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.

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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 ".

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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.

This however resulted in that year not corresponding with the lifetimes of historical figures reputed to be alive, or otherwise mentioned in connection with the Christian incarnation, e. g. Herod the Great or Quirinius.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

It is mentioned by various writers from the fourth century onwards, notably by Pope Gregory the Great, to whose influence may ultimately be due the frequent occurrence of it in Bibles written in England ; for it is commoner in English Bibles than in others.

It is mentioned by Alfred the Great as aet Haethe ( at the heath ).

Ibn Battuta also reported " the rampart of Yajuj and Majuj " was " sixty days ' travel " from the city of Zeitun ( Quanzhou ); Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb notes that Ibn Battuta believed that Great Wall of China was built by Dhul-Qarnayn to contain Gog and Magog as mentioned in the Quran.

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

French scholar Victor Saxer dates the identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, and as Mary of Bethany, to a sermon by Pope Gregory the Great on September 21, 591 A. D., where he seemed to combine the actions of three women mentioned in the New Testament and also identified an unnamed woman as Mary Magdalene.

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Great Aunt Joyce is mentioned as having a glass eye and has the habit of knitting bizarre items ( such as six-fingered gloves ) for Victor.

He then expresses thanks that his readers were the elect of God, chosen for salvation and saved by His grace through faith, and thus not susceptible to the deception of the " Great Apostasy ," ( 2 Thess 2: 13-14 ) first mentioned here as is the " Katechon " ( 2 Thess 2: 6-7 ).

The Great Tribulation (, thlipsis megalē ) refers to tumultuous events that are described during the " signs of the times ", first mentioned by Jesus in the Olivet discourse.

He was mentioned in " The Great Steamboat Race " by Carl Barks and later appeared in person in a handful of stories by Don Rosa.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

" " Idra " is a sitting-place of sages, usually circular, and the word " Rabba / Great " differentiates this section from the section Idra Zuta, which was an assembly of fewer sages that occurred later, as mentioned below.

Eadburh is mentioned by Asser, a ninth-century monk who wrote a biography of Alfred the Great: Asser says that Eadburh had " power throughout almost the entire kingdom ", and that she " began to behave like a tyrant after the manner of her father ".

It is mentioned by the monk Asser in his biography of Alfred the Great: " a certain vigorous king called Offa ... had a great dyke built between Wales and Mercia from sea to sea ".

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In the Doctor Who Annual 2006, a section by Russell T Davies says that during the Time War, the Time Lords used Bowships ( used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war ), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ( war machines first mentioned in the Virgin New Adventures novel " Damaged Goods ", written by Davies ).

Oliver Rackham describes Ongar Great Park as possibly having been the " prototype deer park ", mentioned in an " Anglo-Saxon will of 1045 ".

The tomb was mentioned again when Alexander the Great arrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire.

Only four of his works are mentioned: a statue of Zeus and one of Athena Itonia in the temple of that goddess at Athens ; a statue, probably of Cybele, in the temple of the Great Goddess at Athens ; and the Rhamnusian Nemesis.

Cyrus the Great was buried in Pasargadae, which is mentioned by Ctesias as his own city.

Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians ( e. g. Alfred the Great ), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruction of Assyrian history in the 19th century.