We had jugglers, stilt walkers, and a killer seven-piece band.
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"muscle suit" and stilt-like moon shoes to play the Beast.
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Dogs still trapped in wooden stilt houses howled for their owners.
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She's charismatic, she speaks without stilt, or jargon, or meaningless aspirational blather.
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They may sit on stubby feet or stand on long stilt legs.
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The stilts were the hardest part, the basic skill of stilt-walking.
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And the 32 actors, puppeteers and stilt-walkers have yet to arrive.
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Peter Fonda: The Beatles stayed on Benedict Canyon in a stilt house.
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There are stilt performers lumbering around the packed warehouse decorated like a jungle.
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Upon arriving with Ms. Beydler at her parents' stilt house near Tampa, Fla.
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And Stevens' ability to maneuver in the stilt shoes was no small feat, either.
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SUMMIT "Daffodil Day," baby goats, food, outdoor market, stilt band and thousands of daffodils.
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This is the stilt mangrove, Rhizophora, a species that dominates parts of Indonesia's coasts.
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Stilt mangroves do a lot for coastal communities, protecting them from typhoons and tsunamis.
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A stilt walker and nude cyclists out on the street during the annual solstice celebration.
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Waves crash on stilt houses along the shore at Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida.
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They roamed the Earth between 130 and 65 million years ago on long, stilt-like legs.
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Check out the winners below: A black-winged stilt photographed near Skala Kallonis, Lesbos Island, Greece.
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A family of stilt walkers playing violins and dressed in Renaissance garb nearly careened into passers-by.
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Brazil nut, stilt mangrove, and Afrormosia are just three species in three wildly diverse and important ecosystems.
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There were several people below the stilt-supported cube, most of them looking up through the transparent floor.
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Laliberté, 60, began his career as a stilt walker, fire eater, and accordion player on the streets of Montreal.
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The stilt mangrove isn't just storing carbon above ground, but also in the soil, up to 10 feet down.
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I've always been plagued with so much self-doubt, and I've pulled people into my life to stilt me up.
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Members of the carnivalesque Zanqueros group (stilt walkers) are a fixture in the protests, where they perform to live music.
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The men have been identified as Kashief Hamilton, a DJ, and Randolph Donovan, a stilt dancer, according to NBC News.
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Most beachfronts in the Caribbean are more exposed to storms, and there are fewer areas where stilt construction is viable.
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The theme was circus meets hood -- so there were stilt walkers and aerialists performing right next to roughly 100 STRIPPERS!
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The upshot is that "the law is a patchwork," says Kristen Stilt, who teaches animal law at Harvard Law School.
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Their stilt-like legs, geometric spots, and iconic neck make them one of the most physically-unique species on Earth.
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As Inpon fruitlessly mopped the porch of his waterlogged house, a young family evacuated their stilt home in the rain.
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"We don't have a fear of fire," said Mr. Cooper, who burns regularly around his stilt house nestled in woodlands.
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"Tai O is a like a living museum, showcasing our unique heritage like the fishing village and stilt houses," Tse said.
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No one will quite fly, but the show does use acrobatics, stilt walking and other circus arts to depict Earhart's adventures.
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PERCHED ON CLIFFS above a river, Hongyadong is a stilt-house complex in mock-traditional style in the city of Chongqing.
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For $66 per day, kids from kindergarten through 12th grade can work on their circus skills like trapeze, juggling, and stilt walking.
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The rousing Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble offered a glimpse into Malian traditions and, from Ivory Coast, some surprisingly acrobatic stilt-walking.
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At the Bocas festival last spring, I admired a performance of moko jumbies, stilt walkers that are a traditional feature of Carnival.
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Sidewalk jugglers and stilt walkers will be on hand for opening day on Wednesday as well as subsequent Saturdays: Through Labor Day.
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Several species of mangrove have the superpower, but let's take one common to Indonesia, called Rhizophora, the stilt mangrove, as an example.
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He told me about the 1000mokos project, a group that is working to get more people interested in the practice of stilt-walking.
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This year's show, "Big Apple Circus: The Grand Tour," is friendly, beguiling and emphatically humane, from the smallest poodle to the tallest stilt walker.
