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unusual facts about Feather


The Screaming Tribesmen

After relocation to Sydney, and a number of line-up changes the band settled on its most successful lineup of Medew, ex-Radio Birdman & The Hitmen guitarist Chris Masuak, bass player Bob Wackley & drummer Warwick Fraser (ex-Feather & Hoi Polloi) who replaced Michael Charles after the recording of the Date With A Vampyre EP.


Anna Murphy

In 2005 Anna formed Feather Productions Limited with writer Tim Whitnall.

Bartok the Magnificent

However, these tasks are very hard, for Piloff (Jennifer Tilly) is frozen to a boulder, Oblie (French Stewart), a giant blacksmith surrounded by an aura of fire, must be tricked into letting his crown be stolen, and the magic feather must be obtained without flight, using only the boulder Piloff was stuck to and Oblie's crown.

Beaver hat

Emperor Norton I wore a beaver hat decorated with a peacock feather and rosette.

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather was sold to over 30 countries worldwide, and the format was sold to countries including Australia (ABC TV), New Zealand, Spain and South Africa.

Blade on the Feather

In the event, budget cuts and scheduling problems meant that only three plays were produced: Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in My Coffee.

Blue Hussars

A uniform was originally designed by a committee that included Irish artist Seán Keating, consisting of a saffron léine (a form of tunic) with six rows of black braid and black cuffs, a blue brat (a fringed medieval shawl/cloak), tight pantaloons and a black Balmoral cap with saffron feather.

Boulton Paul P.92

The first flight, at Heston Aerodrome, was made by Boulton Paul's chief test pilot Flight Lieutenant Cecil Feather.

Chilean Swallow

It is similar to the White-rumped Swallow but lacks the white forehead (not always reliable) of that species and has bluer upperparts and grey underwing-coverts.

Cricothyrotomy

On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; Sully, the white man raised by Indians who is her lover and companion, performs the procedure on one of Dr. Quinn's boys using a bird's feather (the base where it is hollow).

Dhatrigram

Today, finely woven feather-touch textiles and saris in exotic designs and colours are being produced in the vast weaving belt of Shantipur, Phulia, Samudragarh, Dhatrigram and Ambika Kalna—each centre producing superb fabrics in its own unique weaving style.

Feather Float

Feather Float is the second album the Japanese band OOIOO, a side-project of Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We.

Federfechter

The origin of the name is unclear, though it is believed that it was derived from the name of Saint Vitus, who is often depicted with a feather.

Fèngchìzǐjinguān

Fèngchìzǐjinguān or phoenix feather cap, or more appropriately the crown of the feathers of the Fenghuang, was one of the treasures of the dragon kings that is obtained by Sun Wukong in the story Journey to the West.

Freedom Evolves

He expects hostility from those who fear that a skeptical analysis of freedom will undermine people's belief in the reality of moral considerations; he likens himself to an interfering crow who insists on telling Dumbo he doesn't really need the feather he believes is allowing him to fly.

Green Feather Movement

It began on March 1, 1954 with five college students at Indiana University who surreptitiously tacked a green feather to every bulletin board on campus.

Harry Feather

Harry (J.?) Feather won a cap for England while at Bradford F.C. in 1905 against Other Nationalities.

Harry Feather was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing at representative level for England, and at club level for Bradford F.C. (now Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.).

Hundun

Toshihiko Izutsu (1967 2:19, cited by Girardot 1983:82) suggests that singing and dancing here and in Zhuangzi refers to shamanic trance-inducing ceremonies, "the monster is said to be a bird, which is most probably an indication that the shamanistic dancing here in question was some kind of feather dance in which the shaman was ritually ornamented with a feathered headdress."

Hydraulic mining

Situated at the confluence of the Yuba and Feather rivers, Marysville was the final "jumping off" point for miners heading to the northern foothills to seek their fortune.

Jymn Magon

He also wrote three of the episodes for Sitting Ducks: "Feather Island/King of the Bongos", "Holding Pen 13/Daredevill Ducks" and "Iced Duck/Duck Footed. While working at MGM Animation he worked as writer on "MGM Sing Along Videos", "The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue" and "Tom Sawyer".

Longisquama

Feather development expert Richard Prum and also Reisz and Sues see the structures as anatomically very different from feathers, and think they are elongate, ribbon-like scales.

