Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conferences in Washington and Nairobi, Leakey and Walker last week announced that they had unearthed the remains of a male specimen of Homo erectus. The hominid, given a catalog number of WT 15000, was one of a group that was directly ancestral to man and is known to have used fire and lived in caves as well as on the plains of Africa. Members of the species migrated as far as Asia, where the cranium of the so-called Java Man was discovered in 1891 and the Peking...
...Aries in the 15 months between February 1888 and May 1889. This rhapsodic outpouring of creative energy produced some 200 paintings, more than 100 drawings and watercolors and 200 letters, written in Dutch, French and English. Of this mass of work, 68 drawings, 76 paintings and a few specimen letters are included in = the present show, which has been 2 intelligently organized by Art Historian Ronald Pickvance around the proper armature-the strictly chronological unfolding of the painter's year...
...youngest daughter, Cordelia, and betrayal by his other two daughters, Goneril and Regan. An interrelated sub-plot tells how the bastard Edmund discredits his legitimate brother Edgar and claims the lands of their father, Duke of Gloucester. Simple stories, but Shelley called this play, "the most perfect specimen of dramatic poetry existing in the world...
...month before the Games I had gone to the Olympic Training Center under the shadow of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs to be tested in the Sports Physiology laboratories there to see if by chance there was a particular Olympic event for which I was a perfect physical specimen to suit...
...Mead, having a child seemed rather in the nature of a field trip. She took the notes while Gregory took the pictures. At one point, the couple contemplated setting up floodlights in order to be able to record on film any sudden, surprising move on the part of the specimen in their nursery...