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...others and the “curiosity to know what Satan sounds like at three in the morning.” For added effect, the room was decorated with exotic plants and jewelry to create a environment modeled after the Garden of Eden. The presence of apples and a bird of paradise also served to contribute to the surroundings. The event opened with an introductory speech to Paradise Lost by Barbara K. Lewalski, a history and literature professor, regarding the surprising nature of Paradise Lost given that is an epic poem. As she said in her opening remarks...
...virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm...
...This is the second outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in England. The first, in February, led to the culling of nearly 160,000 factory-farmed birds. Farmers have raised concerns about the impact on the lucrative Christmas turkey trade, during which time poultry breeders would expect to sell more than 20 million birds, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. British farms are already struggling to recover from a year of animal pestilence, as livestock have been besieged by foot-and-mouth and bluetongue disease, two other gruesome and costly viruses. The downturn following the last bird flu outbreak...
During a visit to Uganda's capital, Kampala, just before the tour began, a delegation of LRA representatives released a conciliatory dove. Both the visit and gesture were unprecedented. But, perhaps fittingly, the symbol of peace plummeted dead to the ground shortly after the bird took flight. The burden of some sins may just be too heavy, no matter how much they have been forgiven...
...examples of creatures now rare (Gilbert's potoroo) or extinct (the skeleton of a Tasmanian tiger). Museum pays tribute to the science, both in Hay's historical essay and in the careful notes on each photograph: "The discrepancy between the information given here and the label on the bird's stand reflects a taxonomic refinement...