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An image from the Wiki of the same name, the Edwardian ideal of beauty as modeled upon the face of a drowned unknown woman recovered from the Seine.
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Maybe there aren't questions here, merely inspirations.
Searching, slight poetic inspiration, for a Murmuration of Starlings. The words, not the linked video. Thinking, perhaps, that the word murmuration was perhaps generic to a flock of birds, a specific flight pattern, which led me to the Wiki on the different words for groups (generic: flock, specific: as follows...) of birds, some interesting associations related no doubt to the impression made upon witnesses. A murder of crows, easy, an exaltation of Larks? Genius. And the Tidings born by Magpies, or the Watch of Nightingales?
- Crows - Murder
- Larks - Exaltation
- Magpies - Tidings
- Nightingales - Watch
- Owls, Rooks - Parliament
- Parrots - Pandemonium
- Peacocks - Muster
- Ravens - Unkindness
- Snipe - Walk or Wisp
- Sparrows - Host
- Starlings - Murmuration
- Swans - Game or Wedge
Find more on the Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds. Inspiring, after it's fashion.
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Or is it a link of the day?
Filed under "Ideas and Questions" because I can't seem to make up my mind.
Possibly a curious film - the trailer seems good (they always seem good) - a variety of takes on the UFO Phenomenon.
Personally, I don't believe or disbelieve. I think that without a doubt there's other (generously assuming that we are as well...) intelligent life in the universe. Whether they've visited us or not, well, there I'm skeptical. And I'm damned sure they've never spoken to or abducted - even once - Whitby Strieber.
But a good idea for a documentary - like the book (not film) "Men who stare at goats" should make you question your beliefs, not confirm them. And there are a surprising number of very credible witnesses to the UFO Phenomenon that I don't quite know what to make of...
So - Ideas and Questions it is - Link of the Day filed under Ideas and Questions: http://www.miragemen.com/. Possibly very curious.
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The questions (and ideas) suggest themselves. And while the correlation has been well documented, it's still worth noting.
Link: Ottawa top of list for cheaters
Note Calgary's #3. Quotable: "We find our strong membership in the West in keeping with the trend of people with conservative values participating in what is considered 'deviant' societal behavior,"
Me, personally, I'm a Liberal. Not as in the party, but as in the outlook...
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Don't know if I agree, but food for thought nonetheless.
Quote: "Creativity is the art of concealing one's sources" - attributed to both Albert Einstein and Coco Chanel. Ah, the failure of the interweb. If you find out who really said it, let me know. I won't update this.