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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    The fawn-breasted wren (Cantorchilus guarayanus) is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. The fawn-breasted...
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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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