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    The Alcyon was a French bicycle, automobile and motorcycle manufacturer between 1903 and 1954. Alcyon originated from about 1890 when Edmond Gentil started...
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    The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America. All kingfishers are placed in one family,...
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  • Alcyon may refer to a number of things Morane-Saulnier Alcyon, a French trainer introduced in 1949 Alcyon a French bicycle, car and motorcycle manufacturer...
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    The Morane-Saulnier Alcyon (en: Kingfisher) is a two or three-seat basic training monoplane designed and built in France by Morane-Saulnier. Designed as...
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    Alcyon was a French professional cycling team that was active from 1905 to 1959, and returned in 1961 and 1962. It was started by Alcyon, a French bicycle...
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    Poecilanthrax alcyon is a species of bee flies (insects in the family Bombyliidae). "Poecilanthrax alcyon Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System...
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  • vorpostenboot, serving as Boot 10 Alcyon and V 420 Alcyon. She was bombed and sunk in the Gironde on 3 August 1943. Alcyon was 40.74 metres (133 ft 8 in)...
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    1922  Belgium Louis Mottiat Alcyon–Dunlop 1923  Belgium René Vermandel Alcyon–Dunlop 1924  Belgium René Vermandel Alcyon–Dunlop 1925  Belgium Georges...
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  • sort of hearing. Important detail: Vervaecke belonged to the all-powerful Alcyon team, run by the no less powerful Ludovic Feuillet (fr: Ludovic Feuillet)...
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  • Hauwaert Alcyon–Dunlop 1909  Italy Luigi Ganna Atala–Dunlop 1910  France Eugène Christophe Alcyon–Dunlop 1911  France Gustave Garrigou Alcyon–Dunlop 1912...
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    Tour; cyclists such as Nicolas Frantz won the Tour with the Alcyon team. However, when Alcyon cyclist Maurice De Waele won the Tour in 1929 while ill, the...
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    Crested kingfisher (Megaceryle lugubris) Belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) large crested kingfishers with...
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  • alacer alacrity, allegro alb- dull white Latin albus albedo, albino, albumen alcyon- kingfisher Greek ἀλκυών, ἀλκυόνος (alkuṓn, alkuónos) Halcyon, halcyon ale-...
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  • Faber Alcyon–Dunlop 1910  Luxembourg François Faber Alcyon–Dunlop 1911  France Octave Lapize La Française–Diamant 1912  Belgium Louis Heusghem Alcyon–Dunlop...
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  • 1946  Belgium Désiré Keteleer Groene Leeuw 1947  Belgium Ernest Sterckx Alcyon–Dunlop 1948  Italy Fermo Camellini Métropole 1949  Belgium Rik Van Steenbergen...
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    is the genus Halcyon. The belted kingfisher's specific name (Megaceryle alcyon) also references her name. Not all the kingfishers are named in this way...
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  • Nimbus (1919–1959) Renard (1938-1944) Helkama Tunturi AGF Aiglon (1908–1953) Alcyon (1904–1957) Automoto Dollar (1925–1939) Dresch (1923–1939) Gima Gnome et...
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    France in 1912. He was a 20-year-old Fleming and, although he rode for Alcyon, a French team, he symbolized a potential rise for Belgian cycling. Defraye's...
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    the genus Halcyon. The belted kingfisher's Latin species name (Megaceryle alcyon) also references her name. Their story features in The Book of the Duchess...
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  • Look Louison Bobet Motobécane Solex Time Van Rysel VéloSoleX Vitus Defunct Alcyon Clément Corima Follis Gladiator Gnome et Rhône René Herse Hurtu Matra Manufrance...
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  • individual 1922  Belgium Félix Sellier Alcyon–Dunlop 1923  Belgium Félix Sellier Alcyon–Dunlop 1924  Belgium Félix Sellier Alcyon–Dunlop 1925  Belgium Gerard Debaets...
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    The radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica occurred with the Alcyon II radiotherapy unit at San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José, Costa Rica. It was related...
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  • (1913–1919) AL (1907–1909) Alamagny (1947–1948) Alba (1913–1928) Albatros (1912) Alcyon (1906–1929) Alda (1912–1922) Allard-Latour (1899–1902) Alliance (1905–1908)...
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  • entire race, and the final podium was made up of three riders from his Alcyon–Dunlop team. Lastly, Belgian Romain Maes took the lead in the first stage...
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  • Alcestis (Άλκηστις) Alcibiades (Ἀλκιβιάδης) Alcman (Ἀλκμάν) Alcyone (Ἀλκυόνη) Alcyon (Αλκύοννος) Alexandros (Ἀλέξανδρος) Alexios (Αλέξιος) Amalia (Αμαλία) Ambrosius...
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    "How nectar bats fly nowhere". Science News. "Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon". National Audubon Society. "Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata". Cornell...
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  • Germany (defunct) AIST - Belarus ALAN - Italy Al Carter - UK (defunct) Alcyon - France (defunct) Alldays & Onions - UK (defunct) American Bicycle Company...
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    adult stages can range from 150 g (5.3 oz) belted kingfishers (Megaceryle alcyon) to 1,100 lb (500 kg) American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)....
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  • believed were the underhand tactics of bike factories. When in 1929 the Alcyon team contrived to get Maurice De Waele to win even though he was sick, he...
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    MS.755 MS.760 MS.785 MS.860 MS.880 MS.1001 MS.1500 Names and nicknames Alcyon Borel Bullet Comté de Nice or Nice (project) Criquet Épervier, Épervier...
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