The paper is named after the legendary martlet bird, whose inability to land is often seen to symbolize the constant quest for knowledge, learning, and adventure.

The legendary martlet bird's inability to land is often seen to symbolize the constant quest for knowledge, learning, and adventure.

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Or, a saltire gules, on a chief of the last a martlet of the field.

The Flag of Sussex is based on the coat of arms of Sussex | heraldic shield of Sussex which has been used to represent the county since at least as far back as 1622: Azure, six martlet s or

Nimrod aside, many naval fighters were named for birds-such as the Fairey Flycatcher, Fairey Fulmar, Blackburn Skua and Grumman Martlet ( the martlet being a heraldic bird ).

The tradition of depicting swifts without feet continued into the Middle Ages, as seen in the heraldic martlet.

* for the fourth son, a martlet ( a kind of bird );

Champlevee enamel with Diapering: Barry of argent and azure, an orle ( heraldry ) | orle of martlet s gules

The eldest son, during the lifetime of his father, bears the family arms with the addition of a label ; the second son a crescent, the third, a mullet, the fourth, a martlet, the fifth, an annulet ; the sixth, a fleur-de-lis ; the seventh, a rose ; the eighth, a cross moline ; the ninth, a double quatrefoil.

In English heraldry the crescent, mullet, martlet, annulet, fleur-de-lis, and rose may be added to a shield to distinguish cadet branches of a family from the senior line.

The martlet and its red colour adorns many parts of the University of Victoria, including the crest, coast of arms, and flag representing the university's previous affiliation to McGill University which also uses the martlet.

The right-hand column shows the brisures used in Canadian heraldry for daughters. The marks are usually very much smaller than shown, and the fourth son's cadency mark is not the continental merlette but the British Isles martlet In heraldry, cadency is any systematic way of distinguishing similar coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.

Arms of Arundel of Lanherne, Cornwall & Wardour Castle: Sable, six martlet s argent.

Lord Juss and Brandoch Daha set out for home, their quest defeated for the time being, although matters are not completely hopeless as Queen Sophonisba's martlet scouts have told them of another hippogriff egg lying at the bottom of a lake in Demonland.

Three martlet birds appear on the crest of McGill University, and the University of Victoria grew out of the McGill University College of British Columbia.

Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

Scholars have often believed that Ammianus ' work was intended for public recitation for two reasons: the overwhelming presence of accentual clausulae, which implies that it was intended to be read aloud ; and epistle 1063 of Libanius to a Marcellinus of Rome which refers to public recitations.

He is alleged to have often served as an Imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed by American Authorities to have been a student of a Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan, whose mosque is located in Al-Qassim Province.

The word assassin is often believed to derive from the word Hashshashin ( Persian: حش ّ اشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also Hashishin, Hashashiyyin, or Assassins ), and shares its etymological roots with hashish ( or ; from Arabic: ).

The various episodes in the first half of the book are used by Christians as moral stories, and are often believed to foreshadow events in the gospels.

Nevertheless, the often fanciful accounts of these beasts were widely read and generally believed to be true.

It is often referred to as Chaplin's finest accomplishment, and film critic James Agee believed the closing scene to be " the greatest piece of acting and the highest moment in movies ".

Crokinole is often believed to be of Mennonite or Amish origins, but there is no factual data to support such a claim.

CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow disease ( bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE ) even though classic CJD is not related to BSE ; however, given that BSE is believed to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt – Jakob ( vCJD ) disease in humans, the two are often confused.

Confucius believed that social disorder often stemmed from failure to perceive, understand, and deal with reality.

Headstrong Ena often clashed with Elsie Tanner, whom she believed espoused a dauntlessly loose set of morals.

It was often seasoned with vanilla, chile pepper, and achiote, and was believed to fight fatigue, which is probably attributable to the theobromine content, a mood enhancer.

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.

They are often portrayed as children with Williams syndrome ( which was not recognised as a medical condition but some specialist believe that people were enchanted with their character and appearance that they believed to be magical ), usually with fair hair.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

The " discovery " of these alleged etymologies is often believed by those who circulate them to draw attention to racist attitudes embedded in ordinary discourse.

