"Dad calls it a big birdbath," said Jack, who is 211.
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Seeing the entire flock at my birdbath seemed like a miracle.
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Mr. Rubin also opened several environmentally sensitive Birdbath bakeries around the city.
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I heard her on NPR this morning, and she's got the empathy of a birdbath.
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You wouldn't spot an alga in the birdbath, but you know when you have algae.
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Bumi Duadari has its own share of offerings: birdbath ponds filled with the same splash of flowers.
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I could toss out that damn birdbath, the one in the shape of a cat wearing a sombrero.
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Perhaps more importantly, a birdbath not only provides a convenient spot for cleaning feathers, it also provides an easy drink of water.
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His "Birdbath" is a bright blue fiberglass baptism pool, tilted downward, as if toward hell, by an old-fashioned, handmade bird bath.
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Flowering native shrubs pressed in from all sides and a stone Buddha and birdbath peeked out from among the ferns and boulders.
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Image: TwitterTwitter's little blue fowl has been drowning in a birdbath for some time now, but it's still trying valiantly to lift itself up.
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Who gets to decide how much to spend on that birdbath?), upgrades and repairs (If somebody tiles the bathroom, do they get reimbursed for their labor?
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For shirting, he is a fan of the no-collar band collar, and his Birdbath Sweater ($580) has an unusual shawl collar laced with red ribbon.
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Then a cold snap kept all the puddles frozen for days, and every bird in the ZIP code showed up at my heated birdbath to drink.
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Pence implored Americans to take steps to help rebuild the bee population, from building a hive to planting bee-friendly flowers, herbs and vegetables to setting up a birdbath.
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In her leaping, tree-climbing youth, I took down my feeders and emptied my birdbath, determined not to invite songbirds to believe this yard would make a good nursery.
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Some are obscure, like the whacking of a guy named Whispers (not to be confused with a different guy named Whispers) who stuck his beak in the wrong birdbath.
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On especially cold mornings, when bitter temperatures overnight have frozen all the puddles, every songbird in Middle Tennessee, it seems, comes to my back deck to enjoy the heated birdbath.
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If you have a garden pool or birdbath that's too heavy to dump, try using larvacides, better known as mosquito dunks, doughnuts or torpedoes, said Coastal Health District Director Dr. Lawton Davis.
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But then Lima found aegypti bugs and larvae in several more locations: a fountain that had stopped flowing in his friend's backyard, and a birdbath and trash can about a block away.
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On a date, Irish Cream and Reagan order drinks with names like Birdbath Shadows and Birth Mom — which I wouldn't be surprised to learn are actually on the menu of some bar in Bushwick.
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In winter, robins do gather in great flocks here in Middle Tennessee, and our yard is always popular with them because we have a birdbath with a heating element that keeps it from freezing.
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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG CENTRAL POINT, Va. – The house Richard Loving built for his wife, Mildred, is empty now, its front yard overgrown, a giant maple tree shading a birdbath that is slightly askew.
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As we began to clear vines and underbrush from the perimeter of the property, we uncovered gifts she had left behind, including an ornate metal trellis we transformed into a gate and an old concrete birdbath.
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Reinvent yourself as a serious actor and scandalize the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by arriving at the Oscars in that brazen Bob Mackie creation that looks like an Erté birdbath mated with a Mexican ferris wheel.
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One of the most important things to do when the weather warms up is make sure you don't have standing water outside your house, such as in a garbage can lid, a birdbath or trays of potted plants, Kramer said.
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The day after the waxwings appeared at my birdbath, I found one of them, its flock long gone, panting on the driveway below a corner of the house where two windows meet and form a mirage of trees and distances.
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The yard outside my office was his exclusive domain: no longer did the chickadees visit the mealworm feeder on that side of the house; the goldfinches abandoned the thistle feeder hanging in the window; only the largest birds dared drink from the birdbath.
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It came time for evaluations, and I wrote a lengthy and rather scathing screed for pages upon pages — I don't remember most of what I said, but I do recall writing to the effect that 'a typical birdbath would have made for a more effective instructor.
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For those who aren't inclined or able to have their own beehive, Pence suggests ways to support bees, such as planting a pollinator garden or finding a place in your garden for a birdbath type bowl with little rocks in it, so that the bees can get a drink.
