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  • Yudhoyono canceled his state visit Tuesday at the last minute after exiled Moluccan separatists demanded his arrest in an injunction.

    World Watch 2010

  • Mookie, a large white Moluccan cockatoo with a feather-picking problem, issues an ongoing “BAAAAA” from her spacious, toy-filled cage.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • In fact in between cages of sulphur-crested cockatoos like Snowball, umbrella and citron-crested, Goffin's and Moluccan cockatoos are cockatoos covered with nothing but a fuzzy white down -- like baby chicks -- due to the common nervous, addictive habit of feather plucking.

    Sure You're Ready for a Dancing Cockatoo like Snowball? 2009

  • Unaware that the spices came from one tree, one Dutch official ordered the Moluccan islanders to plant more mace trees, and fewer Nutmeg trees.

    2008 February 17 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • Unaware that the spices came from one tree, one Dutch official ordered the Moluccan islanders to plant more mace trees, and fewer Nutmeg trees.

    Spices and Herbs -Bandra Bazar Road « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • The Moluccan mouse-eared bat (Myotis stalkeri) is endangered, whereas the dusky pademelon (Thylogale bruinii), and brown-bearded sheathtail bat (Taphozous achates) are considered vulnerable.

    Banda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests 2008

  • The vulnerable Moluccan scrubfowl (Megapodius wallacei) is also found on Buru and Halmahera.

    Seram rain forests 2008

  • Horndog was a peach-and-white Moluccan cockatoo, a relative of the bird Robert Blake used to have in his TV series Baretta.

    7th Heaven Patterson, James 2008

  • As I approached the Moluccan island of Tidore last July, its majestic volcano was crowned by thin clouds.

    Periscope 2008

  • Enraging the gay community, Stone claims Milk was murdered in a conspiracy involving Moluccan separatists, G. Gordon Liddy, the Ku Klux Klan and the "A Team."

    1992: Stranger Things Have Happened 2008

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