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Eugene Schieffelin Eugene Schieffelin (29 January 1827, New York, N.Y. — 15 August 1906, Newport, Rhode Island) belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling ("Sturnus vulgaris") to North America. In 1890, he released 60 starlings into New York City’s Central Park. He did the same with another 40 birds in 1891. Schieffelin wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to North America. He may have also been trying to control the same pests that had been annoying him
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certain species, humans have introduced species that are largely responsible for decline of native species. Exotic species, such as the European starling which were introduced by Eugene Schieffelin in 1890 in New York City and then expanded to California by 1955, often do very well in new habitats. The lack of predators and new niche offer perfect conditions for the introduced species to flourish. These "exotic" species often displace other native species. For example, the European starling pursues aggressive breeding strategies that help it colonize new breeding areas. The European starling is an early breeder and out competes other native
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skeleton (held at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology), James Murie agreed that it was a starling. Richard Bowdler Sharpe said in 1890 that the hoopoe starling was similar to the starling genus "Basilornis", but did not note any similarities other than their crests. In 1941, Malcolm R. Miller found the bird's musculature similar to that of the common starling ("Sturnus vulgaris") after he dissected a specimen preserved in spirits at the Cambridge Museum, but noted that the tissue was very degraded and the similarity did not necessarily confirm a relationship with starlings. In 1957, Andrew John Berger cast doubt
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the United States in 1890 by New York pharmaceutical manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin was featured in the plotline of the Netflix original series, Ozark in season 1, episode 7, "Nest Box." Common starling The common starling ("Sturnus vulgaris"), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about long and has glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young
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thirty years earlier, when he sponsored the introduction of the house sparrow to North America. European starlings were not native to North America. Schieffelin imported the starlings from England. Scientists estimate that descendants from those two original released flocks now number at more than 200 million<ref> Eugene Schieffelin Eugene Schieffelin (29 January 1827, New York, N.Y. — 15 August 1906, Newport, Rhode Island) belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling ("Sturnus vulgaris") to North America. In 1890, he released 60 starlings into New York
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Eugene Schieffelin Eugene Schieffelin (29 January 1827, New York, N.Y. — 15 August 1906, Newport, Rhode Island) belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling ("Sturnus vulgaris") to North America. In 1890, he released 60 starlings into New York City’s Central Park. He did the same with another 40 birds in 1891. Schieffelin wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to North America. He may have also been trying to control the same pests that had been annoying him
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to be declining significantly, so the common starling is classified as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The common starling was first described by Linnaeus in his "Systema Naturae" in 1758 under its current binomial name. "Sturnus" and "vulgaris" are derived from the Latin for "starling" and "common" respectively. The Old English "staer", later "stare", and the Latin "sturnus" are both derived from an unknown Indo-European root dating back to the second millennium BC. "Starling" was first recorded in the 11th century, when it referred to the juvenile of the species, but by the
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(and very common) species and two more restricted species. The European starling is both highly widespread and extremely catholic in its habitat, occupying most types of open habitat. Like many other starling species it has also adapted readily to human-modified habitat, including farmland, orchards, plantations and urban areas. Some species of starling are migratory, either entirely, like the Shelley's starling, which breeds in Ethiopia and northern Somalia and migrates to Kenya and southern Somalia, or the white-shouldered starling, which is migratory in part of its range but is resident in others. The European starling was purposefully introduced to North America
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include David Ball, Ricky Skaggs, The Whites, and Lloyd Green. Cooper also produced Fayssoux's second album "I Can't Wait" which features Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, and Mark Fain. Both albums were released by Red Beet Records. Fayssoux sings and plays guitar in a duo with accompanist Brandon Turner and she also leads a band, the Bluegrass Messengers. Fayssoux Starling McClean Fayssoux Starling McClean is an American country singer. Emmylou Harris says "I've always loved Fayssoux's voice. She's one of my favorite singers." Rodney Crowell says "Charm, elegance, whippoorwills and Magnolia dewdrops: these are the things that come to mind when
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eastern bluebird, though some research has found that this is unlikely, except in the case of sapsuckers. The US government still believes the starlings' competition for nesting cavities is harmful to native bird populations and says they also cause crop damage. Largely because of the spread of the European starling, a 2007 article in the "San Francisco Chronicle" (deriding the introduction of fallow deer to the Point Reyes National Seashore) called the society "the canonic cautionary tale of biological pollution." The raucous starling remains one of the most publicly reviled of North America's invasive species, and has been blamed for
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Fayssoux Starling McClean Fayssoux Starling McClean is an American country singer. Emmylou Harris says "I've always loved Fayssoux's voice. She's one of my favorite singers." Rodney Crowell says "Charm, elegance, whippoorwills and Magnolia dewdrops: these are the things that come to mind when I hear Fayssoux sing." Fayssoux grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Early musical influences included her parents' eclectic record album collection, bluegrass and country music on the radio, and her grandmother Mary Jane, who sang and played piano. Fayssoux preferred to sing harmony, rather than melody. While attending the University of Virginia, McLean met her soon-to-be husband
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again. At Starling Avenue, US 220 Business continues south along Memorial Drive with US 58 Business while US 58's business route joins SR 57 on two-lane Starling Avenue. SR 57 and US 58 Business pass the Virginia Museum of Natural History before turning east onto Church Street, which veers northeast, expands to a four-lane road, and crosses . At Chatham Heights Road, the two highways head east as a four-lane divided highway whose name changes to A.L. Philpott Highway when it leaves the city of Martinsville. A short distance east of the city limits, SR 57 turns northeast onto Chatham
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and SR 57 bypass the downtown of the city to the south and east but Starling Avenue does have many businesses and residences lining the road. The routes follow Starling Ave to its terminus, then turn east on East Church Street. When the routes exit the city limits, the road expands to a four-lane divided road again. At Chatham Road, SR 57 heads north while US 58 Bus. remains on the divided road. The business route ends at an interchange with US 58 east of the city in the CDP of Chatmoss. U.S. Route 58 Business (US 58 Bus.) is
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Hildebrandt's starling Hildebrandt's starling ("Lamprotornis hildebrandti") is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It forms a superspecies with and has previously been included in the same species as Shelley's starling, a migratory species ranging from Ethiopia and Somalia to Kenya. Both of these species have also been combined into a superspecies with the chestnut-bellied starling of West Africa. It was originally placed in the now defunct genus "Notauges". The species is named for Johann Maria Hildebrandt, a German collector who was the first European to obtain specimens. Hildebrandt's starling is found in Kenya and Tanzania, where it occupies
