Corvus

Corvus is a small constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for raven or crow. It includes only 11 stars visible to the naked eye...

The corvus or harpago was a Roman military boarding device used in naval warfare during the First Punic War against Carthage....

Marcus Valerius Corvus was a Roman general of the 4th century BC, characterized as a farmer who lived to be one hundred.-Biography:...

Corvus: A Life With Birds by Esther Woolfson is a non-fiction book about a family which adopts various corvids; a rook named Chicken, a magpie named Spike, and a crow named Ziki....

The Gibson Corvus was a short-lived series of guitars produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in the mid-1980s. It featured a solid body with an offset V-cut at the tail, which led it to be colloquially known as the "can opener" guitar. Also, if the guitar is turned sideways it looks as if it is...

SS Corvus was a 1,317 GRT Norwegian steamship built in Copenhagen in 1920/21 by Kjøbenhavns Flydedok & Skibsværft A/S for the Norwegian passenger ship company Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab of Bergen, which was attacked and sunk by two German U-boats in the Western Approaches of the English Channel...

The ASM-N-8 Corvus was an anti-radiation missile developed by Temco Aircraft for the United States Navy.-History:In April 1955, the U.S. Navy planned the acquisition of a a long-range air-to-surface missile armed with a nuclear warhead. This weapon should be carried by the carrier-based North...

An air-to-surface missile is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft and strike ground targets on land, at sea, or both...

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...