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    Corvus (redirect from True Crow)
    Caledonian crows. They pluck, smooth, and bend twigs and grass stems to procure a variety of foodstuffs. Crows in Queensland have learned how to eat the...
    56 KB (6,451 words) - 09:09, 3 August 2024
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    California. A native of Dallas, Crow earned money through a series of odd jobs as a child and later as an adolescent, including plucking chickens, cleaning...
    15 KB (1,592 words) - 02:54, 15 April 2024
  • singer-songwriter Gord Downie, was plucked from the nest by another crow, but was rehabilitated and adopted by another crow pair in Maple Ridge. Canuck was...
    8 KB (790 words) - 05:39, 16 May 2024
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    fish crow (Corvus ossifragus) is a species of crow associated with wetland habitats in the eastern and southeastern United States. The fish crow was given...
    12 KB (1,311 words) - 17:27, 18 July 2024
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    Montsoreau (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the first time you meet people. I don't know why, but I expect to have a crow to pluck with this fellow, some time or other; and then, his name, Monsoreau...
    107 KB (10,647 words) - 09:30, 4 August 2024
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    Plectrum (category Articles with short description)
    A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the...
    11 KB (1,357 words) - 17:59, 28 October 2023
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    A plucking post is a raised structure such as a tree stump which is used regularly by a bird of prey to dismember its prey, removing feathers and various...
    5 KB (497 words) - 14:30, 19 April 2023
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    War bonnet (category Articles with short description)
    feathers. One traditional method of acquiring feathers for war bonnets is to pluck the most mature tail feathers of young eagles while still in the nest....
    14 KB (1,429 words) - 10:14, 10 July 2024
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    contrasting with what "you have heard" from others. For example, he advises turning the other cheek, and to love one's enemies, in contrast to taking an...
    24 KB (2,852 words) - 13:45, 17 July 2024
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    to bag a game bird by plucking off the feathers of that prey and placing them in the hat band. The phrase today has altered to a more peaceful allusion...
    4 KB (406 words) - 16:38, 23 March 2024
  • Sunday Mornings is the fifth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released in the United States on March 25, 2008. It is thematically divided...
    26 KB (3,193 words) - 03:38, 21 July 2024
  • Howard of Variety wrote: "For every shameless trick the filmmakers employ to pluck our heartstrings, resonant chords are struck elsewhere, teaching audiences...
    21 KB (2,027 words) - 19:14, 31 July 2024
  • Chickenhawk (gay slang) (category Articles with short description)
    chicken queen and chicken plucker. It is sometimes used as a disparaging vulgarity within the LGBT community, or seen as a slur against people in that...
    4 KB (360 words) - 07:06, 9 June 2024
  • The Padlock (Italian fairy tale) (category Articles with short description)
    a golden cabbage in the fields and plucks its foliage to bring it home. By selling the gilded foliage, the family becomes rich. They decide to have the...
    40 KB (6,322 words) - 05:21, 13 April 2024
  • The Story of the Hamadryad (category Articles with short description)
    abandons the crow disguise when he has to bathe. Later, the millionaire's wife and the unmarried daughters (the eldest and the youngest) go to pluck some wild...
    60 KB (9,949 words) - 11:12, 9 June 2024
  • Feral pigeon (redirect from Rat with wings)
    pigeon have been recorded, including Eurasian sparrowhawks, crows and gulls. In London, the population of Great white pelicans at St. James's Park have also...
    30 KB (3,028 words) - 04:20, 8 July 2024
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    described. Its patriotic title suggests the ultimate playground test of true pluck and grit, of the kind that once built the Empire and inspired victory over...
    81 KB (10,543 words) - 19:41, 5 August 2024
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    Vince Gill (category Articles with short description)
    featured Gill as one of several instrumentalists on the track "Cluster Pluck", which accounted for Gill's fourth Grammy win in the category of Best Country...
    84 KB (9,750 words) - 03:55, 2 August 2024
  • List of common false etymologies of English words (category Articles with short description)
    15th-century Battle of Agincourt as a corruption of "pluck yew" (an idiom falsely attributed to the English for drawing a longbow). The word did not originate...
    34 KB (3,662 words) - 03:51, 30 July 2024
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    Wreck of the Titanic (category Articles with short description)
    when it managed to demolish the Titanic's crow's nest in the course of retrieving the bell. Its predecessor Titanic Ventures agreed with IFREMER that it...
    112 KB (13,857 words) - 02:08, 30 July 2024
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