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unusual facts about canary


Cintra Bay

Contrasts to land, waters in this area are parts of the Canary Current System, a highly productive ocean current and the Nouadhibou Upwelling, one of major upwelling zones locates just off the continent shelf.


12x12 Original Remixes

It features the same style Talk Talk logo as on History Revisited, the hanging goose from Asides Besides, the butterfly "face" from The Colour of Spring, the canary from The Very Best of Talk Talk, the tree of birds from Spirit of Eden, as well as numerous other animal related images.

Aichryson

Recent phylogenentic studies of Crassulaceae indicate that Aichryson is closely related to Monanthes and Aeonium (both genera are also largely endemic to the Canary Islands).

Alphonse D'Arco

On Amuso's instructions, the hitmen placed a dead canary, the sign of an informant, in Facciola's mouth after they killed him.

Antena 3

Antena 3 Canarias, a defunct television channel that broadcasts to the Canary Islands

Barlovento

Barlovento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a municipality in the northern part of the island of La Palma in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

Bernard 190

Painted bright yellow and dubbed Oiseau Canari ("Canary Bird") it departed Old Orchard Beach, Maine on June 13, 1929 and piloted by Jean Assolant, René Lefèvre and Armand Lotti, it completed the crossing to Oyambre, near Comillas, Cantabria, Spain, in 29 hours 52 minutes, even with a stowaway (Arthur Schreiber) aboard.

Bog

Bogs even have distinctive insects; English bogs give a home to a yellow fly called the hairy canary fly (Phaonia jaroschewskii), and bogs in North America are habitat for a butterfly called the bog copper (Lycaena epixanthe).

C. dichotoma

Ceropegia dichotoma, the cardoncillo, a flowering plant species endemic to the Canary Islands

Caldera de Taburiente National Park

In 1815 the great German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands during which he visited the island of Tenerife where he was taken to the Caldera de las Cañadas.

Canary in a Cathouse

Canary in a Cathouse is a collection of twelve short stories by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1961.

Canary rockfish

On October 29, 2007, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from Sam Wright of Olympia, Washington to list a distinct population segment (DPS) of canary rockfish, and four other rockfishes, in Puget Sound, as an endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act).

Caralluma burchardii

On the Canary Islands it is found on the islands of Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, the Tindaya mountains, and La Oliva with more on the Los Lobos Island and on Graciosa.

Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

2011 - Enrique González and Canary murgas: This year honored Don Enrique González, the "father of street musicians", founder of several acts of the carnival.

The jury that chose the Carnival Queen, was the choreographer and Bollywood actor Sunny Singh (born in Bombay) and the president of the jury was the consul of India in Canary Islands, Boagwandas Gope Mahtani.

Cinnamon budgerigar mutation

Cinnamon-like mutations are known in many other bird species, including the Canary, Greenfinch, Peach-faced Lovebird and Cockatiel.

Citrine Canary-flycatcher

The Citrine Canary-flycatcher (Culicicapa helianthea) is a species of bird in the Stenostiridae family.

Coelandria smillieae

The flowers are pollinated by the Yellow Honeyeater (Lichenostomus flavus) also known locally as the Canary Honeyeater, which hovers in front of the flowers while feeding on the nectar.

Cynegetis impunctata

Adults and larvae are vegetarian and polyphagous, on grasses such as couch-grass (Elymus repens), false oat-grass (Arrhenatherum elatius) and reed canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea).

David J. Eicher

Eicher is working on a book with Brian May, guitarist and singer from the rock group Queen, and astronomer Garik Israelian, constituting the conference proceedings, lectures, and information from the Starmus Festival, a science and music event held in 2011 in the Canary Islands.

DC Showcase: Green Arrow

After Merlyn is defeated, Vertigo steps in and attempts to kill both the hero and Perdita, only to be defeated when Black Canary (revealed to be the arriving girlfriend) knocks Vertigo unconscious with her "Canary Cry".

