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  • proper noun The landing unit of Apollo 11.

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  • THE EAGLE CRIES TO US/WE MUST LISTEN OR PERISH yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'THE EAGLE CRIES TO US/WE MUST LISTEN OR PERISH'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The Eagle cries to us to return to source, to reconnect with the loving plan, to unite in brotherhood and soul consciousness and to celebrate our diversity ~ we must listen and respond to this innate universal call or we will all perish.

    THE EAGLE CRIES TO US / WE MUST LISTEN OR PERISH 2008

  • SUPERDRIVE AND EAGLE PC'S It has been determined by Eagle Computers that the AST SUPERDRIVE RAM disk program will not work with Eagle personal computers.

    AST Research Technical Bulletin #0190 SUPERDRIVE AND EAGLE PC'S 1986

  • Every day this eagle circles above the village, and so powerful is it that anyone being caught outside of his tent is descended upon and his skull split open to the brain by the sharp breastbone of the Eagle.

    Myths and Legends of the Sioux Marie L. McLaughlin

  • Another historic character resident in the Stake was Ralph Ramsey, the artist in wood who carved the eagle that overspreads the Eagle gate in

    Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock

  • Every day this eagle circles above the village, and so powerful is it that anyone being caught outside of his tent is descended upon and his skull split open to the brain by the sharp breastbone of the Eagle.

    Myths and Legends of the Sioux 1916

  • Toward evening on the third day Eagle, with his head and one hand still in bandages, was limping about the field where the _Golden Eagle_ had been repaired; and when he came back it was to say that he thought he might get off at midnight with dispatches for the king in Brussels.

    Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley 1901

  • And as the crest of Dan was not an eagle only, but an eagle and a serpent, so the great group of constellations, clustering round the autumnal equinox, included not only the Eagle, but also the Scorpion and the Serpent (_see_ diagram, p. 189).

    The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

  • AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.

    Fables Aesop 1880

  • Cerastes or horned Serpent, synonymous in astrological language with the vulture or pouncing eagle; and which bird was often substituted on the flag of Dan, in place of the venomous scorpion, on account of the terror which that reptile inspired, as the symbol of Typhon and his malign influences; wherefore the Eagle, as its paranatellon, that is, rising and setting at the same time with it, was naturally used in its stead.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • EAGLE, Colorado - An officer pulled over a female driver on April 11 for failing to use a turn signal as she turned onto Grand Avenue in Eagle.

    Vail Daily - Top Stories Eagle Valley Enterprise Vail 2010

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