The term Al Nesr Al Tair appeared in Al Achsasi Al Mouakket catalogue, which was translated into Latin as Vultur Volans.

Kevin Volans was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 6 July 1949, and even though he has spent most of his life outside his native country, is the best known South African composer active today.

It included the bright stars of Crux, the southern part of Centaurus, Circinus, at least one star in Lupus, the bright stars of Musca, Beta and Delta Chamaeleonis, Volans, and Mensa.

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Plancius's constellations ( mostly referring to animals and subjects described in natural history books and travellers ' journals of his day ) are Apis the Bee ( later changed to Musca by Lacaille ), Apus the Bird of Paradise, Chamaeleon, Dorado the Goldfish ( or Swordfish ), Grus the Crane, Hydrus the Small Water Snake, Indus the Indian, Pavo the Peacock, Phoenix, Triangulum Australe the Southern Triangle, Tucana the Toucan, and Volans the Flying Fish.

The 2011 Proms season also featured new works by Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Pascal Dusapin, Graham Fitkin, Thomas Larcher, Kevin Volans, Judith Weir, and Stevie Wishart.

Radio 3 broadcast on 12 July, 10. 45pm: Music by Volans, Arvo Pärt, George Crumb, Steve Reich and Joby Talbot.

In this role, he has commissioned over 30 new works for the guitar, including pieces by Philip Cashian, Graham Fitkin, Alastair King, Bruce MacCombie, Edward McGuire, John Metcalfe, Howard Skempton, Joby Talbot, Kevin Volans and Errollyn Wallen.

They have worked with many minimalist composers including John Adams, Arvo Pärt, George Crumb, Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Kevin Volans ; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries -- Kaija Saariaho from Finland, Pēteris Vasks from Latvia, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan, and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina.

HD 76700 is a yellow dwarf star ( spectral type G6V ) 195 light years from Earth in the constellation of Volans.

Other plays include: House of Bergmann, Fear for the Border, Homo Volans, Fathers and Forefathers ( Dramatisation of Slobodan Selenic ), In the Search of Marcel Proust, Dantes Divinus, The Russian Mission, The Last Days of Mankind ( Adaptation of Karl Kraus ), Le Petit et le Grand Theatre du Marquis de Sade ...

A now-famous depiction of a parachute that he dubbed Homo Volans ( Flying Man ) appeared in his book on mechanics, Machinae Novae ( 1615 or 1616 ), alongside a number of other devices and technical concepts.

There Veranzio wrote about water and solar energy, the universal clock ( Plates 6 – 7 ), several types of mills, agricultural machinery, various types of bridge in various materials, machinery for clearing the sea, a dual sedan traveling on mule ( Plate 47 ), special coaches, and Homo Volans ( Plate 38 ) a forerunner of the parachute.

The Duke Quartet has a strong relationship with some modern composers such as Kevin Volans and Joby Talbot.

Kevin Volans is a composer associated with the post-minimalist movement in contemporary composition.

They have performed multiple works with a variety of other artists, including Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Kevin Volans, Hector Zazou, Spiritualized, Yellow Magic Orchestra and the Pet Shop Boys.

Other composers for viols include Moondog, Kevin Volans, Roy Whelden, Toyohiko Satoh, Roman Turovsky, Giorgio Pacchioni, Michael Starke, Emily Doolittle, and Jan Goorissen.

On 14 April 2010, playwright Conor McPherson, poet Vona Groarke, composers Gráinne Mulvey and Kevin Volans, and architects Yvonne Farrell and Sheila O ' Donnell were among seven new members elected.

Volans is a constellation in the southern sky.

It represents a flying fish ; its name is a shortened form of its original name, Piscis Volans.

Volans has several deep-sky objects within its borders.

In 2010, Brazilian pop star Ana Volans rerecorded Echoes of November.

: Vol is also the abbreviation for the constellation Volans.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

There was no one but me.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That was another one of those traps.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

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