It is commonly believed that this matching is unlikely to be a coincidence, and is often quoted as one of the main motivations to further investigate supersymmetric theories despite the fact that no supersymmetric partner particles have been experimentally observed ( March 2011 ).

According to Gardner, the Surgenesons readily talked about the paranormal with him ; the patriarch of the family, Ted Surgeneson, believed that fairies were living in his garden and would say " I can often feel they're there, and sometimes I've seen them ", though he readily admitted the possibility that it was all in his imagination.

The dissenters, who included Rabbi Joel Roth as well as a partial concurrence by Rabbi Daniel Nevins, argued for reaffirming the classical halakhic framework in which human decrees inform and often limit but never wholly abrogate law believed to be of Divine origin, stating that " we should acknowledge that God's law is beyond our authority to eliminate ", but should continue the traditional approach of applying strict evidentiary rules and presumptions that tend to render enforcement unlikely.

He believed that integration, driven by national governments, often flowed from domestic political and economic issues.

His 1976 single " Hot ( I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved )" ( R & B # 31 ) used the main riff from " Fame " by David Bowie, not the other way around as was often believed.

* After the Maharal of Prague had initiated organised Mishnah study ( Chevrat ha-Mishnayoth ), Yomtov Lipman Heller ( who is often believed to be his pupil but came to Prague already as a mature scholar ) wrote a commentary called Tosafot Yom Tov.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

( I doubt that anyone, except perhaps the nineteenth-century critic Hanslick, has ever really believed that, although some musicians have been goaded into proclaiming it by the sillier interpretations of music with which we are often assailed.

He believed that the large, impersonal, and often ugly apartment blocks built in the 1960s and 1970s had ruined old neighborhoods, and took away privacy and dignity from people.

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

" Amoeboid " and " amœba " are often used interchangeably even by biologists, and especially refer to a creature moving by using pseudopodia.

Note that chemists often write H < sup >+</ sup >( aq ) and refer to the hydrogen ion when describing acid-base reactions but the free hydrogen nucleus, a proton, does not exist alone in water, it exists as the hydronium ion, H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup >.

Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

" Anaconda " is often used to refer only to the green or common anaconda, Eunectes murinus.

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

It lacks the NH < sub > 2 </ sub > group because of the cyclization of the side-chain and is known as an imino acid ; it falls under the category of special structured amino acids .</ ref > where R is an organic substituent known as a " side-chain "); often the term " amino acid " is used to refer specifically to these.

" Arianism " is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ — the Son of God, the Logos — as either a created being ( as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism ), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created ( as in Semi-Arianism ).

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.

Sanskrit nouns in this case often refer to a subject " out of " which or " from " whom something ( an action, an object ) has arisen or occurred — e. g., patram vṛkṣāt patati " the leaf falls from the tree ".

In his mature work, when he did refer to science it was often to present phenomenological or Goethean science as an alternative to what he considered the materialistic science of his contemporaries.

In common speech the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, together with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly referred to as equipments.

" Running amok " is used to refer to the behavior of someone who, in the grip of strong emotion, obtains a weapon and begins attacking people indiscriminately, often with multiple fatalities.

Due to his youthful appearance, Clinton was often called the " Boy Governor ", a referent that continues to be used to refer to him during his gubernatorial era on occasion.

Today, Internet forums occupy much of the same social and technological space as BBSes did, and the term BBS is often used to refer to any online forum or message board.

Broadcast commentators often refer to this as " playing the percentages ".

The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema ; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in regional languages.

The term " Brownian motion " can also refer to the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, which is often called a particle theory.

Because Methodists, Pentecostals, and other evangelicals stress " accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour ", which comes from John Wesley's emphasis of the New Birth, they often refer to themselves as being born-again.

Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word " carnivore " ( often popularly applied to members of this group ) can refer to any meat-eating organism.

In popular usage, this term is often used to refer to unfounded or weakly based speculation, leading to the idea that " It's not a conspiracy theory if it's actually true ".

This may indicate a co-owner as in a legal partnership or may be used in a general way to refer to a broad class of employees or temporary / contract workers who are often assigned field or customer service work.