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3 unusual facts about Coyote


Coyote, California

Once the site of the Seventeen Mile House a stagecoach station on the Butterfield Overland Mail, Coyote is notable for its historic Grange Hall, close to the Post Office and the Metcalf Energy Center.

Powder, Copper and Coal

Copper - A Coyote, represents the Native American legend when the earth froze and turned dark, the coyote climbed to the highest mountaintop and stole a flame from the fire people.

The Magilla Gorilla Show

Ricochet Rabbit (voiced by Don Messick) works as the sheriff of Hoop N' Holler with his deputy Droop-a-Long Coyote (voiced by Mel Blanc).


1984 Morgan Hill earthquake

The communities of San Jose, San Martin and Coyote were some areas that received minor damage from the earthquake.

Ainu music

They are analogous to the Navajo and Apache Coyote; while he is a god, he is representative of human interests and foibles.

Brea Creek

The creek begins in the northeasternmost part of the Coyote Creek drainage basin, in a mountain canyon named Brea Canyon, at the Los Angeles CountySan Bernardino County line.

Brothers of the Baladi

In 2002, the band was joined by John Bilezikjian and Sulieman El Coyote Feldthouse of the band Kaleidoscope (US band) and Stephen Skaggs for the album Hope, which features acoustic and electric songs in English, Arabic, Turkish, and Armenian.

C. radicans

Cucurbita radicans, the Calabacilla or Calabaza de Coyote, a plant species found growing wild, but also cultivated, in southern Mexico

Coyote Falls

It is the first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner movie to be made into CGI in 3D (the first 3-D WB cartoon since 1954's Lumber Jack-Rabbit) and it was released with Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Coyote in mythology

For example, the Secwepemc people of the Kamloops Indian Band in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, have designated their recently opened native elementary school the Sk'elep (Coyote) School of Excellence, while educational websites such as one co-sponsored by the Neskonlith Indian Band of Chase, British Columbia prominently feature stories about Sk'elep.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist proposed a structuralist theory that suggests that Coyote and Crow obtained mythic status because they are mediator animals between life and death.

Coyote Springs

Coyote Springs, Utah, a Tule Valley spring system used by local wildlife and feral horses.

Coyote Ugly Saloon

The bar reached national prominence in 1997 when former bartender Elizabeth Gilbert wrote of her experiences in an article for GQ magazine, titled "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon".

Coyote Ugly opened in August 2000 with Maria Bello in the role of Lovell and Piper Perabo as an aspiring songwriter in New York City who becomes the newest "Coyote".

Coyote Valley

Metcalf Energy Center A 600 megawatt power plant located in the northern section of Coyote Valley.

Coyote Valley Reservation

It is also the location of the Coyote Valley Shodakai Casino.

Coyotes in popular culture

The cartoon coyote Wilber is the official mascot for GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), a free raster graphics editor.

Coyote appears as an animal in The Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin, Jr., wherein scrawny Ferric accidentally sets in motion a chain of events that bring Heaven and Hell crashing down upon the land.

The character appears in stranger guises in The Nagasaki Vector by L. Neil Smith, as a cyborg who specializes in scent tracking, and in Sky Coyote by Kage Baker, wherein the role of "Sky Coyote" is taken on by the cyborg Joseph in order to convince a Chumash community in California to evacuate in advance of European exploration.

Devil's Gate Pass

Numerous other animals have been spotted in the area around the pass including American Badger, Black Bear, Chipmunk, Cougar, Coyote, Rabbit, Rubber Boa, Sage Grouse, and Vole.

E-Play

The album, produced by Block Out member Nikola Vranjković, featured a hysteric remix of the song "One again", done by Saša Lovkov and Uroš Milovanović, and as guests on the album appeared Bajaga i Instruktori member Saša Lokner (keyboards), Eyesburn frontman Nemanja Kojić "Coyote" (trombone, vocals), Block Out member Dragoljub Marković (keyboards) and Overdrive member Damir Milutinov (vocals).

Elmer Kelton

Eight Kelton novels, Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, Slaughter, The Far Canyon, Many a River and The Way of the Coyote, have won Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.

Gee Whiz

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z, a Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

Going! Going! Gosh!

Just before the utensils are about to hit, the ludicrous Latin names are shown: Road Runner: Acceleratti Incredibilis and Coyote: Carnivorous Vulgaris.

Jalibah Southeast Air Base

After an exhausting night moving its entire fleet from Camp Coyote in Kuwait, the Army Reserve Unit spent its first day on Iraqi soil March 23 at Camp Viper, a base in American-controlled territory deep in southern Iraq.

Kayo Dot

Driver re-drafted and adapted the piece for Kayo Dot (along with Byrnes), toured it in May 2009 on the road with Secret Chiefs 3, and recorded it with Randall Dunn in Seattle during June–July 2009, releasing it later as 2010's Coyote.

Luc Roy

Luc is the brother of Québécois actors Gildor Roy, Yvon Roy and Maxim Roy, with whom he starred on his first and her second appearance in Coyote.

Metro Nezahualcóyotl

The logo for the station is the head of a coyote since Nezahualcóyotl is Nahuatl for "hungry coyote", it is similar to the seal of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.

Murray Mednick

The Coyote character was also featured in Destruction of the Fourth World, part of the 2009 series performed by Padua Playwrights.

North Fork Embarras River

Deer, turkey, coyotes, foxes, squirrels and raccoons are common along the corridor, and there have been sightings of bobcats.

Nowhere on the Border

She pays a coyote (a people smuggler) named Don Rey to take her across the Sonoran Desert to join her husband.

Ohlone mythology

One Ohlone creation myth begins with the demise of a previous world: When it was destroyed, the world was covered entirely in water, apart from a single peak, Pico Blanco (north of Big Sur) in the Rumsien version (or Mount Diablo in the northern Ohlone's version) on which Coyote, Hummingbird, and Eagle stood.

Oregon Coast Range

Other mammals here are Mountain beaver, beavers, coyote, mink, river otter, mountain lion, porcupines, skunks, and brush rabbit.

Otoe tribe

The Coyote band favored an immediate move to Indian Territory, where they believed they could better perpetuate their traditional tribal life outside the influence of the whites.

Pomo religion

The indigenous religion of the Pomo people, Native Americans from Northwestern California, centered on belief in the powerful entities of the 'Kunula', a Coyote, and 'Guksu', a spirit healer from the south.

Sequoyah Prep School

Sequoyah has shared the stage with artists such as All Get Out, Anathallo, Anberlin, Better Than Ezra, Colour Revolt, Cool Hand Luke, Corey Smith, Jupiter Coyote, Phantom Planet, Quiet Drive, and Umbrellas.

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park

Throughout the park there are a great variety of mammals: Mule Deer, Bighorn Sheep, Cougar, Bobcat, Ringtail Cat, Coyote, Rabbit, Squirrel and more than 30 species of Bats.

Stanley John Olsen

This unique site records predator-prey interactions of the coyote-like Metatomarctus and the ancestral horse, Parahippus, as well as a host of other species, on the margins of an 18 million year-old wooded sinkhole and cave complex.

Steven McElroy

In the late 1990s, McElroy was artistic director of Sensurround, Inc., where he directed Lynn Siefert's Coyote Ugly and Little Egypt as well as his own adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies.

The Perfect Cocktail

On planning the Arcadian's demolition, Barney is thinking whether to train a coyote to press the Acme dynamite plunger or hotwire Eddie Van Halen's guitar as the detonator upon hitting the last note for the song "Hot for Teacher."

The Road Runner Show

There were two Road Runner/Coyote cartoons during each episode, with another WB animated character(s) in the middle segment (usually Tweety and Sylvester).

To Hare Is Human

The determined coyote then builds his latest contraption: A do-it-yourself UNIVAC Electronic Brain, which he consults for suggestions in capturing Bugs.

Trabuco Creek

Aside from the large mammals including mountain lions, coyotes, and bobcats (the last California grizzly bear in the Santa Ana Mountains was shot near Trabuco Canyon) the creek was once a productive habitat for steelhead trout.

Wild About Harry

Wild About Hurry, a short film featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

WRHL-FM

The Coyote programming includes Kris Wexell weekday mornings with Jeff Leon and Candice King, as well as nationally syndicated shows such as Tony & Kris, The Big Time, American Country Countdown, and CMT Radio Insider.


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