The peacock-pheasants are a bird genus, Polyplectron, of the family Phasianidae, consisting of eight species.
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More than 120 peacocks died in Tughlakabad Fort and Surajkund due to the heat; additionally, reports of severe water shortages were common.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Emperor Norton I wore a beaver hat decorated with a peacock feather and rosette.
Peacock briefly came out of retirement when he came on as a substitute against Shamrock Rovers in the Texaco Cup in September 1971.
Captain Stephen Peacock is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show, Are You Being Served?.
Important for Gatekeeper butterfly, Goldfinch, Honey bee, Large skipper, Lime-speck pug moth, Meadow Brown, Painted lady, Peacock, Red admiral, Small copper, Small skipper
The noun 'pheasant' was originally applied to a bird that was native to the valley of the Phasis River (now the Rioni River), which is located in Georgia.
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In the time of Lewis and Clark the word 'pheasant' stood for "a genus of gallinaceous birds," according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense.
Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar), a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae
Concerning Mr. Martin is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Roy Kellino and starring Wilson Barrett, William Devlin and Marjorie Peacock.
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.
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.
Goodwin was also a longtime advocate for the plight of two rare pheasant species—the golden pheasant and the Lady Amherst's Pheasant.
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.
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).
In 2000 he turned professional, signing with Peacock Promotion in Canning Town, East End of London.
In 1318 Robert Neville, the "Peacock of the North", murdered his cousin, the Bishop's Steward Sir Richard Fitzmarmaduke, at Framwellgate Bridge.
The Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae), Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), Bulwer's Pheasant and the Crestless Fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma) are notable for their aptitude to forage for crustaceans such as crayfish and other aquatic small animals in shallow streams and amongst rushes in much the same manner as some members of the rail family (Rallidae).
Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1835-1919), French zoologist, coined the binomial nomenclature name for the Chinese Monal pheasant, son of Isidore Saint-Hilaire
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.
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.
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.
Peacock married Lesley and has a son, Gavin (born 1967), who also became a professional footballer.
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.
Animals inhabiting the mountain include 50 mammal and 100 bird species, including the more common hares, roes, pheasants, foxes, partridges and quails but also in Serbia rare, Red Listed corn crake and 17 newly discovered species of Sesiidae.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Also featured is a Celtic cross as a representation of the North Cross at Athenny, County Tipperary.
However, recent research and fossil finds such as Vegavis show that the Galliformes (Pheasants, Grouse and relatives), and Anseriformes (ducks, geese) are still not fully resolved.
The keynote speaker at the inaugural Pheasants Forever banquet was Gov. Rudy Perpich, who later signed the state’s first pheasant stamp bill.
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.
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.
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).
In 1989, her novel The Peacock's Feather was awarded the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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.
Songs of Green Pheasant is the solo project of Duncan Sumpner, a recording artist and school teacher from Oughtibridge in Sheffield, England.
Melek Taus, "The Peacock Angel", the Yazidis' name for the central figure of their faith
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 is a weekly podcast, hosted by British comedians Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble.
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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 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.