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later commented, "I am sorry to say that the Americans did not like it much at its first appearance (they have changed their minds since, bless them)". Lippincott persevered in the US with publication of the next two novels in the series, "Post Captain" (1972) and "HMS Surprise" (1973), though sales remained slow. A change of US publisher to Stein and Day for "The Mauritius Command" did not help, and US publications ceased with "Desolation Island" in 1978. In 1989 Starling Lawrence, an editor with the US publisher W W Norton, borrowed a copy of "The Reverse of the Medal"
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Rosy starling The rosy starling ("Pastor roseus") is a passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae, also known as the rose-coloured starling or rose-coloured pastor. The species was recently placed in its own monotypic genus, Pastor, and split from "Sturnus". This split is supported by recent studies, though other related species within its new genus are not yet known for certain. The genus name "Pastor", and the old English name come from the Latin "pastor", "shepherd", and by extension a pastor. The specific "roseus" is Latin for "rose-coloured". Formerly, some authorities also considered the maroon oriole to be a species
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clearing might have played important roles. Reports in older literature that it was driven to extinction by rats like its relative from Lord Howe Island are incorrect because rats did not become a pest on Norfolk Island until 1940, while the Norfolk starling became extinct in 1923. Norfolk starling The Norfolk starling ("Aplonis fusca fusca"), was a small bird in the starling family. It is the extinct nominate subspecies of the Tasman starling, the only other subspecies being the also-extinct Lord Howe starling ("A. f. hulliana"). The Norfolk starling was confined to Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Tasman
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Common starling The common starling ("Sturnus vulgaris"), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about long and has glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts and other gregarious situations, with an unmusical but varied song. Its gift for mimicry
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interviewed by Nicky Horne on Radio 1: "My solo LP is one thing that, well, to tell you the truth, I don't think it should be worth releasing because I did it a while ago, and I was under a great depression at the time when I did it, because I missed the boys very much. I just did it because I thought I had to do it." The single "Railroad" b/w "I've Come Back" was issued on 17 April 1970 in the UK, and also was issued in the summer of 1970 in several European countries, Japan, the US,
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film adaptation, he gives the name "Louis Friend", an anagram for "iron sulfide", or fool's gold, as a red herring). Lecter gives Starling the real information needed to track down Buffalo Bill. Afterwards, Lecter makes a bloody escape from custody after using an improvised handcuff key made from a pen tube (taken from a pen which Chilton himself carelessly left in Lecter's cell) and paper clip he was able to use only when transferred to police custody. While still on the run, Lecter sends a letter to Starling, saying she is safe and he will not come after her, and
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Kendrick Starling Kendrick Ladell Starling (born December 27, 1979) is a former American football wide receiver. Starling was born and raised in Marshall, Texas. He graduated from Marshall High School in 1999 and played football and ran track in high school. Starling began his collegiate career at Navarro College, a junior college in Corsicana, Texas. In his two seasons at Navarro, Starling was a two-time first-team All-NJCAA selection with 111 receptions for 2,305 yards and 26 touchdowns. After signing with Marshall University in 2001, Starling did not play a game for the Marshall Thundering Herd football team and transferred to
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European peoples, they had intermarried too freely with the non-white pre-Indo-European populace of India, hence their present skin color. Because of the uncertainty this caused for scientific classification, the court decided to use a "common sense" definition of 'White' that did not allow for the scientific arguments Thind made and did not classify Indians as white. Bhagat Singh Thind had come to the US in 1913 for higher studies after obtaining a bachelor's degree in India. He enlisted in the US army, became a Sergeant and served in the first world war. He was discharged honorably with his character designated
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Starling Grange The Starling Grange, now Starling Hall, is an historic former Grange hall at 2769 Main Street (ME 17) in Fayette, Maine, US. Built in 1879, it has been a fixture of the community since then. The Grange chapter disbanded in 1987, and the building has since then been owned by the town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The former Starling Grange hall is located in the cluster buildings making up the village of North Fayette in north central Fayette. It is set on the east side of SR 17 just south
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destroyed in attempts to attack the invasion fleet, though "Starling" herself had no successes. In July "Starling" suffered her heaviest blow when Capt. FJ Walker died of a cerebral haemorrhage, brought on by overwork and exhaustion. Under her new captain, Cdr. NW Duck, "Starling" and 2 SG had another successful patrol in the Bay of Biscay in August, when four U-boats were destroyed; "Starling" took part in three of these actions, against , , and . In September "Starling" moved to 22EG, under Cdr. GWE Castens, but the U-boat war had changed character, and "Starling" saw little further success. The
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the Bard's works. Other accounts say this is unproven, pointing out that no contemporary source corroborates this claim of a link to Shakespeare. The society's wildest success was with the European starling. The bird appears in Henry IV, Part 1 when Hotspur considers using its vocal talents to drive the king mad. Since King Henry was refusing to pay a ransom to release his disloyal brother-in-law Edmund Mortimer, Hotspur says: "I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but 'Mortimer', and give it him, to keep his anger still in motion." The American poet William Cullen Bryant admired
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species would be retained therein. Though it was not included in recent studies (Jønsson & Fjeldså 2006, Zuccon et al. 2006), its appearance suggests it is not close to the European starling, the type species of "Sturnus". It is also generally not included among those species which are often (and probably correctly) placed in "Acridotheres". Most taxonomic authorities place the species in its own genus, Sturnornis. This passerine is typically found in tall forest, usually high in the canopy. The white-faced starling builds its nest in a hole. The normal clutch is two eggs. Like most starlings, the white-faced starling
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manage to save the reporter from the Cleaners, but later, when sending the reporter out of the country, he gets a message on his phone and shortly after spontaneously combusts in an explosion. Black Canary called a meeting introducing the group to the newest member Poison Ivy who Starling doesn't trust due to Poison Ivy's background being a villain. Starling even called Poison Ivy "the talking salad". Starling gets manipululated by Choke and she tries to kill Batgirl, when Batgirl tries to warn Canary that Starling has been compramised, but Canary just tells her that 'Starling is the only person
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'City Of The Dead' in the US in April 2012, is set in New Orleans around the time of Hurricane Katrina. A third novel, 'White Death', was released in December 2012. Starling has also written: Starling is the great-grandson of the English physiologist Ernest Starling. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge with a first in History. He began his career as a journalist for several Fleet Street newspapers before working for Control Risks, a firm which assesses the risks to companies of terrorism and political upheaval, and provides services ranging from confidential investigations to kidnap resolution.
