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Lurcher, illustration from The Sportsman's Cabinet by William Taplin, 1803; engraved from a painting by Philip Reinagle. A lurcher is a crossbred dog resulting from mating a greyhound or other sighthound with a dog of another type such as a herding dog or a terrier. The lurcher is not a "breed," but is a generic descriptor of a group of varying ...
The UK television documentary maker Barry Cockcroft made several documentaries about Plummer, including A Way Out of Walsall (1985), which is about Plummer's training pupils of the local Forest Comprehensive School for the world of professional boxing, [2] and Lone Furrow (1987), which looks at the preoccupation of Plummer with his dogs, which have been rat-catchers, and his current wish to ...
To Dance with the White Dog: Sam's dog; about an old widower whose wife returns as stray dog so she can keep an eye on him. White Fang Wolf-dog Hybrid White Fang: A wolf-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century in the book. Whitey Black Terrier Boston Blackie: The flippant detective's dog; about a reformed jewel thief ...
Black abalone. Haliotis cracherodii. 2024 [5] Silver rush ghost town Calico: 2005 Slug Banana slug. Genus Ariolimax. 2024 [5] Soil: San Joaquin: 1997 Sport: Surfing: 2018 Tall ship: Californian: 2003 Tartan: California state tartan: 2001 Theater: Pasadena Playhouse: 1937 Trees: Coast redwood and giant sequoia Sequoia sempervirens ...
The painting of Henry IV, Duke of Saxony with his hunting dog, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1514, shows a dog thought by some to represent an ancestral Saluki. The dog wears a collar decorated with a scallop shell, which is the badge of a pilgrim who has traveled the Way of Saint James in Spain. [ 39 ]
The dog had belonged to a fallen RAF pilot, and Patton bought him in England in 1944. When Willie got into a fight with Dwight D. Eisenhower's Scottish terrier dog Telek, Eisenhower said he would send Telek upstairs, but Patton apologized, saying that Telek outranked Willie, and therefore it was Willie who would be confined to quarters. [19 ...
The coat is hard and rough on the head, body and legs, with the beard and the hair over the eyes particularly wiry. It may be black, brindle, fawn, grey, red, pure white, or any colour seen in the Deerhound. [1] The Irish Wolfhound is a sighthound, and hunts by visual perception alone.
White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor , it features the songs of Irving Berlin , including a new version of the title song, " White Christmas ", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn .