Early in his tenure, the Audubon Society, with an interest in the ivory-billed woodpecker, which faced extinction, persuaded Ellender to work for the establishment of the proposed Tensas Swamp National Park to preserve bird habitat: 60,000 acres of land owned by the Singer Sewing Company in Madison Parish in northeastern Louisiana.
Recently, Bayou De View and the town of Brinkley have gained international attention from possible sightings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, which was thought to be extinct since the 1940s.
In 1932, Spencer, a sportsman armed with a hunting permit, shot a rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker along the Tensas River on a large tract of swamp forest land owned by the Singer Sewing Company.
Ivory spear points (often called "foreshafts") are found more frequently in the Aucilla River than everywhere else in North America combined.
Like his father he was a substantial stockholder in the East India Company, and throughout his twenties he imported a wide variety of commodities, including cloves, indigo, silks, pepper, elephant tusks, calicoes, and shells.
As one of the first three searchers to report seeing and identifying the species, he played an instrumental role in the 2004/2005 Arkansas reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
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These items included the Karlsschrein, the Marienschrein, Bust of Charlemagne, the Cross of Lothar, the ivories, the codices, and the two great Gothic reliquaries (Charlemagne's reliquary and Three Towers reliquary).
Two years later, he was granted the title of Governor over Bahr el Ghazal in return for an annual tribute of ivory.
Before switching to France he set an Ivory Coast national record of 5.10 metres in June 1992 in Yerres.
His play 'Comeback' was staged at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1987 with performances by Philip Middlemiss and William Ivory.
Escoffier gives a recipe in Le Guide culinaire which consists of a base of Suprême Sauce to which is added meat glaze in order to lend the latter an ivory-white tint which characterizes it.
They also inhabit Zanzan in Ivory Coast and there are small populations in Ghana.
The 416 is used on movie and TV drama productions such as Bronson, Canterbury's Law, The Walking Dead, the 2008 movies Ivory and The Wave, Black Swan, Dhobi Ghat, and Fruitvale Station.
The exhibits in the museum are the former with the prized tapestry cycle The Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la Licorne), Netherlands tapestries of the late-15th-century, and gold, ivory and enamel artifacts including manuscripts which are lighted.
Behind the altar is a 20th-century reredos which is topped by 18th century carved figures of Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine and Saint Gregory which support a Spanish Ivory crucifix.
Ignaz Bendl (died c.1730), Bohemian painter, sculptor, medalist and ivory engraver, who worked mainly in Vienna and Brno
Bill Gammell was born in Edinburgh, and was the son of an investment banker, who was invited at an early age to join Edinbugh's Ivory & Sime (which was started in the late 1800s with the formation of the British Assets Trust.) Gammell attended Edinburgh's exclusive Fettes College where he was friends and debating partners with future British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Settling in New York City, he distinguished himself by his oil painting, but also in watercolor on ivory, a standard medium for miniature portraits since the 18th century.
In 1974, an ivory sculpture commemorating the completion of the Chengdu–Kunming Railway was presented as a gift to the United Nations and is displayed at the U.N. Headquarters in New York.
Miller was a model as a child, appearing in a Wonder Bread commercial when she was six months old, posing at three for Francesco Scavullo in an Ivory soap advertisement, and being photographed for the cover of Redbook.
For instance the sculptor Pierre-Charles Simart produced a copy of the Athena Parthenos of Phidias for patron Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes, circa 1840, in ivory and gold, based on ancient descriptions.
They favour working with a select pool of writers and directors, including Paul Abbott, Bryan Elsley, Danny Brocklehurst, Peter Flannery, Billy Ivory and Dearbhla Walsh.
A visit to Italy in 1767 introduced him to Rosalba Carriera and he learned new skills, including the special technique of painting on ivory.
Of the 28 forest bird species with habitat exclusively in that forest, Pimm claims four become extinct either wholly or mostly because of habitat loss, the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, and Bachman's Warbler.
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Therefore, Mammuthus primigenius is the only extinct Proboscidea which consistently provides high quality, carvable ivory.
