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Encyclopedia > Crow (disambiguation)
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Science

Species See text. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ... Orders Many - see section below. ... Corvus (Latin for Raven/Crow) is a small southern constellation with only 11 stars visible to the naked eye (brighter than magnitude 5. ... Species See text. ... Families Superfamily Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae Superfamily Papilionoidea: Papilionidae Pieridae Nymphalidae Lycaenidae Riodinidae A butterfly is a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, and belongs to one of the superfamilies Hesperioidea (the skippers) or Papilionoidea (all other butterflies). ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

People

The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsáalooke, are a tribe of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone river valley and now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana. ... An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Native Americans in the United States (also known as Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are the indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States and their descendants in... Viewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states. ... Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a nine-time Grammy winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist and songwriter. ... Trammell Crow (1914 - ) American property developer. ... Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an Oscar-winning New Zealand film actor. ...

Music

Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada), is a musician and painter. ... Hejira is a 1976 folk|jazz album by Joni Mitchell. ... The Crows were one of the first doo wop groups in American history, and their one major hit, Gee (1953) was an important early rock and roll hit. ... Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America. ... The Black Crowes The Black Crowes are a blues-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 15 million albums and were hailed by Melody Maker as The Most Rock n Roll Rock n Roll Band in the World. ... Nickname: The Horizon City, Hotlanta, The Big Peach Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Counting Crows is a rock band that became extremely popular in 1993 following the release of their debut album August and Everything After featuring the hit song Mr. ... August and Everything After is the debut album of the Counting Crows, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). ... This article is about the Counting Crows song. ...

Entertainment

The Two Black Crows was a blackface comedy act popular in the 1920s and 30s. ... A minstrel was a medieval European bard who performed songs whose lyrics told stories about distant places or about (real or imaginary) historical events. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... The 1920s were a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Crow and friends. ... For other uses, see Robot (disambiguation). ... Movie theater view, featuring the short film Hired!. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is a cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... The Crow is a comic book series created by James OBarr. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... James OBarr (born 1960, Detroit, Michigan) is creator of the comic book series, The Crow. ... The Crow is an film adaptation of James OBarrs comic book of the same name (see The Crow). ... Brandon Bruce Lee (李國豪, pinyin: Lǐ Guóháo February 1, 1965–March 31, 1993) was an American actor, the son of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee and his wife Linda Emery. ...

Synonyms

  • "Crow" is also another word for snot.
  • In police slang, a "crow" is a terrorist.
  • CROW is an acronym for Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguide

Mucus is a slippery secretion of the lining of various membranes in the body (mucous membranes). ... It has been suggested that Demographics of terrorism be merged into this article or section. ...

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carrion crow - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about carrion crow (223 words)
By industry and care, you might thus come to some prefarment; for by this time, I should think, your eyes would plainly tell you that a carrion crow is a better bird than a mocking-thresher.
He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
On the following Tuesday I was out with my dog and gun, in pursuit of such game as I could find within the territory of Linden-Car; but finding none at all, I turned my arms against the hawks and carrion crows, whose depredations, as I suspected, had deprived me of better prey.
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