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unusual facts about Böhm's Bee-eater


Böhm's Bee-eater

The name of this bird commemorates the German zoologist Richard Böhm.


Adolphus Island

The island is home to unique and endangered flora such as Brachychiton incanus and a variety of birdlife such as Rufous Night Heron, Little Eagle, Brown Falcon, Whimbrel, Tawny Frogmouth, Great Bowerbird and Rainbow Bee-eater.

Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve

Among the colourful family of kingfishers, who preferably occur near open water, the Woodland Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (Merops hirundineus), Giant Kingfisher (Ceryle maxima), Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) and the Blue-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica) are notable.

Bee-eater

For many species the dominant prey item are stinging members of the order Hymenoptera, namely wasps and bees.

Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater

By the twenty-second century the entire world east of the 30th meridian west and west of the 175th meridian east has become terra incognita to Pan-America.

Chatham Raven

It may also have depended on fruit, like the New Caledonian Crow (C. moneduloides), but it is difficult to understand why a fruit eater would have been most common in coastal forest and shrubland when fruit was distributed throughout the forest.

Club des Hashischins

In 1821, Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater appeared, and was translated into French in 1828 by an anonymous author that signed as ADM, which turned out to be Alfred de Musset.

Composite fermion

More accurately, the vortices bound to electrons produce their own geometric phases which partly cancel the Aharonov–Bohm phase due to the external magnetic field to generate a net geometric phase that can be modeled as an Aharonov–Bohm phase in an effective magnetic field B^*.

Confessions of an Opium Eater

It is loosely based on the 1822 autobiographical novel, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey.

Cuthbert Christy

Naja christyi, commonly known as the Congo water cobra or Christy's water cobra, is named after him, as are Chamaelycus christyi (Christy's Banded Snake) and Polemon christyi (Christy's Snake-eater).

Deströyer 666

Following their debut release, Deströyer 666 had a line-up of Warslut; bassist Bullet Eater (aka Phil Gresik, ex-Bestial Warlust, Hobbs' Angel of Death, Mass Confusion); Gospel of the Horns' drummer Howitzer; and guitarist Shrapnel.

Die Chefin

Der Spiegel wrote that Böhm could "believable show the balance between successful Inspector and struggling woman".

Eastern Congolian swamp forests

Endemic amphibians and reptiles include a small frog (Cryptothylax minutus), a chameleon (Trioceros chapini), a wall lizard Gastropholis tropidopholis, the Zaire snake-eater Polemon robustus, and a worm lizard Zygaspis dolichomenta.

Ernstthal am Rennsteig

Ernstthal wurde durch die fünf Lauschaer Glasmeister Hans und Nicol Müller, Hans Georg Böhm und Christoph und Jakob Greiner gegründet.

European Bee-eater

Durham Wildlife Trust (with RSPB assistance) set up a wardening post during the period when the birds were nesting.

A pair took up residence on farmland adjacent to the River Wye, near Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire in summer 2005; by mid-July the adults were bringing insect food to the riverbank nest-hole confirming that eggs had hatched.

Gambela National Park

Several birds only found in this area include the shoebill stork, the Long-tailed Paradise Whydah and the Red-throated and Green Bee-eaters.

Hungarian violin school

Böhm studied in Budapest, with his father, and with Pierre Rode (probably when he was in Russia), so he is the link between the French school (an evolution of the Italian school through Viotti) and the Hungarian one.

János Thurzó

Thurzo first married Ursula Boehm and the couple had three sons: György Thurzó who married Anna Fugger, later György Thurzó became the major of Kraków; another son of János, became the archbishop of Breslau (today Wroclaw); and their third son became the bishop of Olomouc.

Jasper Johannsen

Noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff says Böhm gave the young Bach lessons here during Bach's residency (1700–1702) at the nearby Michaeliskirche.

Jon Awe

Awe got his new nickname from "The Big Cat" to "The Big Tuna" from his new teammates as he is a heavy eater of tuna Sushi rolls but was also named from other import off of the character of Jim Halpert on “The Office”.

L'Albenc

As for birds: the family of herons is well represented with many other birds living in the area such as the European bee-eater, the Eurasian Penduline Tit etc.

Leopard of the Yellagiri Hills

The Leopard of the Yellagiri Hills was a man eating Indian Leopard which claimed three victims in the vicinity of the Yellagiris, a crescent formation of hills east of the Jalarpet Junction railway on the Southern Railway.

Liz Neal

Collaboration with Nick Knight at SHOWstudio: Lotus Eater, STORE, London and Room, Transition Gallery, London

Māori mythology

Toi (Toi-kai-rākau, or Toi-the-wood-eater) is the traditional origin ancestor of the tribes of the East Coast of the North Island.

Matter-Eater Lad

American indie rock band Guided By Voices recorded a song based on the character called "Matter-Eater Lad" for their 1994 EP Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer.

Nandankanan Zoological Park

In addition, the divisional forest officer of Deogarh captured a pangolin (scaly ant-eater) and two porcupines, and the divisional forest officer of Puri captured a pair of wild boars and a Python.

New Zealand Raven

It may also have depended on fruit, like the New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides, but it is difficult to understand why a fruit eater would have been most common in coastal forest and shrubland when fruit was distributed throughout the forest.

Quantum potential

B. Hiley and R. E. Callaghan re-interpret the role of the Bohm model and its notion of quantum potential in the framework of Clifford algebra, taking account of recent advances that include the work of David Hestenes on spacetime algebra.

Reesa Greenberg

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2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.

Rhubarb tart

Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, who wrote in his account of England that he was a "very industrious eater of rhubarb tart".

Robert Böhm

Böhm went through his youth playing for various German sides, including the youth departments of KFC Uerdingen 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04.

Robert Chambers

Robert G. Chambers, British physicist known for the first observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Sadhvi Rithambara

Rithambara was arrested in Indore, Madhya Pradesh in April, 1995 on the charge of inciting communal passions, after giving a speech in which she called Mother Teresa a "magician" and the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav, a "man-eater".

Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Perches may include branches of vegetation or even the backs of large animals, such as the Kori Bustard.

Thak man-eater

The book Man-Eaters of Kumaon became the book of the year in USA in 1945, and a Hollywood film Man-Eater of Kumaon was made in 1948.

On January 20–22, 2011 Joseph Jordania did a detailed research of the path between Thak and Chuka.

Undertakers sketch

The tactless undertaker (Chapman) suggests they can "burn 'er, bury 'er, or dump 'er in the Thames", but rules out the latter after Cleese confirms that he liked his mother. Of the other two, the undertaker says both are "nasty," and describes the sordid details. When the son shows the undertaker his mother's body, which is in a sack, he sees that the dead woman "looks quite young". He tells his assistant, Fred (Eric Idle) that he thinks they've "got an eater."

Utica Center for Math, Science, and Technology

This time, the special guest was Japanese professional competitive eater and six-time Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest champion, Takeru Kobayashi.

Uxfest

The Blood Divine, Medulla Nocte, Scarabaeus, Hatred, Sanctum, Epitome, Shrike, Singuia, T.B.A.C., Gromoxin 100, Suffering, Baby Eater, Godzilla.

Whaitiri

When she hears of a mortal named Kaitangata (man-eater), she is certain he will make a fine husband for her.

Wolf of Ansbach

The Wolf of Ansbach was a man-eating wolf that attacked and killed an unknown number of people in the Principality of Ansbach in 1685, then a part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Wolves of Ashta

The wolves of Ashta were a pack of 6 man-eating Indian wolves which between the last quarter of 1985 to January 1986, killed 17 children in Ashta, Madhya Pradesh, a town in the Sehore district.

Yankev Shternberg

In 1930 he created a hugely successful studio theater BITS ("Bukareshter Yidishe Teater-Studiye"), housed in Bucharest's Jewish quarter Văcăreşti, that played a prominent role in the development of modern trends in European theater.


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