Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moths won't mate without oak leaves...
...Harvard biologists have found that when the female polyphemus moth, receives the vapor from the oak through its antennae, it releases a chemical--a sex pheromone--which activates the male...
...Only Oak...
...Oak is the only plant which activates sexual activity." Dr. Riddiford said...
...gang members were vocationally talented; they drilled 48 holes to remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that...