Word: nicolaus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies of some of the founding fathers of geology and paleontology, including Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton and Louis Agassiz. He even takes time out to discourse on an evolutionary oddity called atavism: the inexplicable reappearance of long-lost characteristics in a species, like extra toes in horses and teeth in chicken...
...documents seem too humble and haphazard for Hitler: the bindings vary, only one of the covers is embossed with the gold letters AH, and most are bound in black imitation leather. Scoffs Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant: "Imitation leather? For Hitler there was real leather or nothing...