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unusual facts about Short-eared Owl



'Hours...'

The album cover, designed by Rex Ray with photography by Tim Bret Day and Frank Ockenfels, depicts the short-haired Bowie persona from the intensely energetic previous album Earthling exhausted, resting in the arms of a long-haired, more youthful version of Bowie.

1941 Amateur World Series

Pat Scantlebury pitched for the team and would go on to have a long Negro League career as well as a short stint with the Cincinnati Reds.

Barentin Viaduct

The building of the Viaduct is fictionalized in Julian Barnes's short story "Junction," published in his 1996 volume Cross Channel.

Big Red Letter Day

The leadoff track, "Sodajerk," was featured on the soundtrack for the short-lived television series My So-Called Life and in commercials for Nike and Pontiac.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Christoph Peters

It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, The Fabric of Night (Random House).

CLÀR

, a collection of short stories by Duncan Gillies (Donnchadh MacGillIosa) from London via Ness on the Island of Lewis was shortlisted for the main award 2013 Book of the Year.

Craig Hignett

His stay at Aberdeen was short lived, only lasting six months, before signing for Barnsley for £800,000 in 1999.

Device – Voice – Drum

The DVD includes a short Animusic animation of a portion of "Miracles Out of Nowhere."

Electric Pentacle

The "electric pentacle" is a fictional electronic device invented by author William Hope Hodgson and used in several of his short stories about Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.

Esther Kahn

Deplechin adapted the screenplay with regular collaborator Emmanuel Bourdieu from a short story by Arthur Symons of the same name from his book Spiritual Adventures.

Fred Basset

During mid 1976 a short-lived 5 minute television cartoon of Fred Basset was shown on the BBC, made by Bill Melendez Productions, voiced by actor Lionel Jeffries that was available on VHS.

Gaetano Naccarato

In Surinandi, his second short film, Gaetano Naccarato working with Abdel Qissi, known for his numerous collaborations with Jean-Claude Van Damme (The Quest, Lionheart).

Glen David Gold

Gold has also ventured into comic books, writing a short story featuring Will Eisner's classic creation The Spirit.

Great Army of the Ant-Men

Like many other characters in the series who are inspired by another fictional work, the Ant-Men are inspired by the monster enemies from the Locust Horde in the game Gears of War and also draw elements from the 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants" by H. G. Wells.

Hanwell railway station

The station is sited a short distance east of the Grade I-listed Wharncliffe Viaduct.

History of Federal Open Market Committee actions

Although this action was marginally successful in reducing the spread between long-term maturities and short-term maturities, Vincent Reinhart and others have suggested it did not continue for a sufficient period of time to be effective.

Idris Davies

After his death over two hundred of his manuscript poems and a short verse-play, together with the typescripts of his comprehensive wartime diaries, were deposited at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.

Iwrestledabearonce EP

The EP contains five songs, all of which boast extreme tempo and change between various genres throughout, as well as the use of short cover tunes or samples (including the theme from Inspector Gadget as well as samples from other popular media such as Scary Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Super Mario Bros. and Clerks).

John Hollowbread

In 1994 he retired to Spain - he died following a short illness at Torrevieja, on the Costa Blanca.

Jon Dore

In 2013, Dore appeared as a main cast member alongside Sarah Chalke and Brad Garrett on the short-lived sitcom How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) and was interviewed by Melinda Hill for the web series All Growz Up with Melinda Hill.

Keena Young

In 2007, Young had a short stint with Spotter Leuven, a professional team in Belgium, before joining Mobis Phoebus of the Korean Basketball League (in South Korea).

Liam Halligan

Outside journalism, Halligan has written chapters, pamphlets and short books with, among others Frank Field and Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky.

Marion railway station

The station is situated a short walk from the corner of Marion Road and Daws Road, next to Westminster School and between Farne and Minchinbury Terraces.

Mike Nappa

He has also served as a fiction acquisitions editor for Barbour Publishing, as a general acquisitions editor (fiction and non-fiction) for David C. Cook publishers, and as Editor in Chief of the short-lived Destination Magazine (published by Private Escapes Luxury Destination Clubs).

