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...last specimen, decided to burn it in a bonfire. They set the feathers ablaze on Jan. 8, 1775, according to Pinto-Correia’s book. Lore has it that one curator wrested a head and leg from the flames, Berry said.Those remains now reside in a gray box at the Oxford Museum of Natural History, according to Berry, who takes a group of Harvard student to the museum each year.But the fire did not destroy demand for the dodo. Decades later, in the Victorian era, the “Cabinet of Curiosity” craze reached a feverish intensity...
...grew up in the Bronx. Are you a Yankees fan? -Kevin Gray, Bow, N.H.I don't really like baseball. I have family members that are Mets fans and others that are Yankees fans, so whoever wants to go to the game, I go with...
...despite everything, a tepid sort of rebellion. The Undergraduate Council (UC) president appeared on dais, invited, as requested, and at the appointed time. Many a mother would have been proud of the gray suit, under which lay a checked oxford shirt (blue), and a tie (burgundy) to match...
...Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square is enough to test anyone's sense of humor. But when the meeting's fourth day dawned to blue skies and sunshine, one Beijinger, who didn't want his name used for obvious reasons, joked that the absence of the dirty gray cloud of polluted mist that typically hangs over the city must have been organized for the meeting: "They'll use it for the Olympics. It's special technology with Chinese characteristics like the stuff they use to keep the leaders' hair black...
...going to be made of newspaper, just to warn you,” Morton cautions with a grin. “It’s a conceptual outfit.” An hour later, Morton is at the cash register with her finds—a fur coat, a gray vest, and a pair of black leather ankle boots (for herself). After a minor blip involving receipts, she’s on her way back to Harvard for a film screening. “I’ll probably start working at ten or eleven,” she says...