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Bowie, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 5219
Housing Units (2000): 2476
Land area (2000): 3.785745 sq. miles (9.805033 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016962 sq. miles (0.043932 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.802707 sq. miles (9.848965 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09640
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.560119 N, 97.844569 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76230
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Bowie, MD -- U.S. city in Maryland
Population (2000): 50269
Housing Units (2000): 18718
Land area (2000): 16.101896 sq. miles (41.703718 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.020478 sq. miles (0.053039 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.122374 sq. miles (41.756757 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08775
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 38.964727 N, 76.744531 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20715 20720
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Bowie -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 89306
Housing Units (2000): 36463
Land area (2000): 887.868236 sq. miles (2299.568076 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 34.903443 sq. miles (90.399498 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 922.771679 sq. miles (2389.967574 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.438070 N, 94.250198 W
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Bowie (Flight of the Conchords)

"Bowie" is the sixth episode of the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. The episode first aired in the United States on Sunday, 22 July 2007.

After a photo session, Bret develops body image issues and gets some dream advice from his idol, David Bowie. Jemaine plots to cheer him up and Murray tries to get one of the band's tunes used for a musical greeting card.

Bowie (surname)

Bowie is an Irish and Scottish surname. The name is pronounced , , or .

The name can be derived from the Gaelic nickname buidhe, meaning " yellow", " fair-haired". The surname can also be an Anglicised form of the Irish surname Ó Buadhaigh; this surname means "descendant of Buadhach" and is also rendered as Bogue and Boyce. The personal name Buadhach means "victorious". The surname Bowie is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as Buidheach (masculine) and Bhuidheach (feminine), as well as Mac'IlleBhuidhe (masculine) and Nic'IlleBhuidhe (feminine). Early instances of the surname in Scotland, recorded in 1481, are: Boye, Bowy, and Boee.

A family of the surname, the Bowie family, was one of the colonial families of Maryland with John Bowie, Sr. being the first Bowie in the colony.

Usage examples of "bowie".

Chicamaw pushed Jasbo over and got under the wheel and Bowie and T-Dub got in the back.

No more baseball and passes to go fishing for that Bowie Bowers and Elmo Mobley.

In the distance, back toward the prison, there was the sound of baying dogs and Bowie stopped.

The sun was piercing the plum thicket like icepicks and when Bowie turned on his back he placed his forearm over his eyes.

T-Dub and Chicamaw scraped in sudden violence and Bowie jerked up like a jackknife.

Before the rain commenced, Bowie had heard sounds of the town, but now there was only the smacking of the wind-driven rain against the shocks of old wheat around him and its clatter on the stubbled earth.

Maybe a man saw something like that when they kicked the switch off on you in the chair, Bowie thought.

MacMasters, at an old, abandoned wildcat well that T-Dub had described, Bowie and Chicamaw were getting out and T-Dub was going in to contact his sister-in-law.

T-Dub had been away from them, Bowie sat on a spread cotton-picking sack, trying the action again of his .

But the rib was coming off and about four inches of the barrel just as soon as Bowie got hold of a hack saw.

With Bowie driving the coupe, the three moved up it now toward the frame bandstand at the end of the block.

A dog, its ribs bulging, trotted across the street in front of Bowie toward the depot.

They passed the filteration plant, the city mule barns, and then Bowie turned back east and presently they were on a paved, residential street.

After it was out of sight, Bowie turned the coupe onto the derrick road.

He was sitting at a desk, there, Bowie, when we went in, just pecking away at an old Oliver typewriter and I had to almost kick the chair out from under him.