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4 unusual facts about Heron


Abiodun Oyewole

They are generally credited, along with Gil Scott-Heron, as being major influences on the development of hip hop.

Le Bal de Sceaux

In writing this novella Balzac seems to have been inspired by the fables of La Fontaine, especially La fille ("The Girl") and Héron ("The Heron").

North American Soccer Football League

Gil Heron with Detroit Corinthians in '46 (top league goal scorer) and father of Gil Scott-Heron died 27 November 2008

The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron

#"Jose Campos Torres" – 2:36 (about Jose Campos Torres, a U.S. Army veteran who was arrested and then murdered and tossed into a bayou by two police officers in Houston in 1978, spurring the Moody Park Riot)


2012 Colorado Ice season

In their first season under head coach Heron O'Neal, the Colorado Ice played their home games at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, Colorado.

Adolphus Island

The island is home to unique and endangered flora such as Brachychiton incanus and a variety of birdlife such as Rufous Night Heron, Little Eagle, Brown Falcon, Whimbrel, Tawny Frogmouth, Great Bowerbird and Rainbow Bee-eater.

Andrew Heron Wilson

Wilson was son of Andrew Wilson and Grace (Heron) his wife, was born at Ayr, Scotland, and educated at the Ayr Academy.

Anne Gainsford

Anne Gainsford was born on an unknown date in Crowhurst, Surrey, England, a daughter of John Gainsford by his second wife, Anne Hawte, the daughter of Richard Haute (d. 8 April 1487) and Elizabeth Tyrrell, widow of Sir Robert Darcy (c.1420 - 2 November 1469) of Maldon, Essex, and daughter of Sir Thomas Tyrrell (d. 28 March 1477) of Heron in East Horndon, Essex.

Ardiaei

Specifically, there is a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina situated in the wider Neretva valley region (the original homeland of ancient Illyrian people of Ardiaei),called Čapljina, and its name derives from čaplja, which in modern Croatian and Serbian language means 'heron'.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

The fell features a number of sculptures by local artist Thompson Dagnall, including Black Tiger and Kissing Seat (2006), Walking Snake (1998), Hanging Bat (1998), Spruced up Heron (1996) and Orme Sight (1996).

Black Heron

The nest of the Black Heron is constructed of twigs placed over water in trees, bushes, and reed beds, forming a solid structure.

Blackburn Lake Sanctuary

Today, the park is home to a variety of local wildlife, including Pacific Black Ducks and herons.

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

Founded in 1999, Blue Heron presents its own concerts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performs regularly at Monadnock Music in New Hampshire, and has appeared at other venues throughout the northeastern U.S., including the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve

The upland habitat provided nesting, shelter, and food for egrets, herons, and raptors that also used the wetlands.

Bourne's Heron

The only known breeding location of the heron is on Santiago Island, in the Ribeira Montagna village of Achada Banana, in a nesting colony in a pair of African mahogany trees.

BridgePort Brewing Company

Blue Heron Pale Ale, named after Portland’s official city bird (the Great Blue Heron), was first brewed in 1987 as a special release for the Audubon Society of Portland.

Capricorn Silvereye

There it has been the subject of long-term biological studies by the University of Queensland which operates the Heron Island Research Station, with the island population having been continuously and accurately monitored since 1965.

Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton

Within the Fleet Air Arm Memorial Chapel modern stained glass has been installed with the badges of RNAS stations Gannet, Osprey, Heron, Seahawk and Deadalus.

Donington Grand Prix Exhibition

-- Hill's name in full to clarify that it's Graham, not Damon --> Mansell, Hunt and Alonso amongst others, a small collection of racing motorcycles, including a Daijiro Kato Honda and a Barry Sheene Heron Texaco Suzuki and a number of collections of trophies and awards gained by a selection of British drivers and riders.

Environment of Argentina

Hawks, falcons, herons, and tinamous (perdiz, Argentine "false partridges") inhabit the region.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

Heron Communications

Heron Communications was a Production Company, Distributor and a subsidiary of Gerald Ronson's Heron International.

Heron Lake, Minnesota

Walter Mondale, Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) and the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 1984, attended Heron Lake Public High School and lived in the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage (still present in the town) for three years prior to 1946.

Ibrahim Aslan

Aslan is best known for his first novel Malek al-Hazin (1983), translated by Elliott Colla under the English title The Heron; and its sequel 16 years later called As-safir al-Nil (1999), translated as Nile Sparrows by Mona El-Ghobashy.

Idaho State Highway 200

After the town of Clark Fork, ID it then enters the Clark Fork River Valley following the Clark Fork River and ends at the Montana border just before Heron, MT where it becomes Montana Highway 200.

