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Albatross is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. It lies near the intersection of Routes 39 and 96, approximately six miles (10 km) north of Mount Vernon and two miles south of Miller.
Not who you're looking for? Others named Albatross: large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels an · metaphor · 2011 film by Niall MacCormick · studio album by Big Wreck
“The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”
“Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.”
“I was always a lover of soft-winged things.”
“The francolin's voice is the glory of the fields.”
““What is that?” I gasped, nearly blinded by the unexpected vermillion patches on the blackbird’s epaulets. I watched as the bird threw back its head, opened wide its beak and let out a sound so primal it left me marvelling: this was as close as I’d ever stand to dinosaurs. If this bird had been here all along, I thought, what else had I been missing?”
“From nesting, brooding and sex, to metabolism, development and even the diseases that afflicted them, many of the traits found in birds today were inherited from the dinosaurs. The boundary between dinosaurs and birds has become utterly blurred.”
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