In chess, it is the equivalent of giving a pawn to capture a rook.
Auctioneer Richard Francis, of Rook Matthew Sayer in Prudhoe, Northumberland, helps run a monthly auction.
That birdwatcher, Charles Darwin, was one of the first to write about the Johnny Rook, but he wouldn't be the last.
Syria perhaps rises to the level of rook, since it is a nation-state and has a mutual defense treaty with Iran.
Enter Canadian Chad Rook, an actor in the new CW show Cult (which is, coincidentally, a show about mysterious disappearances).
Having originally grown out of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, Shearwater completes its final transformation into a distinct unit with Rook.
Frontman (and part-time ornithologist) Jonathan Meiburg spoke to Soundcheck host John Schaefer about Rook and led the band in performance at the WNYC Studios.
This time a single rook was presented with the same tray-string set-up, while its pair waited in a neighbouring cage linked by a one-way flap.
It all unfolds on Rook Island, a lush jungle supposedly somewhere in the eastern Pacific and a battleground between mercenaries, pirates and the indigenous Rakyat.
Meiburg actually had the opportunity to travel to the Falkland Islands in search of the Johnny Rook, and his ornithological obsessions come with him on tour.
The idea was to see whether the rook would wait for the other rook to enter the enclosure so they could once again work together to reach the food.
More than 150 years ago, a birdwatcher on a trip to the Falkland Islands scribbled down some notes about the behavior of a winged creature that sailors called the Johnny Rook.
Though Rook could tell when he got his devices back that a few Yahoo emails from his agent had been read, the officers did not cite any private messages in explaining the ban.
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