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unusual facts about Shelley's Sparrow


Great Sparrow

Some authors considered this species to be the same as the Iago Sparrow, and some recognise only some of the rufous sparrows as separate from the Great Sparrow, but the Handbook of the Birds of the World recognises the Socotra Sparrow, Kenya Sparrow, Kordofan Sparrow, and Shelley's Sparrow.


1817 in poetry

"Mont Blanc", published in History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, a book written with his wife, Mary, who wrote most of the prose (Percy Shelley wrote the poem)

Bert Shelley

Caretaker manager George Goss led them on a run in the FA Cup, defeating Liverpool in round 4, to reach the semi-final at Stamford Bridge, where they were defeated 2–0 by Sheffield United on 28 March 1925, with Shelley playing in all five cup matches.

Broxton Rocks

The near-threatened* Bachman's Sparrow, the endangered* Red-cockaded Woodpecker and the Pileated Woodpecker, whose drum-like peck can be heard over long distances, all nest here.

Burke Shelley

Burke Shelley (born John Burke Shelley, 10 April 1947, Tiger Bay, Cardiff) is the bass guitarist and vocalist of the Welsh rock group Budgie.

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

In addition, the Collection brings together topical pamphlets, broadsides, and other ephemera related to issues of the day such as the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 and the 1820 adultery trial of the Queen Caroline-events which prompted responses in verse by both Shelley and Byron.

Chintz

Kelly L. Moran, Shelley Chintz: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pattern Books, Thaxted Cottage, 1999, ISBN 0-9676925-0-4.

Claire Clairmont

At the time Percy Shelley wrote the poem, in Pisa, Clairmont was living in Florence, and the lines may reveal how much he missed her.

Football Association of Malaysia

The first president of FAM was Sir Andrew Caldecott, followed by M.B. Shelley, Dr. J.S. Webster, S.D. Scott, R. Williamson and Adrian Clark, who served up until 1940 – before Europe went on a full-scale war with Germany .

Harry Rowe Shelley

He was born in New Haven, Conn. Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and subsequently completed his musical education in London and Paris.

Shelley was organist at the Church of the Pilgrims during the ministry of Henry Ward Beecher and played at his funeral.

Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon

Emily W. Sunstein in her biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality writes "the literary Lord Dillon... was said to be Eliza Rennie's lover."

Ignaz Moscheles

Ian Hobson has also recorded the first six, and included a pair of variations not recorded by Shelley.

Jane Hogg

Jane Williams (1798–1884), muse of Shelley, married name Jane Hogg

Jeremy Shelley

On October 9, 2008, Shelley earned the WRAL Extra Effort Award presented by Tom Suiter.

Josephine Hull

The Rivals (May 7, 1923 - May 1923, billed as Mrs. Shelley Hull)

Julian and Maddalo

Shelley originally intended the poem to appear in The Examiner, a Radical paper edited by Leigh Hunt, but then decided instead on anonymous publication by Charles Ollier.

Juliet Cowan

In 2010 she appeared in two episodes of PhoneShop as Lance's wife Shelley, as well as in a Christmas advertisement for Boots; an appearance which has evolved into a more recurring role in subsequent commercials for Boots.

Karl Heinz Göller

Göller was widely admired for the number and range of his publications: six books and over 110 essays on topics as diverse as the Old English elegies, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, nursery rhymes and science fiction.

Kate Shelley

Frances E. Willard, a reformer and temperance leader, wrote president Isabella W. Parks of Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, offering $25 toward an advanced education for Shelley.

Lars Osberg

"Poverty and the Extent of Child Obesity in Canada, Norway and the United States" (with Shelley A. Phipps, Peter S. Burton, and Lynn N. Lethbridge) Obesity Reviews, January 2006, Vol.

Mike Shelley

Shelley started his career at local club side Moortown, leaving them after one season to join West Park Bramhope.

Minnesota Youth Symphonies

Full orchestral pieces were commissioned from composers Stephen Paulus, Shelley Hanson and MYS alumnus Edward (Teddy) Niedermaier.

Ode to the West Wind

It was published in 1820 (see 1820 in poetry) by Charles and James Ollier in London as part of the Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems collection.

Paul Foot

Foot wrote Red Shelley, a book which exalted the radical politics of Shelley's poetry.

