While not as skilled or as sadistic as Angelus, Spike also proves himself to be effective at torture, noting he had gained " screams, various fluids, and a name " from Doctor Sparrow.

Frankie soon gets himself a tryout and asks Sparrow to get him a new suit, but the suit is a stolen one and he ends up back in a cell.

His friend and literary executor, John Sparrow, once commented that Bowra had cut himself off from posterity, " as his prose was unreadable and his verse was unprintable.

In March 2006 it was announced that Warner Bros. had purchased the rights to The Sparrow for Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, and that Pitt himself would be playing the role of Sandoz with screenwriter Michael Seitzman adapting the novel to film.

During the film's final battle at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow steals a cursed coin, making himself immortal so he can fight Barbossa.

In the sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Sparrow searches for the Dead Man's Chest, which will help him to " control " the seas and save himself: thirteen years earlier, Sparrow bartered his soul to Captain Davy Jones ( Bill Nighy ) in return for Jones raising the sunken Black Pearl and making Sparrow captain.

Jack argues that he was captain for only two years before he was mutinied by Barbossa, but Jones rejects his argument, stating that he's been calling himself " Captain " Jack Sparrow for the allotted years.

There Sparrow has been hallucinating an entire crew of himself, each member representing a facet of his personality.

In The Curse of the Black Pearl Sparrow curses himself to battle the undead Barbossa.

In At World's End, Sparrow hallucinates a version of himself as a member of Davy Jones's crew, adhered to a wall and encrusted with barnacles.

She was portrayed in the final 1999 series of the sitcom Goodnight, Sweetheart by Emma Amos when time-traveller Gary Sparrow found himself in Whitechapel at the time of Jack the Ripper.

But he finds himself at the tip of Jack's sword and caught in a three-way duel between himself, Sparrow, and Norrington, all claiming the heart.

When Lord Cutler Beckett, who is hunting Sparrow interrogates him, Will claims Jack is " more acquaintance than friend ," Though this is accurate, it may also be an effort to shield Jack or simply to downplay his association with him to protect himself and Elizabeth.

He signed a publishing contract with the Sparrow Music company, and soon he made a name for himself in the Los Angeles folk music scene.

While a pupil at Chigwell School, Essex, Williams taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the Cornish Gorseth while still in his teens, taking the bardic name Golvan (' Sparrow ').

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Her work on the Song Sparrow is considered a landmark and Deborah Strom wrote in Bird Watching with American Women ( 1986 ) that her work was so vast and difficult that the mind boggles at the time and patience required.

The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as various allied air forces and navies.

The Self-Defence Forces of Japan also employ the Sparrow missile, though it is being phased out and replaced by the Mitsubishi AAM-4.

The Sparrow was used as the basis for a surface-to-air missile, the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, which is used by the United States Navy for air defense of its ships.

Sparrow is now being phased out with the availability of the active-radar AIM-120 AMRAAM, but is likely to remain in service for several years.

The LY-60 / FD-60 / PL-10 is a family of PRC missiles developed by the Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, largely based on the Italian Aspide missile-a version of the Sparrow.

Designed with the same form-and-fit factors as the previous generation of semiactive guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget missile with active guidance.

Sparrow Hospital is a 740-bed hospital and is affiliated with Michigan State University and its College of Human Medicine and College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Sparrow Hospital is the Regional Center for pediatrics, cancer care, including radiation therapy, trauma care, neurological care, high-risk obstetrics and neonatal intensive care.

The Sparrow Tower was finished January 2008 and includes but is not limited to: a dedicated pediatric emergency room ( the only one in the region ), the largest adult emergency room in the region, state-of-the-art operating rooms, a rooftop helipad, oncology center, heart and vascular center and orthopedic department.

In addition, 4, 500 deliveries are performed at Sparrow Hospital annually, rehabilitation, and emergency treatment is more than any other hospital in mid-Michigan.

Sparrow Hospital is certified as a Level I Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons.

These include most importantly American sparrows ( Emberizidae ) – Dark-eyed Junco ( Junco hyemalis ), Song Sparrow ( Melospiza melodia ), Golden-crowned Sparrow ( Zonotrichia atricapilla ) and White-crowned Sparrow ( Z. leucophrys ) – and true finches ( Fringillidae ) – Pine Siskin ( Carduelis pinus ), Purple Finch (" Carpodacus " purpureus ), and the Douglas-fir Red Crossbill ( Loxia curvirostra neogaea ) which is uniquely adapted to foraging for P. menziesii seeds.

Donnie asks his science teacher Dr. Monnitoff ( Noah Wyle ) about time travel after Frank brings up the topic, and is given the book The Philosophy of Time Travel, written by Roberta Sparrow ( Patience Cleveland ), a former science teacher at the school who is now a seemingly senile old woman.

