The Wren's Nest, this Uncle Remus author's home, was named for a wren found nesting in his mailbox
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Joel Chandler Harris Home--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic ...  Influential black songwriter, author and statesman, James Weldon Johnson, said in ... Harris had just published his first Uncle Remus book when he moved to this ... dubbed the Wren's Nest in 1900, when the Harris children discovered a wren ... They promptly erected a second mailbox so the birds would not be disturbed.
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The Wren's Nest museum still grapples with race issues  Oct 31, 2009 ... The Wren's Nest opened as a museum in 1913 after Harris' death. ... the Wren's Nest, the very house where newspaperman and author Joel ... He even poses questions on his blog like "Is Uncle Remus racist? ... aging house, which is named for the wrens that nested in the mailbox while Harris lived there.
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The Harris Home: Birds and Br'ers - Gadsden Times  Jul 18, 2013 ... And with the words of that song as an introduction, the Uncle Remus stories ... audience in the Wren's Nest, the former Atlanta home of Joel Chandler Harris. ... The Wren's Nest, so named after songbirds kept making nests in the mailbox 120 ... Harris' wife kept the author's bedroom intact after his death.
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House Museum | The Wren's Nest  The house was named after wrens made a nest in the mailbox 120 years ago. If you visit in the spring, you might see that wrens still make nests in the mailbox. ... The east parlor served as The Uncle Remus Memorial Carnegie Library until 1930. ... Esther LaRose, Harris' wife, kept the author's bedroom intact after his death.
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Joel Chandler Harris House - Wikipedia  Joel Chandler Harris House, also known as The Wren's Nest or Snap Bean Farm, is a Queen Anne style house at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd. (formerly Gordon Street.), SW. in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1870, it was home to Joel Chandler Harris, editor of the Atlanta Constitution and author of ... The name "Wren's Nest" came from his discovery of a family of wrens living...
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Wren Building - Wikipedia  The Wren Building is the signature building of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. ... The foundations, however, still exist. ... The Wren Building is the oldest academic building in continuous use in the United States, ... or "The Main Building" was effectively the school's only academic building until the...
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(Ornithorhynchus anatinus), is a unique Australian animal  ... of five species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. ... The scientific name Ornithorhynchus is derived from ? ... literally means "bird snout" in Greek, and anatinus which means "duck-like" in Latin. ... into the skull, rather than lying in the jaw as the pre-mammalian ancestors.
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Medieval Bestiary : Phoenix  A bird that rises anew from the ashes of its funeral pyre ... The second version says that the phoenix is a purple or red bird that lives in Arabia. ... They say that, from the father's body, a young phoenix is reborn, destined to live the ... tall palm of the heavy nest, and piously carries its own cradle, that was its father's tomb, and,...
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Arizona State Bird: Cactus Wren - Arizona Facts  The cactus wren was officially named the state bird of Arizona in 1973. ... likes to build nests in the protection of cholla cactus and other thorny desert plants. ... The artwork on this Web site cannot be reproduced in any form without the written...
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Jeopary Questions page 1053 - WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DIEGO ...  4-LETTER WORDS: The name of a bird probably was shortened to this 4-letter term for .... This cereal's red box features a white rabbit & the words "Are For Kids".
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Pets, Pets, Pets | www.massapequapost.com | Massapequa Post  Oct 7, 2009 ... Often he would bring exotic pets like Josiah, the badger, or Bill, the lizard, ... As the Pres. wrote to his daughter Ethel in 1906: fond as I am of the White Housethere isn't ... In a 1903 letter to his son Kermit, TR jokes about Tom Quartz's ... He felt honored to be an active participant in their pillow fights and...
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Atlanta, GA: Margaret Mitchell & Joel Chandler Harris - Southern ...  Margaret Mitchell - Atlanta, GA. Margaret Mitchell. Joel Chandler Harris - Atlanta, GA ... Margaret Mitchell, from an entry in her journal on January 7, 1915, at age fifteen. ... The Uncle Remus stories were inspired by the oral storytelling traditions of ... Today, the author's home in Atlanta, The Wren's Nest, continues its tradition...
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Jeopary Questions page 1583 - MIDDLE NAMES - TriviaBistro.com  THOSE WACKY CANADIANS: This man from Alliston, Ontario went with the best ... I'd say this man's "ornithological biography", written from 1831 to 1839, is for the birds ... 10-LETTER WORDS: Here's the drill--a sapsucker is one of these birds.
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Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Joel ... - Loyal Books  Free audio book that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes format for your ... What the Children Saw and Heard there ... but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they ... RABBIT AS A RAIN MAKER 121.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Mar 11, 2012 ... Amish Country. Please wait... #141382 Mar 11, 2012. Alex Trebek wrote: ` The cormorant is related to this "pouched" creature. pelican. Reply .
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Romulus and Remus - Wikipedia  Romulus /rmjls/ and Remus /rims/ are the twin brothers and main characters of Rome's foundation myth. Their mother is Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa. Before their conception, Numitor's brother Amulius had seized power, killed .... Remus makes a counterclaim: he saw his six vultures first.
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the two babylonsthe full hislop - The Seed of Abraham  Apr 14, 2012 ... Avram: The Two BabylonsThe Full Hislop can be read and/or ...... In this place I lay my bones. ...... The epithet dogs, applied to those who tore Linus in pieces, is evidently .... for Hermes is just an Egyptian synonym for the 'son of Ham. ...... interred. And this being performed, Dionysius [i.e. Bacchus] (whose...
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Perseus Under Philologic: Ov. Met. 8  the daughter of king Nisus loved to mount the walls and strike the .... So great a monster shall not be allowed ... Armenian tigress;or Charybdis, tossed ... and for his love immortalized her name. ... but while he labored a pert partridge near, .... my lawful right, and I rejoice to share ..... in that same cottage and had lived in it,
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The Birdist: State Birds: What They SHOULD Be  Apr 14, 2013 ... What it should be: Red-cockaded Woodpecker ... he could find, a dirty Mockingbird singing its stupid head off on top of a dumpster. ..... No one who's actually been to Arizona and seen a Cactus Wren would consider it "boring. ... Here in NJ, where I happen to like the Goldfinch as state bird (but they should...
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J! Archive - Show #3461, aired 1999-09-27  The Wren Building at this school named for 2 monarchs is the oldest U.S. academic ... The student newspaper of this Hanover, N.H. school calls itself "America's...
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The State of Indiana - An Introduction to the Hoosier State from ...  On January 1, 1833, the Indianapolis Journal used John Finley's poem, "The Hoosier's Nest" as their "Carriers' Address". Indiana may have been referred to as "The Hoosier State" since the early 1830s. There are many explanations for this nickname, some of them quite illogical and humorous and others believable.