Unicorn
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| First Mentioned | 5th century BC |
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| Mythological Origin | Asia |
| Based on | Horse |
| Symbol of | Scotland |
| Abilities | Power to render poisoned water potable, Heals sickness, Has magical powers |
| Similar Creatures | Qilin |
| Karkadann | |
| Shadhavar | |
| Re'em | |
| Camahueto | |
| Indrik | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 565620 |
About Unicorn
The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.
Duke of Wellington: Is the statue's new hat a parting gift from Banksy?
... There also appears to be a horn placed on the horses head so it resembles a Unicorn - the national animal of Scotland...
Latitude 2023: The rise of football shirts at music festivals
... " We sold a Unicorn of a shirt for £220 Volunteer worker Sam Ralphs, 27, says the range of vintage shirts are proving popular at the Oxfam shop at Latitude...
Queen's funeral: Full guide to the gun carriage and the main procession
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The procession in fullMounted Metropolitan Police • Royal Canadian Mounted Police • Bands of The Rifles and Brigade of Gurkhas • Representatives of the George Cross from Malta, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the UK National Health Service Representative detachments of Commonwealth forces: Territorial Air Force of New Zealand • Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment • The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers • Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps • Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery • Royal New Zealand Navy • Royal Australian Air Force Reserve • Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps • Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps • Royal Australian Infantry Corps • Royal Australian Engineers • Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery • Royal Australian Navy • The Canadian Armed Forces Legal Branch • The Royal Canadian Air Force (Reserve) • The Calgary Highlanders • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada • The 48th Highlanders of Canada • The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment • The Royal New Brunswick Regiment • Le Regiment de Ia Chaudière • The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (Princess Louise s) • The Canadian Grenadier Guards • Governor General s Foot Guards • Royal 22e Regiment • The King s Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) The Governor General s Horse Guards • The Royal Canadian Engineers • The Canadian Armed Forces Military Engineering Branch • The Royal Regiment of Canadian ArtilleryRepresentatives of the Royal Air Force: 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Royal Auxiliary Air Force • Royal Air Force Marham • The Combined Bands of the Royal Air Force • Royal Air Force College, Cranwell • Royal Air Force RegimentRepresentatives of the Army: The Honourable Artillery Company • Adjutant General s Corps • British Army Bands Sandhurst and Colchester • The Queen s Gurkha Engineers • The Royal Welsh • The Duke of Lancaster s Regiment • The Royal Regiment of Scotland • Welsh Guards • Irish Guards • Scots Guards • Coldstream Guards • Grenadier Guards • Bands of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards • Corps of Royal Engineers • Royal Regiment of Artillery • Royal Tank Regiment • The Royal Lancers • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)Representatives of the Royal Navy: Royal Navy • Royal Marines • The Combined Bands of the Royal MarinesDefence advisers and staff of Her Majesty s realms: Jamaica • New Zealand • Australia • CanadaRepresentative colonels of Commonwealth forces of which Her Majesty was Colonel-in-ChiefChaplains of the armed forces: Principal Church of Scotland & Free Church Chaplain Royal Air Force • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain Royal Air Force • Chaplain-in-Chief Royal Air Force • Deputy Chaplain General (Army) • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Army) • Chaplain General (Army) • Principal Church of Scotland and Free Churches Chaplain (Royal Navy) • Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Royal Navy) • Chaplain of the FleetRepresentatives of forces of which the Queen was air commodore-in-chief • Representative Colonels Commandant, Colonels and Honorary Colonels of Her Majesty s Regiments and Corps • Commandant General, Royal Marines • Representatives of Her Majesty s ships • Commander Strategic Command • Vice Chief of the Defence Staff • Chief of the Air Staff • Chief of the General Staff • Chief of the Naval Staff • Chief of the Defence Staff • Drum Horse and State Trumpeter • 1st Division of the Sovereign s Escort • ADC to the Major General Commanding the Household Division • Brigade Major Household Division • Major General Commanding the Household Division • Combined Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards Pursuivants and Heralds of Arms of Scotland: March • Linlithgow • Ormond • Rothesay • Falkland • Unicorn • Carrick • Marchmont Pursuivants and Heralds of Arms of England: Portcullis • Rouge Dragon • Norfolk • Windsor • York • Bluemantle • Wales • Maltravers • Chester • RichmondKings of Arms: Norroy and Ulster King of Arms • Lord Lyon King of Arms • Clarenceux King of Arms • Lady Usher of the Black Rod • Garter King of ArmsThe Earl Marshal • Bands of the Scots Guards and Coldstream Guards • Captain, the King s Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard • Captain general, the King s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers) (Gold Stick for Scotland) • Captain, His Majesty s Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms Royal Household; Vice Chamberlain of the Household • Comptroller of the Household • Treasurer of the Household • Queen s Gurkha Orderly Officer (x2) • Royal Waterman (x2) • Director of the Royal Collection • Comptroller Lord Chamberlain s Office • Master of the Household • Keeper of the Privy Purse • Private secretary to the Queen • Master of the Horse • Lord Steward • Her Majesty s Page (x2) • Her Majesty s Palace StewardBehind the gun carriage: Escort Party of the Household CavalryRoyal Family: The Earl of Wessex and Forfar • The Duke of York • The Princess Royal • The King • Peter Phillips • The Duke of Sussex • The Prince of Wales • Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence • The Duke of Gloucester • The Earl of SnowdonRoyal Car 1: The Queen Consort • The Princess of WalesRoyal Car 2: The Duchess of Sussex • The Countess of Wessex and ForfarField officer in Brigade Waiting • Silver Stick in Waiting • Colonel Coldstream Guards • Gold Stick in Waiting • Adjutant in Brigade Waiting • Silver Stick Adjutant • Crown EquerryHousehold of the King: Master of the Household • Equerry • Principal Private Secretary • TreasurerSecond division of the Sovereign s escortRepresentatives of Civilian Services: Merchant Navy • Royal Fleet Auxiliary • The Maritime Coastguard Agency • Police Services • Fire and Rescue Services • His Majesty s Prison Services • Ambulance Service • British Red Cross • St John Ambulance • Royal Voluntary Service • Cadet forcesRear: Mounted Metropolitan PoliceOnce the procession reaches Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, at about 13:00 BST, the coffin will be transferred to the new State Hearse for its final journey to Windsor Castle...