The largest species is the crowned pigeon of New Guinea, which is nearly turkey-sized, at a weight of 2-4 kg ( 4. 4-8. 8 lb ) The smallest is the New World ground-dove of the genus Columbina, which is the same size as a House Sparrow and weighs as little as 22 g. With a total length of more than 50 cm ( 19 in ) and weight of almost 1 kg ( 2 lb ), the largest arboreal species is the Marquesan Imperial Pigeon, while the Dwarf Fruit Dove, which may measure as little as 13 cm ( 5. 1 in ), has a marginally smaller total length than any other species from this family.

Scunthorpe beat MK Dons on penalties after a 1 – 1 aggregate draw in the semi-finals, before beating Millwall in the Wembley final 3 – 2, with two goals from Matthew Sparrow and one from Martyn Woolford, to achieve promotion back to the Championship at the first time of asking.

Elizabeth may understand Will's underlying motives, but she is stunned that he bartered Jack Sparrow to Sao Feng to achieve his goal.

The Henslow's Sparrow ( Ammodramus henslowii ) of Minnesota: Population status and breeding habitat analysis.

The dense bunches of these grasses also provide cover for small animals such as the rare Botteri's Sparrow ( Aimophila botterii ); lovegrasses may be ground cover of key importance on oceanic islands like Laysan, where other plants are rare.

In areas where House Sparrows are absent, the Spanish Sparrow may live in urban habitats, as in the Canary Islands, Madeira, and some Mediterranean islands.

Includes the Semidi Song Sparrow, M. m. semidiensis, which may be a distinct subspecies however.

The power profile is also suitable for cruising in thin air at high altitudes, but at low altitudes it does not produce enough power to overcome drag and dramatically decreases range ; some estimates indicate that the Sea Sparrow may be effective only to, about one quarter of the range of the air-launched Sparrow.

Around the picnic and barbecue sites, Crested Mynah and Eurasian Tree Sparrow may be seen feeding on scraps of left-over food.

The two golden sparrows and the Chestnut Sparrow are very similar and may once have been only clinally different.

The active radar made the Sparrow II a " fire and forget " weapon, allowing several to be fired at separate targets at the same time.

Considered a " dogfight Sparrow ", the AIM-7E-2 was intended to be used at shorter ranges where the missile was still travelling at high speeds, and in the head-on aspect, making it much more useful in the visual limitations imposed on the engagements.

The weapon needed for interceptor aircraft, the Bendix AAM-N-10 Eagle, would be an air-to-air missile of unprecedented range when compared to contemporary AIM-7 Sparrow missiles.

Guidance for the Sparrow required that the launching aircraft use its radar to continuously illuminate a single target for the missile's " passive " seeker to track, or guidance would be lost.

In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the phrase " I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request " simply means " No. " The pretentious dialogue Elizabeth Swann attempts to use as a gate-keeping device against Jack Sparrow illustrates how jargon and pretentious language can be used as a barrier between classes.

The House Sparrow can be confused with a number of other seed-eating birds, especially its relatives in the genus Passer.

The House Sparrow was among the first animals to be given a scientific name in the modern system of biological classification, since it was described by Carl Linnaeus, in the 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Later the genus name Fringilla came to be used only for the Chaffinch and its relatives, and the House Sparrow has usually been placed in the genus Passer created by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760.

Included in the former are several species of bird which used to be commonly seen in island gardens but have become increasingly scarce, including the House Sparrow and Song Thrush.

Sparrow remembered Bol as " a giant off the court " who should be remembered for humanitarian work and his basketball career.

In the film, Sparrow must either serve for one hundred years aboard the Flying Dutchman, or be taken by the Kraken to Davy Jones's Locker.

By then, Jack Sparrow crosses paths with his impostor, revealed to be an old flame named Angelica ( Penélope Cruz ) who shanghaies him to the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the horrific Blackbeard ( Ian McShane ) who forces Jack to help him reach the Fountain of Youth.

This acts as part of Will Turner's arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like his father.

Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person, after his honest streak caused his doom in the second film.

In the southern Rockies and eastern Great Plains, the Chipping Sparrow appears to be the most common nocturnal migrant, judged by the number of flight calls detected per hour.

Species with repetitive songs, such as the Carolina Wren, are effectively copied, but species with long, complex songs, such as the Song Sparrow, cannot be effectively imitated by the mockingbird.

* The Corbin Sparrow, a single-seat electric microcar that can be licenced as a motorcycle.

Comparison of mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 and 3 sequences indicates that the Ipswich Sparrow, formerly usually considered a valid species ( as Passerculus princeps ), is a well-marked subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow, whereas the southwestern Large-billed Sparrow should be recognized as distinct species ( Passerculus rostratus ).