The common swift (Apus apus) is a medium-sized bird, superficially similar to the barn swallow or house martin but somewhat larger, though not stemming from those passerine species, being in the order Apodiformes. The resemblances between the groups are due to convergent evolution, reflecting similar contextual development. The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts.

By the order of Abraha, King of Habasha, one of his army commanders launches an attack on Mecca in order to destroy the Kaaba. He leads a well-equipped force of thousands of soldiers, horses and elephants. As the army approaches Mecca, the elephants respond to divine order by halting and refusing to continue. Millions of small birds then release a hail of stones onto Abraha's forces and the army is annihilated. A month later, Muhammad is born. The film depicts pre-Islamic Arabia as seen through the eyes of Muhammad from birth to the age of 13.[1]

сон - это ничто иное, как одна из форм существования живой материи. Прямо так фундаментально. Что спят, так или иначе, все мало-мальски сложные живые существа......сон это особая активная фаза жизни, что во сне организм не отдыхает, а работает. Что мозг, память и человеческая личность не может функционировать без того, чтобы непрерывно не переносить свежие полученные данные из оперативной памяти (предположительно, гиппокампа), в долговременную память (неокортекс), где эти данные будут упорядочены, связаны и размещены уже надолго.Что "мышечной" памяти вообще нет, а есть только память мозга и при этом не только обучение, условно говоря, интеллектуальной или эмоциональной деятельности требует сна для закрепления, но и физические упражнения, память о которых должна быть упакована в соответствующую область мозга.Выводы из всего многосотстраничного кирпича довольно банальны... спать надо много (8 часов как минимум), сон должен быть качественным, то есть содержать фазы медленного и быстрого сна, без чередование которых информация не будет правильно обработана.

if we get a bird flu mutation  causing a human to human viral mutation that, that could cause also a catastrophic  outbreak of a pandemic that would exceed, you know, by far what we  experienced with COVID 19.

As Brad Bird, who joined Pixar as a director in 2000, likes to say, “The process eithermakes you or unmakes you.” I like Brad’s way of looking at it because while it gives theprocess power, it implies that we have an active role to play in it as well.

bird banding

The terms “turnaround” and “tag ending” are generic labels that do not indicate a partic-ular chord sequence; rather, they suggest the specific formal function of these progressions.In jazz, there is a certain subset of harmonic progressions whose names suggest specificchord successions. When jazz musicians use the term “Lady Bird” progression,for instance, it connotes a particular chromatic turnaround from Tadd Dameron’s tuneof the same title recorded in 1947. Figure 13.9 illustrates the chord structure of thatprogression using Model VI of harmonic realization

“a huge amount of scientific information in Irish was passed down orally, but was lost to the trauma of the famine and immigration.” Today, only 1.7 percent of the Irish population is fluent. Ó Séaghdha, who said many words in Irish are like “one-word poems,” finds himself fascinated by this bio-cultural knowledge. “The word for swallow is fáinleog,” he said. “It means little wanderer, because the bird migrates during winter. In our languages, we understood bird migration, thousands and thousands of years ago. We had words for phosphorus magnetism before they had scientific books.”

sportswriters used to talk about how Larry Bird could look at a newspaper photograph from any game he’d played as a Boston Celtic and recall where everyone else had been on the court at that moment, knowledge that informed his play every time he brought the ball forward.

The hipster is an enfant terrible turned inside out.

bird counts across the United States have fallen a staggering 29 percent in the last 50 years

                                        “Ajax, one of the gods dwelling on Olympus, in a prophet’s shape, tells us both to fight on by the ships. For that man was no prophet Calchas,                                                [70] who reads our omens. It was easy for me, as he went away, to see that from the back                                 80 by the markings on his feet and legs. Besides, it’s easy to recognize the gods.

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hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin

nightingale

Salim Ali National Park

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quick-winged metaphors like birds

Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary

Banks Island

They hadn’t thought about the downsides. These tools offer remarkable empowerment, but there’s a dark side to it. It enables people to do very cynical, damaging things.”

In other words, Hillary Clinton herself has known for at least a year that her campaign and her entire party systematically incite violence at Trump rallies. This is hard evidence of direct collaboration between the DNC and the Hillary/Kaine campaign to terrorize every Trump or Pence event with paid, trained, and centrally organized agitators. Many of these agitators were homeless and/or mentally ill persons, as well as “rock ‘n’ roll” DNC union workers. Moreover, coordinating all these thugs involved daily calls to Robbie Mook and Hillary Clinton herself. This Bolshevik/Brownshirt “birddogging” campaign is way bigger than online “troll” tactics by the Correct The Record Super PAC. This campaign literally amounts to a paid, mobile army of about 500 agitators that can be anywhere in the USA as needed.

Official records reveal Bob Creamer, the man exposed as being behind a tactic called “bird-dogging” in which homeless people, the elderly, and mentally ill individuals are paid to start violence at Trump rallies, has been to the White House many times since 2009.

Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies, using a tactic called “bird-dogging,”

In turn, the consultants are working with Democratic Super PACs and other groups to give maximum media exposure to the “bird dogging” violence, which they admit targets the elderly and disabled for maximum “shock value.”

Evidence is emerging that Team Clinton (which includes Podesta) knows its own operatives stirred the violence and the connection is “bird dogging.”

Wikileaks emails confirm that Dems have been "Bird Dogging" since 2008 paying people to organize violence

Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies, using a tactic called “bird-dogging,” according to a new video investigation released Monday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

Included in the undercover video is evidence of dirty tricks including what is known as "birddogging", or infiltrating Trump campaign events in order to incite anarchy and violence.

A new video by James O’Keefe reveals that Democrats have been using a tactic called “bird-dogging” to incite violence at rallies for Donald Trump.

BREAKING | Undercover Videos Show Clinton Campaign Directing Violence Through ‘Bird Dogging’

AGENTS working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid professional agitators to incite violence at Donald Trump rallies, an explosive investigation has revealed.

A new expression has emerged: "Bird-dogging."Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies, using a tactic called “bird-dogging,” according to a new video investigation released Monday by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

Democrats are using trained provocateurs to instigate violence

Violence at Trump Rallies Traced to Clinton Campaign and the DNC Through Process Called Birddogging

Democrats have used trained provocateurs to instigate violence at Republican events nationwide throughout the 2016 election cycle, including at several Donald Trump rallies, using a tactic called “bird-dogging,

Bird Dogging in essence is an old Saul ALinsky tactic on steroids. Send two paid actors to your opponent's rally to fight each other.

“Bird dogging” is a term used for what could best be classified as paid trolls used to incite and aggravate [violent] reactions from people attending political rallies.

"Bird-dogging"