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...Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is undergoing a $420,000 polishing that will return it to the splendor envisioned by Sir Christopher Wren-and, hopefully, keep it that way, since electric-shock pigeon deterrents are being added. London Bridge is falling down, and plans have been drawn for a $6,700,000 replacement...
...charm is that the old man did not consciously set out to recount history, but only to leave his descendants a straightforward personal account of all he saw and did. And that was considerable. One of Meriwether's earliest memories, for example, is of the massacre at Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, when Indian followers of Tecumseh slaughtered 24 white settlers. He was only eleven, but his father sent him off on horseback to warn the Kentucky countryside that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles in 48 hours carrying military dispatches. He trekked...
...Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, who tried to veto the Calder stabile last spring because "art is supposed to transmit thought. Unless it does, I don't get it." But the art certainly transmits Calder, and he ventured the thought that his vertically planed piece was a lot more "pigeon-proof" than the giant Reclining Figure by Henry Moore, installed in a reflecting pool near by. "Poor Henry," said Calder. "I do hate to think of his sculpture out there under all those pigeons...
...author, who earlier wrote The Great Auk, laments the fate of the passenger pigeon, whose species numbered in the millions before man trapped, bludgeoned and shot the bird into extinction...
...19th century America, nothing was more ordinary than the passenger pigeon, which numbered in the billions, and may have accounted for nearly 40% of the country's bird population. Each year they swept across the central and eastern U.S., from the Gulf Coast to Canada and back again in roaring migratory swarms that sometimes darkened the entire sky. They could fly for 20 hours on end with bursts of speed up to 90 miles an hour; yet it sometimes took three days for a flight to pass a given point...