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A falcon is a bird of prey. Falcon may also refer to:
People [link]
- Falcon (surname)
- Cornélie Falcon, operatic soprano
- Falcon Heene, the young boy involved in the balloon boy hoax of 2009
- Christopher John Boyce, nicknamed "the Falcon", an American traitor and walk-in Soviet spy
- Christian Falk, nicknamed "Falcon", a Swedish musician and producer
Transportation [link]
Aviation [link]
- Buckeye Falcon, an American powered parachute design
- Curtiss Falcon a post-World War I observation biplane
- DARPA Falcon Project, an unmanned spaceplane capable of hypersonic speeds
- Dassault Falcon, a family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
- F-16 Fighting Falcon, a fighter aircraft
- Falcon Air, a defunct Swedish airline
- Falcon Air Express, a defunct airline based in Miami, Florida
- Falcon Express Cargo Airlines, an airline based in the United Arab Emirates
- Rolls-Royce Falcon, a World War I era aircraft engine used in the Bristol F.2 Fighter
- Miles Falcon, a 1930s British three/four-seat cabin monoplane
- AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force
Maritime [link]
- HMS Falcon, the name of 22 ships of the Royal Navy
- SS Falcon, a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.
- USS Falcon, the name of four ships of the United States Navy
Rail [link]
- British Rail Class 53 Falcon, a class of lightweight electric-diesel locomotives made in 1961
- Falcon, a South Devon Railway Comet class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive involved in a crash
Road [link]
- Dennis Falcon, a bus model manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
- Falcon Cycles, a British bicycle manufacturer
- Falcon Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
- Ford Falcon (Argentina), a compact car built by the Ford Motor Company of Argentina
- Ford Falcon (Australia), a full-size car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company of Australia
- Ford Falcon (Americas), a compact car produced by Ford Motor Company
- Ford Falcon van, a passenger van produced by the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s
Rocketry and space [link]
- AIM-4 Falcon, the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the US Air Force
- AIM-26 Falcon, a U.S. nuclear capable air-to-air missile
- AIM-47 Falcon, a U.S. long-range air-to-air missile
- AGM-76 Falcon, an experimental US high speed nuclear strike air-to-surface missile
- The Falcon rocket family by SpaceX:
- Falcon 1
- Falcon 5 (proposed; never built)
- Falcon 9
- Falcon Heavy
- Falcon, the callsign of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module
- Viper Falcon, a U.S. sounding rocket
Culture [link]
Film [link]
- Falcons (film), a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
- Banović Strahinja (film), English title The Falcon
- Falcon Entertainment, the parent corporation of a group of gay pornographic film studios
- Falcon Studios, a large company producing gay pornography, based in San Francisco
Fictional characters [link]
- Falcon (Transformers)
- Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero
- The Falcon (literary character), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940
- The Falcon (radio), a radio drama featuring the literary crime fighting detective by Michael Arlen
- Lt. Falcon, a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Falcon, a locomotive character, later renamed Sir Handel, in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
Music [link]
- An operatic voice type first exemplified by Cornélie Falcon
- Falcon Records, a record label
- The Falcons, an American rhythm and blues band in the 50s
- The Falcon (band), a Chicago punk rock band
- Falcon (album), by British alternative rock band The Courteeners
Video games [link]
- Falcon (computer game), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
- Edward Falcon, a character in the Power Stone series of video games
- Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero video game series
- Novint Falcon, a USB haptic controller designed to replace the mouse in video games and other applications
- Falcon, a motherboard formerly included in all Xbox 360 console models
- Falcon: Name of the Final Fantasy VI another airship
Sports [link]
- Atlanta Falcons, an American National Football League team
- Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team
- West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team
- Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team
- Newcastle Falcons, a rugby team based in Newcastle, England
- The New Zealand national Australian rules football team, called the Falcons
- Falcon (sport), a humorous term for being hit on the head by the ball
- Polish Falcons of America, a Polish fraternal and sporting organization
- USA Falcons, a rugby team that plays in the North America 4 tournament
- St. Catharines Falcons Jr. B, a Junior "B" hockey team based in St. Catharines, Ontario
School mascots [link]
- American Cooperative School of Tunis
- Bowling Green Falcons of Bowling Green University
- United States Air Force Academy
- Aplington-Parkersburg High School
Places [link]
- United States
- Falcon, Colorado
- Falcon, Kentucky
- Falcon, Mississippi
- Falcon Dam, Texas
- Falcon Village, Texas
- New Falcon, Texas
- Other
- Falcon, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah, Australia
- Falcon Lake (disambiguation), various bodies of water in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico
- Falkenfelsen, or Falcon Rock, a granite formation in Germany
Computing [link]
- Atari Falcon, Atari's last released general-use computer
- Falcon (storage engine), a MySQL storage engine
- Falcon (programming language), a multi-paradigm typeless programming language
- Falcon Northwest, a high-end computer manufacturer in the US, specialising in gaming PCs
- A nickname for a PDP-11 model, the SBC 11/21 (boardname KXT11)
In business [link]
- FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
- Bryggeri AB Falken, a Swedish brewery which sold beer under the name Falcon
- Falcon, a fraud-detection system for credit or debit card transactions, owned by FICO
- The Falcon, Chester, a public house in Chester, Cheshire, England
Other uses [link]
- RAF Hal Far, an airfield on Malta known as HMS Falcon while a Royal Navy base
- Operation FALCON, several dragnets for fugitives organized by the United States Marshals Service
- Typhoon Falcon (disambiguation)
See also [link]
- Falcón (disambiguation)
- Falco (disambiguation)
- Falcone (disambiguation)
- Falconer (disambiguation)
- all pages beginning with "Falcon"
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The Falcon (radio)
The Falcon radio series premiered on the Blue Network on April 10, 1943, continuing on NBC and Mutual until November 27, 1954. Some 70 episodes were produced.
