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unusual facts about Torrent-lark


Antonie Augustus Bruijn

There are four birds species that are named after him: Waigeo Brushturkey (Aepypodius bruijnii), Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii), Torrent-lark (Grallina bruijni) and Pale-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis bruijnii).


Alexander Huie

He married Annie Bertha Lark, née Bartlett, a Maltese-born widow, on 1 October 1921 in a Methodist ceremony at Ashfield, where they settled; Annie would predecease him in 1948.

Ash's Lark

But even here, where it is locally common it is easily overlooked because it is also a home to nine other species of lark, such as the Red-winged Lark (M. hypermetra hypermetra) and the Somali Long-billed Lark (M. somalica rochei).

Autonous

Autonous became a Stone Curlew (Greek όκνος, because he "was not in time", όκνησε in Greek, to save Anthus), Hippodamia became a Lark (the bird has a crest which symbolizes her courage) and Acanthis became a thistle finch; others became birds whose Greek names are the same as their personal names were when they were humans.

BitComet

Since version 0.86 BitComet includes discussion and stat-tracking features which send information about torrents to the Bitcomet.com servers, including the torrent hash.

Central Oregon Coast Range

Amphibians include, but are not limited to, rough-skinned newts, northwestern salamanders, Western red-backed salamander, Coastal tailed frog, Coastal giant salamander, red-legged frog, Southern torrent salamander, and Ensatina.

Charles Albert Murdock

Examples of this are issues of a San Francisco literary periodical, The Lark, done in conjunction with Frank Gelett Burgess.

Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark

This distinguishes it from Fischer's Sparrow-Lark, Eremopterix leucopareia which lacks the white spot.

Christine Schürrer

In September 2008, the Swedish media reported that the public preliminary investigation protocols concerning Schürrer's murder trial had been made available through a torrent on The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website providing magnet links.

Corydalus

Corydalus (also transcribed corydalis) comes from the Greek (κορυδαλλις) meaning a crested lark or the flower, larkspur, apparently related to Greek corys (κορυς) a helmet crest.

Crested Lark

Francis of Assisi considered the Crested Lark a bird of special significance, based on similarities he perceived between it and the life of the Friars Minor: its plain earth-colored plumage and hood, its humility ("for it goes willingly along the wayside and finds a grain of corn for itself"), and its time spent in song.

Cybernorms group

On April 18, 2011, the torrent site The Pirate Bay renamed itself to "Research Bay," a display of their collaboration with the Cybernorms group.

E. gigantea

Edwardsina gigantea, the giant torrent midge, a fly species endemic to Australia

Fischer's Sparrow-Lark

It can be distinguished from the similar Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark, Eremopterix signata, by the absence of a white patch on the crown of its head.

Frederick Stacpoole

Two of his earliest published engravings were after Edwin Landseer, both with other engravers: Peace with T. L. Atkinson (1848), and the Hunted Stag (engraved as Mountain Torrent) with Thomas Landseer (1850) (these both after pictures from the Vernon collection, which went to the National Gallery of British Art).

Germany Must Be Destroyed

It is extremely hard to find, yet it is passed around on many torrent and P2P sites.

Greater Hoopoe-Lark

During the heat of the day, they may shelter in the burrows of Uromastyx lizards.

GTA Motor Competición

GTA Motor Competición is a Spanish racing team based in Torrent, Valencia, Spain.

Hilton Dabson

On September 11, 1937, Dabson rode the mud-lark Calumet Dick to victory in the Narragansett Special.

Hoshiarpur district

Its upper portion is crossed by the Sohan torrent, while the Sutlej sweeps into its lower end through a break in the hills, and flows in a southerly direction until it turns the flank of the central range, and debouches westwards upon the plains.

Indochinese Bush Lark

Following work a decade ago by Per Alström, Indochinese Bush Lark was split from M. assamica, along with two others, making a new total of four.

Iron Man and Sub-Mariner

The stories were: an 11-page Iron Man tale, "The Torrent Without, The Tumult Within", credited to Stan Lee and Archie Goodwin as writers, with art by penciler Gene Colan and inker Johnny Craig, a former EC Comics mainstay; and an 11-page Sub-Mariner story, "Call Him Destiny, or Call Him Death", credited to Lee and Roy Thomas as writers, with art by Colan and inker Frank Giacoia.