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A greenhouse in the back contained tropical palms and painted gnomes; a stone table sat near my grandfather's woodworking shed (where, during retirement, he spent hours fashioning small sculptures of platypus), its surface adorned with bonsai; and there was a birdbath and a sundial, both of which seemed very exotic.
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The most ostentatious room by far is the first-floor bathroom, which is covered in wall-to-wall gold-rimmed mirrors — as Armstrong once wrote, "It's a pleasure to see yourself wipe your ass from all angles" — with marble floors, a marble bathtub and a marble sink converted from a birdbath.
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Mr. Stewart, on the phone from Los Angeles while tending to his birdbath, confessed to only a passing familiarity with punk — "I listened to the angry, expletive-filled songs, and I enjoyed them" — but said that the film's aesthetic aside, he was drawn to the "deep unease" that "Green Room" conjured in him.
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Road Runner approaches, and we see Wile on a diving board attached to a rock above the birdbath. Road Runner reads the sign and jumps into the birdbath. Wile jumps off the diving board, hoping to catch the Road Runner. Road Runner jumps out of the birdbath, and Wile gets stuck in it.
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Local residents referred to the unused, upwards-pointing, dish as "the Pterodactyl Birdbath".
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A. Purves "Purv" Pullen (February 2, 1909 – October 18, 1992), later known by the stage name Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath (or simply Dr. Birdbath), was a voice actor for radio, film, television, and records. He was known for mimicking the sounds of animals and birds.
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The birdbath should be placed where a frightened bird can fly up easily to an overhanging limb or resting place if disturbed or attacked.
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The courtyard includes a decorative birdbath and planter. Contractor Clarence Hudson Burrell built the court in 1927. The court was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1983.
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City Bakery also owned and operated six eco-minded bakeries called Birdbath Neighborhood Green Bakery in New York. The City Bakery closed on October 20, 2019 due to debt-related financial difficulties.
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Unusual listed structures include a scale model of Grosvenor Bridge, the War Memorial, a Cenotaph to Matthew Henry, a tombstone commemorating the soldier Thomas Gould, a sundial, a birdbath and two telephone kiosks.
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In 1960, Le nid des Marsupilamis was printed in the weekly British boys' magazine Knockout, under the title Dickie and Birdbath Watch the Woggle. In that early localization, Spirou was called "Dickie," Fantasio was "Birdbath," Seccotine was "Cousin Constance," the Marsupilami was "the Woggle," and the female Marsupilami was "the Wiggle." Egmont has printed and released English translations of Spirou in 2007 in India through its Indian subsidiary (Euro Books). So far, albums no 1-11 and 14 have been translated.ibnlive.
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An early example of an English-language translation of Spirou & Fantasio was published in 1960, when the Franquin story Le nid des Marsupilamis was printed in the weekly British boys' magazine Knockout, under the title Dickie and Birdbath Watch the Woggle. In that early localization, Spirou was called "Dickie", Fantasio was "Birdbath", Seccotine was "Cousin Constance", the Marsupilami was "the Woggle", and the female Marsupilami was "the Wiggle." One album of Spirou & Fantasio featuring Marsupilami, number 15, was translated to English by Fantasy Flight Publishing in 1995. Plans on releasing number 16 ended halfway through the translation process, due to bad sales.
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Wile E. presses on the detonator, but nothing happens. Wile takes the "lemonade" and starts to drink it when it explodes! We see a sign that says "FREE BIRD BATH". The camera zooms out to show Wile E. setting up the birdbath.
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Leonard Melfi would become Theatre Genesis' most-produced playwright. In 1965, Melfi had five of his one-acts produced by Cook. He received the most success for his short play Birdbath. The play was written specifically for Cook, who would later direct the production, and was originally titled Coffeecake and Caviar.
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The La MaMa companies did not only bring La MaMa plays to Europe but also brought plays that were first presented at other Off-Off-Broadway venues. These included Home Free!, The Madness of Lady Bright, and Miss. Victoria from Caffe Cino, as well as Birdbath and Chicago from Theatre Genesis.
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In 1945, Pullen began a collaboration with Spike Jones, providing sound effects and other comic gimmicks on many of the classic Jones recordings. Jones gave Pullen the stage name "Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath." Pullen was the voice of Pierre the Parrot in Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland and Disneyworld.
