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In Hinduism, an owl is the vahana (mount) of the goddess Lakshmi, especially in the eastern region of India. [67] Owls are considered a symbol of wealth, prosperity, wisdom, good luck, and fortune. This is the reason why Owls are seen with Lakshmi, who is also the goddess of fortune, wealth, and prosperity.
The Oxford Reading Tree is a series of books published by Oxford University Press, for teaching children to read using phonics.The series contains over 800 books. The "Biff, Chip and Kipper" stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, were used as the basis for the CBBC television programme The Magic Key and, in later years, the CBeebies television series Biff & Chip.
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, [2] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. [2] [11] [12] It grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from ...
Owl of Athena. Silver tetradrachm coin at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon depicting the owl of Athena ( c. 480 –420 BC). The inscription "ΑΘΕ" is an abbreviation of ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ, which may be translated as "of the Athenians". In daily use the Athenian drachmas were called glaukes (γλαῦκες, owls). This silver coin was first ...
A Wise Old Owl. " A Wise Old Owl " is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd Ed. of 1997, as number 394. The rhyme is an improvement of a traditional nursery rhyme "There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle."
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
The Owl and the Nightingale ( Latin: Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem) is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry (or verse contest).
Tyto prigoginei ( Schouteden, 1952) 18. Oriental bay owl. Phodilus badius ( Horsfield, 1821) 19. Sri Lanka bay owl. Phodilus assimilis Hume, 1877. 20. Papuan hawk-owl.