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unusual facts about Forty-spotted Pardalote



Achaeus

Achaeus of Eretria (born 484 BC), tragic poet who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved

Áed Dub mac Colmáin

Colgan tells us that he resigned the throne of Leinster in 591 (really, 592), and entered the great monastery of Kildare, where he served God for forty-eight years, becoming successively abbot of Kildare and bishop of Kildare.

Albert Augustus Isaacs

Of major note is his biography of the Reverend Henry Aaron Stern (1820–1885), published in 1886, who for more than forty years was a missionary amongst the Jews.

Andrey Kivilev

Approximately forty kilometres from the stage finish, as the peloton passed through Saint-Chamond, Kivilev collided with Polish team mate Marek Rutkiewicz and German Volker Ordowski of Team Gerolsteiner, although they were not seriously hurt and finished the stage.

Ansonia, Ohio

An IOOF lodge was instituted on June 18, 1875 with sixteen members; it grew nearly sevenfold in its first forty years.

Benjamin Eggleston

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.

Burton C. Cook

He served as chairman of the Committee on Roads and Canals (Fortieth Congress), and the Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-first Congress).

Ebon C. Ingersoll

He was reelected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses and served from May 20, 1864, to March 3, 1871.

Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford

He served for forty years as the president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and also contributed his time and money to several mission organizations such as American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the Chicago Missionary Society.

Feldafing

Feldafing station is served in either twenty or forty minute intervals by S-Bahn line 6 of the Munich S-Bahn towards the neighboring Tutzing station or towards Munich.

Frank Lentini

His career spanned over forty years and he worked with every major circus and sideshow including Barnum and Bailey and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

George Tankard Garrison

He successfully contested the election of Robert M. Mayo to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March 20, 1884, to March 3, 1885.

George W. Whitmore

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress.

Glay discography

The discography of Japanese pop rock band Glay consists of ten studio albums, forty-two unique singles, twenty-seven video albums, and sixty-four songs associated with various promotions.

Gray Marine Motor Company

The marine engine division continued operations for over forty years, and is most known for converting automotive engines for fishboats, cruisers and World War II Landing Craft, such as the Canadian Ramped Cargo Lighter and the famed Higgins Boats.

Henry D. Washburn

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress.

Henry O. Pollak

He authored near forty papers, many of these with David Slepian and Henry Landau on

Horace Davis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress.

Indian Museum

Out of one hundred seventy four items donated to the Museum till 1816, Nathaniel Wallich donated forty-two botanical specimens.

Izieu

The Gestapo, under the direction of the 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie, entered the orphanage and forcibly removed the forty-four children and their seven supervisors, throwing the crying and terrified children on to the trucks.

James Kimbrough Jones

Jones was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 4, 1885); he was re-elected to the Forty-ninth but tendered his resignation on February 19, 1885, having been elected to the United States Senate that year.

John C. Conner

He was reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from March 31, 1870, to March 3, 1873.

John Heyer

In these early years he worked on such feature films as Heritage, Thoroughbred, White Death in which Zane Grey appeared, and Forty Thousand Horsemen.

John P. Leedom

Leedom was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 4, 1883).

John V. Le Moyne

He was an unsuccessful candidate of the Liberal Party for election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress.

Jonathan H. Rowell

Rowell was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).

Jonathan T. Updegraff

Updegraff was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, November 30, 1882.

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels was fired from the cabinet by President John Kufuor in 2008, allegedly due to his involvement in the stealing of forty-two parcels of cocaine which were confiscated by the police.

Levi Warner

He was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from December 4, 1876, to March 3, 1879.

Lewis Beach

Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, Beach was a U. S. Representative for the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1885.

Lori Healey

Crain's Chicago Business featured Healey in its "Forty Under Forty" publication in 1999 and as a "Woman to Watch" in 2009.

Milo Goodrich

Goodrich was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress, holding office from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873.

Milton Sayler

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Ozro J. Dodds

Dodds was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Aaron F. Perry and served from October 8, 1872, to March 3, 1873.

Philip C. Hayes

Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876, unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell, a theoretician of the Greenback movement; and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878.

Robert H. M. Davidson

Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1891).

Roderick Macleod of Cadboll

Roderick Macleod, 2nd of Cadboll (died 1770), a Scotsman who supported the Jacobite cause and fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie in The 'Forty-Five'.

Seth C. Moffatt

He was re-elected in 1886 to the 50th Congress, serving from March 4, 1885 until his death at the age of forty-six in Washington, D.C. Henry W. Seymour was elected on February 14, 1888, to fill the vacancy caused by his death.

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat is an American song of the Great Depression, which was published in 1930 by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer.

Spider Murphy Gang

"Spider Murphy" is also referred to in a song written by Larry Kirwan of the Irish fusion Band Black 47's song, "Forty Deuce." The song appears referential to both the Spider Murphy Gang and to "Jailhouse Rock", for the live version from 2006's "Bittersweet 16" includes a saxophone solo which the singer recalls having heard in Sing Sing prison.

Stephen A. Cobb

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

It was the 4th Duke of Norfolk who commissioned Thomas Tallis, probably in 1567, to compose his renowned motet in forty voice-parts, Spem in alium.

Thomas R. Cobb

Cobb was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

Tranquilino Luna

Luna was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883).

Vittorio Missoni

Vittorio Missoni's plane, a forty-four year old Britten-Norman Islander, disappeared on January 4, 2013, after taking off from Los Roques Airport in the Los Roques archipelago, where he had been vacationing, en route to Caracas, Venezuela.

Wells A. Hutchins

He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1864 for reelection to the Thirty-ninth Congress and again in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress.

William Hartzell

Hartzell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875 – March 4, 1879).


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