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2 unusual facts about Fork-tailed Drongo


Fork-tailed Drongo

The subspecies D. a. modestus (Príncipe) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus (Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola) is usually split as a separate species, the Velvet-mantled Drongo D. modestus, (Hartlaub, 1849).

Square-tailed Drongo

This species is similar to the Fork-tailed Drongo, but is smaller, and the shorter tail lacks the deep fork which gives the latter species its name.


Alex B. Mahood

He designed the Women's Dormitory at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, United States Steel Building in Gary, Skyway Drive-In Theater in Brush Fork, the Deco-Style Mercer County Courthouse (1930-1931) in Princeton and the Guyan Theater in Logan.

AOLserver

NaviServer (also hosted on SourceForge) is a fork of AOLserver.

Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam

It is named for the town of Ash Fork, and for Francis H. Bainbridge, a civil engineer and graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was an engineer for ATSF.

Bitterroot River

It runs for about 75 miles (121 km) south-to-north through the Bitterroot Valley, from the confluence of its West and East forks near Conner to the Clark Fork near Missoula.

Colfax, California

Bunch Creek is an active water source flowing south to eventually confluence with the North Fork of the American River.

Cook's Swift

A 2011 study has many taxonomists splitting this species from the Fork-tailed Swift complex.

Devil's Pitchfork

The Blivet, also known as the Devil's tuning fork, an impossible object and optical illusion

Ducati Hypermotard

The more expensive 1100S featured a durable low friction diamond-like carbon (DLC) black coating to the front fork sliders, an Öhlins remote reservoir rear shock, the same Brembo Monobloc brake calipers used on the 1098, lighter forged aluminium Marchesini wheels with a red pin-stripe, Pirelli tires, plus carbon fibre fork protectors, timing belt covers, front mudguard/ fender and tail/ exhaust side panels.

East Lynn Lake

It also required the relocation of a large stretch of West Virginia Route 37, which formerly followed the East Fork Twelvepole Creek valley that was inundated by the lake.

Fork and Spoon Records

Fork and Spoon is a Columbia, South Carolina based independent record label founded in 2010, by Jordan Blackmon, Chris Gardner and Aaron Graves.

Glady Fork

From the confluence the Glady Fork flows north-northeastwardly in a meandering course between Middle Mountain and Shavers Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest, through eastern Randolph County into southern Tucker County, where it joins the Dry Fork at the community of Gladwin.

Harry Gilmor

Later on July 11, Gilmore's advance group passed the home of Ishmael Day on Sunshine Avenue in Fork.

HM Prison Channings Wood

The prison provides educational courses to prisoners, include Barbering, Business Studies, Catering, Industrial Cleaning, Creative Media Studies, Customer Services, Driving Theory, Dry-Lining, Electrical Installation, ESOL, Food Hygiene, Fork Lift Driving, Horticulture, Information Technology, Painting and Decorating, Physical Education and Yoga.

Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis was first discovered in 1870 by Benjamin Franklin Mudge, a professor from Kansas State Agricultural College who recovered the initial fossils from the North Fork of the Solomon River in Kansas, USA.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

KOSY

KAAZ-FM, a radio station (106.5 FM) licensed to Spanish Fork, Utah, United States, which held the call sign KOSY or KOSY-FM from 1997 to 2013

Leah's Yard

By 1905, the workshops around the courtyard of Leah’s Yard were occupied by eighteen Little mesters whose trades included dram flask manufacturer, hollow ware and silver buffers, palette knife makers, steel fork manufacturer, silver ferrule maker, brass and nickel silver turners, electroplate producer and a cutler.

Lenape settlements

In 1808-09 early European-American settlers to the area of what is now Jeromesville in Ashland County, Ohio, on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican River found Delaware people living at the old Mohican village of Johnstown (about three-fourths of a mile southwest of the present site of Jeromesville) near which was located the home of Old Captain Pipe.

Lynch River

It rises at the unincorporated community of Mission Home near the boundary of Shenandoah National Park and flows southeast past Shady Grove and Nortonsville to join the Roach River, forming the North Fork of the Rivanna at their confluence.

Malheur River

At Riverside in eastern Malheur County it receives the South Fork Malheur River from the south, then turns sharply back northward to Juntura, where it receives the North Fork Malheur River form the north.

Mark Hummel

2004 Johnny Dyer & Mark Hummel, Rolling Fork Revisited (Mountain Top Productions)

Meservey, Iowa

As of the 2008-2009 school year, Thornton is part of the West Fork Schools, along with students from then neighboring towns of Thornton, Sheffield, Chapin, Rockwell, Swaledale, and the surrounding area.