Teen girl beats boys to 'make history' as a state champion
... I always say to her, she is a Unicorn, because she is so special...
No-one understood our idea, but now it's worth over $1bn
... The success makes Airtable, quite comfortably, a Unicorn - the nickname for privately held companies valued at more than a billion dollars...
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... It has already attained the status of a tech Unicorn - a term used to describe private start-ups valued at more than $1bn (£740m)...
Brexit: What are the new ideas for the Irish backstop?
... Mr Timothy appeared to acknowledge that reality, writing: No doubt this idea will be attacked as another Unicorn...
Brexit: What are the new ideas for the Irish backstop?
Theresa May says she has "fresh mandate and renewed determination" to revisit the Brexit deal
Prime Minister Theresa May says she intends to return to Brussels with new ideas on the Irish backstop.
The EU has already dismissed the idea of putting a Time Limit on the backstop, So What other ideas have been suggested?
The backstop: a reminderThe backstop is an insurance Policy - designed to avoid a hard border "under all circumstances" between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
If the UK leaves the customs union and the single market that could mean goods would have to be checked as they crossed The Frontier .
The UK and EU would instead like to keep The Border frictionless through a comprehensive trade deal.
If such an agreement could not be reached, then to avoid those checks with customs posts or other infrastructure, the backstop would come into force.
It would keep the UK in a "single customs territory" with the EU, and leave Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods.
Many MPs fear the UK could be "trapped" in that arrangement for years, leaving it unable to strike its own trade deals on goods with the rest of The World .
The Prime Minister 's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) allies also do not want to see Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.
So What could be done?Clarification - and another referendum
The Irish economist Karl Whelan has suggested that while Northern Ireland stays in it.
"This is the original version of the backstop that the EU offered, so it should be clear they are willing to still offer this," says Prof Whelan.
That would leave Great Britain free to strike trade deals but Northern Ireland would not be part of them.
That would be anathema to the DUP and other MPs.
The DUP's Nigel Dodds and Arlene Foster want NI to be treated the same as the rest of the UK after BrexitThe second part of Prof Whelan's plan is to use the Brexit political declaration to promise the citizens of Northern Ireland a referendum on the backstop, should it ever come into effect.
He suggests that five years after the beginning of the operation of a Northern Ireland -only backstop there would be a vote on whether to remain within the EU's customs union and single market.
He says: "A Promise to hold a referendum five years after the end of the transition period would provide a clear concession to those who believe the backstop arrangements would be harmful to Northern Ireland by offering them a chance to convince their fellow citizens to end the arrangements after a period. "
A European customs association
A paper for the German Ifo Institute suggests that their red lines.
It proposes a new European customs association - a permanent customs union between the UK and the EU.
It would be superior to the customs deal Turkey has with the EU giving the UK "full and active participation", instead of merely being a rule-taker.
However, it acknowledges even that would not be enough to keep the Irish border frictionless and the UK would have to effectively remain in the single market for goods and perhaps services.
The Irish border has been One of The Most contentious Brexit issuesIn Return for such an enormous u-turn by the UK, The Institute says that the EU should also make a Radical Change on free movement.
The EU's position is that the UK cannot enjoy full participation in the single market unless it accepts the Four Freedoms - One of which is The Free movement of people.
The Institute says the EU could "abandon its indivisibility dogma by which the Four Freedoms are inseparable, offering the UK to participate in product market integration but allowing it to make its own choices in other areas".
It adds: "Most importantly, this concerns the mobility of people. "
Beef up the political declaration
The political declaration was published alongside the withdrawal deal and sets out The Broad shape of The Future relationship between the UK and EU.
EU leaders have said they are open to redrafting the declaration if the UK presents new ideas.
The former Liberal Democrat MEP Andrew Duff has, in a paper for the European Policy Centre, suggested.
He says that the language on the temporary nature of the backstop could be clearer and "more forceful".
However, given the Prime Minister 's intention to seek legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement changes to the political declaration are unlikely to impress pro-Brexit MPs.
Ireland leaves the EU customs union
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, the Prime Minister 's former senior adviser Nick Timothy suggested that with the EU.
That would eliminate the possibility of customs checks at the Irish border but mean new customs procedures between Ireland and the EU.
Mr Timothy said that would build on existing policies and would help to protect Irish consumers and businesses.
However, in Ireland there is near universal hostility to any suggestion that Brexit should force it to weaken its position in the EU.
Mr Timothy appeared to acknowledge that reality, writing: "No Doubt this idea will be attacked as another Unicorn . "
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Source of news: bbc.com
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