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of the Grange chapter. The Grange was disbanded in 1987, and the building was deeded to the town. It has undergone rehabilitation, and is now maintained by a non-profit organization on behalf of the town. Starling Grange The Starling Grange, now Starling Hall, is an historic former Grange hall at 2769 Main Street (ME 17) in Fayette, Maine, US. Built in 1879, it has been a fixture of the community since then. The Grange chapter disbanded in 1987, and the building has since then been owned by the town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
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as nest sites. This species is territorial, aggressive and intolerant when nesting, and will attack other species, including birds of prey. Like other starlings, the Neumann's red-winged starling is an omnivore, taking a wide range of fruit, including figs, and some invertebrates. It is highly gregarious, and will form large flocks when not breeding. Neumann's starling Neumann's starling, or Neumann's red-winged starling ("Onychognathus neumanni") is a bird native to Africa. This starling breeds on rocky cliffs, outcrops and gorges mainly in the Sahel from Mauretania and Equatorial Guinea to western Sudan. Its English and binomial names commemorate German ornithologist Oscar
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honorary doctorate degree in July 2018. Boden founded Starling Bank, which received its banking licence in 2016. The Telegraph headline "Starling is now the Amazon of banking. Come get an account" It is known that Boden rejects the comparison with Amazon. Anne Boden Anne Boden (born January 1960 in Swansea) is a British tech entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Starling Bank, a UK mobile-only bank. In 2018, she received an MBE for services to financial technology. Boden grew up in Swansea, the daughter of a steelworker and a department store worker. She was a pupil at Cefn
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the Chief Instructor of Goju Kai Karate do Australia until retiring from that position 15 years later in 2004 due to a sudden illness. Many international, Australian national, and state karate champions have come from Starling's "dojo". Many of his students have gone on to become internationally recognised instructors in their own right. Amongst his senior graduates who have gone on to become shihan are Ingo De Jong 8th "dan" hanshi (I.K.G.A. Vice President, Director of the European Bloc, Branch Chief for Scandinavia), Helmut Moldners 5th "dan" (former NSW North Coast Branch Chief), Mark Burton 6th "dan" (N.S.W. Branch Chief
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of the lost specimen as: "Head dusky marked with brown. Above dusky, all the feathers edged with reddish brown; wings dusky, the primaries edged with brown, as are the wing coverts and the tail feathers. Below ochraceous. Iris dark yellow. Twelve tail feathers. Tibiae compressed and with seven scutes. Tongue bifid at the tip and ciliated." The only recorded observations of the living bird come from Forster, who noted that it had a soft, fluting voice and lived among the thickets in the valleys of its island home. Raiatea starling The Raiatea starling, formerly known as the bay thrush, bay
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an erect crest, indicating its natural position. The only illustration of the hoopoe starling now thought to have been made from life was drawn by Paul Philippe Sauguin de Jossigny during the early 1770s. Jossigny instructed engravers under the drawing that for accuracy, they should depict the crest angled forward from the head (not straight up). Hume believes that Martinet did this when he made the type illustration, and it was derivative of Jossigny's image rather than a life drawing. Jossigny also made the only known life drawing of the now-extinct Newton's parakeet ("Psittacula exsul") after a specimen sent to
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Starling Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. The name "Sturnidae" comes from the Latin word for starling, "sturnus". Many Asian species, particularly the larger ones, are called mynas, and many African species are known as glossy starlings because of their iridescent plumage. Starlings are native to Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as northern Australia and the islands of the tropical Pacific. Several European and Asian species have been introduced to these areas as well as North America, Hawaii and New Zealand, where they generally compete for habitats with native birds and are considered to
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been his physiology teacher at Guy's and died at the age of 32. She was a great support to Starling as a sounding board, secretary, and manager of his affairs as well as mother of their four children. In 1893 Bayliss married Gertrude, Starling's beautiful sister, so the two were brothers-in-law. When Starling was appointed professor at UCL in 1899, the scientific family was even closer. Bayliss and Starling were in the newspaper's headlines when involved in the Brown Dog affair, a controversy relating to vivisection. Bayliss and Starling investigated pancreatic secretion, which at that time was believed to be
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Frank-Starling law. During the 1914-1918 war, Starling first was involved in research into poison gases. As a commissioned officer he found the organization of the matter chaotic and on several occasions was very outspoken to his war office superiors. This did his prospects no good at all. Many of his distinguished contemporaries received knighthoods. Starling was awarded a CMG. He resigned from the army in June 1917 and finally was able to undertake war work that utilized his abilities. As chairman of the Royal Society Food (War) Committee he was instrumental in setting up rationing that provided needed calories and
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not breeding will form large flocks, sometimes numbering more than . Its roosts may be shared by lesser kestrels or wattled starlings. It will feed with European starlings, but they rarely roost together. Like other starlings, the pied starling is an omnivore, taking a wide range of invertebrates, seeds and berries, but its diet is mainly insects, including many ants and termites. It will take figs from gardens and some human food discards. Foraging is frequently near livestock, with birds feeding on insects disturbed by the animals and also perching on cattle or sheep to remove ectoparasites. The pied starling
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Mascarenes were the only islands in the south-west Indian Ocean that contained native starlings. This is probably due to the isolation, varied topography and vegetation of these islands. The Rodrigues starling was large for a starling, being in length. Its body was white or greyish white, with blackish-brown wings, and a yellow bill and legs. Tafforet's complete description of the bird reads as follows: Tafforet was familiar with the fauna of Réunion, where the related hoopoe starling lived. He made several comparisons between the faunas of different locations, so the fact that he did not mention a crest on the
