Psittaciformes
Psittaciformes (lories, cockatoos, parrots; class Aves) An order which comprises one family, Psittacidae, but which is sometimes split into three: Loridae, Caca-tuidae, and Psittacidae.
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THE DANGER OF UNDERPLAYING WORLD'S WEIGHTIEST PROBLEM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/30/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...library were the popular works of Hendrik Willem van Loon, published in the years between...an indelible impression on me. Van Loon was a man of encyclopedic interests...for the economic equivalent of van Loon's drawing of the half-mile box...
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More Than Just the Facts: A Hundred Years of Children's Nonfiction.
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...in 1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon. This title was issued by Horace...One of the strongest supporters of van Loon's book was the influential...involved in its development, for van Loon had shown her his manuscript...
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Today in History - Dec. 16
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/16/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...England, Scotland and Ireland. In 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. In 1905, the...the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. _ Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Dutch-born journalist and lecturer (1882-1944...
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Authors and Authorities: Guides to Children's Books
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/8/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...appreciations of Padraic Colum and the oft-maligned Hendrik Willem Van Loon, an unexpectedly fresh and personal view of Tolkien...Paterson, Natalie Babbitt, Maurice Sendak, Chris van Allsburg and others just as distinguished-talk about...
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Almanac
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 12/16/2004; ; 531 words
; ...England, Scotland and Ireland. In 1770, composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. In 1773, the...means progress, and progress means suffering." - Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Dutch-born journalist and lecturer (1882-1944...
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Today in History - Dec. 7
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/7/2006; 700+ words
; ...second president of the United States. In 1836, Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United...their most precious possession - their ignorance." - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American journalist and lecturer (1882...
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The eutopitect: Lewis Mumford as a reluctant utopian.(Featured Article)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Instead, it offers an impressionistic interpretation of the subject. The book was intentionally patterned after Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind (1921) in the expectation that it would be easily accessible and thus widely read...
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THE PEOPLED ISLAND
Magazine article from: Michigan Quarterly Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...I was born. The Selection Committee was composed of Pearl S. Buck, John Kieran, William Lyon Phelps, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The binding is buckram and the spine, bearing a black and maroon field, is stamped in gold with the author...
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/20/2003; 527 words
; ...Joan Collins, who is to appear in a new TV sitcom. "Life means progress, and progress means suffering." -- Hendrik Willem Van Loon, journalist and lecturer. "I find cleaning very calming. I clean the house when I need to clear my mind...
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Tuesday, December 16
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Bratt, U.S. actor (1963--). Thought For Today: Life means progress, and progress means suffering _ Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Dutch-born journalist and lecturer (1882-1944).
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hendrik Willem van Loon , 1882-1944, American author and journalist, b. Rotterdam, Netherlands. He emigrated to the United States in 1903 and studied...
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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem (1882–1944), born in Holland...Man, the Miracle Maker (1928); Van Loon's Geography (1932); Ships &...1943), an intimate biography; and Van Loon's Lives (1942) and Report to St...
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Willem Barents
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Barents The Dutch navigator Willem Barents (died 1597...and the Barents Sea. Willem Barents was born on the...In 1592 Jan Huyghen van Linschoten of Enkhuizen...Hakluyt Society in 1876. Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Golden Book of the...
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Bellman, Carl Michael
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...known work, the song cycle Fredmans epistlar (Fredman's Epistles). Early Life in Stockholm and Uppsala Hendrik Willem van Loon commented in The Last of the Troubadours: the Life of Carl Michael Bellman, "whenever three Swedes . . . are...
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