Millersview, Texas

It is located at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Roads 765 and 2134, near the west fork of the Mustang Creek, and is a dozen miles southeast of Paint Rock.

Mokelumne River

Below Salt Springs it receives the Bear River from the north and then passes through the smaller Tiger Creek Reservoir before joining with the Middle Fork southeast of Pine Grove.

Nancy Lincoln

The family lived on land along Pottinger's Creek, in a settlement called Rolling Fork in Nelson County, Kentucky, until patriarch Joseph's death in 1793.

Payette River

Logging helped to spur even more people to move into the area, and in 1911, the Idaho Northern Railroad was constructed by the OSL, running from Emmett near the mouth of the Payette along the river, past present-day Black Canyon Reservoir, up into the North Fork watershed and ending just below Long Valley at Smith's Ferry on the river, named for a settler who bought the operation in 1891.

Peconic

Great Peconic Bay, the body of water between the North Fork and the South Fork of Long Island, New York

PHPixie

PHPixie started in early 2012 as a fork of Kohana framework aiming to tailor it for read-only websites with performance in mind.

PL/I

It comprised the data types EVENT and TASK, the TASK-option on the CALL-statement (Fork), the WAIT-statement (Join), the DELAY(delay-time), EVENT-options on the record I/O statements and the UNLOCK statement to unlock locked records on EXCLUSIVE files.

Platanthera yosemitensis

Platanthera yosemitensis (Yosemite Bog-orchid) is a species of orchid that is endemic to nine wet montane meadows between the main stem and the South Fork of the Merced River in Yosemite National Park.

Rusk Mountain

Rusk is the highest peak (and the only High Peak) on what Catskill forest historian Michael Kudish calls the Lexington Range, the northern of two that fork off from nearby Hunter Mountain, the second-highest Catskill peak.

Secesh River

The river begins at the confluence of Lake Creek and Summit Creek near the unincorporated community of Burgdorf and flows generally southeast, through Secesh Meadows and a series of canyons, emptying into the South Fork near Browns Camp.

Siuslaw High School

The area's student population comes from a large geographic region, with students coming from the north at Sea Lion Caves, east to Tiernan up the North Fork of the Siuslaw River, south to the county line and all points east of Woahink and Siltcoos lakes (Canary).

Skykomish River

Shortly before converging with the North Fork the river drops over Eagle Falls, followed by Canyon Falls and then, finally, Sunset Falls before its confluence with the North Fork.

Slab Fork

Between Slab Fork and Mullens, the stream is paralleled by West Virginia Route 54.

Snoqualmie River

On August 8, 2007, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert (WA-08), King County Executive Ron Sims, and others announced a proposal to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to include the valley of the Pratt River, a tributary of the Middle Fork, near the town of North Bend.

Spanish Fork

Spanish Fork River, a river that flows past the city of Spanish Fork into Utah Lake

Spanish Fork River

In 1909, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a tunnel to supplement the Spanish Fork's flow using water from the Strawberry River through the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Central Utah Project.

Stites, Idaho

In the lower canyon of the South Fork of the Clearwater River, it is about four miles (6 km) upstream and south of Kooskia on State Highway 13.

The Pledge Drive

Elaine's boss Mr. Pitt eats a Snickers bar with a knife and fork, starting a trend that seems to sweep the city.

Toutle River

It was further altered by dredging to remove sediment and by construction of the Sediment Retention Structure on the river's north fork.

Uinta Basin Replacement Project

Big Sand Wash – Roosevelt Pipeline - The Big Sand Wash – Roosevelt Pipeline will deliver project M&I water to Roosevelt, Utah as well as project irrigation water to the lower portions of Lake Fork drainage systems.

US 83 Bridge at the Salt Fork of the Red River

The US 83 Bridge at the Salt Fork of the Red River, bringing US 83 across the Salt Fork Red River near Wellington, Texas, was a truss bridge built in 1939.

Virgin spinedace

Populations are known at various locations in the Virgin River system, including the North Fork and East Fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park, the Santa Clara River, Beaver Dam Creek, and Ash Creek.

William Ludwig Detmold

During the war, he introduced a knife and fork for one-handed men, which was put by Surgeon General Barnes on the supply list, under the name of “Detmold's knife.” In 1884, he was a founder and the first president of the New York County Medical Association, and at one time he was president of the Medical Relief Fund for Widows and Orphans.

Wolfgang Reitzle

He instead quit the car business and became CEO of The Linde Group, at that time a leading manufacturer of Fork-lift trucks and currently the worlds largest industrial gas company, joining the board in 2002 and becoming a chairman in 2003.


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