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. | |
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| 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.
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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...
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No-one understood our idea, but now it's worth over $1bn
The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around The World . This Week we speak to Howie Liu, The Founder and chief executive of the fast-growing spreadsheet start-up Airtable .
Silicon Valley boss Howard Liu is sitting, he believes, on an idea That could earn tens of billions of dollars. And with any luck, he tells the BBC, his company Airtable will be The One to execute it.
"It's a profoundly large opportunity, not unlike the scale of Amazon, or Facebook, or Google," he says without irony.
"I just think there's this Sea Change That 's going to happen in terms of how People Can interact with software. "
The big idea? Spreadsheets, But better. Spreadsheets, But richer.
Spreadsheets are commonly used by professionals such as accountants to sort data, produce charts and do sums. But most of us find them too technical to use in anything But a basic way.
Airtable changes That , says Mr Liu, Making It so easy That People who typically don't have coding skills - Like cattle farmers - Can Set Up complex cloud systems for what they do, such as Keeping Track of cows and equipment.
'Eyes glazed over'The app has become a runaway success, attracting High Profile customers such as entertainment company Netflix, electric carmaker Tesla and the magazine and website Time.
The Company is also worth $1. 1bn (£850m), Based on its latest funding round, despite only having had a product on the market for four years.
Salesforce boss Marc Benioff advised Mr Liu and his partners when they were starting outExplaining the concept to investors was difficult in The Company 's early days, admits Mr Liu, who co-founded The Business in 2012 and is also Airtable 's chief executive. It didn't exactly sound Like an entirely new idea.
"The concept of a spreadsheet predates even computing. Spreadsheets were The First Killer App . "
And so, when he and his partners went into investor meetings armed with their "pitch deck", they offered very little of what investors typically expected to hear.
"You see all these pitch decks Out There That show a chart of growth, and market size, and All That kind of stuff. Ours looked nothing Like That . "
Instead they made a philosophical case for Airtable and how it could transform The World of Work .
Airtable tries to make spreadsheets easier to use"Honestly, I think a lot of eyes just glazed over. I distinctly remember a few cases, even with the investors That said yes, where they said 'we don't really get what you're talking about'. "
Ultimately, what got those investors on board was confidence in the Airtable team itself, which Mr Liu says was perhaps of more importance at such an early stage.
"There are many ways for a great idea with a bad team to fail, whereas even an unknown idea with a great team Can succeed. "
'I thought we were Chinese?'Mr Liu grew up in College Station , Texas, "two hours away from Houston and Three Hours away from Dallas".
He jokes That His Family background is so complicated his mother didn't even try to explain it to him until he was around 10 years old.
"All four of my grandparents were Korean," he says. "But during the Second World War they moved, as many Koreans did, to China. My parents were both born in China, But moved to The States before I was born. "
His parents thought he would be "too confused" by That kind of story, and it wasn't until he had to do a Family History essay for school That it was explained to him.
"I interviewed my grandparents and I remember being Like 'wait a second, I thought we were Chinese?' I was super confused. "
Mr Liu's background is Korean-Chinese, But he was raised in the USLess confusing was learning to code. Aged 13, Mr Liu picked up one of his dad's books on C++, the programming language, and taught himself in a matter of weeks.
At just 16, he began studying computational airfoil design at Duke University in North Carolina . It was here That he met his eventual Airtable co-founders, Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas, although the three wouldn't Work together until later on in their lives.
Mr Liu's First Business was Etacts, a customer relationship management (CRM) company. It was bought by software giant Salesforce in 2011 for an undisclosed sum.
The sale gave Mr Liu the luxury of financial security when Starting Up Airtable , But the acquisition, he reflects, left him feeling somewhat hollow.
"I ended up being very fortunate to have this life-changing financial outcome," he says. "But it was a failure in the sense That we never actually built a real business, an organisation with its own culture. "
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It did, however, get him in The Room with powerful People when he needed backing for Airtable - People Like Marc Benioff , chief executive of Salesforce And One of The Most influential men in the tech industry.
He wasn't sold on Mr Liu's idea, and suggested they instead put their effort into creating a better way of gathering electronic medical records. They ignored his advice.
"It wasn't Like we arrogantly thought we knew better," Mr Liu remembers. "Marc was extremely generous with his time and advice. He was doing us a huge favour. "
The San Francisco -Based firm still only has around 80,000 business customers But That figure is growing. A plethora of other famous users are helping to spread the word, although The Firm has found popularity among far smaller enterprises too, particularly non-profit organisations.
When Hurricane Harvey battered Texas and Louisiana in 2017, Airtable was used to log rescued pets and reunite them with their owners. The Site has a free plan, with limited functionality and capacity, and paid monthly plans for small businesses.
The success makes Airtable , quite comfortably, a "Unicorn " - the nickname for privately held companies valued at More Than a billion dollars. It's a status symbol most in San Francisco strive for - But Mr Liu winces at the term.
Airtable is headquartered in trendy San Francisco , But Mr Liu is wary of The City 's show-offishness"It just viscerally feels… cheesy. I think it's a label That has unnecessary or artificial gravitas. "
He feels too many start-ups, particularly in show-offish San Francisco , use the "meaningless" Unicorn tag to make themselves appear bigger and more impressive than is justified.
"In the short term, you Can fake it. But if you focus so much on what others think of you, you don't focus on The Right things. In the long-term, what really matters are Your Business fundamentals. "
Alex Wilhelm, editor in chief of investment-tracking website Crunchbase, cites several factors in Airtable 's appeal.
"Airtable hits on a few trends That venture capitalists are currently excited about," he says.
"It touches on the idea That consumers are becoming more willing today to pay a small fee for software to organise their personal or Work lives.
"And it's something That venture capitalists Can use themselves, and understand. Never underestimate The Power of That . "
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Source of news: bbc.com
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