and the eagle, who leads the bird community when he is not too busy in Washington posing for fifty-cent pieces.

Primitive respirator examples were used by miners and introduced by Alexander von Humboldt already in 1799, when he worked as a mining engineer in Prussia ; long before that there was a Plague doctor's bird beak shaped mask / face piece filled with herbs.

The gecko's mating call sounds like a shortened bird chirping which attracts males, when they are nearby.

There was a time when certain authorities considered the signs enough, so Jews started eating this bird without a masorah because it possesses all the signs ( simanim in Hebrew ) and there is a place for this in Jewish law.

Penguin eggs are smaller than any other bird species when compared proportionally to the weight of the parent birds ; at, the Little Penguin egg is 4. 7 % of its mothers ' weight, and the Emperor Penguin egg is 2. 3 %.

The young bird was naked and blind when born, but grew and developed rapidly.

The last fully authenticated record of a wild bird was near Sargents, Pike County, Ohio, on March 22, 1900, when the bird was killed by a boy with a BB gun.

The understanding of the divine spiritual endowment of the rooster within Islam, may be evidenced in the words of Muhammad of that Abrahamic religion in one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, stating that of " when you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for they have seen an angel " as well as the mention where " the cock is also venerated in Islam: it was the giant bird seen by Muhammad in the First Heaven crowing.

Reginald of Durham recounts another miracle, saying that his right arm was taken by a bird ( perhaps a raven ) to an ash tree, which gave the tree ageless vigor ; when the bird dropped the arm onto the ground, a spring emerged from the ground.

The bird repays his kindness by saving Stuart when he is trapped in a garbage can and shipped out for disposal at sea.

Their albumen is white and contains a different protein from bird eggs, such that it will not coagulate when cooked.

Sigismund gave a ring to the boy's mother when he was born, but one day in the forest a raven stole it from her, and the ring was only recovered after the bird was hunted down.

Sima Qian's " Annals of the Yin " begins by describing the predynastic founder of the Shang lineage, Xie ( 偰 ) — also appearing as Qi ( 契 ) — as having been miraculously conceived when Jiandi, a wife of Emperor Ku, swallowed an egg dropped by a black bird.

Also, there is no evidence that a bird refrains from giving calls when another bird is not reciprocating.

For example, when a character takes photographs with an instant camera, inside of the camera box, a bird carves the picture on a stone tablet with its beak.

In the case of the Flintstones ' cuckoo clocks, which varied from mechanical toys to live birds announcing the time, when the hour approached 12: 00, the bird inside the clock " cuckooing " usually just ran out of steam and gave up vocally, physically, or both.

This depiction is consistent with the remains of these birds found at other Israelite Iron Age sites, when the rooster was used as a fighting bird ; they are also pictured on other seals from the period as a symbol of ferocity, such as on the one engraved on a late-seventh-century BC red jasper seal inscribed " Jehoahaz, son of the king ", which likely it belonged to Jehoahaz of Judah " while he was still a prince during his father's life.

In the fifteenth century, when it became popular to give human names to familiar species, the bird came to be known as Robin redbreast, which was eventually shortened to Robin.

The best time to see the multitude of the park's bird migrants is during either early spring or fall and winter when thousands spend the winter there or migrate through.

* Chirping – This less-common sound, likened to bird song, seems to be related to stress, or when a baby guinea pig wants to be fed.

This behaviour is innate, as demonstrated by a juvenile bird in captivity, which performed the task when first presented with wild bees.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

This restless individualism found its answer when he returned to live nearly all the rest of his life in Sweden.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.

Finally, at dawn, he fell asleep, and when he awoke and came into the living room, he found Lewis in his pajamas before the fire, smoking a cigarette.

The big shock everybody had when they found ol Slater and those others done for.

That's where he was when Hans found him ''.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

So when the Big House filled up and ran over, the sisters-in-law found beds for everyone in their own homes.

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

These are only halfway measures, and the answer will come when some way is found to allow the technical man in industry to progress without limit in salary and prestige ''.

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

Also, when she had bitten off half of the small radish, she found the suspense unbearable ; ;

His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.

He took advantage of the antagonism between aggressive assertiveness and anxiety and found a relatively rapid disappearance of anxiety when the former attitude was established.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

( Jelke later served 21 months when he was found guilty of masterminding a ring of high-priced call girls.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.