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The Theater Will Rock, Elizabeth Wollman, pp. 105–06, books.google.com Among O'Horgan's other off-Broadway credits include the Second City revues at the Village East To the Water Tower, When the Owl Screams, and The Wrecking Ball as composer, as well as Masked Men (at the Westbeth Theatre) and Birdbath as director.
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Linus walks away, convinced. In later years, Snoopy would play ice hockey with his bird pal Woodstock and his bird friends, using a frozen birdbath as the skating rink. Youth hockey is celebrated in cartoons and comic strips such as Small Saves. Canadian comic book artist Jeff Lemire created the series Essex County, set in his hometown.
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"Production: Thank You, Miss Victoria and Birdbath and War in Copenhagen (1965)". Accessed May 30, 2018. La MaMa then presented the works by Hoffman, van Itallie, and Melfi alongside works by Paul Foster, Sam Shepard, and Lanford Wilson in New York in 1966 as "Six Plays from the 1965-1966 European Tour".La MaMa Archives Digital Collections.
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Of the bakery with no name, New York magazine wrote: "When is a bakery not a bakery? When it’s a political statement, an architectural pioneer, and a bit of performance art, all wrapped in one." After six months, the bakery was formally named Birdbath Neighborhood Green Bakery, and has since expanded to five locations in SoHo, Midtown and the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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He also won DGA Awards for Most Outstanding TV Director (1972) and for Television — My Sweet Charlie (1970) and "Oscar Underwood Story": Profiles in Courage (1964). Additionally, he was nominated for DGA Awards for Movies for Television and Mini-Series for Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (1985), Fear on Trial (1975) and The Execution of Private Slovik (1974). Another DGA Award nomination was for Dramatic Series for Birdbath (1971).
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Tweety is washing in the park birdbath and singing. Not far off there are gentlemen seated on a park bench reading their paper. Sylvester is sitting among them and peering through a peephole in the newspaper, inches near Tweety. As Tweety notices Sylvester attempting to capture him after initially mistaking his tongue for a towel, Tweety rushes off and Sylvester chases him round and round a little toddler girl on a bike wagon.
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After this, Wile counts to three with his fingers again, and then falls off a cliff. While falling, he gets out of the birdbath, which ends up landing on him, flattening him like a coin. Crawling through the desert, still suffering from the heat, Wile sees an emergency fire hose, which he tries to use to get a drink. He hardly gets any water from it at first, but the Road Runner turns it on maximum.
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Birdbath's plot centers around Frankie, who has a one-night stand with a waitress named Velma. They drink and talk into the night, going further into their hidden pasts, until Velma reveals that she murdered her mother earlier that morning. Birdbath remained a staple of off-off-Broadway, receiving a production at La MaMa and later being published by Ellen Stewart in Six From La Mama. Joe Chaikin paints Joyce Aaron in San Shepard's "Fourteen Hundred Thousand" at Theatre Genesis cir.
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A watchful mockingbird bathing in a glass bowl bird bath. A bird bath (or birdbath) is an artificial puddle or small shallow pond, created with a water- filled basin, in which birds may drink, bathe, and cool themselves. A bird bath can be a garden ornament, small reflecting pool, outdoor sculpture, and part of creating a vital wildlife garden. A bird bath is an attraction for many different species of birds to visit gardens, especially during the summer and drought periods.
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Elm Street Court is a bungalow court located on Elm Street in Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. The court, built in 1926, consists of eight Spanish Colonial Revival style bungalows arranged around a central courtyard. While the houses have similar styles and floor plans, they also all have key differences, such as the shape of their parapet walls and the color and style of their stucco exteriors. A tall concrete gate with Craftsman details marks the entrance to the courtyard, and a concrete birdbath sits in the center of the garden courtyard.
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The police immediately rush back to Friedrich's house to protect him and his family in case Casper came back. As Friedrich was talking to the police and everybody was speculating why Casper may have left them alone at first, Will's youngest son, Jack, is found drowned in a birdbath in the garden outside. "Book II" begins approximately seven years after the conclusion of the first part. Will Friedrich has moved his family away from the New England area to Rutgers University in New Jersey in an attempt to start over away from the Casper incident.
