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Re: Prague visit (fwd)
On Feb 1, 10:58, Rene wrote:
> Subject: Re: Prague visit (fwd)
> Jim Reeds schrieb:
>
> > Be sure to check out the preserved dodo in the Strahov Monastery
> > library.
>
> Since I'll probably be in Prague at the same time as Stolfi, I am
> intrigued by the above. Is it better than the one in the Washington
> Natural History museum (which is only a skeleton)?
>
> Cheers, Rene
>-- End of excerpt from Rene
Can't say. It's in a pickling jar, all kind of floppy & wet
-looking. Feathers, beak, claws.
But look: there are not so many dodos in the world that we can
afford to look at the beautiful ones only.
--
Jim Reeds, AT&T Labs - Research
Shannon Laboratory, Room C229, Building 103
180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971, USA
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