Taxonomy
Historical
2 entries
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Book IV
Dacia — the Draco
Named after a kingdom whose battle standard was a serpent that screamed in the wind
The Dacians carried into battle a wolf-headed windsock with a long fabric serpent’s body that howled as the cavalry advanced. Two thousand years…
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Book VI
Gardner-Serpollet
The most snake-sounding name in automotive history means wild thyme
Léon Serpollet built the finest steam cars in the world and set a land speed record at Nice in 1902 in a machine shaped like an egg. His name…