[quote="APOD Robot"][url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161004.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_161004.jpg[/img] [size=150]Nest of the Eagle Nebula[/size][/url]
[list]<<Cataloged as M16, the Eagle [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/emission_nebulae.html]emission nebula[/url] lies about 6,500 [url=http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html]light years[/url] away
and is visible with [url=http://www.explainthatstuff.com/binoculars.html]binoculars[/url] toward the [url=http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question9.html]constellation[/url] of the Serpent (Serpens).>>[/list][/quote][quote=" http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheSerpentandtheEagle2"]
[list]Aesop: The Serpent and the Eagle[/list]
<<An Eagle swooped down upon a Serpent and seized it in his talons with the intention of carrying it off and devouring it. But the Serpent was too quick for him and had its coils round him in a moment; and then there ensued a life-and-death struggle between the two. A countryman, who was a witness of the encounter, came to the assistance of the eagle, and succeeded in freeing him from the Serpent and enabling him to escape. In revenge, the Serpent spat some of his poison into the man's drinking-horn. Heated with his exertions, the man was about to slake his thirst with a draught from the horn, when the Eagle knocked it out of his hand, and spilled its contents upon the ground.>>
[list]"One good turn deserves another."[/list][/quote][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Mexico"]
[float=right][img3=""]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Coat_of_arms_of_Mexico.svg/579px-Coat_of_arms_of_Mexico.svg.png[/img3][/float]<<The current coat of arms of Mexico depicts a Mexican golden eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus devouring a rattlesnake. The coat of arms recalls the founding of Mexico City, then called Tenochtitlan. The original meanings of the symbols were different in numerous aspects. The eagle was a representation of the sun god Huitzilopochtli, who was very important, as the Mexicas referred to themselves as the "People of the Sun". The cactus, full of its fruits, called "nochtli" in Nahuatl, represent the island of Tenochtitlan. To the Mexicas, the snake represented wisdom, and it had strong connotations with the god [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl]Quetzalcoatl[/url]. The story of the snake was derived from an incorrect translation of the Crónica mexicáyotl by Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc. In the story, the Nahuatl text ihuan cohuatl izomocayan, "the snake hisses", was mistranslated as "the snake is torn". Based on this, Father Diego Durán reinterpreted the legend so that the eagle represents all that is good and right, while the snake represents evil and sin. Despite its inaccuracy, the new legend was adopted because it conformed with European heraldic tradition. To the Europeans it would represent the struggle between good and evil. Although this interpretation does not conform to pre-Columbian traditions, it was an element that could be used by the first missionaries for the purposes of evangelism and the conversion of the native peoples.>>[/quote]