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unusual facts about Southern Emu-wren


Southern Emu-wren

It described as the "Soft-tailed Flycatcher", native name Mur-re-a-nera when painted between 1788 and 1797 by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter.


All Hallows, Bread Street

Among the vestry records are accounts for £12 of "florence" wine (probably Chianti) for Wren and £11 for his assistant

All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames

The church contains a 14th-century wall painting of St. Blaise, a 17th-century marble font attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, twelve bells and an 18th-century carillon, the great west window of the 19th century, and the Frobenius organ installed in 1988.

Amy Wren

Wren started acting when she was talent spotted by Walt Disney UK at the age of 16.

Black-capped Donacobius

More recently, listing organizations and authors follow Van Remsen and Keith Barker's conclusion that it is not a wren either, but instead most closely related to an Old World (probably African) lineage.

Blackpool F.C. Ladies

They also beat Blackpool Wren Rovers 4–1 in the League Cup Final at the home of Airbus UK, to secure their first Cup Victory of their short history.

Calymene blumenbachi

Calymene blumenbachii, sometimes spelled - erroneously - blumenbachi, is a species of trilobite discovered in the limestone quarries of Wren's Nest Hill in Dudley, England.

Cheryl Gillan

Her father was a former British Army officer and a director of a steel company whilst her mother was a Wren.

Cutty Wren

In Arnold Wesker's play Chips with Everything (1962), the conscripts sing "The Cutty Wren" with more and more aggression with each verse.

Daito Wren

The Daito Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes orii) is a controversial subspecies of the Eurasian Wren.

Edward Allworthy Armstrong

As an ornithologist, he was known for his study of bird behaviour and his intensive study of the Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes).

Graceful Prinia

This prinia is a resident breeder in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia, from Egypt and Somalia east to Pakistan and North India, where it is sometimes called Streaked Wren-Warbler.

Gulbenkian Park

Of the two lakes built in the garden, the larger lake, located in the centre of the park, is the habitat for water birds such as Mallard, Moorhen, Ring-necked Parakeet, White Wagtail, Wren, Blackbird, Blackcap, House Sparrow, Serin, and Greenfinch.

HMS Wren

Wren, a Modified Black Swan class sloop launched on 11 August 1942 and, as part of Captain Frederic Walker's Second Escort Group, assisted in the sinking of several U-boats.

Holborn

John Shaw, Jr. (1803–1870), architect, was born in Holborn; praised as a designer in the "Manner of Wren".

James Elmes

In 1813-4 he restored the top part of the spire of Chichester Cathedral, reconstructing the pendulum device incorporated into it by Sir Christopher Wren to counteract the effects of strong winds.

John Wren

Wren became best known as a boxing promoter and through this success he was able to establish the Stadiums Limited organisation, which acquired venues in most major Australian capitals, including Sydney Stadium, Festival Hall, Melbourne and Festival Hall, Brisbane.

Karate International Council of Kickboxing

KICK was organized in 1982 by Frank Babcock, Fred Wren, Larry Caster, Bob Wall and Roy Kurban, with martial arts icon Chuck Norris serving as a goodwill ambassador.

Mac Barlow

Barlow also had a spell at Blackpool Wren Rovers before joining Blackpool F.C. Ladies

New Zealand Rockwren

The New Zealand Rockwren (Xenicus gilviventris), or Rock Wren, or Pīwauwau in (Māori, is a small New Zealand wren (family Acanthisittidae) endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

P. C. Wren

The only documented record of Wren's military service records his appointment on 1 December 1914 as a reserve officer attached to an Indian infantry regiment - the 101st Grenadiers.

Requiem for a Wren

He is appalled to learn that the woman was, in fact, Janet Prentice - a former Royal Navy Wren and the former girlfriend of his dead brother Bill, and someone for whom Alan had spent considerable time searching immediately after the war.

Rupert Vansittart

In 1993, he appeared in Remains of the Day as Sir Geoffrey Wren, a character based on the 1930s British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.

Sam Paulescu

Paulescu’s special teams coach at Fullerton was Jim Wren, who was USC’s punter in 1996 when Mike Riley was the offensive coordinator.

Temple Bar, London

The pedestal is decorated with statues (by Joseph Boehm) of Queen Victoria and The Prince of Wales, the last royals to enter the City through Wren's gate – an event depicted in one of the reliefs which also decorate the structure.

The Bells of Dublin

#"Medley: 'The Wren! The Wren!'/The Dingle Set - Dance/The Wren in the Furze/A Dance Duet - Reels/Brafferton Village/Walsh's Hornpipe/The Farewell" ("Wren in the Furze" by Kevin Conneff)

The Scions of Shannara

Wren is charged to return the missing Elves, Walker is charged with returning Paranor and the Druids, and Par is charged with finding the lost Sword of Shannara.

Theo Ngoni

After the destruction of Cloud Nine, their subsequent capture and escape from the Green Storm, and the witnessing of the duel between the Stalker Fang and Shrike, Wren and Theo escape with Tom Natsworthy on the Jenny Haniver.

Toby Tortoise Returns

The short features characters from other Silly Symphonies, including The Three Little Pigs and Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin?.

Toby Wren

In 2006, Wren travelled to India to collaborate with, and learn from great musicians of the Carnatic musical system of Southern India.

Tom Tunnecliffe

Tunnecliffe was a close friend of the gambling boss John Wren, (in the view of most historians, in fact, Tunnecliffe was under Wren's control) who was also very close to United Country Party leader Albert Dunstan.

Walthall Robertson Joyner

He defeated Thomas Goodwin (incumbent mayor James G. Woodward didn't run) in 1907 and under his leadership a memorial was made of the Wren's Nest after Joel Chandler Harris's death.

Willoughby's Magic Hat

The short features the character of a diminutive, weak man named Willoughby Wren, who finds he is granted super-strength by wearing a cap woven from the hair of Samson.

Wren Fire Department

The Wren Fire Department response area includes most of the Anderson county portion of Piedmont, South Carolina

Wren, Oregon

The first form of the name was "Wrens", used for a station established by the Oregon Pacific Railroad in the locality in 1886.

Wren's Cathedral

With the separation of the Church from Rome in 1535, Henry VIII allowed Robert Burgoyne to purchase the estate for just under £600 after he had demolished the Monastery and Church adjacent to the present Wren's Cathedral.

Wren's Cathedral was originally founded as the Monastery of St. Leonard at Wroxall, Warwickshire in 1141 for nuns, by Sir Hugh-Hatton eldest son of the Earl of Warwick.

Wren's Nest Estate

However, its closure was ultimately brought forward to July 1990, after which the remaining pupils and staff were split between Castle High and The Coseley School, and the Mons Hill buildings were incorporated into Dudley College, who completed a multi-million pound expansion of the site in 1993.


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