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Shoebill. A Shoebill Stork (Balaeniceps rex), aka 'Whalehead' standing in shallow marsh. Resides in tropical East Africa. A very large bird related to the storks. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill.

Funky Feathers: 10 Bizarre Birds

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why We Celebrate MLK Day

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

International currencies, money, various banknotes, currency

A Brief (and Fascinating) History of Money

Black widow spider

9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders

In America

novel by Sontag

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discussed in biography

In Susan Sontag
…Lover: A Romance (1992) and In America (2000).
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