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The evolution of Homo sapiens occurred in Africa, where, it seems, the first anatomically modern humans developed. Our most recent common female ancestor, whom all living human beings share, probably lived roughly 100,000 to 150,000 years ago. It is thought that a part of the Homo sapiens population then migrated into the Near East, spreading east to Australasia some 60.000 years ago, northwestwards into Europe and eastwards into Asia some 40.000 years ago, and further east to the Americas ca. 30.000 years ago. Oceania was populated some 15.000 years ago.
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Josef Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill (and Clement Atlee after Churchill lost the general election and resigned) drew up the Potsdam Agreement (an agreement on policy for the occupation and reconstruction of Germany and other nations after fighting in the European Theatre of World War II had ended), which led to one of the largest European migrations, and definitely the largest in the 20th century. It involved the migration and resettlement of close to or over 20 million people.
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White Wilderness is an Academy award winning nature documentary produced by Disney in 1958 noted for its splendid visuals as well as its propagation of the myth of lemming suicide.
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The Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was once probably the most common bird in the world. It is estimated that there were as many as five billion passenger pigeons in the United States. They lived in enormous flocks—the largest of them one mile (1.6 km) wide and 300 miles (500 km) long, taking several days to pass and probably containing two billion birds.
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Green Card (United States Permanent Resident Card) is an identification card for a permanent resident of the United States of America who does not have U.S. citizenship. It is proof that the holder has permission to permanently reside and take employment in the U.S. The name "green card" comes from the fact that the cards were originally green. Their color has changed over the years, but the term "green card" has remained in use.
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Martha (Last of the Passenger Pigeons) by John Herald
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Doublets: take two related words that have the same number of letters and convert the first into the second through a series of one letter changes, each of which must form another word. Proper names are not allowed, and all the words used must appear in the dictionary.
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The last Passenger Pigeon, named Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. She was frozen into a block of ice to be sent to the Smithsonian Institution to be skinned and mounted. She may be seen there today.
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The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year. (Alan Brien US novelist, poet, essayist: On annual migration of Americans to Great Britain, London "Sunday Times," 21 Jul 1974)
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives. (Brian Moore Irish novelist: On Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, "The Doctor's Wife," Farrar, 1976.)
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