Over the course of six days, he unveiled the earthshaking revelations that renowned English astronomer John Herschel--who was stargazing in southern Africa at the time--had seen beavers, bison and man-bats on the moon through his revolutionary new telescope.
Now Zubrowka - bison grass vodka - and Zywiec beer are easy to find in British cities.
Three symbols of Native America--the bison, the eagle and the Native American people themselves--have been endangered in recent decades.
We can marvel at the mythical bison-like Bonacon, for example, spreading his acidic bodily waste over Turkey, and the Sciapod, a people whose enormously swollen feet were said to make fine sun-shields.
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At least two such co-operatives, Dakota Growers Pasta Co. and the North American Bison Co-op, are doing well elsewhere in North Dakota.
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Chef Clyde Nelson describes his cooking as "innovative Western, " an eclectic style that often features local ingredients given haute preparations (pan-seared tournedos of bison with a porcini demi-glace, for instance).
This suggests that all present-day bison are descended from a very small group of animals.
But Dr Kennett notes that present-day bison are not like the ones the Clovis people hunted.
The figures were to be transformed into detailed works as much as 17 feet tall and 20 feet long, including three one-ton bison suspended in air as they seemed to fall to their death.
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Adding to the incongruence, the shipment ban applies to beef, chicken, lamb, pork and goat, but not to some other meats, including alligator, quail, venison, bison, elk and rabbit--so the elk bratwurst Rick Reams has sold at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium could be shipped across state lines.
Cornish insisted the Bison were continuing to improve despite back-to-back home defeats, and forecast new arrivals on the horizon.
The American West that's portrayed isn't the one of today or even of Wilson's time, but of mid-19th-century America, when an estimated 60 million bison roamed the plains largely undisturbed.
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There was a bison tartare, which came buried under a soft-boiled quail egg, and was meant to be mixed all together with the gouda cheese and rosemary mustard vinaigrette that were included.
Nobody made buffalo-hide shoes, and there was a ready supply of raw material: Ranchers slaughtered about 14, 000 bison each year to meet the growing demand for low-cholesterol meat.
The site comprises more than sixty multi-ton T-shaped limestone pillars, most of them engraved with bas-reliefs of dangerous animals: not the docile, edible bison and deer featured in Paleolithic cave paintings but ominous configurations of lions, foxes, boars, vultures, scorpions, spiders, and snakes.
Squeezing past the stiff bulk of Eric, the stuffed bison, in the hall, she would creep down the bullet-pocked stairs and step out into Albert Street.
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It is the same story for the European bison, which was limited to just a few zoos before re-introduction programs across eastern Europe helped re-build the population to current levels of around 1, 800.
Instead, they seem to have wrestled large prey down by stabbing them with 15-foot spears in a kind of savage version of pin the tail on the bison.
In 1905, to preserve the country's remaining stocks, a group of well-to-do East Coasters, including Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Frederic Remington, set up the American Bison Society (buffalo and bison being one and the same).
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