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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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  • St. Columba's School in Delhi, India, established in 1941, is one of the 12,000 English medium schools of its kind established by the Indian Province...
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  • offering advance information technology in their war against the Columba. The Columba rule the sky through the use of mechanized air forces and live in...
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    Northern and Eastern borders of India. He did his schooling from St. Columba's School, Delhi. He is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune. He...
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    at Cana by Maerten de Vos, c. 1596 Sixth-century Irish missionary Saint Columba of Iona supposedly performed an identical miracle when he served as a deacon...
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    Gmelin in 1789, based on Latham's description. The original binomial name Columba maculata means "spotted pigeon" in Latin. Latham himself accepted this...
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    Gargano included (studied by Ballmann, 1973, 1976): Apus wetmorei, a swift. Columba omnisanctorum - one of the oldest pigeon fossils known. It probably was...
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    may often reach up to 4 cm (1.6 in) long. The pigeon horntail (Tremex columba) can grow up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long (not counting the ovipositor), among...
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  • the Mist – a play set in early medieval Scotland with Addie playing St Columba. After this Addie resumed a film and television career, also acting in...
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    characterisation of wing feathers of the barn owl Tyto alba pratincola and the pigeon Columba livia". Frontiers in Zoology. 4: 23. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-4-23. PMC 2211483...
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    Cable-Car at Nandi Hills". Subramanya, S. (2005). Nesting of Wood-Pigeon Columba elphinstonii in Nandi hills, Karnataka, India. Indian Birds 1(2):36-37...
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    Borbonibis latipes n. gen. n. sp" [Discovery of a recently extinct island endemic ibis from Réunion: Borbonibis latipes n. gen. n. sp.]. Comptes Rendus...
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    (MP) for Alloa and Grangemouth since 2024. Leishman was educated at St Columba's High School in Perth. He began a history and politics degree at the University...
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    the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2012. " ... praeco columba terris adnuntiavit dimissa ex arca et cum olea reversa – quod signum etiam...
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    missionaries.: 23–24  Operating in the sixth century on the island of Iona, Saint Columba was one of the earliest and best-known missionaries.: 39  The Vikings began...
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  • those spoken by the Britons, the Irish, and the English. Bede states that Columba, a Gael, used an interpreter during his mission to the Picts. A number...
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    of Moses. In Adomnan of Iona's biography of St Columba it describes Columba's death by having Columba say on a Saturday, "Today is truly my sabbath, for...
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    Doves as symbols (category Columba (genus))
    tre with greene leeuys" ("a branch of olive tree with green leaves") in Gen. 8:11. In the Middle Ages, some Jewish illuminated manuscripts also showed...
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  • cullender, cullis, percolate, percolation, percolator, piña colada, portcullis columba columb- dove columbarium, columbary, Columbella, columbine cor cord- heart...
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    George, he was the grandfather of Josephine Broome (1900–1954), who married Columba Jamison O'Gorman, on March 19, 1923, in New York City. They divorced and...
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    Island gigantism Worthy, T. H. (December 2001). "A giant flightless pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ducula (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary...
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    1914. Bonin wood pigeon, Columba versicolor (Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima, Ogasawara Islands, c. 1890) Ryukyu wood pigeon, Columba jouyi (Okinawa and Daito...
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    Memphis Grizzlies, and Miami Heat Bruce R. Berkowitz, mutual fund manager Columba Bush, former First Lady of Florida Jeb Bush, 43rd Governor of Florida Marty...
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    hair, feathers, cobwebs, bird nests (particularly of domestic pigeons, Columba livia domestica) and fruits or vegetables. These species are important...
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    first used in the description of H. columbae in the blood of the pigeon Columba livia by Walther Kruse in 1890. This was also the first description of...
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    Publishing Co., Darby PA, ISBN 1-4289-1039-5 Adomnan of Iona. Life of St. Columba, Penguin Books, 1995. "Publicaciones Defensa". Publicaciones Defensa. Retrieved...
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  • For example, in the early medieval biography of St Columba written by Adomnan of Iona, Columba at one point prophesies to a penitent at the monastery...
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    fire where the beast and all those marked with his number were placed. Columba of Iona is alleged to have on several occasions even been able to name...
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  • Common name Binomial Notes Rock pigeon Columba livia (I)...
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    D. lakeba Tubuai fruit dove, Ptilinopus sp. (Tubuai, Austral Islands) Columba melitensis (Malta, Sicily) Cuculidae – cuckoos Extinct species of extant...
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