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...When this correspondent left Alcañiz-abandoned to the enemy without a shot being fired in its defense- the flight had become a general panic...
...Inexplicable as this seems, raw recruits were in the front line and it was these men who gave way before Alcorisa and Alcañiz, together with carabineros and other units...
...since 1844 has a Great Auk (Alca impennis) trod the earth. It was a large flightless sea bird, slightly smaller than a goose and more docile. An expert swimmer and diver, its feet hurt so much that it often lay stretched prone on the rocks. The Auk laid only one egg a year but no two eggs were ever alike in size, shape or color...