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	As the crow flies
		The allusion on this expression is obviously to the ability of crows to fly directly from A to B, without the encumbrances of roads and landscape features that man is hampered by.
		Crows are perhaps an odd choice, as, unlike many birds that migrate over long distances, their flight isn't especially straight.
		This term is contemporary with 'as the crow flies' and is cited in the 1795 Statistical Account of Scotland, where a turnpike, or 'crow road', was suggested as a means of reducing the costs of road maintenance, by eliminating numerous winding roads:
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/as-the-crow-flies.html (261 words)

	The Crow Road
		The Crow Road is a novel written in 1992 by the Scots writer Iain Banks.
		The Crow Road was made into a television mini-series by the BBC in 1996.
		The cast include Joseph MacFadden as the protagonist, Dougray Scott[?] as his brother, and Peter Capaldi as the disappearing uncle.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cr/Crow_Road.html (69 words)

	Iain Banks: The Crow Road (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Crow Road must be Iain Banks' best known novel, if only because it is the only one to have been turned into a TV series (so far).
		The narrator of most of the novel is a teenager from a rather unusual family (not just in their personalities, though having an uncle with his own personal religion is a bit on the strange side; the McHoans tend to die in odd ways).
		The Crow Road is basically Iain Banks' take on the coming of age novel; not the first time he has written one (The Wasp Factory is an extremely grotesque story of this type), but the novel of his which best fits into this category.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev1208.html (417 words)

	Haje's writings » Iain Banks: The Crow Road
		The Crow Road is a novel written by Iain Banks in 1992, first published in 1993.
		The title - “the crow road”, we learn, is from an expression meaning that somebody has died, or “gone down the crow road”.
		Granted - The Crow Road is not The Wasp Factory, and the “twist” in the plot is not all that unpredictable.
	www.kamps.org /haje/iain-banks-the-crow-road (531 words)

	The Crow Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Crow Road is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1992.
		The Crow Road, as explained in the book, as well as being a real-life location in the west of Glasgow, is an expression for death, as in "He's away the Crow Road".
		The Crow Road was adapted for television by the BBC in 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Crow_Road (489 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Crow
		The Crow, by James O'Barr, is heir to a long tradition of undead creatures that avenge their own murders, going all the way back to when Alley Oop and his contemporaries would sit around campfires and tell stories about them.
		The basic idea of The Crow stems from something people supposedly used to believe (time frame and ethnicity unspecified), about how recently-deceased souls are carried to the Land of the Dead by a crow, and how sometimes, if a soul simply can't rest, the crow will carry the soul back.
		The Crow was created by cartoonist James O'Barr, who had only a few scattered credits in comics before coming up with this one.
	www.toonopedia.com /crow.htm (596 words)

	The crow road - Scotland on Sunday
		The Hit Farm, about 45 minutes from Nashville, is Crow's 154-acre ranch, where horses graze, the tractors run on bio-diesel, the vegetable gardens are being converted to organic farming and solar power will provide sustainable electricity.
		In the three years since Crow released Wildflower â“ a collection of pensive, string-laden songs that was her first studio album to sell less than a million copies â“ she has changed everything from her residence to her commercial expectations.
		Crow had intended to make her second album with Bottrell and wrote songs with him, but he left after the first day of sessions in New Orleans.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /sos-review/The-crow-road.3761054.jp (1542 words)

	Native American Tribe - Crow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Crows, under Chief Plenty Coups, were initially hostile to settlers and pioneers along the Oregon Trail, but became one of the earliest tribes to settle peacefully with the whites.
		It was their job to obtain consent from the Crows to build the railroad across their lands and to settle on the cost of the enterprise.
		Led by Medicine Crow, 135 Crows met the officials on December 20, 1890, at Crow Agency on the reservation several miles south of Hardin.
	www.frontiertrails.com /oldwest/crow.html (1527 words)

	Interview The Scotsman August 1996
		Formerly a High Road heart-throb, Joseph McFadden is a boy blessed with the eyelashes of Dusty Springfield and, at 21, is possessed of an endearing shyness and innocence.
		As far as I was concerned The Crow Road is a great book and there was no need to worry about these genre issues because Banks obviously doesn't.
		One unexpected element of The Crow Road the novel is the disconcerting habit Banks has of switching narrators.
	www.futurehi.net /phlebas/text/banksint17.html (1805 words)

	Unkindness and murders
		For centuries the corvids, ravens and crows in particular (Corvus corax is the Latin name for the common raven and corvus corone for the carrion and hooded crows), have had a special place in the mythology of various cultures.
		Badb, Macha and Nemain are all associated with crows and/or ravens, as is Nantosuelta, a Gaulish water and healing goddess.
		The association of the birds with death and war is an obvious reflection of its tendency to eat carrion, plenty of which is to be found in the aftermath of battle.
	whitedragon.org.uk /articles/murders.htm (3120 words)

