The Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) was a large, flightless bird of the alcid family that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

The Great Auk was tall and weighed around, making it the largest member of the alcid family.

During summer, the Great Auk had a white patch over each eye.

Great Auk pairs mated for life.

Humans had hunted the Great Auk for more than 100, 000 years.

Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.

Scientists soon began to realize that the Great Auk was disappearing and it became the beneficiary of many early environmental laws, but this proved not to be enough.

The Great Auk is mentioned in a number of novels and the scientific journal of the American Ornithologists ' Union is named The Auk in honour of this bird.

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The Great Auk was also closely related to the Little Auk ( Dovekie ), which underwent a radically different evolution compared to Pinguinus.

Due to its outward similarity to the Razorbill ( apart from flightlessness and size ), the Great Auk was often placed in the genus Alca, following Linnaeus.

The molecular data are compatible with either view, but the weight of evidence suggests placing the Great Auk in a distinct genus.

The Great Auk was not closely related to the other extinct genera of flightless alcids, Mancalla, Praemancalla, and Alcodes.

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Pinguinus alfrednewtoni lived in the western Atlantic while the Great Auk lived in the eastern Atlantic, but after the former died out after the Pliocene, the Great Auk replaced it.

The Great Auk was one of the 4400 animal species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, in which it was named Alca impennis.

Only known illustration of a Great Auk drawn from life, Ole Worm's pet received from the Faroe Islands

The Basque name for the Great Auk is arponaz, meaning " spearbill ".

The Norse called the Great Auk geirfugl, which means " spearbird ".

The Inuit name for the Great Auk was isarukitsck, which meant " little wing ".

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

( This fable-like story was collected into an educational comic book called Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery !, and distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith later that year.

In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.

During the next few centuries Novgorodians engaged in fur trading with the local population and collected tribute from Yugra and Great Perm, slowly expanding southwards.

On 7 May, he noted a large number of " Penguins " swimming around the ship on the Grand Banks, and a specimen he collected in Chateau Bay, Labrador, was later identified as the Great Auk.

The Victoria and Albert Museum, recognising his accomplishments, commissioned 24 large colour illustrations that were collected as Willie Rushton's Great Moments of History.

However, Braid's legacy was maintained in Great Britain largely by Dr. John Milne Bramwell who collected all of his available works, and published a biography and account of Braid's theory and practice, as well as several books of his own on hypnotism.

The North Pacific Gyre for example has collected the so-called " Great Pacific Garbage Patch " that is now estimated at 100 times the size of Texas.

In June 1676, he became head or " Master " of the college, and in this capacity he collected money for some rebuilding, and arranged the publication by the college of a Latin edition of Sir John Spelman's Life of Alfred the Great.

Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).

In addition to building a US collection that won the gold medal at the Paris exhibition of 1900, Luff also collected Great Britain, Shanghai, Hawaii, Japan, and China.

$ 3, 742, 818. 78 was collected for the Johnstown relief effort from within the U. S. and 18 foreign countries, including Russia, Turkey, France, Great Britain, Australia, and Germany.

George Roussos took photographs of various Long Island estates, and his photographs at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park were collected in his book, The Bayard Cutting Arboretum History: A History and Description of William Bayard Cutting and His Country House, Westbrook, Great River, L. I.

Edward Palmer collected artifacts and botanical specimens from people in the North American West ( Great Basin ) and Mexico from the 1860s to the 1890s.

11, Great Businessmen, collected pieces originally published monthly in his magazine, volumes available at Project Gutenberg, at University of Pennsylvania

They wrote their findings, in the form of poems in Tamil language, on palm leaves which are collected and stored in what are known today as Palm leaf manuscript, today still owned by private families in Tamil Nadu and handed down through the generations, as well as public institutions such as Universities all over the world ( India, Germany, Great Britain, U. S. A .).

Toyotomi Hideyoshi led the newly unified Japan into the first invasion ( 1592 – 1596 ) with the professed goal of conquering Joseon Dynasty Korea, the Jurchens, and eventually Ming Dynasty China, The high casualty rate of the Korean and Ming forces, and the large number of noses collected during the campaign was enough to build a large mound near Hideyoshi's Great Buddha, called the Mimizuka, or " the Mound of Ears ".

After observing the insurance industry in Great Britain in 1879, MetLife President Joseph F. Knapp brought “ industrial ” or “ workingmen ’ s ” insurance programs to the United States – insurance issued in small amounts on which premiums were collected weekly or monthly at the policyholder ’ s home.

In addition, the books Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD and Great Space Battles were collected together and published as Spacebase 2000 ( 1984, UK / US ).

The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 4439 and variations have been collected across Great Britain and North America.

Great Citadels collected the energy from Pryan's four suns and beamed it through conduits to the other three worlds ( the Colossi on Abarrach, the Kicksey-winsey on Arianus and the seasun on Chelestra ).

Phillips collected works by masters such as El Greco, calling him the " first impassioned expressionist "; Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin because he was " the first modern painter "; Francisco Goya because he was " the stepping stone between the Old Masters and the Great Moderns like Cézanne "; and Edouard Manet, a " significant link in a chain which began with Goya and which to Gauguin and Matisse ".

The tribes of the Great Plains have been found to be the tallest people in the world during the late 19th century, based on 21st century analysis of data collected by Franz Boas for the World Columbian Exposition.