Hunt the Wren is a traditional custom carried out on the Isle of Man on the 26 December, St. Stephen's Day. It consists of groups of people going around...
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Wren Day (Irish: Lá an Dreoilín), or Hunt the Wren Day (Manx: Shelg yn Dreean), is an Irish and Manx custom on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day. Traditionally...
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Only the Eurasian wren occurs in the Old World, where, in Anglophone regions, it is commonly known simply as the "wren", as it is the originator of the name...
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Cammag (category Culture of the Isle of Man)
accounts tell that the crick was sometimes covered in cloth or leather. Cammag season started on 26 December (St. Stephen's Day/ Hunt the Wren Day) and was...
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Clare Wren (born May 4, 1962, as Helen Claire Wren) is an American actress. She is best known as Rachel Dunn on The Young Riders. Born in New Orleans...
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Day, also known as Wren's Day, Hunt the Wren Day or The Hunting of the Wrens, celebrated on 26 December in Ireland, the Isle of Man, Wales and Newfoundland...
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Christopher Wren (born April 27, 1987) is an American humanitarian worker and a professional mixed martial artist, currently competing in the heavyweight...
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The Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) or northern wren is a very small insectivorous bird, and the only member of the wren family Troglodytidae found...
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The rock wren (Salpinctes obsoletus) is a small songbird of the wren family native to western North America, Mexico and Central America. It is the only...
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Troglodytes (bird) (redirect from Troglodytes (wren))
species which tolerates harsh conditions well. Like other wrens, they are elusive as they hunt for small insects and spiders, but they readily reveal their...
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"The Cutty Wren" and its variants such as "The Hunting of the Wren" are traditional English folk songs. The origins and meaning of the song are disputed...
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on the Gresham College website, their holders were as follows: When in 1659 William Croone took over the chair of rhetoric, he therefore joined Wren (astronomy)...
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wren or the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli) was a small, flightless passerine belonging to the family Acanthisittidae, the New Zealand wrens....
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Goldcrest (redirect from Golden-crested Wren)
In English, the association between the goldcrest and Eurasian wren may have been reinforced by the kinglet's old name of "gold-crested wren". It has had...
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The cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) is a species of wren that is endemic to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern and...
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W. Walter Gill (section The Manx Scrapbooks)
and hunt the wren. This was followed in 1937 with a manuscript version of A Third Manx Scrapbook, which was concerned with personal names of the island...
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St Paul's Cathedral (category Christopher Wren church buildings in London)
designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. The cathedral's reconstruction was part of a major rebuilding programme initiated in the aftermath...
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perambulate the streets [...] and solicit contribution at the various dwellings At this time, the White Boys were considered to be, alongside Hunt the Wren and...
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7 August 2023. Thorpe, Vanessa (2023). "The war hero without a name: London museum hunts for Wren's identity". The Observer. Retrieved 7 August 2023....
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Nicaragua. Cabanis's wren, with what are now the canebrake wren (C. zeledoni) and the isthmian wren (C. elutus), were called the plain wren. The three were split...
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wren, with what are now Cabanis's wren (C. modestus) and the canebrake wren (C. zeledoni), were called the plain wren. A 2015 publication described their...
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through his books, Kiaull yn Theay ('Music of the folk'), published in two volumes. He was awarded the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan in 1991 for his contributions...
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Jonathan D. Wren is a scientific investigator at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in the Department of Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, and an...
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Chopper, and Sabine Wren. The 2023 live-action series Ahsoka serves as a direct continuation of Rebels, following on from the events of its series finale...
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length, the actual length (including the aforementioned silence and the hidden track "Witch Hunt") is 9:04. "Voodoo" has since spawned a sequel, in the form...
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Black Swan-class sloop (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
equal number of Hunt-class escort destroyers. There were incremental improvements as the building developed, and the Woodcock and Wren when completed were...
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The American television series The Love Boat (Love Boat in its final season), set on a cruise ship, was aired on ABC from September 24, 1977, until May...
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western Venezuela. The mountain wren has at times been considered to include the Santa Marta wren (Troglodytes monticola), ochraceous wren (T. achraceus)...
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chest. Wren shoots Purvis, who overpowers him and pulls Wren's head to Purvis' chest. The chestburster erupts through Purvis' rib cage and Wren's skull...
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St Mary Aldermanbury (redirect from Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury)
church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181 and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Rebuilt in Portland stone by Christopher Wren, it was...
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