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2 unusual facts about Rook


Bob Larkin

Besides his work for Marvel, Larkin has painted covers for Vampirella and The Rook (Warren Publishing), The Amazing Adventures of Holo-Man (Peter Pan Records), Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast (StarWarp Concepts), and many others.

Lee Elias

His last big project was The Rook series for Warren Publishing, a black-and-white time travel series which played to his strengths as a Western and science fiction artist.


Arne Zwaig

Zwaig's first participation on the Norwegian Chess Olympiad team was in 1962 where he, as an untitled 15-year old, held Paul Keres to a draw in an inferior rook endgame.

Bedford Town F.C.

During the 1960s and 70's the managers of the club lasted for about two years each: Reg Smith took over from Ronnie Rook followed by Basil Hayward in 1963, Ron Burgess 1965, Ron Heckman 1967, Alan Wright 1969, and Reg Smith again in 1971.

Corvus: A Life With Birds

Corvus: A Life With Birds (ISBN 9781582434773) by Esther Woolfson is a non-fiction book about a family which adopts various corvids; a rook named Chicken, a magpie named Spike, and a crow named Ziki.

Kazimierz Wodzicki

Wodzicki’s other research activities included studies on Australasian Gannets at Cape Kidnappers, Rooks and the birdlife of the Waikanae estuary, as well as investigating problems with introduced rodents on Tokelau and Niue.

Korvus

The names Korvus and Rook'shir appear to be taken from the avian genus Corvus, to which the birds known as Rooks belong.

Lattice graph

The rook's graph (the graph that represents all legal moves of the rook chess piece on a chessboard) is also sometimes called the lattice graph.

Robotech: Love Live Alive

Scott, Marlene/Ariel, Rand, Rook, Lunk, and Annie all take him out for a campfire dinner and talk about what the REF has been up to in the aftermath of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

Silverhead

The other members of the band were: Robbie Blunt (guitar), Rod Rook Davies (guitar, percussion, vocals), Nigel Harrison (bass guitar) and Pete Thompson (Drums, percussion, keyboards, vocals).

Wongungarra River

In the Australian Aboriginal Brabralung/Daungwurrung dialect of the Gunai language, the variant name for the Wongungarra River is Gwannam-o-rook, meaning "eaglehawk".


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