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It is thought that the Labrador Duck was always rare, but between 1850 and 1870, populations waned further.
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California is too far, he thought.
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.
We are reminded, however, that freedom of thought and discussion, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is basic under our form of government.
Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.
but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.
Accordingly we may speak of the Platonism peculiar to Shelley's poems or the type of Stoicism present in Henley's `` Invictus '', and we may find that describing such Platonism or such Stoicism and contrasting each with other expressions of the same attitude or mode of thought is a difficult and challenging enterprise.
regarded from the inside, it is the carrying into action of a certain thought The historian's business is to penetrate to the inside of the actions with which he is dealing and reconstruct or rather rethink the thoughts which constituted them.
It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.
Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.
In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??
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* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
As an example, in British Columbia the forestry industry is of great importance, while the oil and gas industry is important in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The reception date for New Brunswick is 1660 ; for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 1758 ; and for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1825.
There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.
Acadians eventually built small settlements throughout what is today mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Île-Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Île-Royale ( Cape Breton Island ), and other shorelines of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.
The Canadian Senate is structured along regional lines, giving an equal number of seats ( 24 ) to the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, and western Canada, in addition to the later entry of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the three territories.
* 2001 – The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
* 1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
The Inuit language is traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador.
In Labrador, the language is called Inuttut or, often in official documents, by the more descriptive name Labradorimiutut.
* 1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
The Labrador Duck ( Camptorhynchus labradorius ) was a striking black and white eider-like sea duck that was never common, and is believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.
The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.
John James Audubon's son reported seeing a nest belonging to the species in Labrador, but it is uncertain where it bred.
Another, completely unrelated, duck with similar ( but even more specialized ) bill morphology is the Australian Pink-eared Duck, which feeds largely on plankton, but also mollusks ; the condition in the Labrador Duck probably resembled that in the Blue Duck most in outward appearance.
It is one of numerous large lakes in an arc from Labrador through the northern United States and into the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Mount Katahdin is both the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which extends southerly to Springer Mountain, Georgia, and the southern terminus of the new International Appalachian Trail which, when complete, will run to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, it is recommended to motorists to use caution between dusk and dawn, because that is when moose are most active and most difficult to see, increasing the risk of collisions.
It is largely formed in the Labrador Sea and in the Greenland Sea by the sinking of highly saline, dense overflow water from the Greenland Sea.
The upper one is the Labrador Sea Water ( LSW ), formed due to deep winter convection in the Labrador Sea.
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The 1951 children's film Duck and Cover is a prime example.
Peking Duck is another popular dish well known outside of China.
Duck Creek, a stream situated in Bettendorf and Davenport, is also vulnerable to flash flooding.
Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.
( The title is a reference to Lost in the Andes !, a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, first published in April, 1949.
Duck Hunt, and is included in the PlayChoice-10 arcade console.
They stated that while dogs are man's best friend, that if the dog from Duck Hunt is man's best friend, they'd hate to meet their enemy.
Nintendo Power listed the dog as one of the things they love to hate, stating that there is not a Duck Hunt player in the world who has not wanted to shoot him.
GameSpy listed the dog as the 10th favorite dog in video games, stating that while a dog in real life does not judge its master, the Duck Hunt dog unfortunately is not like that.
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The etymology of foo is explored in the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) RFC 3092, which notes usage of foo in 1930s cartoons including The Daffy Doc ( with Daffy Duck ) and comic strips, especially Smokey Stover and Pogo.
Another example is Duck Tales 2 for the Game Boy.
Gilbert Plains is situated on the Valley River, in the parkland country between Riding Mountain National Park and Duck Mountain Provincial Park.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the sons of Donald's sister Della Duck ; in Donald's Nephews, their mother is instead named Dumbella.
In 1803, most of Polk's relatives moved to the Duck River area in what is now Maury County, Middle Tennessee ; Polk's family waited until 1806 to follow.
Hackstabber's name is a play on Rufus T. Firefly, Groucho's character in Duck Soup.
The Wild Duck Cluster, M11, is an example.
Wild Duck Cluster | M11, the Wild Duck Cluster is a very rich cluster located towards the center of the Milky Way.
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