OWL is an acronym for: Web Ontology Language, a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the World Wide Web. Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 100-meter-diameter main reflector. Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland. Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the fictional Harry Potter series

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Dream Interpretation Owl, owls

The owl is a symbol of wisdom, seriousness and thoughtfulness. Dreaming of an owl in the dream means that your judgement of a personal situation or a person was correct. It also could mean that some vague matter became much clearer. Seeing an owl in the dream may also mean that you should take good advice from others. Hearing an owl screeching denotes bad luck, frustration, grief or sadness. Catching an owl or seeing an owl in the cage means that you should be careful of weird people and bad company.

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The Burrowing Owl, Athene cunicularia, is a small owl. They are permanent residents in the southern areas of their range; northern birds migrate to Mexico and Central America. Adults have brown plumage with white spotting, darker on the chest. The belly is white with brown bars. Their eyes and bill are yellow and they have long legs. The females are darker than the males. Burrowing Owl - Calls. The who, who call of a burrowing owl is mainly given by adult males to attract a female to a ...

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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by Ambrose Bierce originally written in 1886. It was first published in the 1891 collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Plot. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of a man who is sentenced to death by hanging at the Owl Creek Bridge of the title. When he is hanged the rope breaks and the main character falls into the water, from which he begins a journey back to his home. During hi ...

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Tyto Phodilus Barn owls (family Tytonidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the typical owls, Strigidae. They are medium to large sized owls with large heads and characteristic heart-shaped faces. They have long strong legs with powerful talons. The barn owls comprise two sub-families: the Tytoninae or Tyto owls (including the ...

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In Maya mythology, Ah Puch was the God of Death and King of Metnal, the underworld, which was the worst of all nine hells. He was depicted as a skeleton or corpse adorned with bells, sometimes the head of an owl; even today, some Mexicans and Central Americans believe that an owl's screeches signify imminent death... as the following saying, in local Spanish, indicates: Cuando el tecolote canta... el indio muere   (When the great owl sings, the Indian dies) It is also known as Hun ahau (where the first /a/ is sometimes omit ...

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Events 4 May: Spearthrower Owl becomes emperor of Teotihuacan. Ambrose becomes bishop of Milan. Births King Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo Deaths Gabinius, king of the Quadi Category: 374 ...

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Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery, veneral nouns or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts. For example, in the phrase "a parliament of owls", parliament is a collective noun. Such nouns are not compulsory, and are in general not widely used. A parliament of owls could equally well be referred to as "a group of owls", "a bunch ...

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Owls' powerful clawed feet and sharp beak enable them to tear their prey to pieces before eating, although most items are swallowed whole. Their muffled wings and dull feathers allow them to fly almost silently and unseen. Scientists studying the diets of owls are helped by their habit of disgorging the indigestible parts of their prey (bones, scales, fur, etc.) in the form of pellets. These "owl pellets" are often sold by companies to schools to be dissected by students as a lesson in biology and ecology, because they are ...

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In the Western world, owls are traditionally associated with wisdom and knowledge and with the Greek goddess Athena. That's because Athena was a bird goddess and assumed often the form of an owl. Athena was not only the goddess of wisdom, but was also the goddess of arts and skills. With this association, owls became also the symbol of teaching and of institutions of learning, being present in th ...

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Owls have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and usually a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disc. Although owls have binocular vision, their large eyes are fixed in their sockets, and they must turn their entire head to change views. Owls are far-sighted, and are unable to clearly see anything within a few inches of their eyes. Their far vision, par ...

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Nite-Owl - Character history. Hollis J. Mason (1916-1985) At the age of 12 his father left the family farm and moved to New York, working at Moe Vernon's Auto Repairs. Starting out as a New York City policeman in 1938, he was inspired by Action Comics' Superman and the real life exploits of Hooded Justice to take up the life of a vigilante. He was nicknamed Nite-Owl for spending his evenings working out in the Police Gymnasiums as much as possible and going to bed at 9:00pm to rise for a 5:00a ...

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Burrowing owls mainly eat large insects and small mammals, especially mice, rats, and ground squirrels. Unlike other owls, they also eat fruits and seeds, especially the fruit of Tesajilla and prickly pear cactus. They can be active day or night during nesting; at other times, they are active at dusk and night. These birds wait and swoop down from a perch to run down prey on the ground or catch insects in flight. During the nesting season, burrowing owls will line the burrow with dung from mammals to attract insects, ...

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OWL LIGHT: The Twilight.

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OWL BLINK: A Curse.

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The call of the Laughing Owl has been described as "a loud cry made up of a series of dismal shrieks frequently repeated". The Laughing Owl was given its name because of this sound. Other descriptions of the call were: "A peculiar barking noise ... just like the barking of a young dog"; "Precisely the same as two men "cooeying" to each other from a distance"; "A melancholy hooting note". Others describe the call as a high-pitched chattering, only heard when the birds were on the wing and generally on dark and drizzly nights or immediately preceding rain. Various whistling, chuckling and mewing no ...

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Doubts about his Amerindian identity began appearing after his death. The North Bay Nugget newspaper ran the first expose, followed up by international news organisations such as the London Times. His publisher Lovat Dickson tried to prove Belaney's Indian identity, but his investigations only turned up the same evidence as the journalists. "Grey Owl" had been an invention, an invented Indian like Forrest Carte ...

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Numerous books about Grey Owl have been published, including: Grey Owl and I by Gertrude Molke (Anahareo's married name) (1941) Devil in Deerskins by Anahareo (1972) Wilderness Man: The Strange Story of Grey Owl by Lovat Dickson (1974) In 1999, the film Grey Owl premiered, directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Pierce Brosnan in the title role. The film received mostly poor reviews and r ...

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The nesting season begins in late March or April. Burrowing Owls are usually monogamous but occasionally a male will have 2 mates. Their breeding habitat is open grassland or prairie across western North America and the far south of the United States. They nest in a burrow. They take over a burrow created by another burrowing animal such as a Prairie dog or ground squirrel, or (if soil conditions allow) they may excavate their own. Site fidelity rates appear to be site specific. In the northern half of their range, adults rarely return to th ...

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