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 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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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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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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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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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 illustrated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing...
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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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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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(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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The Columba Project (Gaelic: Iomairt Cholm Cille), formerly known as the Columba Initiative, is a program for Gaelic speakers in Scotland and Ireland to...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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Bonin wood pigeon (redirect from Columba versicolor)
The Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor) was a pigeon endemic to Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan. It is known from...
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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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Bolle's pigeon (redirect from Columba bollii)
Bolle's laurel pigeon or dark-tailed laurel pigeon (Columba bollii) is a species of the genus Columba of family Columbidae, doves and pigeons, endemic to...
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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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Columba Aspexit is a sequence written by Hildegard of Bingen in the late 12th century. It is one of seven sequences from her collection of lyrical poetry...
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