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2 unusual facts about gull


National Motors Corporation

The series chronicles the development of one of its models, a gullwing door sports car aimed at young drivers called the Hawk, under the direction of NMC Vice President Adam Trenton (Rock Hudson).

Onerahi Branch

It was not long before the bridge was nicknamed the Gull Roost, for obvious reasons.


1947 Ramdas Ship Disaster

The Indian passenger ship Ramdas bound for Rewas in Maharashta on July 17, 1947 capsized near Gull Island, ten miles from the Colaba Point at Mumbai killing 625 people on board.

2007–08 Torquay United F.C. season

After the most chaotic and disastrous season in Torquay's history, chairman Mike Bateson eventually sold the club to an eight-man consortium with Alex Rowe appointed as the new chairman and former-Gull Colin Lee returning as chief executive.

Adkisson

Adkisson SJ-1 Head Skinner, single-seater gull-wing sports plane built 1957 by Earl and Jerry Adkisson

Adkisson SJ-1 Head Skinner

The SJ-1 Head Skinner was a single-seat, gull-wing sports plane built in the USA by brothers Earl and Jerry Adkisson of Tuscola, Illinois in 1957.

Air Florida Commuter

Air Miami became the first affiliate in 1980, and over a dozen other airlines became part of the system, including: Marco Island Airways, Florida Airlines, Key Air, Southern International, Skyway, North American Airlines, National Commuter Airlines, Gull Air, Pompano, Finair, Slocum, Atlantic Gulf and others.

Black-backed Gull

Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus), of the southern hemisphere, also known as the Southern Black-backed Gull

Black-tailed Gull

This Shinto shrine was raised by fishermen in 1269 (though it has been rebuilt several times since) to honour the Black-tailed Gull, which is seen as a messenger of the goddess of the fishery.

A rare visitor to the United States, a black-tailed gull was spotted from Burlington, Vermont, in October 2005.

Boshkung Lake

The primary outflow is the continuation of the Gull River and its extensive watershed system downstream through a narrows to Little Boshkung Lake at the south, whose waters eventually flow into Balsam Lake and via the Trent–Severn Waterway to Lake Ontario.

Burt Dow, Deep-water Man

In the story, loosely based on the encounter of the whale in the Book of Jonah, Burt and the Giggling Gull, are fishing in Burt's only working boat, the Tidely-Idley, when a storm blows up.

Dolphin Gull

The modern scientific name Leucophaeus scoresbii, together with the obsolete common name "Scoresby's Gull", commemorates the English explorer William Scoresby (1789–1857).

The Dolphin Gull (Leucophaeus scoresbii), sometimes erroneously called the Red-billed Gull (a somewhat similar but unrelated species from New Zealand), is a gull native to southern Chile and Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.

Earthstar Thunder Gull

The Earthstar Thunder Gull is a family of cantilever high-wing, tricycle gear ultralight aircraft, manufactured by Earthstar Aircraft of Santa Margarita, California as a kit for amateur construction or as a completed aircraft.

Echinoderm

Echinoderms form part of the diet of many organisms such as bony fish, sharks, eider ducks, gulls, crabs, gastropod molluscs, sea otters, Arctic foxes and humans.

Friend or Faux

In reality the Everwood is an abandoned hotel called the Aspotogan Sea Spa, located on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada, and situated about two miles (three kilometers) south of the location of the Grey Gull in Tilley's Cove.

Fulmar

The genus name Fulmarus is derived from the Old Norse word fúll meaning foul, and már meaning gull, in reference to their stomach oil.

Heermann

Heermann's Gull (Larus heermanni), a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia

Instances of subliminal messages

Images included a gull coming into land, a tree frog jumping through the air, a man gurning, and the end credits of the film Carry On Cowboy.

Ivory Gull

The Ivory Gull was initially described by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1774 as Larus eburneus from a specimen collected on Spitsbergen.

Jesper Svenbro

His poetry has been translated into English by the Swedish critic Lars-Håkan Svensson and the American poet John Matthias, and appearing, among other venues, in the journal Samizdat (poetry magazine) and the volume The Three-Toed Gull: Selected Poems, published by Northwestern University Press.

Lake Sylvester System

Some 2262 km2 of the lake system and its surrounds has been identified as a by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it has supported breeding colonies of the Letter-winged Kites and over 1% of the world populations of Plumed Whistling-Ducks, Grey Teals, Hardheads, Little Black Cormorants, Australian Pelicans, Straw-necked Ibises, Eurasian Coots, Oriental Plovers, Gull-billed Terns and Flock Bronzewings.

Leonard Warden Bonney

The same year he started designing and constructing in Garden City, New York a novel plane with duraluminum folding gull-like wings, and a side-by-side cockpit.

Lesser Black-backed Gull

The Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

Mike Hawthorn

Driving at speed (one witness estimated 80 m.p.h.), Hawthorn overtook a Mercedes-Benz 300SL 'gull-wing' sports car driven by an acquaintance, the motor racing team manager Robert Walker.

Mille Lacs Indians

When Mille Lacs Indians Chief Máza-mani (Iron-Walker) learned of the plans of Gull Lake Band Chief Bagonegiizhig (Hole in the Day) to attack Fort Ripley, Chief Máza-mani raised a party of 200 men and they set out to aid the Fort in advance of Chief Bagonegiizhig, thus adverting Chief Bagonegiizhigs attack onto the Fort.

Myasishchev M-55

;Subject 34: The prototype of a high altitude balloon interceptor, dubbed Chaika (Gull), was completed in secret at the Kumertau helicopter plant in Bashkirya.

Nerissa

Cepora nerissa, the common gull, a butterfly in the family Pieridae

Omana Regional Park

Kereru, tui (bird) which appears almost black except for a white tuft under its chin, fantail, Grey Warbler, Red-billed Gull, Southern Black-backed Gull (see Kelp Gull), South Island Pied Oystercatcher and the closely related Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor), Pied Shag, Kingfisher, and White-faced Heron.

Outer Brewster Island

It provides a nesting habitat for coastal water birds, including Cormorants, Gulls, Common Eider Ducks, Glossy Ibis and American Oystercatchers.

Percival Vega Gull

Built by Percival Aircraft of Gravesend and Luton (after 1936 when Percival Aircraft became a Limited Company), the 'K-Series' Vega Gull was a development of their earlier 'D-Series' Gull.

PZL P.24

The PZL P.24 was developed as an export version of the PZL P.11, a gull-wing all-metal fighter designed by Zygmunt Puławski.

Spacetime algebra

Lasenby, Doran, and Gull of Cambridge University have proposed a new formulation of gravity, termed gauge theory gravity (GTG), wherein spacetime algebra is used to induce curvature on Minkowski space while admitting a gauge symmetry under "arbitrary smooth remapping of events onto spacetime" (Lasenby, et al.); a nontrivial proof then leads to the geodesic equation,

Struga

Before the evenings you can enjoy on 3 kinds of beaches called "Male beach" (maška plaža), "Female beach" (Ženska plaža) and Galeb ("Gull Beach"), located just before the estuary of the river Crn Drim (Black Drim) in its own flow, and between the two previous beaches.

Thayer's Gull

Thayer's Gull (Larus thayeri) is a large gull native to North America that breeds in the Arctic islands of Canada and winters primarily on the Pacific coast, from southern Alaska to the Gulf of California, though there are also wintering populations on the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi River.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

In early 1900s England, a young widow, Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney), moves to the seaside village of Whitecliff and into Gull Cottage with her daughter Anna (Natalie Wood) and her maid Martha (Edna Best), despite the fierce disapproval of her mother- and sister-in-law.


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