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unusual facts about Duck, Rabbit, Duck!



2003 in birding and ornithology

A female Redhead (duck) on Barra, Outer Hebrides from September through until April 2004 was Britain's third (but the first female).

2004–05 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy

Ponting's dismissal proved to be the precursor to another middle order collapse for Australia, for Hayden was dismissed just a few minutes later for 43, and in even shorter order Damien Martyn was dismissed for 5 and Andrew Symonds for his second consecutive duck.

Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick

In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an afocal scleral contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers.

Animals of Yellowstone

Squirrel, Rabbit, vole, mice, and shrew species are common, but many are nocturnal and rarely seen by visitors.

Ask Dr. Science

Ask Dr. Science is a daily humorous radio sketch produced by the comedy troupe Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

Wildlife that may be observed on the fell includes rabbit, hare, roe deer, stoat, weasel, red fox, badger, hedgehog, mole, grey squirrel and the otter.

Benjamin P. Lamberton

He lived in Washington, D.C. during his retirement, enjoying duck hunting and fishing with his friend President Grover Cleveland.

Black Welsh Mountain sheep

The Band State Radio released the song "Black Welsh Mountain" on their 2012 album Rabbit Inn Rebellion with Nettwerk Music.

Blue of Sint-Niklaas

The Van Beveren, also a fur-rabbit breed, is family and has been bred in the same region of Flanders, the Waasland.

Boarstall Duck Decoy

The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property.

Boxbomb

The band plans to release the EP, titled Run Rabbit Run (Tragic Hero Records) in early 2009.

Chameleon Twist 2

Davy and his friends (Jack, Fred, and Linda) are playing in the forest, still carrying the backpack from his last adventure, when suddenly the rabbit (closely resembling Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) from before falls down and knocks one of the chameleons into the sky.

Charles Sherwin

He scored a duck in the first innings and seven in the second when he opened with Levi Wright who went on to score a century.

Cold Bay, Alaska

Approximately 130,000 Pacific Black Brant, 62,000 Emperor Geese, 50,000 Taverner's Canada Geese, 300,000 ducks, and 80,000 shore birds stop over in the Izembek area during migration and as many as 50,000 Steller's Eiders find winter grounds there.

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.

Crocoduck

The crocoduck is an imagined hybrid animal with the head of a crocodile and the body of a duck proposed by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron.

Cryptex

In "Down the Rabbit Hole", a fourth season episode of the American TV series The Vampire Diaries, depicts a sword with a cryptex device under its hilt.

Daffy Duck for President

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp.

Dalray

When his owner was quizzed about the defeat he declared "Phar Lap got beaten and Bradman got a duck".

Demarest, New Jersey

Demarest is also served by Rockland Coaches routes 14, 20/20T and 84, with a stop by the Duck Pond on County Route 505 which provides service to and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and the Palisades Center in West Nyack, New York, a common shopping destination for many residents.

Digesting Duck

A replica of Vaucanson's mechanical duck, created by Ian Huynh, was part of the collection of the (now defunct) Grenoble Automata Museum.

Dove Across the Water

#Duncan Johnstone / The Duck (D. Macleod) / The Curlew (D.Macpherson) (4:39)

Frederick Asquith

A specialist wicket-keeper, he took two catches in the match but in his only innings failed to score, being bowled for a duck by Gilbert Jessop after coming in at number six in the order.

Gold Duck

According to one story, recorded by poet-journalist Artur Oppman, the duck dwells in the cellars beneath Warsaw's Ostrogski Castle (now home to the Fryderyk Chopin Museum).

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

In the second mall scene, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Snoopy dance to a band quartet music box including an angel, a triplet band, and a spinning duck carousel, all which play Johann Sebastian Bach's "Menuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (BWV Anh. 116.)."

Japanese American National Museum

Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is on exhibit from July 9 through October 30, 2011.

Jeff Bergman

Eventually, after almost 20 years, he returned as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester the Cat, Pepé Le Pew, and Tweety in 2011’s The Looney Tunes Show.

Kroke

As a result, joint recording sessions at Real World Studios with other musicians led to material from the band being subsequently used by Peter Gabriel on his album Long Walk Home- music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

Meat pie

Beef, lamb, and duck were employed, but a majority of the time it was the magpie that was the main ingredient.

Nhek Dim

His cartoon "The Wise Rabbit" won a 1967 student competition organized by Walt Disney.

Nick Compton

Compton made his England debut opening the batting with captain Alastair Cook in their first tour match against India A, but made a third ball duck in England's only innings.

Oregon Coast Range

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

Papango

New Zealand Scaup, a diving duck, known in the Maori language as the Papango

Petrel

However, recent research and fossil finds such as Vegavis show that the Galliformes (Pheasants, Grouse and relatives), and Anseriformes (ducks, geese) are still not fully resolved.

Pilling's Pond

Pilling mentored Dye, and Dye went on to establish his own duck reserve near Lake Stevens, Washington, known as Northwest Waterfowl Farm.

Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux finds the former high-school basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, working a dead-end job (as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant) and approaching middle age in the downtrodden and fictional city of Brewer, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth.

Rabbit's Moon

Filmed under a blue filter and set within a wooded glade during the night, the plot revolves around a clown, Pierrot, his longing for the moon (in which a rabbit lives - a concept found in both Japanese and Aztec mythology), and his futile attempts to jump up and catch it.

Richard Adams

The Phoenix Tree (1980, a collection by various authors, includes "The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inle" from Watership Down) ISBN 978-0-380-76380-1

Roderick Stephens

He received the Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian award, for his contributions during World War II in his design and engineering of the DUKW ("duck") military amphibious vehicle.

Sai Wing Mock

Mock Duck took advantage of the reform crusade started by Charles Parkhurst.

Spiv

A typical spiv has been described as having: A duck's arse haircut, Clark Gable moustache, rakish trilby hat, drape-shape jacket,, and loud garish tie ... which all represented a deliberate snook cocked at wartime austerity.

Thaddeus H. Caraway

He supported American entrance into the League of Nations, bonuses for World War I veterans, as well as the Eighteenth (Prohibition), Nineteenth (Women's Suffrage), and Twentieth (Lame Duck) amendments.

The Dream Syndicate

Duck suggested the name "The Dream Syndicate" in reference to Tony Conrad's early 1960s New York experimental ensemble (better known as the Theater of Eternal Music), whose members included John Cale.

The Duck Factory

The last original episode of The Duck Factory was broadcast on July 11, 1984.

Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth.

The Love-Ins

Cross imagines that she's Alice and meets men dressed in White Rabbit costumes as well as other representations of characters from Lewis Carroll's story over the course of a lengthy free-form disco musical sequence.

The Oregon Duck

The Oregon Duck (also known as the Fighting Duck, Puddles, or simply The Duck) is the mascot of the University of Oregon Ducks athletic program, based on Disney's Donald Duck character through a special license agreement.

Two Curious Puppies

In Prest-O Change-O, their second cartoon, they are pursued by a dog catcher and must hide in a house that is owned by the magician Sham Fu and his pet rabbit, a prototype Bugs Bunny.

Two Little Dickie Birds

On the 1975 album Minstrel in the Gallery by Jethro Tull song One White Duck / 010 = Nothing At All, makes a reference to the nursery rhyme: "So fly away Peter, and fly away Paul, from the fingertip ledge of contentment".

Wendy Rae Fowler

Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (2006) "I Like to Move in the Night", "The Ballad of Queen Bee and Baby Duck", and "Poor Doggie"


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