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The Earl of Wharncliffe and the Dragon

The Earl of Wharncliffe slays the local dragon in a bas-relief in Sheffield Town Hall. Source.

George and the Dragon by Cranach

Lucas Cranach the Elder painted this Saint George in 1525. Somebody walked off with it in 1945 and it has been missing ever since. Source.

The Lindworm of Klagenfurt

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Bahram Gur and the Dragon

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Harley MS 3244 Dragon

Harley MS 3244 is a manuscript, not a motorcycle. This fire-breathing dragon was drawn in the mid-13th century. Source.

Horse and Dragon

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La Décapole: Rosheim

Dietrich and the dragon on the Church of Peter and Paul in Rosheim. Source.

Saint Philip and the Dragon

The Apostle Philip drove a dragon out of the Temple in Jerusalem. Source.

Austrian George and the Dragon

A 14th-Century George and the Dragon from Saint Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, now at the Met. Source.

Kometa Brno

A tram car painted like the Brno Dragon that terrorized the city but in the end turned out to be just a crocodile. Source.

Sparta Prague visit Kometa Brno at DRFG Arena for the last regular season game of the season. Sparta are 3rd, 3 points behind Vitkovice. Brno are 8th.

Results so far:

2022/10/21    Sparta Prague 2 - 3 Kometa Brno

2022/12/4      Kometa Brno 2 - 6 Sparta Prague

2023/1/20      Sparta Prague 5 - 3 Kometa Brno

[2023/3/5       Kometa Brno 5 - 2 Sparta Prague]

Brno was at one time the capital of Moravia. Botanist Gregor Mendel lived here. Kurt Gödel of the supergroup Gödel Escher Bach was born in Brno in 1906.

Brno won the Czechoslovak league in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966, and the Czech league in 2017 and 2018. They also won the Spengler Cup in 1955 and the Europa Cup in 1966, 1967 and 1968. Vlastimil Bubnik was team captain during those glory years of the Fifties and Sixties.

The European or Europa Cup was a predecessor of the Champions Hockey League. It was organized by the IIHF and ran from 1965 to 1996. The tournament was dominated by the USSR, in particular CSKA Moscow who won it 20 times. But Brno won it the first three years it was held, and Poldi Kladno also won it once, in 1977.