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3 unusual facts about sparrow


Byodo-In Temple

Sparrows are often seen fluttering about and playing in the garden trees while peacocks strut about displaying their beautiful feathers.

ECHO Youth Development

"Don't tell them Jesus loves them 'till you're ready to love them too" - words from a song by Steve Camp on his album Doing My Best (1990, Sparrow).

Willy the Sparrow

The story is about a 10-year old boy named Willy who enjoys pretending to shoot birds with a BB gun until he is turned into a Sparrow by the Sparrow Guardian.


Abd al-Kuri Sparrow

The Abd al-Kuri Sparrow (Passer hemileucus) is a passerine bird endemic to the small island of Abd al Kuri (also spelled several other ways) in the Socotra archiplago of the Indian Ocean, off the Horn of Africa.

Alan Gibson

In his pieces he coined the descriptions "the Sage of Longparish" for his colleague John Woodcock, "the Demon of Frome" for Colin Dredge of Somerset, the Old Bald Blighter (the OBB) for Brian Close and "the Shoreditch Sparrow" for Robin Jackman.

Angela Bettis

Her debut role was a lead in the romantic tragedy, Sparrow, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, at the age of eighteen.

Buddy Wakefield

In addition to touring the country solo, Wakefield has also been a core member of several traveling poetry groups, including 2007's Solomon Sparrow's Electric Whale Revival, 2008's Junkyard Ghost Revival, 2009's Elephant Engine High Dive Revival and 2010's Night Kite Revival, where he shared the stage with poets such as Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani, Andrea Gibson and Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, among others.

Central Policy Review Staff

It had four directors over its 12 year lifetime; Lord Rothschild (1971-1974), Sir Kenneth Berrill (1974-1980), Sir Robin Ibbs (1980-1982) and John Sparrow (1982-1983).

Clifton Anderson

The early 1980s found Clifton working with a “who’s who” of diverse musical giants: from Frank Foster, McCoy Tyner, Clifford Jordan, Stevie Wonder, Dizzy Gillespie, Merv Griffin and The Mighty Sparrow to Lester Bowie, Paul Simon, Muhal Richard Abrams, T. S. Monk and Dionne Warwick among others.

Doing My Best: Volume 1

The album features songs from Camp's previous Sparrow releases, Fire and Ice, Shake Me to Wake Me, One on One, After God's Own Heart and Justice; as well as one new song (Forgive Me, Forgive You) and a remake of Run to the Battle.

Flux switching alternator

Development of these began in the late 1940s, with air-to-air missiles such as Sparrow.

Four Pests Campaign

The album Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun (2006) by US-American Post-Rock band Red Sparowes tells, by way of its song titles, the story of the Great Sparrow Campaign.

Great Sparrow

Some authors considered this species to be the same as the Iago Sparrow, and some recognise only some of the rufous sparrows as separate from the Great Sparrow, but the Handbook of the Birds of the World recognises the Socotra Sparrow, Kenya Sparrow, Kordofan Sparrow, and Shelley's Sparrow.

Kirby the Kestrel

Kirby the Kestrel is an American Kestrel (sometimes called a falcon or sparrow hawk) that frequents Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Luminate

The bands' second album is Welcome to Daylight, which was released under the Sparrow label on August 28, 2012, and has seen chart success.

Margaret Morse Nice

Margaret Morse Nice (December 6, 1883 – June 26, 1974) was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (1937).

Maritime New Zealand

In 1907 the Marine Department acquired the 805 ton Royal Navy gun boat HMS Sparrow.

Mazzy Star discography

Five songs from the album have so far been released as singles, "California", and the double a-sided singles "Common Burn" / "Lay Myself Down" and "Seasons of Your Day" / "Sparrow."

Monica Dawson

Once saved, she is told Micah has gone (I Am Sylar), so they search for him with Lee and Sparrow.

Pacific Missile Test Center

Among the missiles developed and tested there include the Sparrow family and the Phoenix air-to-air missiles and the Regulus surface-to-surface missile in addition to numerous prototypes of military rockets and sounding rockets.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Remixes

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Remixes is an EP released in 2007 which features remixes by Paul Oakenfold and other DJs of the track "Jack Sparrow" composed by Hans Zimmer for the Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Richard E. Gray

He served as chief test director for the AIM-7F Sparrow in 1975-76 before being assigned as an F-14A project pilot on the Air Combat Evaluation/Intercept Missile Evaluation (ACEVAL/AIMVAL) program.

Richard Shindell

Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing," a World War II soldier in "Sparrow's Point," a Confederate drummerboy in "Arrowhead," an Argentine grandmother in "Abuelita," and a power broker in "Confession."

Rio Natsume

In 2005, Natsume was featured in a video game called "Gal of the Sparrow 2", which also features other popular J-idols such as Chikako Sakuragi, Saori Yamamoto, Yuka Watanabe, Akari, Kaede Shimizu, Hitomi Okada and Hatsune Matsushima.

Scansoriopteryx

Because the only known specimens are juvenile, the size of a full-grown Scansoriopteryx is unknown–the type specimen is a tiny, sparrow-sized creature.

Seanan McGuire

During this time, she was billed as a "universe author." The Sparrow Hill series focused on Rose Marshall, a hitchhiking ghost seeking revenge on the man originally responsible for her death.

Shirley Bonne

After My Sister Eileen, Bonne appeared as Susan Hotchkiss in the 1964 episode "Sparrow on the Wire" of the NBC education drama Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus.

Sierra Madre Sparrow

The Sierra Madre Sparrow was first discovered by scientists in the Sierra de Bolaños near Bolaños, Jalisco, in 1889.

Smart Sparrow

Smart Sparrow is an ed-tech (education technology) start-up, the commercialization of an adaptive learning technology incubated within the Adaptive eLearning Research Group at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Snowfinch

and 50.7. in the third and fourth editions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the genus Pyrgilauda was thus validly established by Bonaparte as a possible snowfinch genus name – even though he did not intend to – because many authors after J. Verreaux used it for these birds, and not for the sparrow-larks.

Streetfighter

The first sighting of the streetfighter design template was seen in Bike magazine in 1983 when the editor commissioned Andy Sparrow to draw a comic strip to replace Ogri.

Sudan Golden Sparrow

The Sudan Golden Sparrow is a highly gregarious and nomadic bird and will form mixed flocks with other seed-eating birds, such as Red-billed Quelea, and other sparrows.

Swamp Sparrow

The Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) is a medium-sized sparrow related to the Song Sparrow.

SY4307A

Two SY4307As were used, wired in parallel, as the output stage, or "final", in a transmitter constructed clandestinely by the Australian soldiers of Sparrow Force in Japanese occupied Portuguese Timor in 1942.

The Duck Knight Returns

Aaron Sparrow served as moderator at the 2013 Comic-Con International Disney Afternoon: The Continuing Legacy panel, which featured Tad Stones, voice actor Jim Cummings, voice actor Rob Paulsen, Talespin creator Jymn Magon, and Darkwing Duck comic artist James Silvani, associations which would seem to further corroborate his version of events.

The Moth Confesses

"The Last Time I Saw Jacqueline" features excerpts from two Johann Sebastian Bach ariosos, including a different section of the one quoted in The Beatles's "Hey Jude", while "Little Sparrow" is actually about Mickey Newbury's stay in Saussy's family's guest room.

Tik Tik Boom

It was written by Spears, Anthony Preston, Onique "Sparrow" Williams, T.I., Andre Lindal, Damien LeRoy and Joakim Haukaas and produced by Preston and LeRoy.

Veréb

Vili, a veréb ("Willy the Sparrow"), a 1988 Hungarian animated film directed by József Gémes

W.W.S.1 Salamandra

After migrating to Canada as a refugee Czerwiński designed a modified Salamandra as the Czerwiński Sparrow, as well as an improved Sparrow designated Czerwiński Robin.

Walter Sparrow

Sparrow is also well known for playing Maurice, a peasant who was threatened to be shipped to the Americas, in the 1998 Cinderella remake Ever After.

Worthen's Sparrow

By protecting this area, the appeal will conserve habitat for the Worthen's Sparrow, Long-billed Curlew, Burrowing Owl, Mountain Plover, Sprague's Pipit, and Ferruginous Hawk.


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