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...excitement was so great that he could not keep from talking with a ship-news reporter. He had seen Dr. Alexis Carrel (Nobel Prize Winner in 1912), and he had seen a piece of tissue from the heart of a chicken which Dr. Carrel cut from a live bird in 1913. The tissue is still alive and growing. Motion pictures have been taken of its processes of development...
Last week George V., modest Imperator et Rex, felt stirring within him that urge toward pheasant shooting which in his youth caused him to become one of the crack bird-shots of the Empire. While the Prince of Wales spurred madly after foxes and Queen Mary occupied herself with vague housewifely duties at Buckingham Palace, King George set out for his annual visit to Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where some of the finest pheasant and partridge shooting in England...
...song of a bird for mirth...
...Tarascon, France, one Mile. Eugenie Dupont, alleged demimondaine, poured a litre of benzine over a parrot belonging to one of her rivals, and set fire to the bird. Amid a chorus of squawks and shrieks, the parrot flapped phoenix-like into the next room, igniting certain garments belonging to one M. La Rupelle. Doused with champagne, the fire was extinguished...
...There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths, shell-backed glyptodons, macrauchenia (camels, snouted like tapirs), toxodons (tusked hippos) and a bird-like flesh-eater called phororhacos...