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John Starling (musician) John Starling (born March 26, 1940) is an American Bluegrass musician and composer, and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also had a medical profession as an otolaryngologist. John Starling was born in Durham, North Carolina. After completing medical school, he served in the U.S. Army as a surgeon in Vietnam. Following his tour of duty, he did his residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In Washington he met fellow musicians Mike Auldridge and Ben Eldridge. The three began making music together after work and eventually were
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size of the chambers during filling. For this work he made use of the anesthetized dog, in an experimental arrangement known as the heart-lung preparation. This played an important role in subsequent experiments, when he was not primarily interested in blood flow. Starling was unaware of previous work by a German physiologist, Otto Frank, using the isolated frog heart. Frank showed that the longer the heart-muscle fibers were stretched the stronger the contraction. He did this with no interest in the circulation as a whole, so his finding have to be taken in parallel with Starling's, so it became the
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inhabitants of Saint Kitts petitioned the Colonial Secretary for a ″ ... government grant of starlings to exterminate ... ″ an outbreak of grasshoppers with was causing enormous damage to their crops in 1901. The common starling was introduced to Jamaica in 1903, and the Bahamas and Cuba were colonised naturally from the US. This bird is fairly common but local in Jamaica, Grand Bahama and Bimini, and is rare in the rest of the Bahamas, eastern Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico and St. Croix. The global population of the common starling is estimated to be more than 310
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in song to avoid monotony. They survey bird families that habitually borrow phrases or sounds from other species; the European starling is a well-studied borrower, and it is possible that the species inspired a Mozart piece. Adam Tierney and colleagues argued in a 2011 paper that the similar motor constraints on human and avian song drive these to have similar song structures, including "arch-shaped and descending melodic contours in musical phrases", long notes at the ends of phrases, and typically small differences in pitch between adjacent notes. They excluded birds like the European starling which use many buzzing or clicking
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the Verger family fortune. Verger's men capture Lecter, and Starling pursues them. When Starling catches up to Lecter, she is able to cut him free before succumbing to tranquilizer darts shot by one of Verger's men. The boars are unleashed by Lecter; they feed on the henchmen that Starling had already shot dead or incapacitated but ignore Lecter when they smell no fear on him. In the confusion, Lecter carries the unconscious Starling to safety and escapes. At the same time, Margot releases one of the henchmen and kills another, then obtains Mason's sperm by sodomizing him with a cattle
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horror when she witnessed the lambs being slaughtered. Her uncle was so angry that he sent her to live in a Lutheran orphanage, where she spent the rest of her childhood. According to the novel, Starling attended the University of Virginia as a double major in psychology and criminology. During that time, she spent two summers working as a counselor in a mental health center. Starling first met Crawford when he was a guest lecturer at UVA. His criminology seminars were a factor in her decision to join the FBI. During the investigation, Starling is assigned to coax Lecter into
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the pigeons and parrots on the offshore southern islets only came to the mainland to drink water, and Leguat noted that the pigeons only bred on the islets due to persecution from rats on the mainland; the starling may have also done this. Originally, the Rodrigues starling may have been widely distributed on Rodrigues, with seasonal visits to the islets. Tafforet's description also indicates that it had a complex song. The stouter build and more bent shape of the mandible shows that the Rodrigues starling used greater force than the hoopoe starling when searching and perhaps digging for food. It
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sad tale from 1791 is told by Mozart's biographer Hermann Abert, concerning another canary that might been a successor to the starling, being in Mozart's family when the composer lay on his deathbed. It was with great reluctance that he agreed to have his pet canary removed, first to the adjacent room, then even further away, because he could no longer bear the sound of its singing. Mozart's starling For about three years the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kept a pet starling. The starling is remembered for the anecdote of how Mozart came to purchase it, for the funeral commemorations
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In 1996, he appeared on the BBC quiz show "Mastermind", where he reached the semi-finals. His specialist topics were comics creator Hergé and his creation "Tintin", and "The Life and Novels of Dick Francis", who was present at the recording. He lives in Dorset with his wife, an interior designer, and their children. His sister Belinda was also an author; her novel "The Journal of Dora Damage" was published posthumously in the UK and US in late 2007. She died aged 34 in August 2006 of complications following bile duct surgery. Boris Starling Boris Starling (born 1969) is a British
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eleven, when his family went on a year-long trip to Europe in 1969. While taking Spanish language courses in Spain, his teacher had posed him the question of where he was from. Dissatisfied with Melkonian's answer of "California", the teacher rephrased the question by asking "where did your "ancestors" come from?" His brother Markar Melkonian remarked that "her image of us was not at all like our image of ourselves. She did not view us as the Americans we had always assumed we were." From this moment on, for days and months to come, Markar continues, "Monte pondered [their teacher
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Mozart's starling For about three years the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kept a pet starling. The starling is remembered for the anecdote of how Mozart came to purchase it, for the funeral commemorations Mozart provided for it, and as an example of the composer's affection in general for birds. The first record of the starling is the entry Mozart made in his expense book when he bought it on 27 May 1784: The music Mozart jotted down in the book is fairly close to the opening bars of the third movement of his Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K.
