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It was his meeting with Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky in 1810 which probably inspired the younger man to produce a book of his own bird illustrations, though Audubon's reaction to Wilson was decidedly ambiguous.
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Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.
The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.
At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.
It was often re-enacted in less wild form at the Wednesday night prayer meeting.
The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.
An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.
At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.
This meeting was called to determine how these groups might cooperate to launch what is known as the Outdoor Education Project.
A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.
The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.
The Providence Daily Post's editor wrote that he could not believe that a meeting honoring Brown was to be held in Providence.
The first speaker was Amos C. Barstow who had been unanimously chosen president of the meeting.
On the morning following the Pratt Hall meeting the editor of the Providence Daily Journal wrote that although the meeting was milder and less extreme than those held in other areas for similar purposes, it could have been avoided completely.
Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.
But as November 1924 drew close the Democratic hierarchy was sorely troubled by grapevine reports that O'Banion was being wooed by the opposition, and was meeting and conferring with important Republicans.
What was called an `` accidental meeting '' with Miss Packard in Washington turned her attention to Spelman.
The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.
In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.
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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.
He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.
was and Audubon
John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.
Jean-Jacques Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue ( now Haiti ) on his father's sugar plantation.
He was the illegitimate ( or natural ) son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer ( and privateer ) from the south of Brittany, and his mistress Jeanne Rabine, a 27
It was based on Claude Rozier's buying half of Jean Audubon ’ s share of a plantation in Haiti, and lending money to the partnership as secured by half interest in lead mining at Audubon's property of Mill Grove.
Although his return ship was overtaken by an English privateer, Audubon and his hidden gold coins survived the encounter.
Shipping goods ahead, Audubon and Rozier started a general store in Louisville, Kentucky ; on the Ohio River, it was the most important port between Pittsburgh and New Orleans.
Audubon witnessed the 1812 New Madrid earthquake while out riding, which was among the most severe to strike the mid-continent.
When Audubon arrived home, he was relieved to find no major damage, but the area was shaken by aftershocks for months.
Audubon writes that while on horseback he believed the distant rumbling to be that of a tornado, “ but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice.
After 1819, Audubon went bankrupt and was thrown into jail for debt.
Though he met Thomas Sully, one of the most famous portrait painters of the time and a valuable ally, Audubon was rebuffed for publication.
The cost of printing the entire work was $ 115, 640 ( over $ 2, 000, 000 today ), paid for from advance subscriptions, exhibitions, oil painting commissions, and animal skins, which Audubon hunted and sold.
King George IV was also an avid fan of Audubon and a subscriber to the book.
Audubon was a hit in France as well, gaining the King and several of the nobility as subscribers.
During a trip to Key West, a companion wrote in a newspaper article, " Mr. Audubon is the most enthusiastic and indefatigable man I ever knew ... Mr. Audubon was neither dispirited by heat, fatigue, or bad luck ... he rose every morning at 3 o ' clock and went out ... until 1 o ' clock.
The sugar mill was built under the direction of a Scottish engineer who accompanied Audubon on an excursion in the region.
John H. Geiger, who was Key West's first harbor pilot, which later became Audubon House and Tropical Gardens.
* In 1905, the National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor.
* The northbound span of the Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges was originally named the Audubon Memorial Bridge.
Pigeon migration, in flocks numbering billions, was a spectacle without parallel, as described by John James Audubon:
This was published in 1887 in a series Hints to Audubon Workers: Fifty Birds and How to Know Them in Grinnell's Audubon Magazine.
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