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unusual facts about doves



Arella

When Raven escapes to her home dimension Azarath, she encounters Arella tending to a whole flock of doves.

Bird colony

In 1978, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, researchers counted 22 breeding colonies of White-winged Doves with a collective population size of more than eight million birds.

Bollington Festival

The music programme was aimed at all tastes: a concert version of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess and two performances of Jonathan Doves’s opera Tobias and the Angel; a symphony concert; jazz with the Big Chris Barber Band, the Royal Northern College of Music Jazz Collective and Dave Mott; and folk with the New Rope String Band.

Camille Claudel

Composer Jeremy Beck's Death of a Little Girl with Doves (1998), an operatic soliloquy for soprano and orchestra, is based on the life and letters of Camille Claudel.

Catch the Sun

The B-sides for CD2 are songs from Doves' previous incarnation as Sub Sub.

Cedar EP

Cedar EP is the debut EP from Doves, the first release from the band after the dissolution of their previous incarnation, Sub Sub.

Deeply Vale Festivals

Amongst people who claim to have been in the audience at Deeply Vale from the next generation of musicians and Deeply Vale inspired them to pursue a musical career are Andy Rourke of the Smiths, David Gedge from the Wedding Present, Dave Fielding, Mark Burgess and Reg Smithies from the Chameleons, Jimi Goodwin from the Doves, Steve Cowen from the Mock Turtles and Ian Brown from the Stone Roses.

Hato no kyojitsu

The video is accompanied by a custom-made orchestra piece (composed by Shirō Fukai), and features three doves, each representing the three televisions networks in Japan at the time (NHK, Nippon Television, and TBS).

Kerry Andrew

Her vocal trio piece The Song of Doves concluded the national memorial service for the victims of the 7 July bombings, receiving national broadcast live on the BBC and other news outlets.

London Bulgarian Choir

Primarily a performing choir, the LBC perform around twenty concerts a year and have been involved in high-profile collaborations with British Sea Power, Doves and Orlando Gough.

Malagasy Turtle Dove

The Pink Pigeon (N. mayeri) is its closest living relative, and together they form a lineage apart from both the typical pigeons (Columba) and the typical turtle-doves (Streptopelia), slightly closer to the latter if anything.

Martin Rebelski

Rebelski was recommended by a friend of Rob Gretton to play as a session musician for Doves, but soon became the band's touring keyboard player.

Mount Forest, Ontario

Though small in size, Mount Forest's former concert theatre, The Old Roxy, has seen many famous musicians perform on its stage, acts such as The Tea Party, Bif Naked, Hedley, K-OS, Kim Mitchell, Blue Rodeo, Jann Arden, Doves, Paul Brandt, April Wine, and George Canyon.

Pete Hoida

Selected group exhibitions include: Camden Arts Centre, London; Spacex, Exeter; Pelter/Sands, Bristol; The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Boundary Gallery, London; Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery; Gwl Gelf, Harlech Art Biennale; The Schoolhouse Gallery, Bath; Sun & Doves, London; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Dean Clough, Halifax.

Raphinae

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed they were ground doves, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had rediscovered in the royal Danish collection of Copenhagen.

Rubric

William Morris's medieval-inspired typography for the Kelmscott Press at the end of the 19th century included chapter titles and other accents in red (or rarely blue) ink, and was influential on small press art typography associated with the Arts and Crafts movement in both England and the United States, particularly the work of the Ashendene, Doves, and Roycroft presses.

Sign of the Dove

Doves were also used in ancient Israel as Korban, or religious sacrifice within the tabernacle and temples.

Solomon Airlines

Under Macair, SOLAIR became the smallest international airline in the world, serving the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, with a total of two Doves and two Beech Barons.

Sub Sub

After a fire destroyed their recording studio on Blossom Street in the Ancoats area of Manchester on the Williams twins' birthday in 1996, they started anew as the more indie-oriented act Doves in 1998.

Tanna Ground Dove

Its taxonomic affiliation is uncertain but at its first scientific discussion by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 it was classified into the genus Gallicolumba (which includes Ground Doves and Bleeding-hearts); its closest relative is possibly the Santa Cruz Ground Dove.

The Blade and Petal

Military general Yeon Gaesomun wants to go to war with the Tang Dynasty, but the pacifist King Yeongnyu opts for diplomacy and national stability, and in their battle of wills the palace council is divided between the "hawks" and the "doves."

The GoStation

Groups such as Oasis, The Verve, Doves and The Stone Roses were shared favorites, and inspired much of The GoStation's music.

The Wicker Man soundtrack

Some of the songs (most notably "Willow's Song") have been covered by contemporary artists, such as the Mediæval Bæbes, Doves, Faith and the Muse, Isobel Campbell and the Sneaker Pimps.

Tongan National Rugby League

With the establishment of the TNRL the Tonga national rugby league team now each year contains several players whom currently play in the domestic competition, the 2006 national team contained both Simione Foliaki and Taufa Fukofuka from the Vaini Doves and the Mu'a Saints.


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