• The Bird-catcher or Fowler and the Blackbird was one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 193 in the Perry Index. In Greek sources, it featured a lark, but French...
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  • The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird The Bird in Borrowed Feathers The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Bulls and the Lion The Cat and the Mice The Crab and the Fox...
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    The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests...
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    Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true...
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    The Beaver The Belly and the Other Members The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird The Bird in Borrowed Feathers The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Bulls and the Lion...
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    Blackbirding is the coercion of people through deception or kidnapping to work as slaves or poorly paid labourers in countries distant from their native...
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    - The Farmer and his Sons 36. simius et delphus. 37. ranae duae sitientes. 38. ranae duae vicinae. 39. Auceps et cassita - The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird...
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  • D'Myna Leagues (category Animated television series about birds)
    Loosely based on the baseball writing of W. P. Kinsella, the series was set in a world populated by anthropomorphic birds, and centred on the minor league...
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  • Kunta Kinte (category Roots: The Saga of an American Family)
    slave catchers gave him an ultimatum: he would be castrated or have his right foot cut off. He chose to have his foot cut off, and the men cut off the front...
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  • actors are Mel Blanc (doing the voices of Sylvester, Tweety and Blackbird) and June Foray (doing the voice for Granny). The animation was by Gerry Chiniquy...
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    The fauna of Australia consists of a large variety of animals; some 46% of birds, 69% of mammals, 94% of amphibians, and 93% of reptiles that inhabit the...
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    Red-tailed hawk (category Birds of the Dominican Republic)
    The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada...
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    who made it to Mexico lived with the knowledge that they could be illegally kidnapped by slave catchers or blackbirders. Slave hunters who tried to kidnap...
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    College. Blackbird Sisters, mystery novels by Nancy Martin Bobos in Paradise, by David Brooks Official Preppy Handbook, by Lisa Birnbach The Pretty Little...
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    Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Black Hawk, Sauk chief Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief Andrew Blackbird, Odawa leader, historian, and author Kimberly...
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  • This is a list of all airline codes. The table lists the IATA airline designators, the ICAO airline designators and the airline call signs (telephony designator)...
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  • uproot and move to Mexico. The Webbers were also afraid that Blackbirders, or slave stealers and slave catchers, would kidnap his family members and sell...
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    Frederick Douglass (category African-American candidates for Vice President of the United States)
    Good Lord Bird'". Daily News. New York. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013. Retrieved September 5, 2013. "The Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer...
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  • Chinese, Swedish, Russian and Dutch. Among the commentaries, there are reviews from notable figures such as Wayne Mills and Lorraine Orman, as well as...
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  • number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner...
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    South America (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    described as the southern subregion of the Americas. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic...
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    Harriet Tubman (category African Americans in the American Civil War)
    past Dover, Smyrna, and Blackbird, where other agents would take her across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to New Castle and Wilmington. In Wilmington...
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    Padrone system (category Labor in the United States)
    want to make the United States their permanent home. In the U.S., these 'birds of passage' were employed in growth areas nationwide where the local labor...
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    trade Blackbirding Coastwise slave trade Indian Ocean slave trade Trans-Saharan slave trade Slavery in Africa Asiento de Negros Slavery in the Ottoman...
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    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave...
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  • Non-native pronunciations of English (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
    variable stress. E.g. the blackbird vs. the black bird. Problems with contrastive stress. E.g. with sugar or without sugar? (the second sugar is more heavily...
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    Jake Wells (category Mobile Blackbirds players)
    American right-handed Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Detroit Wolverines in 1888 and the St. Louis Browns in 1890. He made his major...
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  • Roadrunnerrecords.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2011-03-04. "Basement Birds official website: About the band". Retrieved 2011-07-03...
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  • aired on ABC from 1982 to 1986 and is the second television version of Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter...
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    the gambol of the free limbs on the hillside; the sight of the green mead with its spangles of buttercups and daisies; the song of the bird and the humming...
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