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Birds and People: A Book Review

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and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. The 300 stories enhance the thousands, maybe millions of facts Cocker has compiled, creating a volume that speaks to a collective human experience that is rooted in both poetry and science. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors.

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Borderline of Countable

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It was damn cold – “Science is a cruel mistress”, a line from Luc Besson’s movie The Big Blue, came to mind – but we remained on the prow. Valentine’s Day , one of them visiting Poland and Germany in the meantime). That evening, the snow was covering the trawler, tied at Kladovo wharf.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# Imagine you study history.

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