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3 unusual facts about Stork


Nederlandse Helikopter Industrie

It kept building engines and finally the company was taken over by Stork.

Sišćani

Sišćani is also known as the Storks village due to the existence of several nests of White stork.

Stork

Ottomar Anschütz's famous 1884 album of photographs of storks inspired the design of Otto Lilienthal's experimental gliders of the late 19th century.


Black Stork

During the summer, the Black Stork is found from Eastern Asia (Siberia and China) west to Central Europe, reaching Estonia in the north, Poland, Lower Saxony and Bavaria in Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Greece in the south, with an outlying population in Spain and Portugal.

Clarence Stork

Stork served overseas with the Canadian Army during World War I and received the Distinguished Service Order.

Ephippiorhynchus

Individuals occasionally escape, and these have been proposed to be responsible for sightings of "Big Bird" cryptids; the Saddle-billed Stork is the most likely basis for the Kongamato.

GLARE

GLARE is currently produced by Cytec Engineered Materials in Wrexham, UK who supplies it to the Airbus A380 component manufacturing facilities at Stork Fokker in the Netherlands as well as at Airbus in Nordenham, Germany.

God Is My DJ

Eleni Karaindrou's "Refugee's Theme" is originally from the soundtrack to Theo Angelopoulos' film The Unsuspended Step of the Stork.

Jan Smeets

At Dos Hermanas the following year, he shared third behind Fridman and Bu Xiangzhi (with Sergey Volkov) and at the 2005 Hengelo Stork Young Masters event, he finished one-half point behind the Russian grandmaster Alexander Riazantsev.

Jim Stork

Stork became romantic partners with Ronald Ansin, a well-known Bostonian philanthropist, Democratic fundraiser, and brother of billionaire Edmund Ansin in 2002.

Stork announced his candidacy for Congress in 2004, running as the Democratic nominee against seven-term incumbent Clay Shaw.

José Núñez de Cáceres

he Know to all the classics fabu-lists (Aesop, Phaedrus, Jean de La Fontaine, Samaniego and Tomás de Iriarte and, consciously he influenced, especially in the use of character animals : eagle, bee, Donkey, Stork, Rabbit, Lamb, Owl, Wolf, Mule, Palomo, Raposa.

Khrunichev T-411 Aist

The Krunichev T-411 Aist (en: Stork) is a Russian light utility monoplane designed by the Russian company Aeroprogress and placed into production by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.

LuminAID

The company was founded in 2011 by Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta, who invented the technology in 2010 in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake while at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Pelargopsis

Great-billed Kingfisher, Black-billed Kingfisher or Celebes Stork-billed Kingfisher, Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

Petr Procházka

Nicknamed Čáp ("The Stork"), he is also still a member of the Czech Republic national Dragon boat squad.

Slater Park

Its shaft of polished gray granite once bore aloft a bronze stork while pure water gushed from the carved figures at each side of its triangular base, the fountain was presented to the citizens of Pawtucket and Central Falls by Dr. Henry D. Cogswell in 1880, and was originally set up in front of the Miller Block at the corner of Main and Mill Streets, (now Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue).

Vitamin Party

The band soon began playing local venues such as Stork Club, Blakes On Telegraph, The Independent and the Red Devil Lounge with other local acts such as Ex-boyfriends, Hottub, Wallpaper, Hundred Days, The Hot Toddies and Bwuh.

Waltz of the Stork

Waltz of the Stork is a semi-autobiographical play written and originally performed by Melvin Van Peebles.

West Thurrock

Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products including Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ.

William Stork

A manuscript work by John William Gerard de Brahm, in the library of Harvard University, listing the residents of East Florida up to 1771, refers to him as "William Stork, Esq., historian".


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