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The Sikhs reacted violently to persecution, and the Marathas spread to Orissa, after which, in the year 1739, Nadir Shah of Persia invaded and carried off the Peacock Throne (broken up after his assassination).
A ferry links Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island), a delightfully tranquil nature reserve in the Havel, towards the northern edge of Berliner Forst.
The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)
1 rating, 21 share, best for the Peacock in that 8-9 p.m. slot with non-Olympics programming since March 6, 1992 ( Matlock )."
A bronze peacock accompanies these two figures.