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unusual facts about Pied-billed grebes



Bentheim Black Pied

The Bentheim Black Pied, also known as the Schwarz-Wesses or Buntes Bentheimer Schwein, is a rare breed of domestic pig in Germany.

Corner Inlet

Containing the most extensive intertidal mudflats in Victoria, it supports over 1% of the world populations of Chestnut Teal, Far Eastern Curlew, Red-necked Stint, Pied and Sooty Oystercatchers and the Hooded Plover.

Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied

Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied was among Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Nutcracker Suite, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria, Dance of the Hours, Clair de Lune, The Rite of Spring, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice as the original planned line-up for Walt Disney Pictures' Fantasia.

Emma Dunn

One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons.

Entartistes

The group usually targets Canadian politicians, and has pied former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, provincial premiers such as Jean Charest and Ralph Klein, and cabinet ministers such as Stéphane Dion, Allan Rock and Pierre Pettigrew, among other political figures.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park

Birds that have natural habitat to watch for in the park are Shovelers, Gadwall, Wigeon, Ring-necks, Bufflehead, Redhead, Scaup, Ruddy's, Pintail, Pied-billed grebes, Snow Geese, Canada Goose, and herons.

Hamlin Independent School District

The school mascot is the Pied Piper, due to the town having a similar name to Hamelin, where the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin originated.

It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown

It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown is a retelling to Sally by Charlie Brown of the story how the Pied Piper of Hamelin (portrayed by Snoopy) chased away all the mice (changed by Charlie Brown from rats because, upon the story saying that the rats fought the dogs and killed the cats, Sally is terrified of rats) from the town of Hamlet.

Juan Huarte de San Juan

He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Lower Navarre) toward the end of 1529 or beginning of 1530, and was educated, first, at the university of Huesca.

Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet Important Bird Area

It also supports over 1% of the world populations of Pied and Sooty Oystercatchers, and Hooded Plovers, as well as populations of most of Tasmania’s endemic bird species.

Monty Woolley

He won a Best Actor award from the National Board of Review in 1942 for his role in The Pied Piper.

Nagshead

In 1942, nest boxes were erected, in the hope that Pied Flycatchers would control Oak Leafroller moth larva, which were defoliating trees.

Newtown, Isle of Wight

There are stories of a pied piper who was hired to save Newtown from an excess of rats for 50 pounds, similar to the story of the Pied Piper in Hamelin, Germany.

Old Guard

During Napoleon's 1815 return from exile, the Old Guard was reformed, and fought at the Battle of Waterloo, where the 2e Regiment de Grenadiers-à-Pied was pivotal in the defense of the town of Plancenoit against the Prussians.

Pied bat

Following a 2013 capture in South Sudan, only the fifth recorded capture of the species, the pied bat was determined to be of a new genus entirely, Niumbaha, named after the Zande word for "rare".

Pied-piping

it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats (and children) by playing his flute.

Via Podiensis

The three then become the Navarre Route, passing via the French town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and crossing the Pyrenees and the Spanish border by one path or another to Roncesvalles in the Spanish province of Basse-Navarre.

Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Several months after Episode II 's North American release, it was revealed that scenario writer Soraya Saga, was removed from the series. Monolith's management elected not to continue using the services of Saga, who worked freelance for them on Episode I, Episode II and Xenosaga: Pied Piper.


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