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...or instance - their combined weight is four times the combined weight of all other animals in the area. Ants have brains. The main nerve - similar ... ...x The appendix is located at the beginning of the large intestine. Many types of animals have it, including rabbits and rodents. It contains gut ... ...45 were conscripted to the army as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals or in menial jobs. When Russian Armenians recruited Turk... ...tors and buyers were fooled into purchasing "works of art" created by monkeys. The animals "painted" by dipping their paws in pigments and running ... ...äussler-Scheinker disease, fatal familial insomnia (FFI), Alpers Syndrome and kuru. Animals are afflicted by scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopat... ... vegetarian movement in the Third Reich (Nazi Germany) was considered dangerously "cosmopolitan". It was (mildly) persecuted, was forced to abstain...

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...lock each evening, while the hands from the stables are caring for your own animals. You will provide his evening feed of the same treacle and grai... ...s, he sent me to Switzerland for boarding school. I loved Zurich, with its cosmopolitan air. I made friends with young ladies from many different ... ...ry, Philippe and I. He was a very handsome man, and understood my love for animals. I’ve always had a gift for healing them.” I looked just beyond... ...ent times, and I about growing up an only child whose friends were books and animals. We bathed one another until the water became too cool for comf... ... She was a beauty of a different sort, and very kind. She obviously loved animals as much as I do. I began to watch her as I had once watched a l... ...rehensible. You are never ‘at home’ to company. You prefer the company of animals and ... servants ... to women of your own station. You don’t c...

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...f the 100+ color and black and white illustrations included in the book are reproductions of original drawings and paintings of Australian plants and animals as they were first depicted by the early natural history draughtsmen and convicts who collected or described them. Many of these illustrations had never been published before. The book includes many anecdotes and litt...

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... with hook and line. Accompanying his men ashore during their fruitless searches for water, Dampier observed and noted in his journal the plants and animals of the area. Of the land animals, Dampier complained that there were few to be seen. The description of those he did observe was usually accompanied by an evaluation of their gastronomic merit, for most organisms that...

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...is conduct by appealing to his morality, superior knowledge, good manners, cosmopolitanism, or upbringing? Manipulating the narcissist is the only ... ...hat is "wrong". They are accused of being old, of being eerily disembodied, cosmopolitan, a part of the establishment, of being "decadent". They are... ...e narcissist loses interest in them and they are classified as "sub-human, animals, service-providers, functions, symbols" and worse. Hence the abr... ...rong". They are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan, they are part of the establishment, they are "decadent", t... ...n old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "decadent",...

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... autonomous groups of people take 'direct action' against animal abuse by rescuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually... ... a catchphrase akin to "human rights". It involves, however, a few pitfalls. First, animals exist only as a concept. Otherwise, they are cuddly cats... ...herwise, they are cuddly cats, curly dogs, cute monkeys. A rat and a puppy are both animals but our emotional reaction to them is so different that ... ...ght to food? Except the right to free speech – all other rights could be applied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing... ... were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "de... ... were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "de... ...nsumption and by wealth, these heralds of the West adopt cynicism as shorthand for cosmopolitanism. They erroneously believe that feigned sarcasm l... ...at is "wrong". They are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan, they are part of the establishment, they are "deca... ... were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "de...

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... autonomous groups of people take 'direct action' against animal abuse by rescuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually... ... a catchphrase akin to "human rights". It involves, however, a few pitfalls. First, animals exist only as a concept. Otherwise, they are cuddly cats... ...herwise, they are cuddly cats, curly dogs, cute monkeys. A rat and a puppy are both animals but our emotional reaction to them is so different that ... ...ght to food? Except the right to free speech – all other rights could be applied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing... ... were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "de... ... were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "de... ...nsumption and by wealth, these heralds of the West adopt cynicism as shorthand for cosmopolitanism. They erroneously believe that feigned sarcasm l... ...at is "wrong". They are accused of being old, they are eerily disembodied, they are cosmopolitan, they are part of the establishment, they are "deca... ... were an old nation, they were eerily disembodied (without a territory), they were cosmopolitan, they were part of the establishment, they were "de...