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is living under the alias "Jack Gordon". When she sees a Death's Head moth, the same rare kind that Buffalo Bill stuffs in the throats of each of his victims, flutter through the house, she knows that she has found her man and tries to arrest him. Gumb flees, and Starling follows him into his basement, where his latest victim is alive and screaming for help. Gumb turns off the electricity in the basement, and stalks Starling through the rooms wearing night vision goggles. As Gumb readies to shoot Starling, Starling hears him cock the hammer of his revolver and
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Starling (comics) Starling is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications. She was created by writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Jesus Saiz. The character is a founding member of the Birds of Prey in the New 52 continuity. A mysterious friend from Black Canary's past, when Starling first joins Black Canary's newly formed Birds of Prey, they're being trailed by a reporter hired by a group of assassins known as the Cleaners. However, both she and Canary are aware of the plan against them, and use the reporter to drawn the Cleaners out into the open. Starling and Canary
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speech at the International Peace Conference 1847: "A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood ... A day will come when we shall see ... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas." During the second world war, Nazi Germany did subjugate France and the Netherlands, giving it political control over much of Charlemagne's original empire, however, it saw itself as an entirely German entity with no pan-European identity. It considered itself as the Third German Reich, with the
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Frank–Starling law The Frank–Starling law of the heart (also known as Starling's law and the Frank–Starling mechanism) represents the relationship between stroke volume and end diastolic pressure. The law states that the stroke volume of the heart increases in response to an increase in the volume of blood in the ventricles, before contraction (the end diastolic volume), when all other factors remain constant. As a larger volume of blood flows into the ventricle, the blood stretches the cardiac muscle fibers, leading to an increase in the force of contraction. The Frank-Starling mechanism allows the cardiac output to be synchronized with
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restored to us; are we not united with you, O French in heart? Is not our blood and honour your blood and honour?...Our enemies curse and deride us saying: where are your French friends? Where are your Christian kings? Where are their warships and soldiers? Did they come to your aid, O infidel dogs?...It was our love for France and our calling upon her for support that has brought upon us these catastrophes". Bishop Abdallah Bostani had fervently applauded the Maronite delegate to Rome, Bishop Nicolas Murad, in his tour of European capitals pushing for the return of a Christian
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resulting tension, altered the systolic pressure. Frank–Starling law The Frank–Starling law of the heart (also known as Starling's law and the Frank–Starling mechanism) represents the relationship between stroke volume and end diastolic pressure. The law states that the stroke volume of the heart increases in response to an increase in the volume of blood in the ventricles, before contraction (the end diastolic volume), when all other factors remain constant. As a larger volume of blood flows into the ventricle, the blood stretches the cardiac muscle fibers, leading to an increase in the force of contraction. The Frank-Starling mechanism allows the
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was marooned on Rodrigues during the summer and was apparently able to procure juvenile individuals; some other Rodrigues birds are known to breed at this time, so it is likely that the starling did the same. Many other species endemic to Rodrigues became extinct after humans arrived, and the island's ecosystem is heavily damaged. Before humans arrived, forests completely covered the island, but very little remains today. The Rodrigues starling lived alongside other recently extinct birds, such as the Rodrigues solitaire, the Rodrigues parrot, Newton's parakeet, the Rodrigues rail, the Rodrigues owl, the Rodrigues night heron, and the Rodrigues pigeon.
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and therefore could not explore the various islets as Tafforet did. No people who later traveled to the island mentioned the bird. In an article written in 1875, the British ornithologist Alfred Newton attempted to identify the bird from Tafforet's description, and hypothesised that it was related to the extinct hoopoe starling ("Fregilupus varius"), which formerly inhabited nearby Réunion. Subfossil bones of a starling-like bird were first discovered on Rodrigues by the police magistrate George Jenner In 1866 and 1871, and by the reverend Henry Horrocks Slater in 1874. They were found in caves on the Plaine Coral, a limestone
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Martin Jelínek. In the past, its founders dealt with a wide variety of projects in the area of flash, game, application, and web development. Nyrthos is their first original project and was supposed to come out for PC, Android and iOS in 2012, but did not make the deadline. The game is being developed using Stage3D and Starling and will be possibly both browser-based (using the flash plug-in) / installed. The target platforms are both browsers (PC, MAC) and mobiles (Android, iOS). The use of Stage 3D/Flash allows to utilize devices' graphics cards, even while running in the flash plug-in.
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the season in which it may be killed covers the greater part of the year. In Great Britain Starlings are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which makes it "illegal to intentionally kill, injure or take a starling, or to take, damage or destroy an active nest or its contents". The Wildlife Order in Northern Ireland allows, with a general licence, "an authorised person to control starlings to prevent serious damage to agriculture or preserve public health and safety". This species is migratory, so birds involved in control measures may have come from a wide area and breeding
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revealing Buffalo Bill's identity. Lecter gives her clues in the form of cryptic, riddling information designed to help Starling figure it out for herself. The two grow to respect each other, so when Lecter escapes during a transfer engineered by Chilton to a state prison in Tennessee, Starling feels that he "would consider it rude" to kill her. Starling deduces from Lecter's hints that Buffalo Bill's first victim had a personal relationship with him, and so goes to the victim's home in Belvedere, Ohio, to interview people who knew her. She unknowingly stumbles onto the killer himself, Jame Gumb, who
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an unconscious Starling just before the boars break through the doors. Verger orders his physician Cordell Doemling to shoot Lecter, but, with Lecter's suggestion, Cordell shoves his hated boss into the pen. Lecter carries Starling and watches the boars eat Verger alive. Lecter takes Starling to Krendler's secluded lake house and treats her wounds. When Krendler arrives for the Fourth of July, Lecter subdues and drugs him. Starling, disoriented by morphine and dressed in a black velvet evening gown, awakens to find Krendler seated at the table set for an elegant dinner. Weakened by the drugs, she looks on in
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plasma proteins within the capillary. Without awareness of these forces, the physician cannot begin to understand such conditions as edema. The inward and outward forces are often referred to as "Starling forces". They established him as a serious contributor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899. Starling enjoyed collaborating with William Bayliss (1860-1924), who was on the staff of University College London (UCL), and together they published on the electrical activity of the heart and on peristalsis. In 1891, when he was 25, Starling married Florence Amelia Wooldridge, the widow of Leonard Charles Wooldridge, who had
