable antelopes, hippopotamuses and above all enormous herds of elephants.

The base is formed of two lotuses, the upper one inverted on the top of the other ; this pattern in no way differs from an ordinary altar supporting a Buddha image ; but in the centre, where it is narrowest, that is, at the point where the two lotuses meet, is a small band containing a row of niches, with a somewhat larger one above it ; in these niches were small figures of lions, besides the two large ones which may be seen now at each side of the Throne.

Buffalos, elephants, lions, leopards are best to be seen in the northern part ( above the Nile ).

Note peacocks and lions above the lintel: a fine example of Hindu-Islamic architecture

A depiction of Daniel in the lions ' den with Darius the Mede above.