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... search for and cut grass for the buffalo. Finally, you tire of it and the animals must be sold. I have six children in all, three sons and three daug... ...ist the whole area was full of tattoos. The tattoos used to be pictures of animals and the writing that was included was old language, some writing wa... ...g should be stopped, a law made to prohibit it. It's harmful to people and animals. Because they are dangerous for other animals in the field, too. On... ...erson told me that someone had died after eating poisoned vegetables. Many animals have died, too, that is why many people say that they'd like to ret... ...oping. In a rice village of the past, man lived together with his domestic animals; pigs and chickens were kept in the compounds, and various foods we... ..., film stars and pop singers. The new film heroes and heroines are urban, cosmopolitan types and sex, fashion and beauty idols representing supercult...

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... 139 Dagny frowned. "Of course I do." "As a matter of fact, you don't like animals at all." "Get the fu ... I mean, don't be ridiculous. Who doesn't l... ...als at all." "Get the fu ... I mean, don't be ridiculous. Who doesn't like animals? Especially cute little furballs like this?" Tyler gaped as she rub... ...rough the pages of anything more hard-hitting and thought provoking than a Cosmopolitan or Glamor magazine. He found it difficult to believe she'd act... ...arly age I've been close to nature. I used to spend a lot of time with the animals. Collected rocks and insects, silly stuff like that. I met Tyler's ... ...e behind them since she'd been a kid. She knew they were considered sacred animals since ancient times, and were New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKe...

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...s. That's why crossing the species of plants (and sometimes races of animals and humans as well) we get hybrids with better qualities and/or q... ...itics" (Nicolae Iorga), but on the nationalism of those who pretend to be cosmopolitan. Existence of absconded contradictions, therefore of a c...

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...re introduced, as the Internet becomes more gender-neutral, polyglot, and cosmopolitan - e-publishing is likely to recover and flourish. This r... ...ting back. Secondly, the Internet is a huge (200 million people), truly cosmopolitan market, with its own marketing channels freely available to a... ...lux. Business processes and methods, plants, genetic material, strains of animals, minor changes to existing technologies - are all patentable. Trad... ...netica" by Norbert Wiener), which has the revealing subtitle: "Control in Animals and Humans"). The ever increasing figures of mechanic, electronic a... ...ses of rocket navigation) was founded on the observation of the fights of animals. N. Wiener writes about some of them, like the well known fight b...

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...es even though he taught them. They were just his "little tongmuls" (little animals). Sang Huin did not like the difficulty of memorizing Korean name... ... in winters the cold snuffed the residents out of sleep in early mornings as animals from forest fires and the mostly aged tenants, before finding war... ...boars they didn't need spears, little man. They just ran and pounced on the animals. Now you may ask how they did such things so well so let me answ... ...er imagination more bound than what she would have liked. Sensate hungers of animals and men were ineluctable but inconsequential "things" that she wo... ... year old Jesus and the fifty year old Sanchez; having said the names of the animals in English and the girls giving the Vietnamese equivalent; having... ...the streets of downtown San Diego, ecstatic to be a pedestrian in this great cosmopolitan medley and to see all signs in English. He wandered in this...

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...s best and have the class numerals carved in the front of the bowl. At the Cosmopolitan minstrel show to be given by the Cosmo- politan club of Willia... ...7 vs. 1910 Vaudeville and Show by Coi'mo- politan Club—Pierce the Star The Cosmopolitan Club uiin- Btrels, a company of lownapeoplu, faculty and stude... ...oken to the sled are fast and tireless. Beside the dogs, no other domestic animals are seen. The hoir seal is a very important economic geod for the p... ...ressing the chairman of the Comuiissiun on Admissions. " Mutual Aid Amongf Animals "The Principle of Mutual Aid as EsempliBed in Animal Life" wasthe t... ...l atten- tion was fooussed on the struggle for place and food to which all animals are subjected. Nature, "read in fang and claw", seems to have quite... ...st of us, perhaps, do not ful- ly recognize the fact that very many of the animals have largely abandoned competition and strife, replacing it with mu... ...nstead of being split up by a force from beneath. In one instance the pack animals broke through the crust and had to be extricated by luaiu force; at... ...sed is less perfect and more sentimental, yet 18th century liter- ature is cosmopolitan—the French esprit dominates Europe. Two writers of this period...

