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The Wolf of Gubbio was a wolf who, according to the Little Flowers of St. Francis, [ 1] terrorized the Umbrian city of Gubbio until he was tamed by Francis of Assisi acting on behalf of God. The story is one of many in Christian narrative that depicts saints exerting influence over animals and nature, a motif common to hagiography. [ 2]
Wolves in heraldry. Coat of arms of Łobez, Poland. The wolf has been widely used in many forms in heraldry during the Middle Ages. Though commonly reviled as a livestock predator and man-eater, the wolf was also considered a noble and courageous animal, and frequently appeared on the arms and crests of numerous noble families.
The Göppingen Gö 1 Wolf was a single-seat glider produced in Germany from 1935. Design and development [ edit ] Conceived as a rival to the Grunau Baby , it was the first product of the newly formed Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen Martin Schempp firm.
The Grey wolf ( Canis lupus) was an integral part of the Irish countryside and culture, but are now extinct. The last wild wolf in Ireland is said to have been killed in 1786, 300 years after they were believed to have been wiped out in England and 100 years after their disappearance from Scotland. [ 1][ 2]
Joseph Wolf. Joseph Wolf (22 January 1820 [ 1] – 20 April 1899) was a German artist who specialized in natural history illustration. He moved to the British Museum in 1848 and became the preferred illustrator for explorers and naturalists including David Livingstone, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates.
The eastern wolf ( Canis lycaon[ 5] or Canis lupus lycaon[ 6][ 7] or Canis rufus lycaon ), also known as the timber wolf, [ 8] Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, [ 9] is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada. It is considered to be either a unique subspecies of gray wolf or red wolf or a ...
The Wolf and the Lamb. Jean-Baptiste Oudry ’s oil painting of the fable. The Wolf and the Lamb is a well-known fable of Aesop and is numbered 155 in the Perry Index. [ 1] There are several variant stories of tyrannical injustice in which a victim is falsely accused and killed despite a reasonable defence.
The dilemma is solved by taking the wolf (or the cabbage) over and bringing the goat back. Now he can take the cabbage (or the wolf) over, and finally return to fetch the goat. An animation of the solution. His actions in the solution are summarized in the following steps: Take the goat over. Return empty-handed.