Much ado was made about these rarities and a Japanese birdlover finally paid the fantastic price of $500 for the pair and took them back to Japan with him.

If you're a beginning gardener and have never grown a vegetable in your life before, try greens. You'll find no easier group of vegetables to grow than greens.

'Behold!' and she took his hand and placed it upon her shapely head, and then bent herself slowly down till one knee for an instant touched the ground - 'Behold! in token of submission do I bow me to my lord! Behold!' and she kissed him on the lips, 'in token of my wifely love do I kiss my lord.'

The eigenvalues of an antisymmetric matrix are all purely imaginary numbers, and occur as conjugate pairs, +iw and -iw. As a corollary it follows that an antisymmetric matrix of odd order necessarily has one eigenvalue equal to zero; antisymmetric matrices of odd order are singular.