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The two were lying together on a mattress beneath the mosquito nets in their one-room stilt house in the bottomlands of eastern Cambodia.
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Stilt focuses on providing loans for them: $431K of loans so far, $60K of which has been paid back, with 0 percent defaults to date.
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In the village of Khokong, a sea of mud oozed around the stilt houses that were still standing and dead animals floated in the water.
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Dubai Marina Walk and Park Island turn into a massive performance ground around this time of year, featuring a magician, jugglers, stilt-walkers, and musicians.
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Aboriginal culture was given a major spotlight with native dancers and stilt walkers (although the Caucasian dancers made up as aboriginals probably wouldn't fly now).
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It was once a lovely weekend destination, with its stilt bungalows by the sea and its sardine restaurants, but today tourism lags for lack of investment.
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The river was then so alluring that Bangkok was affectionately called "the Venice of the East," a serene warren of canals, floating markets and stilt houses.
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As you walk around, you'll find jugglers, stilt-walkers, and singers entertaining the crowds as they play carnival games or ride around in rental surrey bikes.
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Numbering about 30,000, they now live in hundreds of impoverished settlements in open-sided stilt homes perched at the edge of the region's streams and rivers.
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A tall young man with yellow hair and stilt-like legs emerged dynamically from the crowd and dozens of willing hands propelled him forward toward me.
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There was a large band on stage, a separate percussion ensemble, seven stilt walkers, a professional wrestler wearing a mask and a nearly nude carnival dancer.
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The scientists also had a new piece of equipment on loan from their Japanese partners to measure the photosynthetic rate of stilt mangrove and other species.
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Contrasting the fun is a powerful stilt toward activism, both in the art and the fact that NADA, a non-profit, is donating proceeds to the ACLU.
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Other attractions include presentations of live birds associated with Halloween, like owls, ravens and vultures, anda costume parade with stilt walkers from Alice Farley Dance Theater, above.
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Other attractions include presentations of live birds associated with Halloween, like owls, ravens and vultures, and a costume parade with stilt walkers from Alice Farley Dance Theater.
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You can reach the stilt-supported buildings' bases at the ground floor or (via skywalk) the raised podium, which connects to the city's system of elevated walkways.
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Barbata's art is often long-term and participatory, engaging in practices such as stilt-dancing in Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico, and papermaking in the Amazon of Venezuela.
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The delicious scent conjured up images of rodeo clowns, stilt walkers and squealing pigs — everything you'd find at a carnival, or in Times Square on any given night.
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Kalau lives in a small wooden stilt-house perched on the rocky shores of Ela Beach, around a kilometer from an upmarket resort that hosted numerous APEC delegations.
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So far, only a few octopus species have been observed stilt-walking, but Huffard tells Science Friday that the goofy behavior is probably more common than we think.
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Other attractions include presentations of live birds associated with Halloween, like owls, ravens and vultures, and a costume parade with stilt walkers from Alice Farley Dance Theater, above.
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Mangrove forests help to create healthy seas because they act as nurseries for fish, prawns, crabs and other marine animals that breed among the trees' stilt-like roots.
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In Iquitos, the waters were too shallow for the Yacu Kallpa to dock amid the tin-roofed stilt houses and the brightly painted tourist boats that lined the riverfront.
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That seems to have done nothing to stilt the rise of the Wolf of Grape Street, who aimed to make 21990 albums before he began his sentence in July.
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Underneath a stilt house in the forest community of Tmat Paelly, trainers take a group of 10 farmers seated around a wooden table through the app's multiple-choice questions.
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Two stages will offer live performances of music, theater and circus arts, and a finale costume parade and drum circle will welcome little goblins to strut alongside stilt dancers.
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While in Hanoi, he visited the stilt house of Ho Chi Minh and wrote in the visitors' book at the compound that he felt "humble" before the "great" Vietnamese leader.
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Known as "Wilt the Stilt," the athletic, 224-foot-24 Chamberlain led the league in scoring his first seven seasons, shattering NBA records and changing the style of play forever.