	Crow Road, The - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Anyone out there who was worried that the adaptation of Iain Banks' supreme novel 'The Crow Road' was going to fall a bit short of the author's (and his fans) high standards need not have bothered.
		For those who are unfamiliar with the story, 'The Crow Road' is a complex and darkly comic look at an unconventional Scottish family in the 1980s.
		The Crow Road allows we lucky viewers to briefly follow Prentice's attempts to find...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/crow-road-the (265 words)

	CROW ATHLETICS The real deal.
		Crow Athletics is seeking individuals or businesses who would like to sponsor a national caliber long distance racing team based on Mount Desert Island, Maine.
		Crow Athletics proudly hosts the MDI Marathon as their premier running event.
		Crow Athletics was founded as an off-color, edgy, mostly unpredictable, and competitive running club.
	www.crowrunning.com /index.html (638 words)

	Iain Banks
		Told from the point of view of 16 year old Frank Cauldhame, a self-confessed multiple murderer, the novel dealt quite graphically with the torture of small animals and the murders of young children.
		Subsequent novels such as Walking on Glass (1985), The Bridge (1986), Espedair Street (1987), and The Crow Road (1992) have dealt with a variety of themes and character types, ultimately garnering Banks enormous popular and criticial acclaim.
		The Crow Road, already a number one best-selling novel, was adapted for television in 1996.
	www.nndb.com /people/494/000044362 (434 words)

	Crow Wing State Park: Minnesota DNR
		Crow Wing is a park rich in cultural history.
		Walk through the site of the Old Crow Wing Village for a sense of history.
		Then west at County Road 27 for one mile west to the park office.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /parks_and_recreation/state_parks/crow_wing (265 words)

	The Crow Road by Iain Banks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If you live in Great Britain, you may or may not know that there is currently a television adaptation of this book on Mondays on BBC2, and this is the reason I decided to reread this novel.
		The Crow Road is a sublime story of an eccentric Scottish family living in the north of Scotland (I'm somewhat shaky on Scottish geography, but if you're familiar with Lochgair or Gallanach, assuming they exist, well, that's where the action takes place).
		It's a story that spans a couple of generations and the history of the family is mainly told in flashback form, which can be a little confusing as you reorient yourself to whichever character is now leading the narrative, but in a way this adds to the atmosphere.
	www.subway.demon.co.uk /books/crowroad.html (247 words)

	FlagstaffLive!
		In one study a crow was able to bend wire into a metal hook that was needed in order to obtain its food, while others have shown that crows can recognize shape and color.
		“Crows are among the brainiest of organisms on Earth, outclassing not only other birds (with the possible exception of parrots) but also most mammals.
		To go “up the crow road” was an Old World way of saying that someone had died.
	news.azdailysun.com /flaglive/flagstafflive_story.cfm?storyID=139308 (739 words)

	CLINTON TAKES THE CROW ROAD! \| News \| NME.COM
		Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow played the several hundred capacity Scala show as part of a whistle-stop promotional tour for new album 'C'mon, C'mon', released in the UK on April 8.
		Unlike at her recent LA show when Crow invited superstar pals such as Gwyneth Paltrow onstage to jam, last night she had just her band for company.
		Meanwhile, tomorrow (March 22) Sheryl Crow is recording a number of songs for future broadcast on CD:UK, and NME.COM is offering fans the chance to along and watch her.
	www.nme.com /news/sheryl-crow/11067 (485 words)

	The Crow
		Because their death was so terrible, and their love so strong, the Crow brings Eric back to life "to put the wrong things right." He comes back to kill the four gang members who killed him and Shelly, and finally ends up going after the leader of the gang.
		Early in the film T-Bird and the gang torch Arcade games, after that they were supposed to victimize Alison and leave to die in theensuring firebomb.
		Eric follows the crow and arrives at the building just after it excepts, the woman slowly fades in his hands, and he gets his first flashbacks.
	www.thecrowsloft.com /movies/thecrow (397 words)

	Road to Romance -- CALL OF THE CROW by Titania Ladley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As Cora is driving, pondering about ending her life, she thinks of how much easier life would be if she was simply a crow.
		After 51 years of miserable marriage to mean and violent Frank Paxton, Cora had just laced her his food with cyanide.
		As she contemplates her choice, a bird, a crow, begins to circle her car.
	www.roadtoromance.ca /reviewcallofthecrow.htm (127 words)

	The Crow Has a Snack (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The crow did not seem to notice the two cats in the window.
		The crow dropped the walnut on the road.
		The crow landed next to the bits of walnut and began to eat.
	www.oakmeadow.com /Curric/supplements/grade2/animalfriends/crow.htm (372 words)

