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    Dovecote (redirect from Pigeon house)
    structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They...
    31 KB (3,440 words) - 01:17, 22 May 2024
  • Pigeon House may refer to: A dovecote The former Pigeon House generating station in Dublin, Ireland: see Poolbeg Generating Station This disambiguation...
    160 bytes (52 words) - 18:49, 29 December 2019
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    Poolbeg power station is situated adjacent to the now-decommissioned Pigeon House generating station, where electricity was first generated in 1903 (with...
    10 KB (1,165 words) - 16:52, 9 January 2024
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    Homing pigeons have long played an important role in war. Due to their homing ability, speed, and altitude, they were often used as military messengers...
    16 KB (1,747 words) - 14:48, 25 April 2024
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    Pigeon House Mountain (Aboriginal: Didthul) is a mountain at an elevation of 720 metres (2,360 ft) AHD  on the Budawang Range that is situated within the...
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  • Thumbnail for Pigeon keeping
    Pigeon keeping or pigeon fancying is the art and science of breeding domestic pigeons. People have practiced pigeon keeping for at least 5,000 years and...
    25 KB (2,972 words) - 06:23, 31 December 2023
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    The homing pigeon, also called the mail pigeon or messenger pigeon, is a variety of domestic pigeons (Columba livia domestica) derived from the wild rock...
    31 KB (3,428 words) - 05:30, 18 May 2024
  • Feral pigeons (Columba livia domestica or Columba livia forma urbana), also called city doves, city pigeons, or street pigeons, are descendants of domestic...
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  • Pigeon House Branch is a 2.88 mi (4.63 km) long tributary to Crabtree Creek in Wake County, North Carolina and is classed as a 2nd order stream on the...
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  • Thumbnail for Pigeon Post House
    The Pigeon Post House is located at 112 Newton Road, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand, on the corner of Newton Road and Upper Queen Street. From 1897 into...
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    (13 mi) to above the junction of the Shoalhaven and Endrick rivers. The Pigeon House Range forms the watershed between the northeast waters of Endrick River...
    13 KB (1,316 words) - 20:52, 10 March 2024
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    Indigenous Australian people as Didhol or Dithol (Woman's Breast) was renamed Pigeon House Mountain by Captain James Cook at the time of his exploration of Australia's...
    31 KB (2,932 words) - 09:09, 28 April 2024
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    Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained homing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time...
    44 KB (5,159 words) - 03:21, 31 March 2024
  • Yi Seok (category House of Yi)
    early life, he gained fame as a singer and he released a 1967 album Pigeon House. Since 2004, he has been employed by the city of Jeonju to promote tourism...
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    Columbidae (redirect from Pigeon)
    (/kəˈlʌmbɪdiː/ kə-LUM-bih-dee) is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied...
    71 KB (6,734 words) - 13:29, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ulladulla, New South Wales
    Close landmarks include Pigeon House Mountain and "The Castle", both named due to the unique shapes of the mountain. Pigeon House was sighted by Captain...
    20 KB (1,685 words) - 20:49, 13 May 2024
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    areas. Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect crest, the crested pigeon and the spinifex pigeon. The crested pigeon is the larger of the two...
    7 KB (849 words) - 08:16, 15 March 2024
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    ISBN 978-0-300-25120-3. OCLC 1201298091. Historic England. "Pigeon House in garden of Pigeon House Cottage (1023797)". National Heritage List for England....
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  • Thumbnail for Passenger pigeon
    The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America. Its common name is derived...
    141 KB (17,590 words) - 03:47, 26 May 2024
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    S. vice president and possibly one of the first gay members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. A lifelong bachelor, King lived...
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