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While in Hanoi, he visited the stilt house of Ho Chi Minh and wrote in the visitors' book at the compound that he felt "humble" before the "great" Vietnamese leader.
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Body/Origin Descriptors: There used to be some pretty creative nicknames of this variety: the Hick from French Lick, the Round Mound of Rebound, Wilt the Stilt, the Big Fundamental.
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A towering stilt-walker, Plu Sayampol, wearing the iconic top of the Chrysler Building on his head, gripped the hand of a friend tightly as he strode down the parade.
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Known as "Wilt the Stilt," the athletic, 7-foot-267 Chamberlain led the league in scoring his first seven seasons, shattering NBA scoring records and changing the NBA style of play forever.
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VILNIUS (Reuters) - Stilt walking across the exercise yard, 24-year-old Tadas Voitiukas is making his circus debut as fellow prisoners look down on him in silence from their barred cell windows.
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Other examples include the ancient loch-side dwellings known as crannogs in Scotland and Ireland, the stilt houses of the Alpine Lakes, and the terps—human-made hill dwellings—in the Netherlands.
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According to Huffard, whose research on stilt-walking was later published in Science, both the veined octopus and algae octopus (Octopus aculeatus) use this behavior as a nifty defense mechanism against predators.
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Scheduled performances include "Stilt Men," a circus act from Togo; "Stück," a folk dance piece by the Welsh-Irish duo Up & Over It; and "Peregrinus," by the Polish theater company Teatr KTO. festival.
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As far as the biomechanics of stilt-walking go, Huffard discovered that three bands of contracted muscles within each tentacle allow the octopus to remain stable while it pushes off from the sand.
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Postponed from last weekend, when it was snowed out, the entertainment, from Circus Amok, will include stump-to-stump high-wire walking, a ringtoss tree, forest canopy stilt walkers, live music and face painting.
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And in every village, over the stilt houses and the middens of plastic water bottles melting, gazes the beneficent face of Hun Sen, still head of the Cambodian People's Party and de facto dictator.
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"When they came, I pleaded with them not to do it, that we are from the same village," she recalled, sitting on the bamboo floor of her stilt home with three other aggrieved farmers.
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At this free event, the kites will be accompanied by stilt walkers, live musicians and projects centered on S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) concepts, like designing wind mobiles and spiral wall hangings.
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Final preparations were underway for the 13th annual Dance Parade, which sends about 10,000 dancers spinning, leaping, stomping, roller-skating, stilt walking, cartwheeling and otherwise grooving past Union Square and through the East Village each spring.
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The stilt structures in the fishing community posed a security risk and undermined the megacity status of the city, Lagos state authorities said in a letter served to the community, local chief Victor Panke told CNN.
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From Bolivian Caporales dancers bedazzled in sequins, to stilt-walking, scantily clad Brazilian Carnival dancers, to gaggles of kids in tap shoes, the breadth of New York's stunning diversity was on display throughout the drizzly spring afternoon.
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Comprising Afro-Caribbean stilt dancing, European slapstick, Peking Opera acrobatics and more, the performance takes place on board a Brooklyn site that used to travel, too: the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79, a converted 1914 vessel.
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STILT – Loans for non-US students and working professionals: After coming to the U.S. as educated, legal citizens, Stilt's founders realized how difficult it was for immigrants to get loans due to a lack of U.S. credit history.
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Arriving at the park I heard the loud rhythms of soca and witnessed Adrian "Daddy Jumbie" Young, a well-known local expert and instructor in stilt-walking, perform flowing movements on sky-high stilts that seemed like magic.
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Then PRO devised a plan to strip the existing building down to its wood framing and rebuild it, adding an extension at the back and a steel structure on stilt-like columns above to support an additional story.
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A dance review on Tuesday about "Global Beat of the Bronx: From Bambara to Breakbeats," at Hearst Plaza in Lincoln Center, misidentified the African country whose tradition of stilt-walking was displayed by the Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble.
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Entertainment in the park will include such varied performers as Eli Marcus and Chony Milecki, who specialize in Jewish dance music; Harmony Music Makers, a Caribbean-style steel pan ensemble; Brooklyn United Marching Band; and stilt walkers from Tropicalfete.