"Drexel Drake" (a pseudonym of Charles H. Huff) created Michael Waring, alias the Falcon, a free-lance investigator and troubleshooter, in his 1936 novel, The Falcon's Prey. It was followed by two more novels (The Falcon Cuts In, 1937 and The Falcon Meets a Lady, 1938) and a 1938 short story. In 1941, RKO made a movie, The Gay Falcon, based on a 1940 short story, "Gay Falcon," by Michael Arlen, rechristening Arlen's Gay Stanhope Falcon as Gay Lawrence aka the Falcon. It became a film series, and its popularity led eventually to the radio series. No explanation for the nickname was ever mentioned in any of the dramatizations. The Michael Waring Falcon was also the hero in three late 1940s movies starring John Calvert, and a television series starring Charles McGraw.
Characters and story
Like the Falcon film series, the radio plots mixed danger, romance and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation in which he had to deal with criminals. This led into the standard opening, followed by the week's tale of adventure. Often, incompetent police were unable to solve the mysteries without his help.
The Falcon (character)
Gay Stanhope Falcon (later known in film and radio as The Falcon) is a fictional character created in 1940 by Michael Arlen. Falcon made his first appearance in Arlen's short story "Gay Falcon", which was first published in 1940 in Town & Country magazine. Falcon is characterized as a freelance adventurer and troubleshooter - a man who makes his living "keeping his mouth shut and engaging in dangerous enterprises."
Film appearances
The Falcon was quickly brought to the screen by RKO - 1941's The Gay Falcon redefined the character as a suave English gentleman detective with a weakness for beautiful women. The film was intended to establish a suitable replacement character for Leslie Charteris' Simon Templar (aka The Saint, hero of a popular RKO film series). To that end, George Sanders (star of The Saint series) was cast. Though Gay Falcon was the character's name in Arlen's original story, for the film series, the character was renamed Gay Laurence - thus, "The Falcon" became an alias, or nickname (à la "The Saint"). In later outings, in various media, the character had a variety of "real names," while still being known as The Falcon. Neither in films nor on radio was the nickname ever explained.
Day of the Falcon
Day of the Falcon (also known as Black Gold and Or noir) is a 2011 drama film, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia (also known as The Great Thirst and The Arab), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It was produced by Tarak Ben Ammar and co-produced by Doha Film Institute, Qatar. The film stars Akin Gazi, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Mark Strong, Riz Ahmed and Tahar Rahim.
The film had a budget of US$55 million, making it one of the most expensive films backed by an Arab about an Arab subject.
Plot
In the early 20th century, Emir Nesib (Antonio Banderas), Sultan of Hobeika, and Sultan Amar (Mark Strong) of Salmaah have been in a border war over a vast barren strip they call "The Yellow Belt". When Nesib wins he forces Amar to agree to a peace pact: the Yellow Belt will belong to neither, becoming a no-mans-land between their territories, and Emir Nesib will take Sultan Amar's sons, Saleh and Auda, as hostages. Amar reluctantly agrees, knowing the hostages are a sacred trust which binds Nesib as well. They both swear to the pact before God. Nesib promises to rear Amar's sons with his own children, Tariq and Leyla.
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Huffing The Proverbial Line Off The Proverbial Dong -or- Blood & The Frog
by: The FalconYou can't dig what you don't understand, boy
Sometimes it's the only way
Well, the misery's so fucking exciting
Well, the fashion of it all's the fucking rage.
These are hammers on strings making notes, babe
With blood and the frog in my throat
These are binders covered in bad poetry
Now knowing what it's really all about.
Oh where, oh where, oh where...
Did you get that stupid shit-eating grin that you wear?
And what, or who got you through the door?
You're a piece of meat on the killing floor.
These are closed and velvet ropes
And a curtain-sipping cokes
To be certain, it's so slow
That it's hurting, don't you know?
Take your chances in the killing fields
With all the snakes and dogs
And dance 'til you bleed and bone touches steel
And all your hope is gone.