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unusual facts about The Flock



Twink Caplan

Caplan has also played B. Lawney, a waitress with Richard Gere in The Flock, directed by Andrew Lau; Mary Benett, a hard-edged bus driver for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; and a past-her-prime movie star desperate for a come-back in Secrets of a Hollywood Nurse.


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Charles Sprague Pearce

Among his best known paintings are The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; Prayer (1884), The Return of the Flock, and Meditation.

Ear tag

Livestock ear tags were developed in 1799 under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, for identification of Merino sheep in the flock established for King George III.

Highgrove Florilegium

The decorative motifs include plants in the garden, the Princes' tree house, the dove cote and the flock of Indian Runner Ducks.

Hollywood Freeway chickens

By 1976, the flock included about 50 of the chickens, described as Rhode Island Reds.

Ketchowla Station

In 1874 a flock of 7,000 sheep from Ketchowla was stopped in the Coorong on the way to market by inspectors who detected several animals infected with fluke within the flock.

Pyotr Papkov

In 1833 Papkov was elected member of the Main Moscow Society for improvement of the sheep-breeding (Главное Московское Общество улучшения овцеводства) and into its periodical The Sheep-breeding Journal, where he published the following articles: On the Flock of Fine-wool Sheep (1833), On Angora goats (1833), On Sales of Angora goats (1839) and statistics on sheep-breeding in the same journal in 1844.

Telegraph Hill, San Francisco

The flock was popularized by a book and subsequent documentary (2003), both titled The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.