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When Mal admits that she plans to seal off the Isle permanently, the group implodes and Celia, learning she can never see her father again, throws the ember in a birdbath, and Uma and Harry leave. After Evie tells Mal how upset she is for lying to her and their friends, they are all suddenly turned to stone, except for Mal. Audrey takes Celia hostage and attacks Mal, who turns into her dragon form. Realizing she is Mal's only hope, Uma combines their magic to reignite the ember; Mal overcomes Audrey, who falls comatose, and the curses are lifted.
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When asked where he learned to pilot, Woodstock replied (speaking in his usual chicken scratches, but translated), "Nam." This gag appeared in the strip several times as well as in It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown. During the winter, he relaxes by either skating or playing ice hockey on top of the birdbath, complete with his own Zamboni machine to keep the surface clean (except one year where Woodstock asks Snoopy to migrate with him, and the duo takes the trip on foot). His one- goal throughout the comic is to track down his mother so he can send her a Mother's Day card.
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The movie opens with a bakery truck driving down the street, and Beaver and Wally riding together on Wally's bicycle, delivering morning newspapers. Beaver tosses the newspapers wildly into the air with both hands: one of them plops into a wet cement, another one lands on a roof, one into a dog's mouth, one into a birdbath, one onto a cat, one into a man's leaf-vacuum nozzle, and one lands smack on a painter's head. Then the leaf vacuum explodes and throws dirt through the truck driver's window, causing him to slam on his brakes and have his sticky pies thrown about. Beaver and Wally apologize then ride away.
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Stewart's lecture challenged those in attendance to create a Baltimore version of her East Village-based experimental theatre. Local producer and director Leslie Irons subsequently met with Stewart and was granted La MaMa's repertoire of original plays. Irons then assembled a group of artists who shared his interest in the creation of a new, radical performing arts center, including: Cliff Pottberg, Mac Lang, Marie Stewart, Daniel Inglett, and Joe Harris. Funds were quickly raised, and Corner Theatre ETC opened at 853 North Howard Street with their inaugural production, an evening of two one-act plays: Birdbath by New York playwright Leonard Melfi and Baltimore playwright C. Richard Gillespie's The Burial.
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The film's original script, written by director Brett Leonard and producer Gimel Everett, was written between May and August 1990 under the title The Lawnmower Man, and included minor elements of King's story. Fuji Creative's Masao Takiyama is also credited as a co-producer. References to the short story include the scene where Jobe kills Peter's father with the lawnmower "Big Red" and the aftermath in which the police state that they found some of his remains in the birdbath. The film has several elements in common with the 1959 Daniel Keyes novel Flowers for Algernon, which also deals with a mentally disabled man whose intelligence is technologically boosted to genius levels.
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Further work on the importance of nanobacteria in geology by R. L. Folk and co-workers includes study of calcium carbonate Bahama ooids,Folk, RL and Lynch. FL (2001) Organic matter, putative nanobacteria and the formation of oolites and hard grounds, Sedimentology, 48:215-229. silicate clay minerals,Folk, RL and Lynch, FL, (1997) The possible role of nanobacteria (dwarf bacteria) in clay-mineral diagenesis, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 67:583-589. metal sulfides,Folk, RL (2005) nanobacteria and the formation of framboidal pyrite, Journal Earth System Science, 114:369-374 and iron oxides.Folk, RL and Carlin J (2006) Adventures in an iron birdbath: nanostructure of iron oxide and the nanobacteria connection, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with programs, v. 38 (3), p. 6.
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The sculpture was vandalized several times over the next 10 years but eventually became an accepted part of the public art at Stanford. New York in 1992 finally installed the first casting in Christopher Park. Includes a picture of Gay Liberation at Stanford. Between the church and building 60 is the Amy Blue Garden with benches, a sundial, and a small birdbath dedicated to the memory of Barbara Jordan, daughter of the university's first president who died aged 9 in 1901 of scarlet fever; The inscription reads "Dedicated to the memory of Barbara Jordan, who knew and loved the birds, by the Western Out- Door Clubs, 1930." the garden as a whole is in memory of Amy Blue, a university staffer who died in 1988 at the age of 44.
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