Don Howland

He has recorded for many independent labels including Matador, In the Red, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Hate Records (IT), Dead Canary, Revenant, Siltbreeze, and Columbus Discount Records.

Dražen Mužinić

In his 2002 updated edition of Canary Citizens, Mike Davage reported that Mužinić has been running a restaurant in Brač.

Flash Comics

Carmine Infantino's first published work for DC was "The Black Canary", a six-page Johnny Thunder story in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947) that introduced the superheroine the Black Canary.

Garajonay National Park

Laurus azorica, known as Azores Laurel, or by the Portuguese names Louro, Loureiro, Louro-da-terra, and Louro-de-cheiro, can be found in the park, as well as Laurus novocanariensis, known as Canary Laurel.

Hot Off the Griddle

Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum in order to snare her.

Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd

Several hundred claimants alleged that Canary Wharf Ltd, in constructing One Canada Square, had caused nuisance to them by impairing their television signal.

Julius Rudolph Ottomar Freiherr von Minutoli

A lavender-type growing on the Canary Islands was named "Lavandula minutolii" in May 1860 by the botanist Carl Bolle in Julius's honour.

Kadiri

The name Kadiri is a vernacular name for the Sanskrit word, Khadri, meaning Canary wood or Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia).

Nontsikelelo Veleko

That same year, her photographs were displayed in the exhibition titled ‘Olvida Quien Soy- Erase Me from Who I Am’ at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Mordeno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

North Quay

North Quay, London proposed building complex on Canary Wharf, London

Putty Tat Trouble

Putty Tat Trouble is a 1951 Looney Tunes (reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodie) animated short featuring Sylvester and Tweety, in which Sylvester has a feud with another cat over the canary.

Rina Piccolo

She lives in Queens with her husband, Brendan Burford, and their canary, Olive.

Rosana

Rosana Arbelo, a Spanish language singer from the Canary Islands

Sempervivum

Morphologically, they are closely linked with the genera Jovibarba, Aeonium, Greenovia, Aichryson, and Monanthes, occurring mainly in Macaronesia (Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira).

Siuslaw High School

The area's student population comes from a large geographic region, with students coming from the north at Sea Lion Caves, east to Tiernan up the North Fork of the Siuslaw River, south to the county line and all points east of Woahink and Siltcoos lakes (Canary).

Speckled Wood

Pararge xiphioides, the Canary Speckled Wood Staudinger, 1871

Speleonectes atlantida

During a cave diving expedition to explore the Tunnel de la Atlantida, the world’s longest known submarine lava tube on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, an international team of scientists and cave divers discovered the previously unknown species of crustacean, belonging to the remipede genus Speleonectes, along with two new species of annelid worms of the class Polychaeta.

The Canary Murder Case

A film, The Canary Murder Case, was made by Paramount Pictures in 1929, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle and starring William Powell as Philo Vance and Louise Brooks as the Canary.

The Divine Canary

The Divine Canary (Dutch: De Goddelijke Kanarie) is a Dutch language book written by August Willemsen, which describes the history of football in Brazil.

Tomb of the Golden Bird

The title comes from the nickname given the tomb of Tutankhamon by Egyptian workers, who were fascinated by Howard Carter's pet canary, and certain that the golden bird would bring a lucky season.

Turpentine tree

Pistacia terebinthus (Terebinth), native to the Mediterranean region and also the Canary Islands

Twelve Brothers in Silk

Later, White Canary takes Black Canary to Bangkok and reveals that she is holding Black Canary's adopted daughter Sin as a hostage, and will kill her if Black Canary does not battle Lady Shiva in a duel to the death.

Valsequillo

Valsequillo de Gran Canaria, a municipality on the island of Gran Canaria in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

Wood Wharf

Canary Wharf Group, which is a 25% partner in Wood Wharf project, does not wish to proceed with the scheme until it has completed and let all of the office projects on and around the original Canary Wharf Estate, including Riverside South, North Quay, Heron Quays West, and 25 Bank Street.


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