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Along with the characteristics considered desirable (high rump and no tail) go various congential weaknesses. When two Manx cats are mated, their kittens are apt to turn out feeble. After the fourth generation, most kittens are born dead. Thus, the usual methods of multiplying and stabilizing a special breed of cats are ruled...
...Wills, lover and friend of the feathered breed, spotted a Protenbyaria Citrea, better known as a Prothonotary Warbler," warbling outside his window. It never comes north of New Jersey...
...credit for penicillin-that more should have gone to Sir Howard Florey and Dr. Ernst Chain, who first took it out of the lab and put it into a patient. In the U.S., doctors say that strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin are emerging everywhere, and that these may breed diseases from which penicillin can give no relief...
Cinqué, by plain force of character, took command of the captives and organized a mutiny. He found machetes stowed in the hold, and with them one hot night the slaves, having ripped out their shackle bolts, cut the captain and his half-breed son to pieces. The Spanish crew ducked overside into the dinghy, and were gone. The slaves were masters of the ship...
...some 700 Saxony Lutherans for whom German Lutheranism was getting too liberal and rationalistic, and too closely bound up with the state. He and three fellow ministers built the original Concordia-a log-cabin schoolhouse in Missouri's Perry County-and set out to train a New World breed of pastors in the strict, Bible-centered Lutheranism of their conviction...