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unusual facts about carrion



Adolfo Carrión, Jr.

After his election as borough president, Carrión helped to bring the City and George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, together for negotiations over the construction of a new Yankee Stadium.

Carrión has helped to bring in funding to improve other parts of the community, including $65 million to be invested in restoration of the pedestrian Highbridge, the oldest bridge in New York City which connects the Bronx to Manhattan, and $91 million to be invested in constructing a new Metro-North Station at the new Yankee Stadium.

Argentavis

It probably preferred to scavenge for carrion, and it is possible that it habitually chased metatherian carnivores such as Thylacosmilidae from their kills.

Bulbophyllum

Many Bulbophyllum species have the typical odor of rotting carcasses, and the flies they attract assist in their reproduction through pollination.

Calliphora loewi

C. loewi and other blowflies have been observed to be attracted to Phallus impudicus, the stinkhorn fungus, which tends to smell like carrion.

Camille Carrión

Ms. Carrión now resides between Puerto Rico and Cordes-sur-Ciel in France, and is teaching courses in Primordial Sound Meditation, Perfect Health (Ayurvedic lifestyle) and The 7 Spiritual Laws of Yoga.

Carrión de los Condes

Carrión de los Condes was the home of Diego and Fernán González, fictitious sons-in-law of El Cid in the poem El Cantar de Mio Cid (English: The Song of My Cid).

Cirsdig

Participants included Michel Maffesoli, Eric Landowski, Oscar Correas, and Roque Carrion-Wam, among others.

County of Monzón

Historian Justo Pérez de Urbel's argument that in 985 Monzón was annexed by the Banu Gómez clan that ruled the Saldaña and Carrión was based on a document of 995 that names them as the only rulers between Zamora and Castile, without specifying the boundaries of the latter.

Daniel Alcides Carrión

The Daniel Alcides Carrión National University (Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrion) in Cerro de Pasco.

E. tenuicornis

Eonecrophorus tenuicornis, a carrion beetle species found in eastern Nepal

Fernando Ansúrez I

According to Sampiro, Fernando ("Fredenandi Ansuri filius") was one of the counts of the region of Burgos, the chief city of Castile—the others being Nuño Fernández, Abolmondar Albo, and Diego Rodríguez—who were captured by Ordoño II on the river Carrión in the place called Tebulare or Tegulare ("Tejar" or "Tejares" in Spanish, as yet unidentified) and imprisoned them in León.

Gladys Carrion

After a period as a community development program officer at the Ford Foundation, Carrión was named executive director of Inwood House, one of the oldest programs in the city working to lift children and families out of poverty.

Glenn Monroig

He had a long romance with Camille Carrion and became a second father to Carrion's daughter, Paloma Suau.

Jamaican slider

Typical omnivores, feeding on a variety of fruits particularly Pond-apple (Annona glabra) and other vegetation, small fish, snails, frogs, aquatic invertebrates, carrion and may even attack young birds if left defenseless.

Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez

Her sermons influenced Poor Clares like Jerónima de la Asunción (foundress of the first Catholic monastery in the Philippines), Luisa de la Ascensión de Carrión (mystical poet) and Maria de Jesús de Ágreda (the Blue Nun of the Jumanos).

Lardoglyphus zacheri

For this reason, researchers interested in studying L. zacheri concomitantly study the Dermestes maculatus carrion beetle.

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

The Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture will no longer feed on a piece of carrion once the meat is in a state of extreme decay, as it becomes contaminated with microbial toxins.

N. americanus

Nicrophorus americanus, the American burying beetle or giant carrion beetle, a beetle species endemic to North America

Richard Carrión

On May 22, 2013 Richard Carrión confirmed that he would run for President of the IOC.

Saint Zoilus

Their relics were enshrined at the abbey named after him: the Benedictine abbey of San Zoilo de Carrión at Carrión de los Condes, in the Province of León.

Stir the Blood

The cover of the album features a detail from 'Carrion Call' by British artist Polly Morgan.

Uriel Molina

Some of the most important Sandinistas had lived with him in a commune in Managua's poor El Riguero barrio before joining the Sandinista National Liberation Front, including Joaquín Cuadra, Álvaro Baltodano, and Luis Carríon.


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