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of 17 months and 10 days. "Starling" joined Western Approaches Command in April 1943 under the command of Captain Frederic John Walker, leader of the 2nd Support Group (2SG). This was a flotilla of six sloops not tied down to convoy protection, but free to hunt down U-boats wherever found. The other ships of the group were , , , , and . "Starling"s first patrol in May 1943 was uneventful; There were several major convoy battles during the month, but none involving 2 SG. "Starling"s first success came on 1 June 1943, when the group's first U-boat was detected:
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William Starling Sullivant William Starling Sullivant (January 15, 1803 – April 30, 1873) was an early American botanist recognized as the foremost authority on bryophytes in the United States. Sullivant was the oldest son of Lucas Sullivant and Sara (Starling) Sullivant. He was born in Franklinton, Ohio, a frontier town that had recently been established by his father and which eventually became part of Columbus, Ohio. He was sent to Kentucky for his initial education, then spent a year studying at Ohio University when it first opened in Athens, Ohio. Later he transferred to Yale and received a bachelor's degree
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Clarice Starling in "The Silence of the Lambs". Rhonda Wilcox and J. P. Williams note the similarities in their appearances, as well as their positions in a patriarchal working environment. In "Beyond the Sea" in particular, parallels can be seen. Like Starling, Scully has an emotional connection with—and a need to prove herself to—her dead father. After William Scully's death, his daughter becomes particularly concerned with whether or not he was proud of her. Although by the end of the episode, Scully seems to have come to terms with her father's opinion of her, her worries resurface later in the
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first typically, and then he takes the tape of music and starts doing the lyric thing, writing lyrics and melodies, and then he'll come over excited and sing it to us, and we'll be "yeah" or "nay." But he's pretty great for that because he doesn't get excited much, so when he gets something that he thinks is good, it's usually really good." Then he adds, "Like I said, when I said collaborative, on the new record we did this all four of us in a room. Like all four, we'll play a riff, I'll come in with the drums,
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Geoff Starling Geoff Starling (14 December 1952) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative three-quarter back, he played club football in the NSWRFL Premiership for Sydney's Balmain Tigers club. In 1970 Starling was playing in the Jersey Flegg competition for the Balmain club. The following season he started playing first grade, gaining selection for the Australian national team, becoming Kangaroo No. 459, and the youngest player to ever represent Australia. He was 18 years and 181 days old when playing a tour match against a New Zealand
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the plot of the novel. Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a meth dealer, who was holding a baby. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy, under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI tasks Starling with apprehending him. She meets with Barney Matthews, former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. When Barney asks Starling if she ever
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Challenge of 1940" (1940). The only aspects of Roosevelt's agenda that escaped Bender's censure were some humanitarian New Deal programs, notably the Works Progress Administration, which he accepted but only as a temporary measure. With the onset of the Cold War after 1945, Bender opposed the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. He did not question the necessity of helping European countries devastated by the war, but he disagreed with the idea that the US government should take a direct role in channeling the relief aid. He argued that assistance for European recovery should come either through the United Nations
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with Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan). During the visit she stated "Ukraine is a sovereign and independent country that has the right to choose its own alliances and NATO's door remains open". Clinton expressed US support for Ukraine's efforts to strengthen its ties with Russia, as long as that did not come at the expense of relations with Europe and the US. At a town hall meeting at Kiev Polytechnic Institute Clinton addressed the challenges Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will face meeting his commitments to eradicate corruption and preserve media freedoms "Rhetoric alone does not change behaviour". Clinton also met former
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2007. The ballad version was also performed on Oprah Winfrey show in 2007 as part of promotion of Taking Chances. The Radio Remix was performed only once in Seoul, South Korea during Taking Chances World Tour on 18 March 2008. Later on "A New Day Has Come" was not performed until 2015 when Dion came back with her revamped residency show in Vegas called Celine and included a shortened acoustic version of the song. A new shortened string version of the song premiered during her 2018 tour. European CD single/UK cassette single Japanese CD single US 7" single Australian/European/Asia/South Africa
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Paul Starling Paul Noel Starling (born 1948) is an Australian martial artist renowned as a Gōjū-ryū Karate master. He was the most senior Caucasian student of Gōjū-ryū Gogen Yamaguchi, and is a world Vice President of the International Karate do Goju Kai Association (IKGA) He was also the first Australian karateka to compete in a Karate World Championships and remain undefeated when in 1970 at the first Karate World Championships his team came up against undisputed favorites Japan at the inaugural event held in Tokyo Japan. Paul Starling was also the first graduate (1973) of Gogen Yamaguchi's Japan Karate do
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signed up by PokerStars as a member of PokerStars Team Pro Asia both because of his potential for success in the game as well as his marketability. While he was not immediately successful in live tournament play, he did come third and cash US$11,613 in the HK$50,000 No Limit Hold'em event in the Macau Poker Cup in July 2009. In October 2009, he made a breakthrough by coming in seventh place in the Main Event of the European Poker Tour London, storming through a tough field to make the final table and cashing for US$139,712. Wu was named captain of
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Nazis. According to Phayer, "top Vatican personnel would have known the whereabouts of the gold", but he gives no evidence that they did, nor does he name any. The lawsuit was made possible by a 1997 executive order of U.S. President Bill Clinton that directed all branches of the US government to open their World War II records to scrutiny. The order came in the aftermath of evidence that Swiss banks were destroying evidence of deposit records by Jews. Fourteen European nations, Canada, and Argentina followed suit, but Vatican City did not. Much of the evidence that has come to
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seeds in continents Asia and Africa, for example white sandalwood, Indian Banyan. In addition to trees they are also important dispersers of parasitic mistletoes. In South Africa, the red-winged starling is an important disperser of the introduced "Acacia cyclops". Starlings have been observed feeding on fermenting over-ripe fruit, which led to the speculation that they might become intoxicated by the alcohol. Laboratory experiments on European starlings have found that they have disposal enzymes that allow them to break down alcohol very quickly. In addition to consuming fruits, many starlings will also consume nectar. The extent to which starlings are important
