Columba (/kəˈlʌmbəˌ ˈkɒlʌmbə/) or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity...
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Columba is a faint constellation designated in the late sixteenth century, remaining in official use, with its rigid limits set in the 20th century. Its...
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Columba Bush (née Garnica Gallo; Latin American Spanish: [koˈlumba ɣaɾˈnika ˈɣaʝo]; born August 17, 1953) is a Mexican-American philanthropist. As the...
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The bird genus Columba comprises a genus of medium to large pigeons. The terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used indiscriminately for smaller and larger Columbidae...
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Tremex columba, also known as the pigeon tremex or pigeon horntail, is a species of horntail that is native to eastern and western North America. The...
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(constellation) Columba (Chinese astronomy), a constellation Columba (given name) RMS Columba, a Clyde paddle steamer launched in 1878 MV Columba, a car ferry...
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Rock dove (redirect from Columba livia)
rock dove, rock pigeon, or common pigeon (/ˈpɪdʒ.ən/ also /ˈpɪdʒ.ɪn/; Columba livia) is a member of the bird family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).: 624 ...
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Saint Columba the Virgin Columba of Sens Columba of Spain Columba of Terryglass St. Columba's College, Hazaribagh, India St Columba's College, Dublin, a co-educational...
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Common wood pigeon (redirect from Columba palumbus)
The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus), also known as simply wood pigeon, is a large species in the dove and pigeon family (Columbidae), native to...
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Book of Kells (redirect from The Book of Columba)
Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing...
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British Columbia (redirect from British columba)
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the...
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Columba is a unisex given name meaning dove which may refer to: Columba (521–597), Irish prince who evangelised the Picts, and one of Scotland's patron...
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Columba of Sens (probably born Eporita, d. 273; Galician: Santa Comba de Sens), was a virgin and nun who was born to a noble pagan family in the northwest...
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Columba of Spain (also Columba of Córdoba) was a virgin and nun who was born in Córdoba, Spain, and martyred around 853 by the Muslim rulers in Spain,...
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Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae) is a hagiography recounting the life of Columba, the founder of Iona Abbey, written a century after Columba's death...
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painter. She took the name Columba when signing her paintings and writings, probably related to the constellation Columba, which is the focal point of...
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Mourning dove (redirect from Columba carolinensis)
dropped Columba macroura and instead coined Columba migratoria for the passenger pigeon, Columba cariolensis for the mourning dove and Columba marginata...
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St Columba's may refer to: Cathedral of St. Eunan and St Columba, Letterkenny, Ireland St Columba's-by-the-Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland St. Columba's Cathedral...
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Columba McVeigh (1956 – 1 November 1975) was a youth from Northern Ireland who was abducted and most likely murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican...
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MV Hebridean Princess (redirect from MV Columba)
MV Columba, based in Oban for the first 25 years of her life, carrying up to 600 passengers, and 50 cars, between the Scottish islands. RMS Columba was...
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Passenger pigeon (redirect from Columba migratoria)
extinction. Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus coined the binomial name Columba macroura for both the mourning dove and the passenger pigeon in the 1758...
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Columba Domínguez Alarid (March 4, 1929 – August 13, 2014) was a Mexican actress, singer, and painter. She is remembered particularly for her performance...
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Columba of Terryglass (Colum) (died 13 December 552) was the son of Ninnidh, a descendant of Crinthainn, King of Leinster. Columba was a disciple of St...
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The Cathedral Church of St Columba in Oban is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Argyll and the Isles and mother church of the Diocese of Argyll...
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See Columba (disambiguation) and St Columb (disambiguation) for other uses. Columba of Cornwall (Welsh, and in Latin, translated to modern English as...
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Columba of Rieti, TOSD (2 February 1467 – 20 May 1501) was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic. She...
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Thomas Columba Cryan (1929 – 5 May 2024) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. He played at club level with Ballinamore Seán O'Heslin's and at inter-county...
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RMS Columba was a Clyde paddle steamer, MacBrayne's flagship from 1879 to 1935. She ran the first leg of "The Royal Route" to Ardrishaig for fifty eight...
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The Knights of St Columba is a fraternal service order affiliated with the Catholic Church in Scotland, in England and Wales, and, through their Province...
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Columba Blango (born 6 July 1992) is a British parasports runner, who came third at the 400 metres T20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. He won the...
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