The Christmas Price Index chose the items in the popular Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as its market basket: a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold(en) rings, six geese, seven swans, eight maids, nine dancing ladies, ten leaping lords, eleven pipers, and twelve drummers.
The best-known poems he left behind are Amărâta turturea ("Embittered Turtle Dove") and the minuscule Într-o grădină ("In a Garden").
Sosnowski refused him his daughter's hand, reputedly telling the future hero of the American Revolution and leader of Poland's Kosciuszko Uprising against Russia that "turtledoves are not for common sparrows, and magnates' daughters are not for petty nobility."
turtle | Rita Dove | Lonesome Dove | dove | Wompoo Fruit Dove | Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians | Turtle Dove | Jonathan Dove | Eurasian Collared Dove | Turtle Island Quartet | Turtle Island | Turtle | Superb Fruit Dove | sea turtle | Lonesome Dove (TV miniseries) | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | Dove (toiletries) | Dove | Common Emerald Dove | Turtle Mountain | Turtle Creek | The Phoenix and the Turtle | Mock Turtle | GMA Dove Award | Chinese softshell turtle | Turtle Rock, Irvine, California | Turtle Rock | Turtle Mountain Provincial Park | Turtle Island (TV series) | Turtle Dove Shoal |
The movie focused on spectacular tow-in rides in the Great Southern Ocean at Cow Bombie, Ship Stern, The South Coast Bombie, and Turtle Dove.