People of a Feather is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Joel Heath and released in 2011. The film explores the impact of the development of hydroelectric...
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study of feathers is called plumology (or plumage science). People use feathers in many ways that are practical, cultural, and religious. Feathers are both...
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of birds has been observed by people since time immemorial, and is the source of the idiom ("of a feather" means "of the same plumage," that is, of the...
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Bolas (category Indigenous culture of the Southern Cone)
breaking a bone). Traditionally, Inuit have used bolas to hunt birds, fouling the birds in air with the lines of the bola. People of a Feather showed Belcher...
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"Feather" is song by American singer Sabrina Carpenter from Emails I Can't Send Fwd:, the 2023 deluxe edition of her fifth studio album, Emails I Can't...
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The white feather is a widely recognised propaganda symbol. It has, among other things, represented cowardice or conscientious pacifism; as in A. E. W. Mason's...
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Birds of a Feather is a British television sitcom, created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, and stars Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph...
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Maat (redirect from Feather of Truth)
she is depicted with wings on each arm or as a woman with an ostrich feather on her head. The meaning of this emblem is uncertain, although the god Shu...
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Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC One from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998, then revived on ITV from 2 January 2014...
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The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers. Very young birds are clad only in down. Powder down is a specialized...
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term a feather in your cap is an English idiomatic phrase believed to have derived from the general custom in some cultures of a warrior adding a new feather...
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preliminary results seem to show a population recovery. The common eider is the object of the 2011 documentary People of a Feather,[citation needed] which studies...
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Belcher Islands (redirect from History of the Belcher Islands)
community and the eider is the subject of a feature-length Canadian documentary film called People of a Feather. The director, cinematographer and biologist...
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pennaceous feather is a type of feather present in most modern birds and in some other species of maniraptoriform dinosaurs. A pennaceous feather has a stalk...
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Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, or stripped to the waist, while wood tar (sometimes hot) is either...
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Under the current language of the eagle feather law, individuals of certifiable Native American ancestry enrolled in a federally recognized tribe are...
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some dinosaurs. Feather may also refer to: Feathers (1987 film), an Australian film Feathers (2021 film), an Egyptian film The Feather, a 1929 British romantic...
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The Feathered Serpent is a prominent supernatural entity or deity, found in many Mesoamerican religions. It is still called Quetzalcoatl among the Aztecs...
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Carlos Hathcock (category People with multiple sclerosis)
Springfield Armory M25 White Feather, for the nickname "White Feather" given to Hathcock by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). Hathcock...
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Lorraine Feather (born Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather; September 10, 1948) is an American singer, lyricist, and songwriter. A native of Manhattan, she...
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The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about...
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Four Feather Falls is a British children's western television series, the third puppet TV show produced by AP Films (APF) in association with Granada Television...
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The Feather Men is a 1991 novel by the British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The book was initially published on 17 October 1991 by Bloomsbury Publishing...
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Light as a feather, stiff as a board is a game played by children at slumber parties. The phrase has also become established in popular culture as a reference...
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Sanikiluaq (category Road-inaccessible communities of Nunavut)
directed by Joel Heath, with support from the community of Sanikiluaq, People of a Feather is a documentary film about the relationship between climate...
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Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, Baron Feather, CBE (10 April 1908 – 28 July 1976) was a British propagandist and General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress...
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Blue-throated macaw (category Birds of the Gran Chaco)
designated by law as a natural patrimony of Bolivia. Until 2010, it was hunted by native people to make feathered "Moxeño" headdresses for "machetero" ritual...
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The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are groups of people native to a specific region that inhabited the Americas before the arrival of European settlers...
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Feather cloaks have been used by several cultures. It constituted noble and royal attire in § Hawaii and other Polynesian regions. It is a mythical bird-skin...
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feathering. By pouring hot wood tar onto somebody's bare skin and waiting for it to cool, they would remain stuck in one position. From there, people...
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