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unusual facts about Flock



1634: The Ram Rebellion

Flo Richards is a farmer's wife with four grown children who had bought a small flock of type C Delaine Merino sheep and some angora rabbits before the Ring of Fire in the hope that she'd see more of her youngest daughter, Jen, once she'd finished her studies out of town.

1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident

With its crew unaware that the Hercules had disturbed a flock of Canada geese, the Sentry lined up and started its departure roll, as it rotated No. 1 and No. 2 engine ingested the birds.

A Flock of Bleeps

A Flock of Bleeps is the debut album by the music group Younger Brother.

A Flock of Seagulls

In the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, a ticket desk clerk with a Mike Score-like hair style asks Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) if he is a Flock of Seagulls fan.

Agua Blanca, Oaxaca

Agua Blanca is popular with Mexican tourists during the Christmas holiday and Semana Santa periods, but is relatively unvisited by the foreign tourists who flock to nearby Puerto Escondido.

Alfred Bengsch

During his tenure in Berlin, he was given a monthly permission to cross the Wall to minister to the Eastern portion of his flock.

Ann Hood

The dirt at El Santuario de Chimayo, a Roman Catholic church, is believed to have healing properties and thousands flock to the site each year.

Arella

When Raven escapes to her home dimension Azarath, she encounters Arella tending to a whole flock of doves.

Bill Crooks

After a year at Flock House, Bill found a job at a station at Tahunga, in the headwaters of the Hangaroa River, west of Gisborne.

Black Country Woman

On one occasion at Headley Grange when Plant tried to go outside to sing the song, he was attacked by a flock of angry geese.

Black sheep

The term originated from the occasional black sheep which are born into a flock of white sheep due to a genetic process of recessive traits.

Boğaziçi, Milas

Boğaziçi is located only 10 minutes from Milas-Bodrum Airport and is home to the resort of Lakeside Garden which is the base for bird watchers who descend on the area to see Greater Flamingos flock to the protected Lake Tuzla during the winter months.

Brahan Seer

According to Alasdair Alpin MacGregor's The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, the Brahan Seer predicted that the bridge over the Kyle of Sutherland at Bonar Bridge would be "swept away under a flock of sheep".

Busto Arsizio

Even its feudalization in later centuries under several lords, vassals of the masters of Milan, did not stop its slow but constant growth; nor did the plague, which hit hard in 1630, traditionally being stopped by the Virgin Mary after the bustocchi, always a pious Catholic flock, prayed for respite from the deadly epidemic.

Charles Sprague Pearce

Among his best known paintings are The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; Prayer (1884), The Return of the Flock, and Meditation.

Cregneash

Annual Manx festivals are held in Cregneash and it is home to a flock of the rare four-horned Loaghtan sheep.

Cyprian

The proconsul banished him to Curubis, modern Korba, whence he comforted to the best of his ability his flock and his banished clergy.

Dilute budgerigar mutation

In 1896, George Keartland of the Calvert Expedition to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, observed a yellow budgerigar flying wild in a flock on three occasions.

Dino Staffa

Not overly supportive of collegiality, Staffa once declared that "supreme power over the entire flock of the faithful was entrusted to Peter and Peter alone".

Dungeonesse

Dungeonesse is an American collaboration between songwriter and producer Jon Ehrens (White Life, Art Department), and singer Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) out of Baltimore, Maryland.

Fuller Baptist Church

Fuller was minister at Soham at the time and was reluctant to leave his small flock, but after consulting with nine of his fellow ministers, Fuller eventually and reluctantly accepted the call and, together with his family, moved to Kettering in October 1782.

Gaggle

A gaggle is a term of venery for a flock of geese that is not in flight; in flight, the group can be called a skein.

Geoffrey Arone

Nearly 6 years and 14 million downloads later, Flock was acquired by Zynga.

Prior to SafetyWeb, Arone was the CEO and co-founder of DanceJam with MC Hammer and Flock co-founder Anthony Young.

Highgrove Florilegium

The decorative motifs include plants in the garden, the Princes' tree house, the dove cote and the flock of Indian Runner Ducks.

