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Audubon’s Footsteps

10,000 Birds

Denis Clavreul, artist, biologist, and Frenchman, got it into his head to follow the same paths blazed, in the first part of the nineteenth century, by John James Audubon, also an artist and also a Frenchman (born in Haiti) — though not much of a biologist or naturalist.

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Blue-Collar Dogs on Nat Geo WILD

4 The Love Of Animals

Blue-Collar Dogs: New York Police. The New York Police Department’s K-9 squad is one of the nation’s most exclusive police units. For decades, dogs have been first responders to crime scenes and terrorist attacks, and have even traveled to help in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti.

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Birds of the West Indies by Kirwan, Levesque, Oberle & Sharpe

10,000 Birds

In order to establish a new Abwehr network, in August 1941 Popov was displaced to New York, where he rented a Fifth Avenue penthouse, bought a car to match and partied with the rich and famous of the time, including dating a Hollywood star Simone Simon ( * , ** ). That agent’s name was Ian Lancaster Fleming.