Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard biologist yesterday announced that an expedition he led this summer unearthed remains of a mammal previously unknown in North America, and now believed to be the oldest mammal specimen on the continent...
...Robert Gooden, 41, owner of Worldwide Butterflies Ltd. and Lullingstone Silk Farm, who projects the somewhat abstract intensity of a man on a perpetual hunt for the perfect specimen. Lullingstone provided the silk for Lady Diana's wedding dress. Nestled in the rolling hills of Dorset, hard by Gooden's mansion, it is the only silk farm in England. Its worms, which dine on mulberry leaves, have provided silk for the wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth and for the cloak Charles wore when he was invested as Prince of Wales. Started by Lady Hart Dyke in the 1930s...
...strongest of all human relationships " citing innumerable examples of their virtually suicidal generosity to one another. Alongside her portraits of cruel or monstrously indifferent guards and camp administrators are some of men and women capable of acts of compassion. One camp commander, whom she describes as a "peculiar specimen," intervened again and again to save her and her camp lover later her husband, the prisoner-physician Anton Walter...
Agca hardly accomplished that. He was, on first examination, a strange specimen of indecipherable politics-radical right and radical left curving around in his brain and meeting each other going the other way. He appeared also to be what
...oldest specimen in the current Vatican exhibit is a Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum that dates from the late 8th century and establishes regulations, worthy of the Pentagon, for the preparation and maintenance of ecclesiastical documents. But the exact origin of the Vatican Archives is unknown. As early as 303 Emperor Diocletian decreed that everything accumulated until that time be destroyed. In 410 the Visigoths stormed Rome, and the city burned for three days. The Vandals sacked it in 455, the Saracens...