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unusual facts about Sulphur-crested Cockatoo


Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Cocky Bennett of Tom Ugly's Point in Sydney was a celebrated Sulphur-crested Cockatoo who reached an age of 100 years or more.


Actinomycosis

The purulent leakage via the sinus cavities contains "sulphur granules," not actually sulphur-containing but resembling such particles.

Alexander Fersman

These resulted in the discovery deposits of uranium and vanadium ore in Fergana, and, in the Kara-Kum desert east of the Caspian Sea, large deposits of sulphur, which Russia had previously had to import.

Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills

The trades mentioned in the board of ordnance list and in (1815) include the following: carpenter, cooper, millwright, master mixer, refiners of brimstone (sulphur), charcoal, and saltpetre, press-house, corning house, glazing house, dusting house men, sawyer, shave cleaver.

Banyuwangi Regency

Ijen Crater Nature Tourist Park, we can see tosca lake crater and traditional sulphur mining which the sulphur bunch mobilization still use human to hike and down to the crater.

Carusu

The horrific conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines prompted Booker T. Washington − himself an African American born a slave – to write in 1910: "I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life."

Kulikalon Lakes

These include Himalayan Snowcocks, Saker Falcons, Himalayan Vultures, Solitary Snipe, Yellow-billed Choughs, Hume's Larks, Sulphur-bellied Warblers, Wallcreepers, White-winged Redstarts, Brown Accentors, Water Pipits, Crimson-winged Finches and White-winged Grosbeaks.

Lubricity

Diesel fuel naturally contains sulfur compounds that provide good lubricity, but because of regulations in many countries (such as the US and the EU) sulphur must be removed.

Mount Pinatubo

Mount Pinatubo was mentioned in the movie Dante's Peak, when Dr. Harry Dalton, the main character, discovered that the water supply of the city was leached with sulphur.

New Nashville Ballpark

Sulphur Dell was one of three possible sites identified by Populous as being suitable for a new stadium; the other two being on the east bank of the Cumberland River and the in North Gulch area.

Palici

Their cult centered around three small lakes that emitted sulphurous vapors in the Palagonia plain, and as a result these twin brothers were associated with geysers and the underworld.

Patman

Wright Patman Dam, earth-fill dam across the Sulphur River in northeast Texas in the United States

Reed Island Creek

The National Wetlands Inventory performed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service have documented three wetlands along Sulphur Spring Branch.

Reykjanesskagi

There are numerous hot springs and sulphur springs in the southern half of the peninsula, around the Kleifarvatn lake and the Krýsuvík geothermal area.

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Like a Pilot: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Selected Poems, 1963-1970; translated by Mark Terrill (Sulphur River Literary Review Press, 2001) ISBN 0-9657687-7-5

Singapore Petroleum Company

These include Naphtha, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Motor Gasoline, Industrial Diesel/Automotive Diesel Oil, Sulphur and Asphalt.

Sulphur Springs, Indian Territory

Sulphur Springs was a Choctaw Indian community formerly existing in the Choctaw Nation of Indian Territory.

Sulphur-breasted Parakeet

Following the realisation that the Sulphur-breasted Parakeet was a valid species, the first records of living birds were from east of Óbidos on the northern bank of the lower Amazon River in Pará, Brazil.

Tetine

Later in 2001, Tetine is signed by avant-garde electronica artist Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner's UK imprint Sulphur Records and released their fifth album entitled Tetine vs Sophie Calle / Samba de Monalisa - an acclaimed electronica project made in collaboration with the French artist Sophie Calle.

White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery

The White Sulphur Springs Annual Fishing Derby falls on every Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend.

White Sulphur Springs, Montana

Emmanuel Taylor Gordon, Harlem Renaissance singer and performer, was born, raised, and died in White Sulphur Springs.


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