There were 19th century reports of the existence of small Ostriches in North Africa ; these are referred to as Levaillant's Ostrich ( Struthio bidactylus ) but remain a hypothetical form not supported by material evidence.

This star, along with η Cet ( Deneb Algenubi ), θ Cet ( Thanih Al Naamat ), ζ Cet ( Baten Kaitos ), and υ Cet, were Al Naʽāmāt ( ألنعامة ), the Hen Ostriches.

Ostriches, however, were already well known in Biblical times.

** γ Sgr, δ Sgr and η Sgr were Al Naʽām al Wārid ( النعم الوارد ), the Going Ostriches.

** φ Sgr, ζ Sgr, χ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

** γ Sgr, ε Sgr and η Sgr were Al Naʽām al Wārid ( النعم الوارد ), the Going Ostriches.

** φ Sgr, σ Sgr, χ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

* This star, together with γ Sgr, δ Sgr and ε Sgr were Al Naʽām al Wārid ( النعم الوارد ), the Going Ostriches.

** σ Sgr, ζ Sgr, χ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

** φ Sgr, ζ Sgr, χ Sgr and σ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

* These three χ star, together with φ Sgr, σ Sgr, ζ Sgr and τ Sgr were Al Naʽām al Ṣādirah ( النعم السادرة ), the Returning Ostriches.

While the relationship of the African species is comparatively straightforward, a large number of Asian species of Ostrich have been described from fragmentary remains, and their interrelationships and how they relate to the African Ostriches is confusing.

Starting during the First World War she wrote plays on themes that became more didactic until her major success in 1923, a play called Our Ostriches, which dealt with society's shortsighted approach to working class women forced to produce babies all their lives.

A French edition entitled Les autruches ne mettent pas la tête dans le sable: 200 bonnes raisons de renoncer à nos certitudes (" Ostriches don't put their heads in the sand: 200 good reasons to give up our convictions ") was published by Dunod on 3 October 2007.

Ostriches share the order Struthioniformes with the kiwis, emus, rheas, and cassowaries.

The diet of Ostriches mainly consists of plant matter, though it also eats invertebrates.

Ostriches usually weigh from, Ostriches of the East African race ( S. c. massaicus ) averaged in males and in females, while the nominate subspecies was found to average in unsexed adults.

Exceptional male Ostriches ( in the nominate subspecies ) have been weighing up to.

At sexual maturity ( two to four years ), male Ostriches can be from in height, while female Ostriches range from tall.

At one year of age, Ostriches weigh around.

The head and neck of both male and female Ostriches is nearly bare, with a thin layer of down.

Ostriches can run at a speed over and can cover in a single stride.

Ostriches can tolerate a wide range of temperatures.

Mitochondrial DNA haplotype comparisons suggest that it diverged from the other Ostriches not quite four mya due to formation of the East African Rift.

Apart from this enigmatic bird, the fossil record of the Ostriches continues with several species of the modern genus Struthio which are known from the Early Miocene onwards.

In China, Ostriches are known to have become extinct only around or even after the end of the last ice age ; images of Ostriches have been found there on prehistoric pottery and petroglyphs.

* Fantasia: Chernabog, Yen Sid, Hop Lo, the Mushrooms, the Ostriches, the Cupids, one of the Centaurettes, Bacchus, Jacchus, and the Bald Mountain Ghosts.

Another enclosure will house Grévy's Zebras along with Grey Crowned Cranes Ostriches, Marabou Stork, and other birds.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

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He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks, he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all attention, he quacked with the ducks, and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese.

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Ten days after the questionnaires were mailed, follow-up airmail postcards were sent urging those companies which had not yet returned their questionnaires to do so at once.

Woodbury's remarks were applauded by a portion of the audience several times and once there was hissing.

The thing can be made to look like the cluttered attic of a large and vigorous family -- a motley jumble of discarded objects, some outworn and some that were never useful, some once whole and bright but now chipped and tarnished, some odd pieces whose history no one remembers, here and there a gem, everything fascinating because it suggests some part of the human condition -- the whole adding up to nothing more than a glimpse into the disorderly history of the makers and users.

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Plane radios were not yet available, and once in the air, Fogg flew his ship by compass, a good memory for landmarks as seen from above, and a capacity for dead reckoning and quick computation.

Ought not an edifying Trial have made every effort to demonstrate this once and for all by showing how representative types of `` mere '' anti-Semites were drawn step by step into the program of skull-bashings and gassings??

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

And not one single dwelling left there, though once, in the early eighteenth century, there were close to a hundred houses.

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Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

Result is a better prospect for a full payoff by bonds that once were regarded as highly speculative.