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4 unusual facts about Peacock


Peacock-class corvette

This ship takes her name from a Tipperary saint born around the year 611 who, after taking religious vows in her teens, founded a convent in Kilkeary, near Nenagh.

Also featured is a Celtic cross as a representation of the North Cross at Athenny, County Tipperary.

For these roles each vessel could carry two Avon Searider SR5M Rigid-hulled inflatable boats and a small detachment of Royal Marines.

Peacock-pheasant

The peacock-pheasants are a bird genus, Polyplectron, of the family Phasianidae, consisting of eight species.


2007 Asian heat wave

More than 120 peacocks died in Tughlakabad Fort and Surajkund due to the heat; additionally, reports of severe water shortages were common.

Albion and Albanius

In terms of production the opera was a restoration spectacular, visuals included much mere mythological display to take advantage of the "machines" at the Dorset Garden Theatre, such as "The clouds divide, and Juno appears in a machine drawn by peacocks: while a symphony is playing, it moves gently forward, and as it descends, it opens and discovers the tail of the peacock, which is so large that it almost fills the opening of the stage between scene and scene" (Act I).

Alexander Peacock

Peacock was born of Scottish descent at Creswick, the first Victorian Premier born after the gold rush of the 1850s and the attainment of self-government in Victoria.

Anne Dodd

Nathaniel and Anne set up their shop at the sign of the Peacock outside Temple Bar in late 1711, and the shop would operate successfully for nearly half a century afterward.

Anne Stallybrass

She was born Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex to Edward Lindsay and Annie I. (née Peacock) Stallybrass who wed around June 1933 in Hackney, London.

Anoja Weerasinghe

Weerasinghe rose to popularity in cinema after winning the Silver Peacock Award for the Best Actress at the New Delhi International Film Festival in 1987 for the film Maldeniye Simion, directed by D.B. Nihalsinghe.

Battle of Drummond's Island

So on April 6, the Peacock anchored off Utiroa on Drummond's island and he went ashore with the Scientific Corps and a few navy officers, as well as the detachment of marines.

Beaver hat

Emperor Norton I wore a beaver hat decorated with a peacock feather and rosette.

Bertie Peacock

Peacock briefly came out of retirement when he came on as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers in the Texaco Cup in September 1971.

Captain Peacock

Captain Stephen Peacock is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Centaurea nigra

Important for Gatekeeper butterfly, Goldfinch, Honey bee, Large skipper, Lime-speck pug moth, Meadow Brown, Painted lady, Peacock, Red admiral, Small copper, Small skipper

Clarence Peacock

In the war's last days Peacock again distinguished himself again in battle at Buchen in Baden-Württemberg on 1 May 1945.

Concerning Mr. Martin

Concerning Mr. Martin is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Roy Kellino and starring Wilson Barrett, William Devlin and Marjorie Peacock.

Court Jesters

Original members of the company were John Hudson, Patrick Duffy, Geoff Dolan, KC Kelly, Greg Cooper, Ross Gumbley, Cal Wilson, Simon Peacock, Susan Fogarty, Matthew Gould, Kevin Smith, Craig Cooper, Carl Nixon, Andie Spargo and Michael Robinson.

Danderhall

Notable people from Danderhall include footballer Grant Brebner, now playing in Australia and former Hearts and Motherwell footballer Kevin Twaddle; the village is also home to Scottish bowlers David Peacock, Alex Marshall and David Marshall.

Doug Griffiths

On February 10, 2013 Griffiths personally insulted Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi by calling him a "peacock" in the context of the city's discussions with the province on the regional growth plan.

Eenasul Fateh

Fateh’s ventures in entertainment include being commissioned by private clients in Las Vegas and Monte Carlo as well as in London (Hurlingham Club, Sanderson Hotel, Peacock House etc.), opening onstage for Paul Weller, Beth Orton and Mark E. Smith, entertained at Alexander McQueen’s official London Fashion Week after-party.

Eld Peak

Two conical peaks were sighted in the area from the Peacock on January 16, 1840 by Passed Midshipmen Henry Eld and William Reynolds of the United States Exploring Expedition (USEE) (1838–42).

Elvis Mihailenko

In 2000 he turned professional, signing with Peacock Promotion in Canning Town, East End of London.

Framwellgate Bridge

In 1318 Robert Neville, the "Peacock of the North", murdered his cousin, the Bishop's Steward Sir Richard Fitzmarmaduke, at Framwellgate Bridge.

