- The name
gowk stane (English:
cuckoo stone or fool's stone) has been
applied to
certain standing stones and
glacial erratics in Scotland,
often found in...
-
Gowk (Persian: گوك, also
Romanized as Govak) is a
village in
Howmeh Rural District, in the
Central District of Bam County,
Kerman Province, Iran. At the...
- range.[verification needed] Old folk
names include "mire snipe", "horse
gowk", "heather bleat", and the
variant spelling "snite". See
snipe for other...
- of "hunt the
gowk",
gowk being Scots for a
cuckoo or a
foolish person;
alternative terms in
Gaelic would be Là na Gocaireachd, "
gowking day", or Là Ruith...
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megalithic tomb
Fulacht fiadh –
Burned mound from the
Bronze Age in
Ireland Gowk stane –
Standing stones and
glacial erratics in
Scotland Henge – Type of...
- Mice and Men,
Private Lives, Oleanna,
Sunset Song, The
Silver Darlings, The
Gowk Storm,
Waiting for Godot,
Dancing at Lughnasa,
Oedipus Tyrannos and A Midsummer...
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based on this. In Scotland,
gowk stanes (cuckoo stones)
sometimes ****ociated with the
arrival of the
first cuckoo of spring. "
Gowk" is an old name for the...
-
Clawthorpe Fell
Cliburn Moss
Drumburgh Moss
Duddon Mosses Finglandrigg Woods Gowk Bank
Great Asby Scar
Hallsenna Moor High Leys Moor House-Upper
Teesdale North...
- it. Near
Laigh Overmuir on the
moors above Darvel in East
Ayrshire is the
Gowk Stane, a
glacial erratic boulder located in a
prominent position overlooking...
- book was her most po****r. The
Gowk Storm told the life of
three sisters with the
youngest as the narrator. The
Gowk Storm (1933) was a Book Society...