Hollywood Freeway chickens

By 1976, the flock included about 50 of the chickens, described as Rhode Island Reds.

Hybridisation in shorebirds

A Pluvialis plover wintering with a flock of Golden Plover near Marksbury, England in 1987 was believed to be possibly a hybrid between Golden Plover and Pacific Golden Plover.

Japanese corvette Kaimon

During its launching ceremony, a flock of white doves (the traditional messengers of the war god Hachiman) was released, setting a precedent for all future launchings of Japanese warships.

Johan Heyns

Towards the end of 1960 he transferred to Rondebosch where he counted several Afrikaner politicians amongst his flock (including Hendrik Verwoerd, John Vorster, and PW Botha).

John J. Myers

On December 10, 2010 Myers received the honour Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus by Prince Victor Emmanuel in recognition of the Archbishop’s exemplary leadership as head of his large Catholic archdiocesan flock and as an important church and religious leader in America.

La Ribambelle

La Ribambelle (French for "flock" or "throng") is a Belgian comics series about a gang of kids living in the same neighbourhood.

Lax-kw'alaams First Nation

In 1857 an Anglican lay missionary named William Duncan brought Christianity to Lax Kw'alaams, but, feeling that he was competing in vain with the dissipated fort atmosphere for Tsimshian souls, he relocated about 350 of his flock to Metlakatla, at Metlakatla Pass just to the south.

Marbled Duck

In 2011, a group of Iraqi ornithologists counted a single flock of the rare marbled teal on the lakes of the Iraqi marshes, numbering at least 40,000 birds.

Mark Bittner

After many years of doing odd jobs while maintaining a Dharma Bums-type lifestyle, he found a flock of naturalized parrots (mostly cherry-headed conures, also known as Red-masked Parakeets) in the area of Telegraph Hill.

Mike Score

In 2003, the original members of A Flock of Seagulls were reunited by VH1's Bands Reunited.

Provisional Government of National Defence

Individual officers from across northern Greece began to flock to Thessaloniki, and on 2/15 September, the "National Defence" received its first substantial reinforcement, as Colonel Nikolaos Christodoulou arrived in the city with the remnants of IV Corps that had refused to surrender and instead withdrawn via Kavala and Samothrace.

Sandhill Crane

This breeding flock is divided between the Audubon Institute's Species Survival Center and White Oak Conservation in Yulee, Florida.

Shearing shed

In countries where large numbers of sheep are kept for wool, sometimes many thousands in a flock, shearing sheds are vital to house the necessary shearing equipment, and to ensure that the shearers and /or crutchers have a ready supply of dry, empty sheep.

Species flock

The Antarctic notothenioid fishes are a species flock of 122 marine fishes that have an adaptation that allows them to survive in the freezing, ice-laden waters of the Southern Ocean because of the presence of an antifreeze glycoprotein in their blood and body fluids.

Tapulous

Its co-founders were Bart Decrem, an entrepreneur who helped launch the Firefox browser and was the founding CEO of Flock, Inc. and Andrew Lacy, a consultant of McKinsey & Company.

Telegraph Hill, San Francisco

Today Telegraph Hill is known for supporting a flock of feral parrots, primarily Red-masked Parakeets (Aratinga erythrogenys), descended from escaped or released pets.

The flock was popularized by a book and subsequent documentary (2003), both titled The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.

The Doctor of Myddfai

A shepherd fell in love with beautiful girl who appeared in Llyn y Fan Fach, a lake where he was tending his flock.

The Last Shepherd

The 1st of October 2011, to film a scene of the movie, Marco Bonfanti brought a flock consisting of more than 700 sheep in Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

The Night God Screamed

He focuses on one of the girls and announces, "there's a chick that don't want to be baptized — she don't want to follow me" and finishes by pronouncing, "Oh, yes, Lord, in our happy flock, maybe we got us a Judas".

Thurlestone

In late March and early April, a flock of 68 Garganey was offshore in the bay - the second largest flock ever to be recorded in Britain (the largest was a flock of 120 in Kent in the 1950s).

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.

Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment

However, since 1912 it has become the tradition for the Duke of Devonshire to select a Swaledale Ram from his Chatsworth Park flock and present it to the regiment.


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