	USDA Forest Service - Chugach National Forest
		On August 23 the Forest Service cleared a route through Monday's landslide so the cars stranded at the Crow Creek Trailhead could be removed safely.
		Whoever needed a ride the next morning was ferried to his or her car by Forest Service personnel.
		The Crow Creek road remains closed to vehicular traffic due to road damage caused by the slide and continued instability in the area.
	www.fs.fed.us /r10/chugach/news_releases/crow_pass_slide.html (162 words)

	The Crow Road on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		The phrase 'Crow Road" comes from an Iain Banks book by the same name that was published in 1992.
		The "Crow Road" is a novel about death: desire in relation to death, the body in life and in death, and the exhuming of secrets we thought had been taken to the grave......
		In the book it is said someone has gone up The Crow Road when they have died.
	www.flickr.com /photos/torontostreet/305833636 (337 words)

	Iain Banks
		His 1992 novel, The Crow Road, was successfully adapted by the BBC into a four-part television series, and Espedair Street (1987) was produced as a BBC Radio 4 Series, for which Banks wrote the accompanying music and lyrics.
		In The Crow Road, Complicity and Look to Windward (2000), the reader’s ideas as to who the characters are prove to be unfounded in the final third when certain revelations cause a complete re-evaluation of everything that has gone before.
		The Crow Road is one of the finest British novels of the last 20 years, an entirely convincing and gripping epic saga.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth12 (1797 words)

	On the road with Crow
		So far the Crow road show has been a big hit with Gov. Janet Napolitano, who accompanied him on a trip to the Emerald Isle earlier this year.
		Crow then invited Weiers to come along on a jaunt to Singapore to see how that country, which has about the same population as Maricopa County, has become an economic powerhouse by enticing international universities to build campuses there.
		Word was Crow picked Singapore over Ireland for this junket because it has a more conservative culture of business.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/1106polinsider06.html (703 words)

	"The Crow Road" (1996)
		I saw the crow road when it first aired and it was the first BBC drama that I never expected to like but really enjoyed, I could wait to see the next part.
		Years later when I went to Uni I became friends with a lad who reminded me so much of Prentice and fortunately UK gold began running the series and it has not lost any of the original spark.
		I would definitely encourage anyone to see the Crow Road, it is both funny and captivatingly mysterious, containing excellent performances from all the cast especially Prentice.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0115145 (352 words)

	Yellowstone Wildland Fire - Arthur Fire Road Closure (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The East Entrance to Yellowstone National Park will be partially reopened beginning Thursday, August 9 when pilot cars will lead groups of vehicles through the fire area during the hours of 9 a.m.
		The road will remain closed at all other times of the day and night.
		Eagle Creek and Threemile campgrounds east of the Park remain closed due to firefighting operations.
	www.nps.gov /yell/technical/fire/Fires/Arthur/road.htm (131 words)

	Crow Road Review Electronic Herald 1996
		According to Andrea Calderwood, head of drama at BBC Scotland, The Crow Road benefited from a lesson which was learned from the experience of the aforementioned Takin' Over The Asylum.
		For Andrea Calderwood, The Crow Road is the perfect example of the kind of network drama she wants to see coming from Scotland.
		On the strength of The Crow Road's success, BBC Scotland has now been commissioned to make another four-part contemporary series (details will be released soon) next year for BBC2.
	www.futurehi.net /phlebas/text/crrev1.html (1254 words)

	The Crow Road
		Part thriller, part family saga, part coming of age novel, The Crow Road (1992) is perhaps one of Iain Banks' most warm and accessible books.
		The novel is many-layered, set in the early nineties but criss-crossed with flashbacks, and leavened with a good deal of humour.
		Humour is an important element in The Crow Road.
	www.bloomsbury.com /ReadersGroups/ReadersGuides.asp?isbn=9780349103235 (1187 words)

	Chart-topping authors, Iain Banks & Ken Mcleod interviewed. Sci-fi news.
		It's like constructing a bridge and you don't know where you are going to make it until you do, then you hopefully see the solution and sometimes it's the actual resolution of the plot.
		In the Sky Road, my latest book, there's two story threads, set hundreds of years apart and the only way they meet is because they're in some ways about the same person.
		There was the Crow Road on the BBC, of course.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews/news0999.htm (1816 words)

	Crow Road Crawfish Boil - Interactive Motorcycle Map and directions to Crow Road Crawfish Boil in Natchitoches, LA.
		Crow Road Crawfish Boil - Interactive Motorcycle Map and directions to Crow Road Crawfish Boil in Natchitoches, LA.
		There's nothing like taking off for the country roads, checking out the scenery and absorbing the fresh air that only country roads seem to provide.
		If you plan an extended stay near the Crow Road Crawfish Boil there just might be some interesting side trips you could take.
	www.biker-crossroads.com /Crow-Road-Crawfish-Boil.html (521 words)

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