Louis Wu

Several years later, amidst unusual and perilous circumstances, Louis, his sister, mother, and adoptive father (Beowulf) along with Carlos and Carlos' girlfriend, Feather Filip, secretly and illegally emigrated from Earth to Fafnir.

Mongol elements in Western medieval art

jpg"?title=Ambrogio Lorenzetti">Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1285–1348) depicting the garb of a Mongol commander of a thousand (conical hat with the feather).

Moye Kolodin

He received his very first piano lessons at the age of seven from his mother Elza Kolodin and the first feather in his musical cap at the Jugend Musiziert competition five years later, where he not only walked away with the first prize, but also the encouragement award from the Savings Bank for Outstanding Young Talents.

My Wife Jacqueline

In his 2006 autobiography, Hello, Phillips said "The script was as light as a feather, with characters who appeared to live in a social, political and cultural vacuum that made Mrs Dale's Diary look like a profound study of social history."

New Zealand Falcon

Ornithologists variously described the New Zealand Falcon as an aberrant hobby or as allied to three South American species (F. deiroleucus, F. rufigularis and F. femoralis); however studies of feather proteins suggest a close tie with the Australian Brown Falcon.

Ochsenheimeria taurella

The Liverpool Feather-horn (Ochsenheimeria taurella) is a moth of the Ypsolophidae family.

Old Red Lion Theatre

Then led under the Artistic Direction of Charlie Hanson (Birds of a Feather, Harry Hill and Extras) it became a place for actors, directors, designers, writers and technicians to experiment and thrive with their art.

Paul Y. Anderson

He referred to Herbert Hoover as "The Great White Feather" and expressed admiration for the populism of Louisiana governor Huey Long.

Pauline Quirke

She has two children Emily and Charlie (who stars as Travis in Birds of a Feather) and is married to producer Steve Sheen; they live in Penn, Buckinghamshire.

Presbitero Velasco, Jr.

At the UP College of Law, Justice Velasco was a member of the Order of the Purple Feather Honor Society and served on the Editorial Board of the Philippine Law Journal.

Pseudatemelia flavifrontella

Like their relatives, they appear to be adaptable and have been recorded on such diverse foodstuffs as dead plants, dry leaves, dried insect specimens and even feathers.

Purple Feather Records

The first album released on Purple Feather Records was The Donnas' own Bitchin' on September 18, 2007.

Robinson Crusoe Island

The Juan Fernández Firecrown is an endemic and critically endangered red hummingbird, which is best known for its needle-fine black beak and silken feather coverage.

Sarah Woodhouse

In 1989, her novel The Peacock's Feather was awarded the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Shake a Tail Feather

"Shake a Tail Feather" (Otha Hayes, Verlie Rice, and Andre Williams) is a song originally recorded in 1963 by the Chicago-based group The Five Du-Tones.

The Feather Men

In June 2010, Alice Clarke, the daughter of SAS soldier Major Mike Kealy whose death is depicted in The Feather Men at the hands of The Clinic, spoke out, saying that her father had died during an endurance exercise in the Brecon Beacons in 1979.

The Feather Men is a 1991 novel by the British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Three Orphan Kittens

The kitten starts to play with the feather walking down the piano keyboard and the feather lands on the 'on' switch with the kitten presses and the then-revealed pianola begins to play, ironically it is playing a variation of "Kitten On The Keys" a song composed by Zez Confrey in 1921.

Vic Feather

As General Secretary, Feather led the British trade union movement's fight against Heath government's Industrial Relations Act 1971.

Feather was born in Idle, Bradford, Yorkshire in 1908, and was named after the recently elected socialist MP Victor Grayson.

Weighing of souls

In Egyptian mythology, where Duat is the Underworld, there would take place the Weighing of the Heart, in which the dead were judged by Anubis, using a feather, representing Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice responsible for maintaining order in the universe.

William Commanda

In 1998, Commanda participated in a ceremony at which he presented Nelson Mandela with an eagle feather on behalf of the First Nations of Canada.

William Feather

Born in Jamestown, New York, Feather relocated with his family to Cleveland in 1903.

Wire sculpture

Kue King has built a reputation combining wire and feather.


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