Napięcie Theatre

The Napięcie Theatre work mainly with their own texts (“Salon Lenistwa”/”Showroom of Indolence” or “Lewa Strona, Prawa Strona”/”Left Side, Right Side”) but they also work with other author’s pieces (“Przewodnik dla bezdomnych”/”A Short Guide for Homeless People” is based on Arthur Rimbaud's and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki's works; their other plays are inspired by Plato and Andrzej Sosnowski).

Nature Trail to Hell

At the time of the song's release, the 3-D process had made a short comeback through horror films like Friday the 13th Part III and Jaws 3-D.

Ontario Government Buildings

The massive construction site for the Ontario Government Buildings was the filming location for Buster Keaton's last film, "The Reporter," an industrial safety short that was released under the title The Scribe.

Paxton Automotive

A short run of Shelby Mustangs were fitted with Paxton superchargers, and Ford dealers offered Paxton superchargers as a dealer-fitted Ford Mustang option from 1965 to 1972.

Pigs in a Polka

Short clips from this cartoon can be seen in the opening credits of the Futurama episode Mars University; in the Everybody Hates Chris episode "Everybody Hates Gretzky"; and in the movie Training Day.

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Ramfis Trujillo

She was an American of Hungarian immigrant parents, who had a short but relatively successful film career in Hollywood, most notably in The Left Handed Gun, opposite Paul Newman.

Robert McAlmon

Having published his book of short stories A Hasty Bunch with James Joyce's printer Maurice Darantière in Dijon in 1922, he founded the Contact Publishing Company in 1923 using his father-in-law's money.

Robert Salaburu

Salaburu had to cut his online play short because of Black Friday.

Ron Blum

After Titans kicker Joe Nedney missed a short field goal, he was given another chance when Blum flagged Steelers cornerback Dewayne Washington for running into the kicker.

Samonikli

The band was named after a book of short stories by writer Prežihov Voranc.

Sarah Kunstler

At Off Center Media, Sarah has produced and directed a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival (she was instrumental in winning exoneration for 46 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas); and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

Seaford, Victoria

Three types of fish can also be found in the wetlands: Common Galaxia, Short-finned Eels and Mosquitofish (an exotic pest species).

Seida

For a few years along the 50s, Seida was also dealer in Spain for the British Rootes Group car brands, and too for the short-lived Spanish-made Babcock truck.

Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales

Burroughs' recording of "The Junky's Christmas" was used as the soundtrack for a stop-motion animation short film of the same title released in 1993, directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel, which also incorporated live-action footage of Burroughs.

Stewart v. Abend

The short story was then made into the acclaimed movie Rear Window (1954), directed by Hitchcock and starring Stewart.

The Key to Reserva

The Key to Reserva is a 2007 short film/long forum advertisement for Freixenet Cava champagne starring, written and directed by Martin Scorsese.

The Music Box

His short story Another Fine Mess from the collection Quicker Than the Eye features the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy haunting the staircase by replaying the scene.

The Voices of Time

The Voices of Time (collection), a collection of science fiction short stories by J. G. Ballard

Tlon

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges

Very low calorie diet

A 1997 study concludes that the short-term use of a VLCD is very effective in rapidly improving glycaemic control and promoting substantial weight loss in obese patients with Type 2 diabetes.

Will Blythe

His short story "The Taming Power of the Small" was anthologized in the Best American Short Stories for 1988 and adapted into a 1995 short film starring David Morse and Treat Williams.

Willis Kent

Its films, about 40 in all, consisted mostly of low-budget westerns, many of which starred short-lived cowboy star and former football player Lafayette Russell (aka Reb Russell), and cheap, sensationalist exploitation epics.

Wisconsin Highway 119

These different roads were short lived but were located throughout the state of Wisconsin in the Milwaukee area, Manitowoc and Green Bay.

Wolfgang Niedecken

He studied Art at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, graduating in 1974 after a short-term exchange in New York with Howard Kanovitz and Larry Rivers.


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