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stork
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n.
a tall long-legged wading bird (family Ciconiidae) with a long heavy bill and typically with white and black plumage, esp. the European
white stork (Ciconia ciconia), which often nests on tall buildings.
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the white stork as the pretended bringer of babies.
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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STORKS BY HUNDREDS BESIEGE SPANISH TOWN.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/27/1997; 700+ words
; ...pesticides dangerous to storks, said Lorenzo Corrales...studying Malpartida's stork population. But the...has started an annual Stork Week, complete with a stork photo contest. Some 200 photographs of storks from several European...
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STORK Member States Reference Group Calls Second Meeting In Malmo, Sweden; Open forum widens membership.
M2 Presswire; 11/2/2009; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-2 November 2009-STORK: STORK Member States Reference Group Calls Second Meeting In Malmo...2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:02112009 Inkberrow, UK -- STORK, a pilot scheme co-funded by the EU that aims to implement...
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Storks prosper in old Croat marshland village
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 4/22/2005; 700+ words
; ...Some fences have life-sized stork statues. The EU's Life project...of peace. Most houses have stork nests, some weighing up to one ton, perched on top, with a stork couple busily repairing what...damaged during the winter. The storks go about their business indifferent...
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STORK Industry Group Publishes Agenda for Industry Group Meeting.
M2 Presswire; 6/10/2009; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-10 June 2009-STORK: STORK Industry Group Publishes Agenda for Industry Group Meeting(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:10062009 Inkberrow, UK, -- STORK, a pilot scheme co-funded by the EU that aims to implement...
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Storks Rebound, and a German Village Rejoices
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 1/5/2007; ; 651 words
; ...being delivered by storks originated in their...s been only one stork's nest in Gummern...we consulted the stork father in this area...knows more about the storks than we altogether...that there would be storks settling in that nest. But the elder stork wife that came first...
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Stork Prints.(label and package printing)(Company overview)
Magazine article from: Label & Narrow Web; 3/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION AND SERVICE The name Stork Prints is synonymous with innovative products...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ROTARY SCREEN EXPERTISE Stork Prints is the world's only company offering...system for rotary screen printing. The Stork system includes an extensive program of...
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Silencing Stork.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Come on, short stuff. Get in my face." Stork dribbled the basketball, edging his hip into...closer to the hoop. "You can quit the talk, Stork," I answered. "Just shoot the ball." Stork beat me at one-on-one every morning, needling...
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Stork Prints.(COMPANY PROFILES 2007)(Company overview)
Magazine article from: Label & Narrow Web; 3/1/2007; 700+ words
; Stork Prints is the technology leader in rotary...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DIRECT LASER ENGRAVING Stork Prints' Direct Laser Engraving (DLE) systems...print plate can be reproduced in minutes. Stork's engraving system for the narrow-web...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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STORK CLUB DELIVERS NIGHTLIFE AGAIN AT MUSEUM EXHIBIT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/28/2000; 700+ words
; ...BRODER The (Westchester) Journal News The Stork Club, once the quintessential New York...a New York City museum exhibition. ``Stork Club,'' at the New York Historical Society...prologue of Blumenthal's new book, ``Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot...
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Stork Prints.(COMPANY PROFILES 2005)(Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Label & Narrow Web; 3/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...SERVICE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The name Stork Prints is synonymous with innovative products...Headquartered in Boxmeer, The Netherlands, Stork Prints is centered on four key competences...applications. ROTARY SCREEN EXPERTISE Stork offers turnkey rotary screen printing solutions...
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Storks
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...gray bird is not a true stork; it is in a related...Balaenicipitidae. All storks (except the wood stork) study the ground or...the tail of Leptoptilos storks have been used for hat decorations. The only stork of North America is the...
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stork
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
stork common name for...wading birds. The storks are related to the...bills. The only storks found in the Americas...the American wood stork, previously known...saddle-billed stork of Africa and the adjutant storks of S Asia and tropical...
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shoebill stork
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
shoebill stork common name for a large (up to 54 in./122 cm) tall, storklike bird...legs with large, unwebbed feet. A solitary, silent bird, the shoebill stork is native to the marshy banks of the papyrus swamps of the East African...
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Black Stork
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Black Stork From 1915 to 1919, the prominent Chicago surgeon Harry Haiselden electrified...dramatization of his cases, an hour-long commercial melodrama titled The Black Stork. In the film a man suffering from an unnamed inherited disease ignores...
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storks
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
storks See CICONIIDAE ; CICONIIFORMES .
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