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David Harry Walker CM MBE (9 February 1911 – 5 March 1992) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Dundee, Scotland , later moving to St Andrews, New Brunswick , Canada, where he began his career as a writer.
Dave Walker was born in Edmonton, Canada, April 7, 1955. [citation needed]After graduating high school, Walker served briefly as a Toronto Police constable and later joined the British Army serving in Belfast, Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles' where he saw combat against the Provisional IRA in an urban reconnaissance unit trained by and seconded to the Special Air Service (SAS).
The noisy friarbird (Philemon corniculatus) is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae native to southern New Guinea and eastern Australia. It is one of several species known as friarbirds whose heads are bare of feathers. It is brown-grey in colour, with a prominent knob on its bare black-skinned head. It feeds on insects and ...
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The best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford has died. She was 91. The British-American author died “peacefully at her home” following a short illness on Sunday, Nov. 24, PEOPLE can confirm.
Additionally, the single member of the genus Melitograis is called the white-streaked friarbird. Friarbirds are found in Australia , Papua New Guinea , eastern Indonesia , and New Caledonia . They eat nectar , insects and other invertebrates , flowers, fruit, and seeds.
August 9 – Amy Catherine Walton (née Deck, writing as Mrs. O. F. Walton), English writer of Christian children's books (died 1939) August 23 – W. E. Henley, English poet (died 1903) August 30 – J. M. Dent, English publisher (died 1926) September 3 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (died 1909) [10] October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley ...
David Dee, an influential East St. Louis soul singer, guitarist and bandleader, has died. He was 84. He was 84. Lesley Withers, a daughter of Dee, shared news of his death Wednesday.