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8 unusual facts about weaver


Aka Island

Akajima is also noted for its terrestrial wildlife, especially its birds, butterflies and Golden silk orb-weaver spiders.

Banana spider

Golden silk orb-weaver, a widespread homogenus of large but rather harmless spiders that are famous for their large durable webs

Deane Montgomery

Born in the small town of Weaver, Minnesota, he received his B.S. from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN and his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1933; his dissertation advisor was Edward Chittenden.

Queen Alexandra's birdwing

The adults may live for three months or more and have few predators, excluding large Orb Weaving spiders (Nephila spp.) and some small birds.

Spiny orb-weaver

Gasteracantha arcuata (Fabricus, 1793) - India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, East Malaysia

Weaver, Arizona

The town was named after mountain man Pauline Weaver, who worked as a guide for the group of prospectors who made the discovery.

Weaver, Minnesota

Weaver is an unincorporated community in Minneiska Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States.

Wever

Wever, de Wever, or Wevers is a Dutch surname meaning 'weaver', related to the German surname Weber and the English surnames Weaver, Wafer and Webber.


192nd Tank Battalion

On 21 November 1941 the 192nd and 194th Tank Battalions were combined to form the Provisional Tank Group under the command of Colonel James R. N. Weaver.

Amuzgo textiles

The best known Amuzgo weaver from Xochistlahuaca is Florentina López de Jesús.

Bertram's Weaver

Bertram's Weaver (Ploceus bertrandi), sometimes called Bertrand's Weaver, is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.

Black-chinned Weaver

The Black-chinned Weaver (Ploceus nigrimentus) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.

Buck Weaver

With the 2005 World Series set to begin and the White Sox about to capture their first championship since 1917, Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Downey implored commissioner Bud Selig to rescind Weaver's ban.

Eatonton, Georgia

The city was the birthplace of several noted writers, such as Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple), Joel Chandler Harris (journalist and author of the Uncle Remus stories), and Henry Grady Weaver (author of The Mainspring of Human Progress).

Ellen Ripley

Following her acclaimed performance in Aliens, Weaver starred in two highly successful films of 1988: a lead role in Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey and a supporting role in Working Girl.

Elmer Ernest Roper

He tried again in a 1931 by-election resulting from the death of Charles Weaver; he finished second of four candidates as Conservative Frederick C. Jamieson reclaimed the seat for Weaver's party.

Floyd Weaver

David Floyd Weaver (May 12, 1941 – November 17, 2008) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Ben Franklin, Texas.

Frank Finn

The weaver bird Ploceus megarhynchus was originally described from a specimen collected by A. O. Hume from Kaladhungi near Nainital in 1869.

Himalayas

Isserman, Maurice and Weaver, Stewart, Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes.

Imaginary Heroes

Sigourney Weaver was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama but lost to Hilary Swank of Million Dollar Baby.

Jacob Nolde

He was drawn to the German speaking communities of southeastern Pennsylvania and quickly found employment as a weaver for the Louis Kraemer Woolen Mills near Reading.

James Austin Bastow

James A. Bastow was born in Hunslet near Leeds in 1810 and was the eldest child of John Bastow, a weaver, and Mary Wade, As a youth he attended a Primitive Methodist church in Leeds, where he was converted and soon began to work as a lay preacher.

James C. Weaver

Weaver resigned in 1994 in protest over the hiring of Tim Grgurich, who had been an assistant under the controversial Jerry Tarkanian, to be the school's new men's basketball coach.

Jed Weaver

He is a cousin of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher Jered Weaver and Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Jeff Weaver and his brother Dan Weaver was a 37 game starter at Center for the University of Oregon football program from 2000-2003.

Jered Weaver

Weaver reached a deal with Angels management for a $4.265 million salary for the 2010 season to avoid going into arbitration.

Jimmy Gunn

In 1969, he teamed with All-Americans Al Cowlings and Charlie Weaver, and the late Tody Smith and Bubba Scott to form a defensive front that powered the Trojans to 10-0-1 record and a win over the University of Michigan in the 1970 Rose Bowl.

Joanne Weaver

Besides Weaver, the All-Americans included her sister Betty Foss, Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Gertrude Dunn, Jean Geissinger, Mary Froning, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Jean Smith, Dorothy Schroeder and Dolly Vanderlip, among others.

John Lewis Partnership

This company, established as a weaver of jacquard fabrics in 1934, was acquired by the Partnership in 1953.

John Medley Wood

Wood was born in Mansfield to a lawyer James Riddall Wood and Hannah Healy Weaver.

Lesser Masked Weaver

The Lesser Masked Weaver (Ploceus intermedius) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.

Listed buildings in Frodsham

Frodsham railway station, and the Frodsham viaduct crossing the Weaver, are listed.

