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black and swan
However, if one finds one single black swan, deductive logic admits the conclusion that the statement that all swans are white is false.
For example, the statement " All swans are white " is falsifiable, because it can come in conflict with the observation " this swan is black.
The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage but the Southern Hemisphere species are mixed black and white.
Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully-hence the phrase swan song ; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a " rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan ", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird.
When undisturbed there are regularly swan and mallard, with less frequent visits from tufted duck, mediterranean gull, cormorant, little Grebe and occasionally a lone black swan.
The black swan red beak is said to be the blood of the attacked brothers, which stayed there forever.
California quail frequent the riparian areas, while black tailed deer kite, duck, swan, goose, towhee, waxwing, Great Blue Heron, many egret, ibis and hawk, gull, tern, species, robin, thrush and sparrow bird species are found locally.
Outliers that cannot be readily explained demand special attention – see kurtosis risk and black swan theory.
The name Moruya is derived from an Indigenous Australian word, mherroyah, meaning " home of the black swan ".
Black swans can still be seen in the lakes and rivers around Moruya, and the black swan is used locally as an emblem ( nationally, the black swan is known as an emblem of Perth ).
Image: HagleyPark06 gobeirne. jpg | A black swan and model yachts on Victoria Lake
A black swan in its natural colours swims on the upper blue ripple.
The black swan was noted by all of the early European maritime explorers who sailed along the Western Australian coast.
It also as appears on the State Badge as a black swan silhouetted against a yellow disk.
' Insignis ' can also mean remarkable, outstanding or conspicuous – all adjectives pointing to the long-standing association between Western Australia and the emblematic black swan.
The potency of the image of the black swan as a signifier of Westralian nationalism can be seen in this passage from Randolph Stow's Merry-go-Round in the Sea, published in 1965:
* The supporters are the Australian black swan, representing the Australian Aborigines, and the European white swan, representing the white settlers.
The black swan has long been a symbol of Western Australia, in fact the original colony was called the Swan River Colony at the location which is now Perth.

black and is
But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.
This is a black swamp clay in which about one hundred million years ago cypress-like trees were growing.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
The observed intensity of the radio emission of Venus is much higher than the expected thermal intensity, although the spectrum indicated by measurements at wave lengths near 3 cm and 10 cm is like that of a black body at about 600-degrees.
This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.
The received radiation is compared with the radiation from a hypothetical black body which subtends the same solid angle as the visible disk of the planet.
The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.
White pepper is the ground seed of the common black pepper fruit.
( And this is not, perhaps, the place to discuss Harlem's very complex attitude toward black policemen, nor the reasons, according to Harlem, that they are nearly all downtown.
He is not prepared for it -- naturally, nobody is -- and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him.
As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.
Her favorite cocktail dress is a Norell, a black and white organdy and silk jersey.
Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.
Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.
Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
The fire salamander is black and yellow, indicating that it is toxic.
Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.

black and official
Subsequent professional black baseball clubs played each other independently, without an official league to organize the sport.
Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.
FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >
At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.
By the time Gorbachev ushered in the process that would lead to the dismantling of the Soviet administrative command economy through his programs of glasnost ( political openness ), uskoreniye ( speed-up of economic development ) and perestroika ( political and economic restructuring ) announced in 1986, the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy.
Inflation, speculation, and monetary instability continued, and a black market arose to trade in goods forced out of official markets.
It is understood that the black and red stripes mentioned as the official colours refer only to the socks.
That meant that people had accumulated large paper assets, and that official prices and wages did not reflect reality, as the black market dominated the economy and more than half of all transactions were taking place unofficially.
Exchange controls had been introduced in 1982, resulting in a parallel currency market ( black market ) and several confusing official exchange rates operating simultaneously.
The black bear native to New Mexico, Ursus americanus amblyceps, was formally adopted as the state's official animal in 1953.
With the introduction of black as an official color, in 1999 an alternate team logo was created.
In the absence of an official definition for the pearl from the black oyster, these pearls are usually referred to as " black pearls ".
The black market value of the Seychellois rupee is anywhere from two thirds to one half the official exchange rate.
The official count of the dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics was 39, but other estimates of black fatalities have been up to about 300.
The government is yet to eliminate the gap between the black market and official exchange rates by successfully introducing convertibility of the national currency.
These are, the reduction in gun crime in Northern Ireland ( which led to guns coming from there to the criminal black market in England ); guns ( official issue or confiscated ) acquired by military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan ; and guns coming from Eastern Europe after the fall of the iron curtain.
The black fire opal is the official gemstone of Nevada.
At the national convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey the MFDP claimed the seats for delegates for Mississippi, not on the grounds of the Party rules, but because the official Mississippi delegation had been elected by a primary conducted under Jim Crow laws in which blacks were excluded because of poll taxes, literacy tests, and even violence against black voters.
The Frankfurt Parliament had declared the black-red-gold as the official colours of the German Confederation, with the red in the tricolour most likely referencing the Hanseatic League, and the gold and black symbolizing Austria as its empire, considered to be " German ", had an influence over ( what would become ) southern Germany.
By 1903, though Johnson's " official " record showed him with nine wins against three losses, five draws and two no contests, he had won at least 50 fights against both white and black opponents.
On 13 May 2010, the official crest for the 125th year anniversary was released: " The black outline and halo feature will now appear in gold, whilst the all important years 1885 and 2010 are scripted either side of the shield, with the figure 125 replacing the ball ".
In late January, George V died, and his eldest son, the popular Prince Edward, succeeded to the throne as Edward VIII, while Rideau Hall the royal and viceroyal residence in Ottawa was decked in black crepe and all formal entertaining was cancelled during the official period of mourning.
Growing dissent from civil rights groups and the offense of the black community led to a 1964 official city policy ruling out blackface.
Waugals ( yellow triangles with a black snake in the centre ) are the official Bibbulmun Track trailmarkers between Kalamunda and Albany, Western Australia | Albany in Western Australia.

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