Island Beach State Park

Approaching the bay side, one finds reeds and a muddy estuary that is home to blue crabs and herons and other marine birds.

King Alfred Plan

Performer and musician Gil Scott-Heron created the song "King Alfred Plan," included on his (1972) album Free Will, that takes the Plan at face value.

L'Albenc

As for birds: the family of herons is well represented with many other birds living in the area such as the European bee-eater, the Eurasian Penduline Tit etc.

Louisiana Swamps

The swamplands are home to a few trails as well as many different kinds of animals such as herons, egrets, ibis, bullfrogs, cottonmouths, alligators, and coypu (nutria) rats.

Mark Allen Baker

Lesser-known spies are also included, such as Dr. Samuel Adams, James Aitken, Daniel Bissell, John Clark, William Heron, Solomon Jones, Nehemiah Marks, and Noah Phelps.

Maurice Reckitt

Prospect for Christendom: Essays in Catholic Social Reconstruction (Faber and Faber, 1945) editor, with F. N. Davey, V. A. Demant, E. L. Mascall, T. S. Eliot, Philip Mairet, Patrick McLaughlin, T. M. Heron, Ruth Kenyon, David G. Peck, William G. Peck, Charles Smyth, Cyril E. Hudson, Henry Balmforth, Rosalinde Wilton, P. E. T. Widdrington

Messalonskee Lake and Stream

Messalonskee Lake is home to a great variety of wildlife, including great blue herons, bass, yellow perch, white perch, sunfish, painted and snapping turtles, loons, and now the lake has recently have Bald Eagles come to the lake.

Musicians United for Safe Energy

Other musicians performing at the concerts included Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan, The Doobie Brothers, Jesse Colin Young, Gil Scott-Heron, Tom Petty, Poco and others.

Narcisse Pelletier

The ship struck a reef off Rossel Island and all aboard landed on a tiny waterless island now known as Heron Island or Wolo, about a kilometre from the much larger Rossel Island.

Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge

The Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge (translation: marshes of town) in Lima, Peru is a protected habitat for 150 species of birds including the plunger, colored duck, Puna Ibis (Yanavico), parihua and white heron, considered as the queen of the marshes for its beauty and rhythmic flight.

People of the Wolf

Heron: A fiercely independent medicine-woman, she trains Runs In Light in harnessing his visions so he can lead them through the hole in the ice where the Laurentide ice sheet and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet were joined.

Robert Heron

Red Heron (1917–1990), nickname of Canadian professional ice hockey player Robert Geatrex Heron

Srebarna Nature Reserve

39 mammal, 21 reptile and amphibian and 10 fish species inhabit the reserve, which is most famous for the 179 bird species that nest on its territory, some of which include the Dalmatian Pelican, the Mute Swan, the Greylag Goose, the Marsh Harrier, the Bluethroat, herons and cormorants.

St Augustine's Tower Hackney

The church tower was constructed as part of the early 16th century rebuilding of the church itself, commemorated by the arms of Sir John Heron (d. 1521) carved between each arch of the nave and also placed, with those of the rector Christopher Urswick (d. 1522), in the chancel.

Susanna Heron

In 2009 Heron was commissioned to make a new work titled 'Henslow’s Walk' for the Sainsbury Laboratory opened in 2011.

In this period Heron was also commissioned for a major external artwork titled 'Still Point' in the lea of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral between 2004 – 2007 and a new work titled 'Roche' a negative relief in glass and bronze for the facade of the House of Fraser in Cabot Circus, Bristol between 2005-2008.

Tom Herron

For the 1979 season, he finally got his big break, as a full works, manufacturer backed rider for the Texaco Heron Suzuki team in the 500cc world championship, alongside two-time world 500cc world champion Barry Sheene, and future Truck racer Steve Parrish.

Wee Tam and the Big Huge

Around 15 instruments are featured, played mainly by the two band members Williamson and Heron but also, in supporting roles, on a few tracks by Rose Simpson and Licorice McKechnie.

Wemyss Ware

The pottery took its name from the Wemyss family, titled incumbents of Wemyss Castle on the east coast of Fife, who were early and enthusiastic patrons of Nekola and Heron's ceramic creations.

Whataroa

It is also a staging base for trips to a white heron sanctuary that is the only breeding location of white heron in New Zealand.

White heron

Great Egret, (Ardea alba), also known as the Great White Egret, Common Egret or White heron

XL Recordings

Though only releasing an average of six albums a year, XL Recordings has worked with The Prodigy, Beck, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A., Vampire Weekend, The Horrors, Electric Six, The xx, Gil Scott-Heron, Jai Paul, Tyler, the Creator, Sigur Rós, Peaches and Adele.


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