Lori Robinson

Taryn's flight instructor, James L. Weaver, age 64, was flying the Diamond Aircraft Industries DA20-C1, single-engine airplane, N63PA, when it clipped two high-tension power cables while simulating engine failure near Pleasanton, Texas.

Louie Weaver

Weaver is now touring with Classic Petra and has been re-united with his old friends from the original line-up of Petra: Bob Hartman, Greg X. Volz, John Lawry and Mark Kelly, having recorded Back to the Rock in 2010, his first studio album with the Classic Petra lineup since Beat the System in 1984.

Marie Weaver

In "Four Voices: Echoes," (Bare Hands Gallery, Birmingham, AL) her work was shown with Janice Kluge (sculptor), Lucy Jaffe (painter), and Sonja Rieger (photographer) and Marie Weaver (printmaker).

Mason–Weaver equation

The Mason–Weaver equation (named after Max Mason and Warren Weaver) describes the sedimentation and diffusion of solutes under a uniform force, usually a gravitational field.

Michel A. J. Georges

He has applied his methods to the identification and mapping of genes affecting economically important single-gene (e.g. polled, double-muscling, callipyge, weaver, congenital muscular distonia), as well as complex multi-gene traits (e.g. milk and fattening yield and quality, fertility, disease resistance).

Moore Air Base

In 1950 part of the field was operating as the Weaver H. Baker Memorial Sanatorium, and part was jointly operated by Mission, McAllen, and Edinburg as Tri-Cities Municipal Airport.

Neijing Tu

Together with his archetypal lover Zhinü 織女 "the weaver girl" "Vega" (see Qi Xi), they propel qi up to the tracheal Twelve-Storied Pagoda.

Only You Can Save Mankind

With the help of another player, Kirsty, who calls herself "Sigourney" (as in Weaver), Johnny must try to get the ScreeWee home.

Opium Magazine

Opium Magazine features many notable writers and artists including Etgar Keret, Aimee Bender, Tao Lin, David Gaffney, Davis Schneiderman, Alison Weaver, D.B. Weiss, Diane Williams, Jessy Randall, Tana Wojczuk, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ben Greenman, Jack Handey, Dawn Raffel, Stuart Dybek, Josip Novakovich, Dan Golden, Terese Svoboda, Benjamin Percy, Shya Scanlon, Christopher Kennedy and Art Spiegelman.

Patty Weaver

She began her acting career by guest starring on television series Maude and All in the Family, she began her daytime acting career with a nine-year stint on Days of Our Lives. Weaver keeps busy on the night club circuit and has opened for Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, Jerry Lewis and George Burns in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

Ron Weaver

Coach John Mackovic and other officials claimed to know nothing of Weaver's fraud until he was caught.

Weaver's sister, Bonita Money, later became known as a minor actor who got into a 1992 fight with Shannen Doherty and was involved in a 2005 alleged kidnapping.

Ruder Than You

This included the demise of the band’s former label Moon Records, a 3-year incarceration of lead singer and toaster Freddie "3D" Weaver, and the death of bari-sax player Trish Johnson, who was killed in the morning while traveling to Shenandoah, PA, to visit her mother.

Sam Weaver

Following the appointment of Raich Carter as his successor Weaver made a surprise return to Mansfield the following month after Carter offered him the position of assistant trainer.

Samuel Laycock

He was born on 17 January 1826 at Intake Head, Pule Hill, Marsden, West Yorkshire, the son of John Laycock, a hand-loom weaver.

Shahida Ahmed

Her father came to England from Pakistan to work as a weaver and soon established his own business, Shahzad Textiles, in Nelson and her mother she says 'was very creative.

Shaohao

Legend says that his mother, a weaver goddess, was a beautiful fairy named Huange who fell in love with the planet Venus while drifting along the Milky Way.

Sonepuri Sari

Padmashri Kailash Chandra Meher, of Western Odisha was working as an Art Designer in Weaver Service Centre Bhubaneswar, under Development Commissioner Handloom, New Delhi, Ministry of Textiles, Govt.

The Lastest Gun in the West

The episode features American actor Dennis Weaver, famous for his role in the television show Gunsmoke, in a guest role as the Western actor Buck McCoy.

The Living Christ Series

Character actor Lawrence Dobkin also appeared in the series, and Will Wright, perhaps most famous for appearing as Ben Weaver on several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, was somewhat incongruously cast as Herod.

Virginia Tech Hokies

Weaver edged out 2006 Australian Amateur champion Tim Stewart and earned an invitation to the 2007 Open Championship.

Weaverville, California

The Mary McCaslin song The Ballad of Weaverville gives a fictional account of the town's name as being that of a gambler, Jim Weaver, who had the town named after him as his final bet, after winning all of the town's gold.


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