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...large statue of a dragon between Widener's Library and Boylston Hall was carved during the reign of the emperor Chia Ch'ing, who ruled China from 1796-1821. It was donated in 1936 by the Harvard Alumni of China, York says...
...Peking has also consented to let a Dallas-based firm called Leisure & Recreation Concepts, Inc., build a $1 million amusement park near the coastal town of Shantou to be named Dragon Lake, complete with Ferris wheels, swan boats and an electronic arcade...
Since when does Armageddon take place in this world? To be consistently literal we would also have to expect a dragon that would gather everyone for a battle in an earthly place called Armageddon...
...University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. "But these fantasies are also negated at the same time, because it's not right for good women to lust for power. So they are put in the person of a villainess." Most feminists, however, seem to regard these characters benignly. "The dragon-lady character has always been a stereotype," points out Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will and Femininity. "But shows like Dallas at least give women the illusion that there is a way into power for them...
When the bomb went off in East Beirut, workmen were preparing to install a steel gate near the dragon's teeth that would strengthen security by giving guards a little more time in which to deal with a possible emergency. The white-painted gate was still lying on the sidewalk, waiting to be put into place, and the cement in which the gateposts were set was still wet. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Lebanese guard said that he thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering...