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unusual facts about Crows


Dunlap Creek

Dunlap Creek flows northeast, paralleled by State Route 311 as far as the village of Crows.


13th Star

Although Wilkinson had designed all official album releases by Fish (with the exception of Songs from The Mirror), the more recent ones had largely been computer-aided ones, while the cover of the previous album Field of Crows emulated Vincent van Gogh's style.

Aberfoyle Park High School

Brenton Sanderson – coach of Adelaide Crows (2012 - present) and former Australian rules footballer for Adelaide (1992 – 1993), Collingwood (1994) and Geelong (1995 – 2005).

Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

Tradition has it that the site was haunted by Nero's ghost or demons in the form of black crows; therefore the pope chopped down the walnut tree sheltering the crows and built a chapel in its place.

Burning Sosobra

It featured eleven new songs, a cover of The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun", "Watched Over By Crows" an older song that existed prior to the release Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone, and a new recording of "Alcoholic", which previously appeared only as a radio edit on Danny Boy plus three.

Calling All Crows EP

The Calling All Crows EP was released by reggae-rock band, State Radio on August 11, 2009 as a preview for the upcoming album Let It Go, which was released September 29, 2009.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Recent audio works include "800 000 Seconds In Harar" (Touch), "Matter Transfer" (iDeal), "The Wonderful World of Male Intuition" (Oral), "There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building" (Lampo), "Rats", "Maggots" and "Bugs" (all three on Laton), "Three Overpopulated Cities ..." (Sub Rosa), "A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture" (Firework Editions) and "Ström" and "Leech" (both on Raster-Noton).

Crows Explode

It is the third film based on the manga Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi, and a sequel to 2009's Crows Zero 2.

Crows Nest, New South Wales

This site is now the building site of North Sydney Demonstration School and the gates of Crows Nest House (added in the 1880s) still stand at the Pacific Highway entrance to the school.

Crows Zero

It was also adapted into a manga by Crows author Hiroshi Takahashi, with individual chapters published in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine.

Crows Zero 2

It was also adapted into a manga entitled Crows Zero II: Suzuran x Housen by Crows author Hiroshi Takahashi, with individual chapters published in Bessatsu Shonen Champion magazine.

It is the second film based on the manga Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi, and a direct sequel to 2007's Crows Zero.

Dan Jewett

The album She Likes the Weather was produced by Jewett from a December 1991 studio recording and their original demo tape, produced by Counting Crows guitarist David Bryson.

Dirranbandi, Queensland

He is best known for playing Alf Stewart on soap opera Home and Away, and credits one of his character's catchphrases "Stone the flamin' crows!" to a man who was a stock and station agent in town.

F. australis

Flindersia australis, the crows ash or Australian teak, a rainforest tree species found in Australia

Florida Scrub Jay

Madge, Steve & Burn, Hilary (1994): Crows and jays: a guide to the crows, jays and magpies of the world.

George Augustus Robinson

Robert Drewes' 'Savage Crows' also incorporates the work of Robinson into the plot.

Gwythaints

In The High King, they attack and injure Kaw, the crow, as he spies on Annuvin, and they nearly kill the sorceress Achren, and she is only saved by an "army of crows" so great in number to drive away the eagle-sized gwythaints.

Katy La Oruga

Chester and Clyde (Chester y Clyde) (voiced by Héctor Lee and Francisco Colmenero) - A pair of oafish crows who at first were looking to eat Katy and served as minor antagonists.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

The owls, carrying Mrs. P in Twilight's lute, fly towards the sea of Hoolemere where a murder of crows chaotically guides them to the legendary shrine and gateway of the Guardians, kept by an oracular echidna (Barry Otto), who provides comic, but accurate, descriptions of the quintet and guidance to the object of their quest.

Loxton, South Australia

Grantley Fielke (b. 1962), former Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the SANFL and for both Collingwood and the Adelaide Crows in the VFL-AFL between 1979 and 1997.

Mary Gilmore and the history of Wagga Wagga

Crows abounded in the area, she explained, because of the many bird eggs and chicks on which the crows could feast: Wagga Wagga means the meeting-place of the crows.

Porque te vas

Only when the song was used in Carlos Saura's 1976 film Cría Cuervos (Raising Crows), and the film went on to be honored at the Cannes Film Festival (Jury grand prize) and the Berlin Film Festival (jury special prize), did the song become internationally known and a hit.

Railroad Valley

The valley has 4 separate Wildlife Management Areas ("Railroad Valley WMA"), and valley communities include Currant, Crows Nest, Green Springs, Lockes, and Nyala.

Rena Effendi

Effendi has won the Fifty Crows Documentary Award, the Mario Giacomelli Memorial Award and the Getty Images Editorial Grant.

She Likes the Weather

The album includes 3 songs produced by Counting Crows' guitarist Dave Bryson, one of which is The Himalayans' original version of "Round Here," which was later re-recorded by the Counting Crows.

Texas Terri

In Hollywood, California in 1984 she formed trash rock band The Killer Crows.

The Ballad of Curtis Loew

A young boy wakes up "before the rooster crows" and searches for soda bottles to cash in to give some money to a man named Curtis Loew, who buys wine and plays his Dobro guitar "across his knees" for the boy all day.

The Crows

The Crows were an American R & B singing group who achieved commercial success in the 1950s.

The Himalayans

The Himalayans song "Round Here" was recorded on Counting Crows' first album (being the opening track), and remains popular at their live performances.

Three crows

In the Kwantung Army of Imperial Japan for instance, the Three Crows refer to the Triumvirate of Army War College 24th class graduate Kenji Doihara, Army War College 28th class graduate Itagaki Seishiro and Army War College 30th class Military Sword Club member Kanji Ishiwara: the main masterminds of the Mukden Incident and the subsequent Invasion of China.

Two Black Crows

The second "Moran and Mack" talkie (without George Moran) faltered at the box office, and the team made no further films until 1933, when the low-budget Educational Pictures studio hired them for a feature film and a series of "Two Black Crows" short subjects.

Anybody's War (Paramount, 1930) aka Two Black Crows in the AEF

Watson's Hotel

Among the hotel's notable guests was Mark Twain, who wrote about the city's crows he saw outside his balcony in Following the Equator.

Winslow Homer

In 1893, Homer painted one of his most famous "Darwinian" works, The Fox Hunt, which depicts a flock of starving crows descending on a fox slowed by deep snow.


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