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Category: /History
…bigger and better. When he was a slave one of his choir's was to operate a contraption that swatted away flies from the food at the table. Booker was able to get his first taste of intellectual conversation while swatting flies at the dinner table. He yearned…
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Category: /Literature/English
…separate and distinct species of present day birds and land animals. It would be physically impossible for eight persons (Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives) to provide for the care and feeding of all the flies, termites, worms, snails, fleas, bats…
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Category: /Literature/English
…camp in rice field near Manila, And all of us cheered and cheered it. But there were flies and poisonous things; And there was the deadly water, And the cruel heat, And the sickening, putrid food; And the smell of the trench just back…
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…. An exception occurs, Aristotle thought, when some "very low" worms and flies come from rotting fruit or manure by "spontaneous generation." The typical life cycles are epicycles: The same pattern repeats, but through a linear succession of individuals…
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…, some flies, fleas, and some lice. Great damage to the meat and hides of cattle is caused by larval flies such as the ox warble, which migrates through the tissues and, after boring breathing through the skin, leaves the body to reproduce. E. PRION…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…buyers. The alderman of the district was in a class all his own. He ran an illegal dump in the packing town district. During the summer time, as if the smell of the meat factories was not bad enough, the townspeople had to deal with the flies from…
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…. First man I'd come to, I'd thrash away the flies, and they would rise, they would, like bees around a hive. Then I would begin to bathe the wounds, and by the time I had bathed off three or four, the fire and heat would have melted the ice and made the water…
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Category: /History
…of most slaves were family-type cabins, but some lived in large barracks that were filled with slaves of all ages, conditions and size. The cabins had windows but generally they had only wooden shutters and no glass. The window let in flies in summer and cold…
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Category: /Literature/English
…into a family as scattered and artificial as the very rose petals his mother dropped with her first labor pain. As the velvet petals float to the ground, the insurance man spreads his wings and flies from Mercy. The flight is unsuccessful even though Pilate tries…
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…'), each reproducing true to type. An exception occurs, Aristotle thought, when some 'very low' worms and flies come from rotting fruit or manure by 'spontaneous generation.' The typical life cycles are epicycles: The same pattern repeats, but through a linear…
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