A canopy of red-billed quelea / Passed over the blue / A five-hour flock, not one dives down

One of Professor [John] Moon's most astonishing experiments, consisted of holding a watch suspended from a short chain at arm's length, and allowing anyone in the pit to pull pistol and blaze away at the word fire, whereupon the watch would most unconscionably disappear. An individual who had attended several evenings and witnessed the experiment, suspected, in the classic language of the times, that there was something of shenanigan in it.

The anterior edge of the maxilla is strongly concave at the base of the ascending process leaving a crescent-shaped portion of the supraoccipital process of the frontal anterior to a well-defined transverse orbitotemporal crest.

a project that will take many human lifetimes to complete