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    or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson and unveiled on 30 May 1764 in France. The mechanical duck appeared...
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    additional automata, The Tambourine Player and The Digesting Duck, which is considered his masterpiece. The duck had over 400 moving parts in each wing alone...
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    in 1737. He also constructed The Tambourine Player and the Digesting Duck, a mechanical duck that – apart from quacking and flapping its wings – gave the...
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  • McDuck, Sir Eider McDuck, Sir Quackly McDuck, Sir Roast McDuck, Sir Stuft McDuck, and Sir Swamphole McDuck, duck members of Clan McDuck, Donald Duck and...
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    Mallard (redirect from Mallard duck)
    The mallard (/ˈmælɑːrd, ˈmælərd/) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia...
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    Contemporain Lyon. ISBN 9782906461567. Delvoye, Wim (2007). Cloaca 2000-2007. Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg. ISBN 9782919893690. Artist's Shit Digesting Duck...
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    claimed that non-human animals could be explained reductively as automata; meaning essentially as more mechanically complex versions of this Digesting Duck....
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    needed] Gianello della Torre 1738 Mechanical duck that was able to eat, flap its wings, and excrete Digesting Duck Jacques de Vaucanson 1898 Nikola Tesla demonstrates...
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  • around it instead of having a "complete task at all costs" mentality. Digesting Duck, Vaucanson's fabricated 18th century forerunner. Bender – a cartoon...
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  • (1709–1782), inventor of the automated loom and an automaton known as the Digesting Duck Jacques Rochette de La Morlière (1719–1785), 18th-century French playwright...
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    The duck test is a form of abductive reasoning. This is its usual expression: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then...
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  • Scrooge McDuck (occasionally stylized as $crooge McDuck) is a cartoon character created in 1947 for The Walt Disney Company by Carl Barks. Appearing in...
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  • mobile robot able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations Digesting Duck Jessiko Nabaztag Nao BionicKangaroo – biomimetic robot model designed...
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  • cities in France and in Italy with two other creations by Vaucanson, the Digesting Duck and the Provençal Tambourinaire. Rented for a year to three Lyon merchants...
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  • made mechanised objects, but mostly products such as automatons - the Digesting Duck of the innovative Jacques de Vaucanson of the 1820s. Vaucanson had the...
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    Carl Barks (redirect from Duck Man)
    Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist...
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  • (artificial intelligence) Dick Tufeld Dieter Fox Differential wheeled robot Digesting Duck Digital control Digital image processing Dimensionality reduction Disability...
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    The Aylesbury duck is a breed of domesticated duck, bred mainly for its meat and appearance. It is a large duck with pure white plumage, a pink bill,...
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  • Topolino (category Donald Duck comics)
    publication of a companion newspaper, Paperino e altre avventure (Donald Duck and Other Adventures), which ran for three years before being merged with...
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  • as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and is Max Goof's father. He is normally characterized as hopelessly clumsy...
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  • "Duck and cover" is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion. Ducking and covering is useful in offering a degree of...
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  • The Donald Duck pocket books are a series of paperback-sized publications published in various European countries, featuring Disney comics. The pocket...
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    The Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus) is a species of flightless duck found on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. The steamer...
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  • (2002–2009). The "Ducks" name refers to Long Island's duck-farming heritage (itself represented by the Big Duck ferrocement) and recalls the former Long Island...
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  • called the Duck Blind, a group of seats in right field that cost up to $41 and include unlimited food, soda, and beer. In 2018, the Duck Blind underwent...
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  • have a crispy taste – a result of the stir-frying. The bulk of duck's head is not digestible; only the skin is eaten, while the rest of the snack is just...
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  • Flatulence (redirect from Step on a duck)
    digesting certain types of food, or of incomplete digestion, as is the case during steatorrhea. Anything that causes food to be incompletely digested...
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  • Gertie the Duck is an icon of Milwaukee, Wisconsin history and the subject of a 4-foot-tall (1.2 m) bronze sculpture by American artist Gwendolyn Gillen...
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  • José Carioca (category Donald Duck universe characters)
    Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck, described by Time as "a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse." He...
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  • Carl Barks List of Disney comics by Don Rosa / Don Rosa Donald Duck in comics / Donald Duck universe Disney comics / Inducks (Disney comics database) "I...
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