He completed portraits, in miniature on ivory, of Vittorio Emanuele II, King Umberto I, Queen Margherita, Princess Elisabetta, Duchess of Genoa, and Prince of Naples.
Charles V of France's court recorded four, including one of ivory, while the courts of Este and Ferrara recorded the hiring of gittern masters.
The other nominees were Cy Coleman for Theme from The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer for Pictures at an Exhibition, Quincy Jones for Money Runner, Henry Mancini & Doc Severinsen for Brass on Ivory, and Santana for Caravanserai.
Wilson presented John Wayne with an engraved blued pair with smooth ivory grips that Wayne used in The Shootist.
In 1998 Dreyer found writing on small ivory labels, he concluded that these challenged the prevailing view that the first people to write were the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) sometime before 3000 BCE.
This area known as the Bahr el Ghazal had long been the source of the goods that Darfur would trade to Egypt and North Africa, especially slaves and ivory.
Gendarmes in the village of Porga arrested suspected traffickers trying to cross the Benin-Burkina Faso border en route to Ivory Coast with five children in April 2009, and delivered them to the court at Natitingou.
Kholmogory has been for centuries a centre for the Russian style of carving, once in mammoth ivory but now mostly in bone.
The Ivory Gull was initially described by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1774 as Larus eburneus from a specimen collected on Spitsbergen.
Ivory Park is occupied by more than 100 000 black people and is close to Tembisa.
Cobbinah went to a catholic school in his home country and studied in Cape Coast (Ghana), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Dijon (France).
King Hiram is a character in the time travel story Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (1983) by Poul Anderson.
There are three foreign radio broadcasters that can be received in Ivory Coast on the FM band: RFI (Abidjan and Korhogo), Africa N°1 (Abidjan) and BBC (Abidjan).
Over the span of his career at Compton, Gossett worked on advertising campaigns for such clients as Black & White, Chase & Sanborn Coffee, El Producto, Ivory, Kelly Tires, Knickerbocker Beer, Procter & Gamble, Socony Mobil Oil Company, and Tender Leaf Tea.
Irène Jacob was the narrator, while the singers on the scene were: Alain Chamfort who sang "Chasseur d’ivoire" ("Ivory hunter"), Boris Bergman who sang "Junge Männer", Axel Bauer who sang "C’est comment qu’on freine ?", Barbara Carlotti who sang "Lavabo", Irène Jacob and Florent Marchet who sang "Volontaire", and Joseph d'Anvers who sang "J’envisage" ("I envision").
Ramalina siliquosa, also known as sea ivory, is a tufted and branched lichen which is widely found on siliceous rocks and stone walls on coastlands round the British Isles, occasionally slightly inland.
These include Norwegian blues guitarist and singer Knut Reiersrud, Rolf Erik Nystrøm, Keppy Kiombile from Kilimanjaro Band, Norman Bikaka from Shada Band and drummer Uriel Seri from Ivory Coast.
On 6 November 2004, an air attack by Ivory Coast forces on the lycée Descartes at Bouaké killed nine French soldiers and one American civilian taking refuge in this site occupied by the groupement's Train de Combat N°2.
Over his desk hung a congratulatory photograph from the foreign minister of Italy for recovering two ivories worth $1.5 million stolen from a museum in Pesaro.
Nyarafolo is spoken by 48,000 in northeast Ivory Coast around Ferkessédougou.
The origin of this name can be traced back to the time when Sultan Ibrahim hunts an elephant at this place, and was impressed by the luster of the ivory.
The glass bowl in the Merchant Ivory film, The Golden Bowl (2000), was designed by Eric Hilton at Steuben Glass.
In 1932, Mason Spencer, a state representative from Tallulah, armed with a gun and a hunting permit, shot a rare male Ivory-billed Woodpecker on a large tract of swamp forest land owned by the Singer Sewing Company.
This is a ware of a rich, thin, ivory-colored porcelain of extremely high quality as manufactured in Belleek, Ireland.