Fun Feather Facts
$1.5m wedding dress made up of 2,009 peacock feathers
IF you want to stand out on your wedding day, this dress made up of 2009 peacock feathers could be just the ticket.
The $1.5 million creation was made at a wedding dress factory and took eight workers 40 days to sew together. An average male peacock sheds around 200 feathers during his annual moult - meaning the makers would have had to have harvested the feathers from more than ten birds over the course of a year.
Male peacock tail feathers grow to be several feet long but are shed each year just before the breeding season. The feathers feature a design resembling an eye and are made up of shimmering blues and greens.
Despite the dresses’ eye-catching beauty, prospective brides should be aware that peacock feathers are considered bad luck in some cultures. While the live birds themselves are thought to bring good luck, having peacock feathers in your home bears the risk of inviting in trouble and sorrow.
The dress was assembled in a wedding dress factory in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province and features a bodice created with brocade and Suzhou embroidery.
– Daily Mail
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Peacock Stars above!
Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for peacock. It is one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer’s Uranometria of 1603.
Thai killed by Peacock
Vichai Thongto, who lived near Bangkok, was killed by his pet peacock. Mr Thongto, 30, was feeding the family’s four caged peacocks when the sole male, “Yoong Thong” - Golden Peacock - clawed at his head. A scan showed a blood clot on Mr Thongto’s brain; he died on Monday. His father, Somchai, said he still loved Yoong Thong.
Major Peacock Lead At The Battle Of Horseshoe Bend
Major William Peacock commanded under General Andrew Jackson during the famous battle of Horseshoe Bend.
The battle is considered part of the War of 1812. The Creeks went to war at the urging of Tecumseh, the leading ally of the British, who was trying to build a pan-Indian resistance to American expansion.
The British planned to create a large “neutral” Indian state that would be a buffer to the Americans.Horseshoe Bend was the major battle of the Creek War, in which Andrew Jackson sought to “clear” Alabama for American settlement.
It was a great victory for Jackson.
Major Peacock was the great grand son of Samuel Peacock I(1668-1739) of North Carolina. Samuel I is the great grand daddy of most of us Peacocks. Sam Houston (the future governor of Tennessee and Texas, as well as the President of the Republic of Texas) served as a third lieutenant in Jackson’s Army.