In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along with 12 others, made the perilous journey by boat from ...

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Renowned karatedo coach Rhodee Reynes Saavedra expressed joy and pride as her young karatekas delivered an outstanding ...

The great auk was a large seabird of the family Alcidae, a group which includes the razorbill, guillemot and puffin, breeding ...

Victorian hunters, explorers and collectors feature strongly in the story of the Great Auk. The writer Kaliane Bradley places the 19th century polar explorer Commander Graham Gore at the heart of her ...

But there is a very different story told of it in Mr. Symington Grieve's important work on “The Great Auk, its history, archæology, and remains,” published in 1885. At p. 105 of this volume ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...

A bunch of Cebuano karatekas from the Association for the Upliftment of Karatedo (AUK) shined brightly with three gold, two silver, and two bronze medals in the 6th Karate Pilipinas National ...

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IMAGINATION has long had a large share in the accounts given of the Gare-fowl or Great Auk, notwithstanding the efforts of those who have tried to set forth nothing but the truth on the subject ...

Over the next 200 years, with astonishing brutality, the great auk would be hunted in droves, first for food, then for feathers, and then, once its near-extinction made it ­valuable, for nothing ...