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... most distant and opposite zones, pours them along, helter-skelter, in one cosmopolitan and confident tide. 10 The Confidence-Man CHAPTER III. In Whi... ... Marzetti, and the other chatterers are made, who in thunder are you?” “ A cosmopolitan, a catholic man; who, being such, ties him- self to no narrow ... ... a wine I never weary of comparing and sipping; where- fore am I a pledged cosmopolitan, a sort of London-Dock- Vault connoisseur, going about from T ... ...Y ou are Diogenes, Diogenes in disguise. I say— Diogenes masquerading as a cosmopolitan.” With ruefully altered mien, the stranger still stood mute aw... ... the solitude he held so sapient. 138 The Confidence-Man CHAPTER XXV. The Cosmopolitan Makes an Acquaintance IN THE ACT OF RETIRING, the cosmopolitan... ...ie, is a fable about as unjust to the ocean, as some of Aesop’s are to the animals. The ocean is a magnani- mous element, and would scorn to assassina...

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... was hardly light enough. Here are interesting evidences of striving to be cosmopolitan and poly- glot—the most interesting of all of which, I think, ... ...f similar or- gans of Charles Bonnet—who in 1760 was so bold as to write, “Animals vegetate as plants do”—we detect, I say, the rudiments of the great... ...he same kind on society? But the limits set by nature to the variations of animals have no existence in society. When Buffon de- scribes the lion, he ... ...ouble that of animal species, merely in view of the two sexes. Then, among animals the drama is limited; there is scarcely any confusion; they turn an... ...est social grade. Again, Buffon found that life was extremely simple among animals. Animals have little prop- erty, and neither arts nor sciences; whi... ...er patient in- vestigators have shown us how interesting are the habits of animals, those of each kind, are, at least to our eyes, always and in every...

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...hed from the lingering spell of the ancient shadowy world in which trees and animals talked to each other, and began the education of the fumbling bea... ... the roof of the cave of Altamira with its wonderful troops of inter glacial animals. But ten or twelve years later the discovery of similar painted c... ... the small minority of wealthy and fashion able women who lead an artificial cosmopolitan life, and therefore represent no FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEAN... ...glaring financial scandals, but that among the real French, uncontaminated by cosmopolitan influences, and especially in the class of small shopkeepers ...

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...ome new Congo administration and of nondescript police forces commanded by cosmopolitan ad- venturers. (See Joseph Conrad’s “Out-post of Civilization.... ...frican affairs. One or two minor matters, such as the preservation of rare animals, might very well fall under the same authority. Upon that Commissio... ...very different, I know, from the nightmare of an interna- tional police of cosmopolitan scoundrels in nondescript uni- forms, hastening to loot and ra...

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... them by his own efforts. Just as he has been able to modify the nature of animals and plants, man must attempt to modify * Go thy way, eat thy bread ... ...e under the spell of a very old ineradicable instinct. We are gregari- ous animals; our ancestors have been such for countless ages. We cannot help lo... ...ni- mals do; we see it in terms of humanity and of fellowship. Students of animals under domestication have shown us how the habits of a gregarious cr... ...rtent witness to the reality of God. Professor Murray writes of gregarious animals as though there existed solitary animals that are not gregarious, p... ...ssed within the historical period from a tribal gregariousness to a nearly cosmopolitan tolerance. And he has his tribe about him. He is not, as Profe...

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...e could but recover the gem.” “It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan,” I remarked. 118 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes “Prec... ...he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: “Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up up... ... he, “my real name is James Ryder.” “Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell ... ...ng away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at t...

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...rsonification of Russian aspiration working with the in- struments of wide cosmopolitan culture. As a critic of his countrymen nothing escaped T urgen... ...y, intrigue, and so on and so on. It is useful to have these well- meaning animals on the political premises, giving noisy tongue whenever the Slav st... ...verything,’ she seemed to hear. Even her poor pets, her ill-used birds and animals looked at her—so at least she fancied—with suspicion and hostility....

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... she’s lived in they do—they never do anything else.” And, in spite of the cosmopolitan views on which he prided himself, he thanked heaven that he wa... ... one of the little hands that nestled in a hollow of her huge lap like pet animals, and called to the maid: “Don’t let in any one else. If my daughter... .... Welland had often been heard to deplore that any one who had enjoyed the cosmopolitan luxuries of Count Olenski’s establishments should care so litt... ...uped about little plush tables densely covered with silver toys, porcelain animals and efflo- rescent photograph frames; and tall rosy-shaded lamps sh...