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Prometheus. She is last seen alive on Lian Yu in the season 5 finale, with her fate unknown. Starling (comics) Starling is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications. She was created by writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Jesus Saiz. The character is a founding member of the Birds of Prey in the New 52 continuity. A mysterious friend from Black Canary's past, when Starling first joins Black Canary's newly formed Birds of Prey, they're being trailed by a reporter hired by a group of assassins known as the Cleaners. However, both she and Canary are aware of the
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Cobblers. In April 1976 he scored a penalty in the penultimate game of the season, against Hartlepool United, ensuring that every regular player for Northampton that season has scored at least once. He also holds the record of the most minutes without conceding a goal for Northampton Town when he went 595 minutes unbeaten between 25 October and 29 November 1975. In March 1977 he joined Huddersfield Town. Alan Starling Alan William Starling (born 2 April 1951) was a professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Luton Town, Torquay United, Northampton Town & Huddersfield Town. Starling began his career
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trade in British Guiana. Therefore, when Schenley and his bride arrived in England, his superior, Lord Palmerston, ordered him back to his post in South America. Schenley's work there to free the slaves was exceedingly unpopular with the European minority; eventually they forced his reassignment to England. There the Schenleys were without means. Mary's father now had a change of heart and visited them in England. He bought them a house in London, arranged for a living allowance, and urged the couple to come to Pittsburgh to live with him. The Schenleys did come to Pittsburgh, but did not stay
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Sturnus Sturnus is a genus of starlings. As discussed below, the taxonomy of this group is complex, and other authorities differ considerably in which species they place in this genus, and in the species boundaries within "Sturnus". The genus name "Sturnus" is the Latin for "starling". This genus has representatives across most of Eurasia and one species, the European starling, has been introduced to South Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The "Sturnus" starlings are terrestrial species; they walk rather than hop, and have modifications to the skull and its muscles for open-bill probing. The latter adaptation has facilitated
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marked a resurgence in interest in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Starling Lawrence of that publishing house discovered the novels in 1989, and proceeded to reissue all earlier novels, and then publish following novels in the US when HarperCollins published in the UK. Norton issued "The Reverse of the Medal" six years after its initial publication, as a paperback in 1992. Ironically, it was a US publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Co., who asked O'Brian to write the first book in the series, "Master and Commander" published in 1969. Collins picked it up in the UK, and continued to
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US is estimated as costing about US$800 million annually. This bird is not considered to be as damaging to agriculture in South Africa as it is in the United States. The large size of flocks can also cause problems. Common starlings may be sucked into aircraft jet engines, one of the worst instances of this being an incident in Boston in 1960, when sixty-two people died after a turboprop airliner flew into a flock and plummeted into the sea at Winthrop Harbor. Starlings' droppings can contain the fungus "Histoplasma capsulatum", the cause of histoplasmosis in humans. At roosting sites this
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positions in European and American conservatories and universities including Lübeck, the University of Michigan, University of Boulder, and the Peabody Conservatory. In 1987, he founded the Starling Preparatory String Project as an integrated pre-collegiate program for string players. In addition to a subscription concert series and concerto showcases in Cincinnati, the Starling Chamber Orchestra regularly records, commissions new works, and tours internationally. They have appeared throughout Europe, Korea, China, and at New York’s Lincoln Center. The orchestra was recently featured on the syndicated Public Radio International show “From the Top,” and has been the subject of feature articles in The
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wing shape. The European (the type species) and spotless starlings are particularly closely related, and interbreed to some extent where their ranges overlap in southwestern France and northeastern Spain. The non-migratory spotless starling may be descended from a population of ancestral "S. vulgaris" that survived in an Iberian refugium during an ice age retreat. Two extant species are recognized: A mating system is vastly different from reproduction. It includes all the benefits and costs that the female weighs when choosing a mate and the competition that males, and sometimes females, go through when trying to win over a mate. The
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the United States, it did better in Australia and New Zealand. "When You Come", the second Australian single, peaked at #27 on the ARIA Singles Chart. "When You Come" was recorded by Tchad Blake and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. A live version was recorded at The Roxy, Los Angeles, US on 26 February 1987 and was issued as a three-track CD-EP in September 1993. Another live version was recorded at The Town & Country Club, London, England, on 9 November 1991 and was issued in UK as a four-track CD-EP in February 1992 and on an Australian five-track CD-EP in
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starling may have survived longer due to Réunion's rugged topography and highlands, where it spent much of the year. Hoopoe starling The hoopoe starling, also known as the Réunion starling or Bourbon crested starling ("Fregilupus varius"), is a species of starling which lived on the Mascarene island of Réunion, and became extinct in the 1850s. Its closest relatives were the Rodrigues starling and the Mauritius starling from nearby islands, and the three apparently originated in Southeast Asia. The bird was first mentioned during the 17th century and was long thought to be related to the hoopoe, from which its name
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Hoopoe starling The hoopoe starling, also known as the Réunion starling or Bourbon crested starling ("Fregilupus varius"), is a species of starling which lived on the Mascarene island of Réunion, and became extinct in the 1850s. Its closest relatives were the Rodrigues starling and the Mauritius starling from nearby islands, and the three apparently originated in Southeast Asia. The bird was first mentioned during the 17th century and was long thought to be related to the hoopoe, from which its name is derived. Although a number of affinities have been proposed, it was confirmed as a starling in a DNA
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palm fruit, berries from species such as wild olive "Olea europaea" ssp. "africana" and "Euphorbia", and commercial fruit such as apples, grapes, citruses and others. In rural areas, red-winged starlings are often spotted perching on livestock and game, such as cattle, klipspringers and giraffes, a trait shared by the pale-winged starling, and may take insects and ectoparasites such as ticks, much in the manner of oxpeckers. The red-winged starling is territorial, aggressive and intolerant when nesting, and will attack other species, including domestic animals and humans. When not breeding, red-winged starlings are highly gregarious and will associate with other members
