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4 unusual facts about The Cuckoo


The Cuckoo's Calling

The Times enlisted the services of a British linguistics expert and Pittsburgh's Duquesne University professor Patrick Juola, whose software programme ran four separate analyses of the novel and other Rowling works.

The Cuckoo's Egg

Stoll recorded the hacker's actions as he sought, and sometimes gained unauthorized access to military bases around the United States, looking for files that contained words such as "nuclear" or "SDI".

With the help of Tymnet, he eventually tracked the intrusion to a call center at MITRE, a defense contractor in McLean, Virginia.

Studying his log book, Stoll saw that the hacker was familiar with VMS, as well as AT&T Unix.


Ville Haapasalo

In 2003, he was honored of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his role of Veikko in the film The Cuckoo directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin.


see also

Castle Eden Railway

Although its route actually never went near Castle Eden, it was also informally known as the "Cuckoo Line".

Edgar Chance

He named his daughter Cardamine, alluding to the scientific name of the Cuckoo Flower Cardamine pratensis.

Friedrich Boie

Friedrich Boie was the author of several bird species and the hummingbird genus Glaucis, the swallow genus Progne, the cuckoo-shrike genus Minivet, the passerine genus Lipaugus, the owl genus Athene and among other genera the genus Chrysococcyx.

Louis-Claude Daquin

Among the most famous of his works are the Swiss Noel (Noël Suisse, No. XII of his Nouveau livre), and Le coucou ("The Cuckoo") which is from his 1735 harpsichord suite, Pièces de clavecin, Troisième Livre.

Varied Triller

The Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela) like its better-known relative the White-winged Triller, is a smaller member of the Cuckoo-shrike family, Campephagidae.