Performance Lab 115

The company was founded in 2005 by Columbia University School of Drama graduates Jeff Clarke, Rebecca Lingafelter, Shelley Gershoni and Elena Mulroney and has been a performer with the New York International Fringe Festival for several theatrical seasons.

Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art

In addition to its special-exhibit gallery, the Museum features a permanent collection of important works by accomplished artists including William Anastasi, Chaim Gross, Tobi Kahn, Joan Snyder, Shelley Spector, Boaz Vaadia and Roman Vishniac.

Poet as legislator

It received its most memorable formulation however in Shelley's 1820 A Defence of Poetry.

Richard Meale

Malouf also collaborated with Meale on his second operatic project, Mer de glace (1986–91), a tableaux-like juxtaposition of some ideas of the novel Frankenstein alongside the real dealings of Mary Shelley with Shelley and Byron.

Richard Shelley

This Richard Shelley must be distinguished from the Richard Shelley of Findon, Sussex, and All Cannings, Wiltshire (second son of Edward Shelley of Warminghurst, Sussex, and brother of Edward Shelley the martyr), who was committed to the Marshalsea for his religion, 13 August 1580.

Ride the Wild Surf

Phillips also founded Colpix Records and produced hits for Nina Simone, The Skyliners and one of Ride the Wild Surfs stars, Shelley Fabares.

Shelley Gare

Gare was born Helen Shelley Gare in Carnarvon, Western Australia in 1952, the fourth and youngest child of public servant Frank Ellis Gare (Commissioner for Native Welfare for the State of Western Australia) and artist and novelist Nene Gare.

Shelley Malil

Shelley Mathew Malil (born in Kerala, India; December 23, 1964) is an Indian-born American actor.

Shelley Memorial

The Shelley Memorial is located on the site where the scientists Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke performed experiments while they were in Oxford, previously Cross Hall until the early 19th century.

Shelley, West Yorkshire

Shelley won Village of the Year in 2004; every club in the village was involved and the entry was coordinated by Mrs Ann Priestman BEM

Sidney Patrick Shelley

Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet (18 January 1880-1965) is a relative of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Swainson's Sparrow

The birds also use cavities in buildings, and the old nests of the Ethiopian Swallow and African Sand Martin.

The Cenci

"The Enigma of Beatrice Cenci: Shelley and Melville." South Atlantic Review 49.2, pp.

In 1886 the Shelley Society had sponsored a private production at the Grand Theatre, Islington, before an audience that included Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, and George Bernard Shaw.

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein is a 2007 book about poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Lauritsen, who argues that Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, was the real author of Frankenstein.

Germaine Greer dismissed Lauritsen's thesis, writing that while he argues that Mary Shelley was not well educated enough to have written it, Frankenstein is not "a good, let alone a great" novel and that it does not deserve the attention it has been given.

The Masque of Anarchy

The poem was not published during Shelley's lifetime and did not appear in print until 1832 (see 1832 in poetry), when published by Edward Moxon in London with a preface by Leigh Hunt.

Timothy Shelley

Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet of Castle Goring MA (Oxon.) (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844) was the son of Sir Bysshe Shelley, 1st Baronet of Castle Goring and the father of Romantic poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Wanda Shelley

Shelley entered into production as an executive producer/investor in the 2002 independent feature film The Book of Love, also directed by Jeff Byrd and starring Sallie Richardson, Robin Givins, Treach of Naughty by Nature, and Richard T. Jones of Judging Amy.

Shelley and producer Tracey Baker-Simmons established B2 Entertainment Studios LLC, an Atlanta based production.

William Benyon

He was born William Richard Shelley, the son of Vice-Admiral Richard Shelley (grandson of Richard Fellowes Benyon) and his wife, Eve Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, the daughter of the Right Reverend Lord (Rupert Ernest) William Gascoyne-Cecil, Bishop of Exeter.

Worthen's Sparrow

By protecting this area, the appeal will conserve habitat for the Worthen's Sparrow, Long-billed Curlew, Burrowing Owl, Mountain Plover, Sprague's Pipit, and Ferruginous Hawk.

The song is a dry, chipping trill of 2–3 second duration, and is described as a cross between that of the Field Sparrow and Chipping Sparrow.


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