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3 unusual facts about Marten


Marten

The Finnish communications company Nokia derives its name, via the river Nokianvirta, from a type of marten locally known as the nokia.

Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia

Tête Jaune Cache is an ecologically rich forest habitat for trees including Lodgepole pine, Trembling Aspen, Western red cedar, Paper birch and Douglas fir; wildlife such as Moose, Cougar, Wolverine, Black bears, Grizzly bears, Lynx, Beaver, and Marten.

Wapstan

Wapstan (misspelling of the cree word "Wapistan" meaning "Marten") is the name of the main musical project of Canadian noise musician Martin Sasseville (1980 - ...) based in Montreal, Quebec.


Benjamin Marten

Benjamin Marten (c1690 - 1752) was an English physician from "Theobald's Row" near Red Lyon Square, Holborn, and one of several sons of a tailor.

Bumble

Oliver B. Bumble, a fictional bear in a series of Dutch comic books by Marten Toonder

Cyneheard the Atheling

The murder of Cynewulf is placed by modern historians, including the Rev G. H. Godwin, at Marten, a hamlet in the county of Wiltshire.

Cynewulf of Wessex

In 786 Cynewulf was surprised and killed, with all his Thegns present, at Merantune (now called Marten, a hamlet in the county of Wiltshire), by Cyneheard the Atheling, brother of the deposed Sigeberht.

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

According to Estonian media, the favourites to win the contest were Iiris Vesik, Marten Kuningas & Mahavok and Lenna Kuurmaa, who had previously represented Switzerland at the 2005 Contest as a member of Estonian girlband Vanilla Ninja.

Fergus Martin

He has received awards from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York and The Marten Toonder Award, as well as Arts Council bursaries (1994, 96, 99).

Guido de Bres

Guy probably kept company with a number of refugees from continental Europe: Tremellius, Valérand Poullain, Martin Bucer, John a Lasco, Jan Utenhove, Marten de Klyne (Marten Micron or Micronius), Wouter Deelen, François Perucel de la Rivière and others.

Japanese marten

In the Iga region, Mie Prefecture, there is the saying, "the fox has seven disguises, the tanuki has eight, and the marten has nine," and there is a legend about how the marten has greater ability in shapeshifting than the fox (kitsune) or tanuki.

Kabut Sutra Ungu

The film starred Jenny Rachman and Roy Marten, with other roles handled by actors including El Manik, Sys NS, Ami Priyono, and Citra Dewi.

Mårten Palme

The evening of Olof Palmes assassination, Mårten Palme and his girlfriend had joined his parents and had been at cinema.

Meggie Folchart

Together with her great-aunt Elinor, Dustfinger - a fire-eater, Farid - a boy called from the book Arabian Nights, Fenoglio - the writer of Inkheart and a horned marten named Gwin, Meggie and Mo try to destroy Capricorn and his evil army.

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Taperoo, South Australia

The suburb is the seat of Fort Largs Police Academy, the training facility for South Australia Police, and this is bordered Roy Marten Park, the primary recreational reserve in the suburb.

Walter Leighton Clark

Items sold included two paintings: "Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist" by Bernardino Luini, sold for $1000, and Sir Anthony Van Dyck's "Portrait of Marten Rijckaert", sold for $720.

Zdenka Braunerová

A prominent Czech artist, she takes her place on history alongside the likes of Chittussi, Mrštík, Zeyer, Marten, Joža Uprka and sculptors František Bílek and Jan Zrzavý.

Zibellino

The earliest surviving mention of a marten pelt to be worn as neck ornament occurs in an inventory of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, dated 1467, but the fashion was widespread in Northern Italy by the 1490s.


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