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  • He appears in the Koran as Dhul-Qarnayn, literally “the two-horned one,” in reference to his image on ancient coins wearing the horns of his divine father Zeus-Ammon.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • He appears in the Koran as Dhul-Qarnayn, literally “the two-horned one,” in reference to his image on ancient coins wearing the horns of his divine father Zeus-Ammon.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • He appears in the Koran as Dhul-Qarnayn, literally “the two-horned one,” in reference to his image on ancient coins wearing the horns of his divine father Zeus-Ammon.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Ferguson wanted to behead him, and Carmen wanted to save him from that fate so he could be her two-horned unicorn in a special parade of dolls.

    Steven Crandell: A is for Amy & Adonis: Double Post -- Chapters I and J 2010

  • Ferguson wanted to behead him, and Carmen wanted to save him from that fate so he could be her two-horned unicorn in a special parade of dolls.

    A is for Amy & Adonis: Double Post -- Chapters I and J 2010

  • And then I want him to put on a too-small red Karate gi, jump aboard the shimmering two-horned unicorn he's got tied out back, and I want him to hunt down the Illinois Attorney General in an endless field of wheat so that we can continue this wacky palm-to-forehead story of American politics at its worst.

    Greg Boose: I'm Totally Rooting for Blago at This Point 2009

  • The two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatrensis) once ranged through much of southeast Asia.

    Sumatran montane rain forests 2008

  • The two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) once ranged through much of southeast Asia.

    Sumatran lowland rain forests 2008

  • An off-site occurrence of the Eocene-Oligocene Gebel Qatrani formation north of Lake Qarun within the Lake Qarun Protected Area have revealed the fossils of ancestral elephants, a two-horned mammal Arsinotherium, and eight primate lineages, including two genera of the earliest known hominoids.

    Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt 2008

  • Peninsular Malaysia is also home to the world's smallest rhinoceros, the two-horned Sumatran rhinoceros (Didermocerus sumatrensis).

    Peninsular Malaysian rain forests 2008

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