George Clementson

George Clementson was born in Yorkshire, England, to Joseph Clementson, a wheelwright, and Elizabeth (Peacock) Clementson; in 1849, the Clementson family emigrated from England to the United States, settling in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.

Harry Peacock

During the game against Ireland, Peacock scored a joint try with Swansea's Howie Jones; both men dived for the ball and the referee could not decide on the actual scorer.

Hip-Hip and Hurra

The cast included Grzegorz Kwiecień, Krzysztof Szczerbiński, Joanna Pach and a famous Polish cellebrity actor Jarosław Boberek as the voices for various secondary characters, most notably the Peacock and the Hummingbird.

Htin Aung

# Lord Randolph Churchill and the dancing peacock : British conquest of Burma 1885

Keith Peacock

Peacock married Lesley and has a son, Gavin (born 1967), who also became a professional footballer.

Keyur

However, if you change the spelling of keyur in Sanskrit from Dirgh "u" to Rasv "u", its meaning changes to peacock, which is a synonym for Mayur.

Moniza Alvi

Peacock Luggage, a book of poems by Moniza Alvi and Peter Daniels, was published as a result of the two poets winning together the Poetry Business Prize in 1991, in Alvi's case for 'Presents from my aunts in Pakistan'.

Moran State Park

The mansion's music room is home to a 1913 34-rank Aeolian pipe organ and 1900 Steinway grand piano, both of which are still played for visitors today by the musician, Christopher Peacock.

Order of the Peacock Angel

Cooper McLaughlin's 1987 short novel, The Order of the Peacock Angel, published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, claims historical sources for its tale of a 1,000 year old society that continued into the 1960s.

Peacock blenny

Salaria pavo, the peacock blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern Atlantic coast from France to Morocco; also in the Mediterranean and Black seas, introduced to the Suez Canal.

Peacock Monitor

The peacock monitor (Varanus auffenbergi), also known as Auffenberg's monitor, is a species of small monitor lizard native to the island of Roti, Indonesia.

Queensland Beyer-Garratt class

Owing to the number of orders they had on hand, Beyer Peacock (BP) subcontracted Societe Franco Belge de Materiel du Chemins de fer, Raismes, France (SFB) to build the remaining twenty.

R v Peacock

At the time of the police investigation, Peacock advertised his services on his own personal website, entitled "Sleazy Michael", and also advertised hardcore pornographic DVDs for sale on the Craigslist website.

Reynolds Peak

Two conical peaks were sighted in the area from the Peacock on January 16, 1840 by Passed Midshipmen William Reynolds and Henry Eld of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–42).

Rob Pruitt

Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz collaborated on an installation piece called Peacock Hill.

Sarah Woodhouse

In 1989, her novel The Peacock's Feather was awarded the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Seefeel

Following the reissue of their first album, Quique, in 2007 (which included formerly unreleased material), Clifford and Peacock relaunched Seefeel and were joined by Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg) on bass, and former Boredoms drummer Iida Kazuhisa (E-Da).

Sexual selection in human evolution

Tor Nørretranders, in The Generous Man conjectures how intelligence, musicality, artistic and social skills, and language might have evolved as an example of the handicap principle, analogously with the peacock's tail, the standard example of that principle.

Taus

Melek Taus, "The Peacock Angel", the Yazidis' name for the central figure of their faith

The 7.30 Report

Current reporters include political editor Heather Ewart, together with Deborah Cornwall, Greg Hoy, Mark Willacy, Michael Brissenden, Murray McLaughlin, Mary Gearin, Mike Sexton, John Taylor, Peter McCutcheon, Paul Lockyer, Matt Peacock, Lisa Whitehead, Natasha Johnson, David Mark, Genevieve Hussey, Mark Bannerman and Jonathan Harley.

The Peacock and Gamble Podcast

The Peacock and Gamble Podcast is a weekly podcast, hosted by British comedians Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble.

Their first podcast work together was the Ray Peacock Podcast, which was co-hosted with "Little Raji James who used to be in EastEnders but ruined it" - Peacock's actor friend, Raji James.

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

The film was based on a novel of the same title written by Yan Yan (燕燕), while the film's screenplay was by Li Qiang, a Chinese scriptwriter, who had written the script of the 2005 film Peacock, directed by Gu Changwei.


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