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If the psychic screwed up any portion of the cold reading, the psychic would just say that that was from a past life! bob maurus
Past-life regression therapy -- in the New York Times - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The region is an Endemic Bird Area with, on the coast, jackass penguin Spheniscus demersens, blue crane Anthropoides paradiseus, Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres, black eagle Aquila verreauxii, martial eagle Polemaetus bellicosus, fish eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, black harrier Circus maurus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni.
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Their paper is entitled Pseudecheneis maurus, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Central Vietnam.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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A woman, who sold a monkey to the Zoological Society, believed to have come from Borneo (Macacus maurus or M. inornatus of Gray), said that it often cried; and Mr. Bartlett, as well as the keeper Mr. Sutton, have repeatedly seen it, when grieved, or even when much pitied, weeping so copiously that the tears rolled down its cheeks.
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The Macacus maurus, which formerly wept so copiously in the Zoological Gardens, would have been a fine case for observation; but the two monkeys now there, and which are believed to belong to the same species, do not weep.
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It differs from an allied species, _S. maurus_, in selecting low marshy situations near the banks of streams.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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This monkey is one over which many naturalists have argued; it is synonymous with _Macacus speciosus_, _M. maurus_, _M. melanotus_, and was thought to be with _M. brunneus_ till Dr. Anderson placed the latter in a separate species on account of the non-annulation of its hair.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Habitaf in Amersca fiptevtrionaliy fufcus. maurus, 152 — 66. 218.
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Habitat in Indh, mediae tftagnitudinis. maurus, 5, C. corporc grifeo.
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