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THE ARTS A dance review on Tuesday about "Global Beat of the Bronx: From Bambara to Breakbeats," at Hearst Plaza in Lincoln Center, misidentified the African country whose tradition of stilt-walking was displayed by the Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble.
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Liew Kung Yu's "Proposals for My Country" features a photo montage of the Greek and Roman columns that mushroomed during the building boom, adorning everything from mansions to office buildings to wooden stilt houses — a sign of new money gone mad.
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Liew Kung Yu's "Proposals for my country" features a photo montage of the Greek and Roman columns that mushroomed during the building boom, adorning everything from mansions to office buildings to wooden stilt houses –- a sign of new money gone mad.
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Chobe Water Villas On Namibia's northern Caprivi Strip across the Chobe River from Chobe National Park in Botswana lies the new Chobe Water Villas, a collection of 1953 stilt-supported suites with generous terraces on the water and rear terraces facing the bush.
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MICHAEL CONNELLY, "THE BLACK ECHO" (1992) In his stilt house in the Hollywood Hills, Detective Harry Bosch broods, listens to jazz records and attempts to solve the murder of a fellow Vietnam vet whose body was discovered in a drainpipe at Mulholland dam. 6.
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Wilt "the Stilt" remains the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game - a record most experts feel will never be broken - and his sheer dominance forced the league into several rules that would limit the effect a center can have on a game.
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While there is no data on how many stilt homes have been built in Binga over the past few years, Mudenda said many people in the area made the switch because brick houses built on the region's sandy soils could not stand up to worsening floods.
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While there is no data on how many stilt homes have been built in Binga over the past few years, Mudenda said many people in the area made the switch because brick houses built on the region's sandy soils could not stand up to worsening floods.
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Credit...Peter Ginter Year after year for two decades, Nancy Wexler led medical teams into remote villages in Venezuela, where huge extended families lived in stilt houses on Lake Maracaibo and for generations, had suffered from a terrible hereditary disease that causes brain degeneration, disability and death.
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Over the next five years, House of Yes grew into a bastion of arts of all varieties, hosting and co-producing everything from raves to weddings, acrobatics to underground house music events—all while nurturing a devout community of Burners, stilt-walkers, burlesque fans, and dance music devotees.
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Legally blind, he struggles to read print smaller than 18-point type (he wears contacts onstage and glasses "in real life," he says), and was in special education classes for his vision throughout childhood — years he spent friendless, obsessed with magic tricks and circus skills: stilt-walking, juggling, unicycling.
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This third annual free festival will feature a lineup of New Orleans-style musical performances, as well as the Backyard Bash, revelry that will include Big Apple Circus routines, stilt walkers, cumbia music for children, face painting, D.J. sets and arts and crafts from the Queens Museum and other festival partners.
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Throughout my boyhood, it never occurred to me how carefully my mother — who'd been raised in a stilt house, in a dusty village in Central Thailand — had to both scrutinize and adopt the strange customs of New England culture, how learning to navigate these foreign waters became, by necessity, the great project of her adult life.
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Audouin's gull, Ebro delta, Catalonia Greater flamingos, Ebro delta, Catalonia White stork, Emporda wetlands, Catalonia European starlings, Lleida drylands, Catalonia Yellow legged gull, Roses, Spain Common swifts, Barcelona, Spain Black-winged stilt, Ebro delta, Catalonia Yellow legger gull, Llobregat delta, Catalonia Red-billed chough, Utxesa reservoir, Catalonia Great cormorant, Ibars reservoir, Catalonia European starling, Utxesa reservoir, Catalonia Greater flamingo, Ebro delta, Catalonia Common starling, Utxesa reservoir, Catalonia Xavi Bou spends most weekends photographing birds.
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So we can safely make some declarations about what has been a Los Angeles-centric season so far — with considerable doses of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Doncic, too — after what amounts to a full trimester to evaluate things: Wilt The Stilt, as legend has it, decided to lead the league in assists in 2131.2-2132.2 because he got tired of being branded selfish and wanted to show the world he could do whatever he wanted on the floor.
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