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blue-breasted kingfisher ("Halcyon malimbica") are notable. Equally colourful are the west African examples of starlings. Among them, the violet-backed starling ("Cinnyricinclus leucogaster") and the long-tailed glossy-starling ("Lamprotornis caudatus") can be found inside the Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve. The Coraciiformes include the Abyssinian ground-hornbill ("Bucorvus abyssinicus") and the European roller ("Coracias garrulus"). Also species of parrots can be found in west Africa, among them are the Senegal parrot ("Poicephalus senegalus") and the rose-ringed parakeet ("Psittacula krameri"). Inevitably linked to water are also pelicans and darters. The pink-backed pelican ("Pelecanus rufescens") and the African darter ("Anhinga rufa") live within the BBWR. The
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years from September through October, visiting a number of countries for the first time. <John Gallagher> In May 2017 Joe Hasselvander suffered a heart attack 2 days before a string of US/European dates...in order to fulfill these obligations the Gallagher brothers had a number of drummers to assist..Jimmy Mess did the Chicago show, Mike Heller(Fear Factory, Malignancy) did 3 US dates.. Fabio Alessandrini ( Annihilator) did the Muskelrock (Sweden) festival..and Dave Chedwick did the 11 date tour of Europe. When it became obvious Joe Hasselvander would not be physically able to play drums for the foreseeable future, the Gallagher brothers
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uses the common starling as a host. Starlings are more commonly the culprits rather than victims of nest eviction however, especially towards other starlings and woodpeckers. Nests can be raided by mammals capable of climbing to them, such as stoats ("Mustela erminea"), raccoons ("Procyon lotor") and squirrels ("Sciurus" spp.), and cats may catch the unwary. Common starlings are hosts to a wide range of parasites. A survey of three hundred common starlings from six US states found that all had at least one type of parasite; 99% had external fleas, mites or ticks, and 95% carried internal parasites, mostly various
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being marooned on the island, Oliver was dating Laurel Lance and briefly rekindles this relationship at the end of season one. He also had an affair with her sister Sara, who was on board the yacht with him when it was sabotaged. This later develops into a full relationship with her after she is revealed to have survived, and returns to Starling City in season two. In season three, he confesses to Felicity Smoak that he is in love with her, and the two enter a relationship by season end. They later become engaged, although the engagement and relationship come
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Norfolk starling The Norfolk starling ("Aplonis fusca fusca"), was a small bird in the starling family. It is the extinct nominate subspecies of the Tasman starling, the only other subspecies being the also-extinct Lord Howe starling ("A. f. hulliana"). The Norfolk starling was confined to Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. The Norfolk starling was 20 cm long. The wing length was 9.8 cm to 10.3 cm, the length of the tail was 6.3 to 6.8 cm, the length of the culmen 1.3 cm and tarsus was 2.5 cm. It was generally
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veins and capillaries, but in 1897 they radically changed direction to work on the control of the motility of the gut. Collaboration became easier when Starling moved to University College London as the Jodrell Chair of Physiology in 1899. It was known that injecting hydrochloric acid into the intestinal lumen evoked secretion by the pancreas; injection into the blood did not. They set out to determine which nerves were involved, but denervation did not block the response. In a flash of inspiration they ground up a sample of intestinal mucosa in sand containing hydrochloric acid; injecting the filtered extract elicited
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Spotless starling The spotless starling ("Sturnus unicolor") is a passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is closely related to the common starling "S. vulgaris", but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. It is largely non-migratory. Subsequent to the recent split of the genus "Sturnus", this species and the common starling are the only species retained in the genus. Hybrids with the common starling are found occasionally where the breeding ranges overlap in northeast Spain. The adult spotless starling is very similar
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many European athletes did not come, nor did modern Olympics founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin. On June 5, 1904, a bullfight scheduled for an arena just north of the fairgrounds, in conjunction with the fair, turned violent when Missouri governor Alexander Monroe Dockery ordered police to halt the fight in light of Missouri's anti-bullfighting laws. Disgruntled spectators demanded refunds, and when they were turned away, they began throwing stones through the windows of the arena office. While police protected the office, they did not have sufficient numbers to protect the arena, which was burned to the ground by the mob.
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it: for when by and by my Lord Arlington come in with letters, and seeing the King and Duke of York give us and the officers of the Ordnance directions in this matter, he did move that we might do it as privately as we could, that it might not come into the Dutch Gazette presently, as the King's and Duke of York's going down the other day to Sheerenesse was, the week after, in the Harlem Gazette. The King and Duke of York both laughed at it, and made no matter, but said, 'Let us be safe, and let
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Starling equation The Starling equation for fluid filtration is named for the British physiologist Ernest Starling, who is also recognised for the Frank–Starling law of the heart. The classic Starling equation has in recent years been revised. The Starling principle of fluid exchange is key to understanding how plasma fluid (solvent) within the bloodstream (intravascular fluid) moves to the space outside the bloodstream (extravascular space). Starling can be credited with identifying that the "absorption of isotonic salt solutions (from the extravascular space) by the blood vessels is determined by this osmotic pressure of the serum proteins." (1896) Transendothelial fluid exchange
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principle) provides scientific explanations for clinical observations concerning intravenous fluid therapy. Starling equation The Starling equation for fluid filtration is named for the British physiologist Ernest Starling, who is also recognised for the Frank–Starling law of the heart. The classic Starling equation has in recent years been revised. The Starling principle of fluid exchange is key to understanding how plasma fluid (solvent) within the bloodstream (intravascular fluid) moves to the space outside the bloodstream (extravascular space). Starling can be credited with identifying that the "absorption of isotonic salt solutions (from the extravascular space) by the blood vessels is determined by
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Alison Starling Alison Loll Starling-Alexander (born October 28, 1973) is an American television news anchor and journalist. She is a co-anchor of WJLA-TV's weekday 4 PM, 5PM and 11PM newscasts. Alison Loll Starling was born on October 28, 1973 to mother Dolores Starling (née Loll) and father Bruce Starling. Starling is from Orlando, Florida. She is from a military family and spent part of her childhood in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area while her father worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative. She later returned to DC to be a congressional intern. Starling graduated from University of
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to Ireland to rescue her. Pliny the Elder claimed that these birds could be taught to speak whole sentences in Latin and Greek, and in "Henry IV", William Shakespeare had Hotspur declare "The king forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer. But I will find him when he is asleep, and in his ear I'll holler 'Mortimer!' Nay I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion." Mozart had a pet common starling which could sing part of his Piano Concerto in G Major (KV.
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