J. R. Monterose

Live recordings at the Lark and other upstate New York venues such as Opus 40 have been released by Croscrane Records.

Jaime de Armiñán

In 2008 Armiñán returned to directing films with 14, Fabian Road , starring Argentinian actress Julieta Cardinali, Ana Torrent and Ángela Molina.

James Morgart

The screening was hosted by the festival's founder, Shannon Lark, and featured a panel that included Lark, Morgart, Dr. Jonathan Eburne, and PhD candidate Lauren DeCarvalho.

Jean Anouilh

Another category Anouilh specifies are his pièces costumées ("costume plays") which include The Lark, La Foire d'Empoigne (Catch as Catch Can), and Becket, an international success, depicting the historical martyr Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who sought to defend the church against the monarch (and his friend), Henry II of England, who had appointed him to his see.

Jim Lark

On February 19, 2007, the Libertarian Party of Virginia awarded Lark the designation of "Libertarian Leader" for 2007 in recognition of his many contributions to the Libertarian Party.

La Masseria Delle Allodole

La masseria delle allodole ("The Lark Farm") is a 2007 Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani about the Armenian Genocide.

Lark Camp

Lark Camp World Music, Song & Dance Celebration, originally called Lark in the Morning Music Celebration, is an American annual week-long world music and dance celebration that includes dozens of instructional workshops for both professional and beginner musicians and dancers.

Lark Lane, Liverpool

The nearest train station to Lark Lane is St Michaels, west of Aigburth Road in the former St. Michael's Hamlet.

In 2007, footballer Daniel Agger bought two restaurants on Lark Lane; namely Que Pasa and 52 Lark Lane.

Lark Rise to Candleford

The television scriptwriter and playwright Keith Dewhurst adapted Thompson's trilogy into two plays, Lark Rise and Candleford, which were performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of London's National Theatre in 1978–9.

Lark Street

Lark Street has a variety of restaurants and eateries, including Tex-Mex, Greek, Thai, Indian, Hunan, Italian and Japanese restaurants.

Just a short walk from downtown Albany's business district, Lark Street has long been a mix of commercial and residential buildings that is reminiscent of some neighborhoods of Manhattan.

Las Palmas Complex

Other elements in the material inventory of the Las Palmas Complex include stone grinding basins, atlatls, lark's-head netting, coiled basketry, and sewn palm-bark containers.

New Guinea Volunteer Rifles

Lieutenant Colonel John Scanlan subsequently took over command of Lark Force in October.

Pontiac Torrent

The Pontiac Torrent was featured as one of the prizes in the reality television series Survivor in 2005 as well as Criss Angel Mindfreak in the same year.

Racism in Africa

In Mount Pleasant, white families were subjected to a torrent of abuse by suspected Zanu PF supporters who later drove them away shouting racial slurs.

Seedbox

Other seedboxes are special purpose and run a variety of torrent specific software including web interfaces of popular clients like Transmission, rTorrent, Deluge, and μTorrent, as well as the TorrentFlux web interface clients.

The Yes Men Fix the World

Due to the movie being sued by United States Chamber of Commerce, a special edition of the movie is distributed through bittorrent through VODO and other prominent torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and EZTV.

Torrent file

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms.

Torrent Group

Torrent Cables- Torrent cables was taken over from ailing Mahindra Electricals and revamped.

Torrentproject

It indexes only publicly tracked torrents from various sources including the BitTorrent DHT bittorrent network and offers compilations of various trackers per torrent in magnet links that are not necessarily present in the original .torrent file, so that when a tracker is down, other trackers can be used to retrieve peer data.

Unknown World

The expedition, consisting of Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley and Dick Cogan begins, after government funding has fallen through and they are bailed out at the last minute with private financing from a newspaper heir Bruce Kellogg, who insists on going with them as a lark.

YouTorrent

As of 4 April 2013, YouTorrent shut down its services stating "The stigmatisation of the word torrent proved a hurdle that was too hard to overcome when trying to build a legitimate and legal platform." and introduced a new platform called Clowdy.


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