The original swamp forests have almost entirely been removed as the plain has been converted to rice paddies, other agriculture, and urban areas like the massive Bangkok, and much of the wildlife that once inhabited these plains has disappeared including a large number of fish in the river systems, birds such as vultures, the Oriental Darter, White-eyed River Martin ( Pseudochelidon sirintarae ) and the Sarus Crane and animals such as tigers, Asian elephants, Javan Rhinoceroses and the much-hunted Schomburgk's Deer.

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The Oriental Darter or Indian Darter ( Anhinga melanogaster ) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Oriental Darter is like all other anhingas, a cormorant-like species that has a very long neck.

The Oriental Darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American ( Anhinga anhinga ), African ( Anhinga rufa, with vulsini of Madagascar as a subspecies ), and Australasian ( Anhinga novaehollandiae ) Darters.

The Oriental Darter is found in freshwater lakes and streams.

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The African Darter is a member of the darter family, Anhingidae, and is closely related to American ( Anhinga anhinga ), Oriental ( Anhinga melanogaster ), and Australian ( Anhinga novaehollandiae ) Darters.

Bird species sighted in Thung Yai include White-winged Wood Duck ( Cairina scutulata ), Kalij Pheasant ( Lophura leucomelanos ), Grey Peacock-pheasant ( Polyplectron bicalcaratum ), Green Peafowl ( Pavo muticus ), Spot-billed Pelican ( Pelecanus philippensis ), Oriental Darter ( Anhinga melanogaster ), Painted Stork ( Mycteria leucocephala ), Greater Adjutant ( Leptoptilos dubius ), Red-headed Vulture ( Sarcogyps calvus ), Mountain Hawk-eagle ( Nisaetus nipalensis ), Lesser Fish Eagle ( Ichthyophaga humilis ) and all six species of Hornbill ( Bucerotidae ) living in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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M. Brutails is of the opinion that even if the style of St Front's reveals an imitation of Oriental art, the construction differs altogether from Byzantine methods.

He does not, however, note that in certain other important peculiarities the Gallican Liturgy agrees with the Roman where the latter differs from the Oriental.

* The Serengeti cat is developed from crosses with Oriental Shorthair or Siamese, with the aim to produce a domestic cat mimicking the appearance of an African serval, without actually incorporating serval genes by hybridization.

Some light is thrown on the entry of stories from Oriental sources into the Aesopic canon by their appearance in Jewish commentaries on the Talmud and in Midrashic literature from the 1st century AD.

After Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the Byronic hero made an appearance in many of Byron's other works, including his series of poems on Oriental themes: The Giaour ( 1813 ), The Corsair ( 1814 ) and Lara ( 1814 ); and his closet play Manfred ( 1817 ).

Kwouk featured in many UK television productions that called for a man of Oriental appearance.

Between 1526 and 1687, Osijek was ruled by the Ottomans, who did not change the layout of the settlement in any substantial way but introduced Islamic places of worship, giving the area an Oriental appearance.

In this appearance, Stuff is a thirty-something Caucasian, rather than a teen-age Oriental.

The multi-leveled Asian River Life Experience replicates the surrounding and appearance of an Oriental river brook.

The female Oriental cockroach has a somewhat different appearance to the male, appearing to be wingless at casual glance but has two very short and useless wings just below her head.

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Churches that claim some form of episcopal apostolic succession, dating back to the apostles or to leaders from the apostolic era, include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Church of the East, the Anglican Communion, and some Lutheran Churches ( see below ).

* Rollefson, Gary O., " A Neolithic Game Board from Ain Ghazal, Jordan ," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 286.

* Cisplatine War ( 1825 – 1828 ): Armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or " Eastern Shore " between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces ' emancipation from Spain.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

The first written accounts of Banda are in Suma Oriental, a book written by the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires who was based in Malacca from 1512 to 1515 but visited Banda several times.

This miaphysite position, historically characterised by Chalcedonian followers as " monophysitism " though this is denied by the dissenters, formed the basis for the distinction from other churches of the Coptic Church of Egypt and Ethiopia and the " Jacobite " churches of Syria and Armenia ( see Oriental Orthodoxy ).

The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox Church ( not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

This is the doctrinal perception that makes the apparent difference which separated the Oriental Orthodox from the Eastern Orthodox.

Since the 1980s theologians from the Oriental ( non-Chalcedonian ) Orthodox and Eastern ( Chalcedonian ) Orthodox churches have been meeting in a bid to resolve theological differences, and have concluded that many of the differences are caused by the two groups using different terminology to describe the same thing ( see Agreed Official Statements on Christology with the Eastern Orthodox Churches ).

Another branch, Cordillera Oriental or Sierra del Seibo, is separated from the main chain by a karstic region ( Los Haitises ) and with a west-east direction ; it is located south of Samaná Bay.

Among the Oriental Orthodox some churches have changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the date for Easter as for other fixed and moveable feasts is the same as in the Western church.

Many episcopi vagantes claim succession from the Old Catholic See of Utrecht, or from Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, or Eastern Catholic Churches.

In the fifth century, Pope Dioscorus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, rejected certain Christological dogmas promulgated by the Council of Chalcedon, and as a result, the Oriental Orthodox churches split from the rest ; however they continued the episcopal tradition, and today in fact there is dialog between the various orthodox churches over whether the schism was due to real differences or simply translation failures.

In the fifth century, several of the Oriental Churches, under Pope Dioscorus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, separated from Rome and Constantinople.

In the 5th century, Oriental Orthodoxy separated from Chalcedonian Christianity ( and is therefore separate from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches ), well before the 11th century Great Schism.

Carpets and objects from the orient can be visited in the Oriental Carpet Museum.

Braid ’ s interest in these practices stems from his studies of the Dabistān-i Mazāhib, the “ School of Religions ”, an ancient Persian text describing a wide variety of Oriental religious rituals, beliefs, and practices.

In the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, as well as in the Church of the East, creation is not considered to be a literal " part of " God, and the Godhead is distinct from creation.

Within modern Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan, there are churches and believers from many Christian denominations, including Oriental Orthodoxy, Anglican, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic ( Eastern and Western rites ), Protestant, and others.

He is from an era whose orthodoxy is widely accepted by Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Seventh Day Church of God groups, Protestants and Catholics alike.