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unusual facts about Wilkins's Finch


Wilkins's Finch

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Australian polar explorer and ornithologist Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins.


A Royal Wedding Suite

Arranged by Rick Wilkins, Peterson's jazz suite commemorates the 1981 wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral.

Alex Stokes

campus of King's College London commemorating the contributions of Franklin, Gosling, Stokes, Wilson and Wilkins to DNA X-ray diffraction studies.

An American Family

A year after this programme was broadcast, the BBC in 1974 filmed its own similar 12-episode programme, called The Family, focusing on the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

The programme consisted of 12 half-hour episodes, showing the daily lives and concerns of the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

Anona Winn

Anona Winn MBE (born Anona Edna Wilkins, 5 January 1904 – 2 February 1994) was an Australian-born actress, broadcaster and singer, who spent most of her career in the UK.

Arkoe, Missouri

Dr. Talbott chose the town's name from the novel Peter Wilkins and the Flying Indians, by Robert Paltock.

Art Lassiter

While stationed in the Far East, he performed in officers' clubs and took up boxing, competing under the name Artie Wilkins (taking his step-father's surname).

Associated motion

This category is attested in Pama–Nyungan languages (Koch 1984, Wilkins 1991) where it was first discovered, in Tacanan (Guillaume 2006, 2008, 2009) and in Rgyalrong languages (Jacques 2013).

Battle of Devil's Hole

Reinforcements from Fort Schlosser under the command of Major John Wilkins arrived shortly after the second battle, but soon withdrew to the fort, fearing another attack.

Blatt

Leah Blatt Glasser, American literary critic and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman scholar at Mount Holyoke College

Bobby Wilkins

Wilkins attended Catawba College, where he played in the baseball squad along with Vern Benson and Ray Poole.

Christopher Wilkins

Wilkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where by 1978 he obtained bachelor's degree from Harvard College He studied with German-born conductor named Otto-Werner Mueller while being enrolled into Yale University and got his Master of Music degree from there by 1981.

Crucial FM

Henry played the character "Delbert Wilkins", a D.J who broadcast his shows from the back of a kebab shop in Brixton.

Curtis Wilkins

Curtis Wilkins is star character of the comic strip Curtis created by Ray Billingsley.

Ewing Mitchell

He appeared twice in 1956 as Preacher Homer Wilkins in the CBS western series, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, starring Scott Forbes in the title role.

Gabe Wilkins

Gabriel Nicholas Wilkins (born January 9, 1971 in Cowpens, South Carolina) is a former American Football defensive end who played for the Green Bay Packers and the San Francisco 49ers in a six-year career that lasted from 1994 to 1999 in the National Football League.

Hazel Newberry

The two came second in the 2008 Embassy Ball World Cup Standard competition, behind Wilkins' former partner, Katusha Demidova, and Demidova's new partner, Arunas Bizokas.

Henry Wilkens

Henry Wilkens or Wilkins (1855 – August 2, 1895) was a German-born soldier in the U.S. Army who served with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry during the Nez Perce War.

Iván Nova

At the time of his MLB debut, the league investigated Nova and fellow Yankees pitching prospect Wilkins de la Rosa for injecting each other with Vitamin B12.

Jack Wilkins

Wilkins' cover of the Freddie Hubbard standard "Red Clay", from his 1973 album Windows, was sampled by the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest on the song Sucka Nigga, on their 1993 album Midnight Marauders and also by Chance the Rapper on the song NaNa, off his 2013 mixtape Acid Rap.

Wilkins was awarded an NEA grant in recognition of his work with the guitar.

James F. Calvert

There they released the ashes of Australian polar explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins who died in November 1958 and who had been the first to try to reach the pole by submarine; Wilkins had flown over the pole but was never able to set foot there despite numerous attempts.

Jessie Graham Flower

The author was also known by other pseudonyms including Pauline Lester (Marjorie Dean Series), Ames Thompson, Capt, Gordon Bates, and Dale Wilkins.

John Cassin

He is commemorated himself in the names of a number of birds from western North America, including the Cassin's Auklet, Cassin's Kingbird, Cassin's Vireo, Cassin's Sparrow, and Cassin's Finch.

John Wilkins

The influence and ambitions of John Wilkins were an important thread in the historical fiction trilogy The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.

Magistrates' Association

The idea of forming an association of magistrates came from a Derby magistrate, Alderman Wilkins, in 1920.

Mathematical Magick

Wilkins dedicated his work to His Highness the Prince Elector Palatine (Charles I Louis).

Maurice Wilkins

At King's College Wilkins pursued, among other things, x-ray diffraction work on ram sperm and DNA that had been obtained from calf thymus by the Swiss scientist Rudolf Signer.

Newthorpe, Greasley and Shipley Gate railway station

Directly to the North of the station sidings served the Wilkins Wire Rope Company later known as the Birnam Products subsidiary of Tinsley Wire Industries which, as of 2009, is owned by Magna International, manufacturing car seats.

Old Buckenham Airport

In 2012 the airfield manager, Matt Wilkins, announced that Wallis had been given lifetime membership as member number 007, celebrating his contribution to the airfield, aviation and marking his appearance as James Bond in You only live twice with the autogyro Little Nellie which Wallis had built and demonstrated to Albert R. Broccoli.

Order of Railway Conductors

Assisting him, in 1894 Austin B. Garretson was elected grand senior conductor, while C. H. Wilkins was assistant grand chief conductor.

Philornis downsi

The parasite is causing significant mortality in Darwin's finch nestlings and threaten the survival of some rarer species such as the Mangrove Finch (Camarhynchus heliobates) and the Medium Tree Finch (C. pauper).

Rosalie Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins

Rosalie Catherine Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins (born 6 May 1946) is a British politician (Labour).

Ross Wilkins

John M. Snowden, who stood high in favor with President Jackson, recommended Wilkins for appointment to the office of district court judge.

Scrum V

The show was initially presented by Alan Wilkins and Eddie Butler.

Stephanie Wilkins

Vampy and sarcastic Stephanie Wilkins came to the fictional community of Henderson with her stepmother, Ramsey Weskitt, and her young daughter Wendy (Andrea McArdle, later Lisa Peluso) after divorcing a man named Dave Wilkins (Dale Robinette).

The Double Helix

Wilkins, Maurice, The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography (2003), Oxford U Press, ISBN 0-19-860665-6

The Lenny Henry Show

At the end, Wilkins went "legit", gaining a job with the BBC World Service, and a son.

Tyeb Mehta

He was part of the noted Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, which included greats like F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza and M.F. Husain, and the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, like John Wilkins who also broke free from the nationalist Bengal school and embraced Modernism instead, with its Post-Impressionist colors, Cubist forms and brusque, Expressionistic styles.

Whirlwind Inlet

Wilkins reported four large glaciers flowing into the inlet, which he named Whirlwind Glaciers because their relative position was suggestive of the radial cylinders of his Wright Whirlwind engine.


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