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But now with real anger at last, something proud and indignant, Early Spring stood like a she wolf before her den and cried, `` I will not shriek at you!!
In 1991, two pairs were reintroduced into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where the last known red wolf was killed in 1905.
* Ireland's last grey wolf is killed.
According to oral tradition, Putnam in his youth killed the last wolf in Connecticut with the help of a group of farmers from Mortlake.
* Remus Lupin, a werewolf in the Harry Potter series, a Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in Harry's 3rd Year, and a member of the Order of the Phoenix, is named after one of the brothers ( in addition, his last name is based on the Latin word for " wolf ").
* The wolf Fenrir was bound by three fetters: Loeding, Drómi, and Gleipnir, of which only the last held him.
Wolf Den State Park is the alleged site of General Israel Putnam's slaying of the last wolf in Connecticut.
On 23 March 1798, the last wolf was killed in the Harz near the Plessenburg.
The first element is vargr which means " wolf " and the last element is øy which means " island ".
The first element is ulfr m ' wolf ', the last element is vík f ' cove, wick '.
The first element is ulfr which means " wolf " and the last element is steinn which means " stone mountain " ( probably referring to a hill behind the farm ).
Starting about 16, 000 years ago, coinciding with the end of the last glacial period and the arrival of humans in North America, most of the large mammals upon which the dire wolf depended for prey began to die out ( possibly as a result of climate and / or human-induced changes as suggested in a 2008 National Geographic Channel documentary ).
Owing to its isolation from the rest of the country, Sutherland was reputedly the last haunt of the native wolf, the last survivor being shot in the 18th century.
Wolves were also once native to the mountains but hunted to extinction in Ireland: the last wolf in Wicklow was killed at Glendalough in 1710.
A small wolf, the warrah, the loup-renard of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, is extinct, the last having been seen about 1875 on West Falkland.
His years of heavy work have given him amazing strength and a very muscular physique, which has been observed many times ; for example, he rescues Bart from a marauding Alaskan timber wolf by wrestling the wolf into submission, and is also shown when Homer, upset over Bart falling in a well, hits the last straw when Bart starts to cry and begins to dig a hole to rescue him, and Willie seeing this mutters " Why didn't I think of that?
Below the Necropolis are the Black Ways, a labyrinth which was the prison of Sirius, one of the last few surviving Old Gods, stuck in the form of a large wolf.
Wolfscastle's claim to fame is that it is allegedly the place where the last wild wolf in Wales was slain.
" He with wiles at the last tore himself free: and galloped to the city of Kíev ; with his weapon took hold of the golden throne of Kíev ; galloped from them like a wild beast at midnight from Bĕ ́ lgorod, swathed himself in a blue mist, rent asunder his bonds into three parts, opened wide the gates of Nóvgorod, shattered the Glory of Yarosláv First ; galloped like a wolf from Dudútki to the Nemíga.
The effect of the last glacial age on speciation and population structure of the endangered Ethiopian wolf, ( Canis simensis ).
Using a variety of techniques to monitor the crossings over the last 25 years, scientists report that 10 species of large mammals ( including deer, elk, black bear, grizzly bear, mountain lion, wolf, moose, and coyote ) have used the 24 crossings in Banff a total of 84, 000 times as of January 2007.
Upon seeing him she whistles and says, " At last a wolf!

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Erinville ( which means Irishville ), Salmon River, Ogden, Bantry ( named after Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland but now abandoned and grown up in trees ) among others, where Irish last names are prevalent and the accent is reminiscent of the Irish as well as the music, traditions, religion ( Roman Catholic ), and the love of Ireland itself.
* 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
Their names are synonyms for Ireland, and they were married to Mac Cuill, Mac Cécht, and Mac Gréine, the last three Tuatha Dé Danann kings of Ireland.
* 1996 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
There has been a significant decrease in violence over the last twenty years, though the situation remains tense, with the more hard-line parties such as Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party now holding the most parliamentary seats ( see Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland ).
Scandinavian predation in Christian lands around the North Sea and the Irish Sea diminished markedly. Kilmuir, Skye | Blar a ' Bhuailte, site of the Vikings ' last stand in Skye The kings of Norway continued to assert power in parts of northern Britain and Ireland, and raids continued into the 12th century, but the military ambitions of Scandinavian rulers were now directed toward new paths.
* September 25 – The last of the Magdalene Asylums is closed in Ireland.
** Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, last High King of Ireland
* Treaty of Windsor: Ruaidri Ua Conchobair ( Rory O ' Conner ), the last High King of Ireland, submits to Henry II as vassal of Ireland.
The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century.
She was the last queen consort of Ireland and empress consort of India.
Catherine Parr ( Katherine, Kateryn, Katheryne or Kathrine ); ( c. August 1512 – 5 September 1548 ) was Queen consort of England and Ireland and the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England.
The last hand-pulled rickshaw Company was to be formed by ex-Pedicab Ireland Manager B. Wheeler.
In 1640, Ussher left Ireland for England for what turned out to be the last time.
In the last quarter of the 7th century, a number of battles in Ireland, largely in areas along the Irish Sea coast, are reported where Britons take part.
In the last stages of the Troubles, during the mid-80s, the IRA smuggled a number of military flamethrowers ( supplied to them by the Libyan government ) into Northern Ireland.
On October 16, 1587 the desperate crew at last landed in Smewicke, in the West of Ireland, and White was finally able to make his way back to Southampton.
The last surviving document related to White is a letter he wrote from Ireland in 1593 to the publisher of the prints of his Roanoke drawings.
In the last decade of the 8th century, Norse raiders began attacking targets in Ireland and, beginning in the mid-9th century, these raiders established the fortified camps that later grew into Ireland's first cities: Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford, and Cork.
In Gaelic Ireland, Lughnasadh was also a favored time for handfastings — trial marriages that would generally last a year and a day, with the option of ending the contract before the new year, or formalizing it as a lasting marriage.
The two pages in question consisted of the short sketch " Roderick O ' Conor ", concerning the historic last king of Ireland cleaning up after guests by drinking the dregs of their dirty glasses.

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