Eagle

Current Graphic Novels:

Characters:

• Takashi Jo - a small-time journalist, his mother never told him the name of his father, and he only knows that his father was in the American army. He marvels at the strength that Yamoaka seems to possess.
  
• Kenneth Yamoaka - U.S. Senator, he's a veteran of Vietnam War, was quarterback of his college football team, and married into an American family of bankers, the Hamptons. He seems focused on achieving his goal of presidency at any cost.
  
• Rachel Yamoaka - helps with her father's campaigning, she grows close to Takashi. But there seems to be something wrong with the whole idea...

They live in mountain areas and spend most of their time above the tree line. In Europe, you're likely to see only one species, the golden eagle.

Eagles are large birds of the type Americans call hawks: broad-winged, with a broad, rounded tail. They hover rather than fly, often in circles, using thermiek whenever possible. The name of 'eagle' is reserved to the larger species, but the smaller buzzards (Buteo), one of the commonest birds of prey in Europe, are very similar. In America, a much bigger continent after all, there is a much larger variety of species.

Also, a song released as a single off ABBA - The Album in 1977. Enjoyed moderate chart success compared to ABBA's other efforts, which went solidly to #1 all over Europe.

The music is very melodramatic, depicting the flight of an eagle with swirling, falling lines from the two singers and the synthesizer.

It brings me to tears just to think of this song. YMMV.

Serving Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Texarkana, Dallas, San Antonio, and intermediate points

Amtrak train numbers: 21 and 22; then 821 and 822; then 321 and 322

Predecessor railroad train numbers: None

In the early 1980s, due to Amtrak budget cuts, service on the daily Chicago-Laredo/Houston Inter-American was cut back until it became a three-day-a-week Chicago-San Antonio train, now named the Eagle, although still running daily to provide a corridor service between Chicago and St. Louis. However, a little bit of service was added in the form of a through sleeping car for service to Los Angeles that was added to or subtracted from the Sunset Limited in San Antonio, albeit with the car sitting by itself for many overnight hours outside the San Antonio train station (connected to electricity, fortunately for the passengers inside).

In 1988, a Houston section was reinstated, now being separated from the rest of the train in Dallas and running through College Station. With this change in service, the train was reinaugurated as the Texas Eagle.

However, the Eagle name survived as the name of the Chicago-St. Louis service running on the Texas Eagle's off days.

Condensed historical timetables:

          READ DOWN                                          READ UP
(1983)  (1987)  (1989)  (1997)                   (1997)  (1989)  (1987)  (1983)
 5:20P   5:15P   3:15P   6:30P  Dp Chicago     Ar 1:35P   1:10P   1:35P  12:55P
11:05P  11:30P   9:10P  12:25A    St. Louis       6:59A   7:15A   8:05A   7:35A
 5:50A   6:29A   -----   -----    Little Rock     -----   -----  11:59P  11:55P 
 8:19A   9:02A   -----   -----    Texarkana       -----   -----   9:12P   8:58P
 1:05P   1:42P   -----   -----    Dallas          -----   -----   4:43P   4:45P
 9:25P  10:50P   -----   ----- Ar San Antonio Dp  -----   -----   6:05A   8:45A

The Amtrak Train Names Project

In most large cities in much of the industrialized world the Eagle is the name of a leather bar (usually catering to gay men). This can be handy for travelers who wish to find a butch space for cruising or for connecting with the local leather scene.

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Ea"gle (?), n. [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. Aquiline.]

1. Zool.

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik ∨ imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

2.

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

3. Astron.

A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.

4.

The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.

Though the Roman eagle shadow thee. Tennyson.

⇒ Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle.

Bald eagle. See Bald eagle. -- Bold eagle. See under Bold. -- Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars. -- Eagle hawk Zool., a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus Morphnus. -- Eagle owl Zool., any large owl of the genus Bubo, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl (Bubo Virginianus), and the allied European species (B. maximus). See Horned owl. -- Eagle ray Zool., any large species of ray of the genus Myliobatis (esp. M. aquila). -- Eagle vulture Zool., a large West African bid (Gypohierax Angolensis), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures.

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