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But, birds don't just use feathers to fly.
A woodcock uses feathers to blend in perfectly with its forest backdrop.
A peacock displays its magnificent tail feathers to attract peahens.
Feathers could have served these functions for dinosaurs too.
But if a small-feathered dinosaur flapped its arms as it ran up an incline, its feathers would have provided extra lift to help it run faster.
Only then, perhaps 50 million years after the first wiry feathers evolved, did feathers lift those dinosaurs into the sky.
In the words of Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - "And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -" Democracy.
In mythological ancient Greece, soaring above Crete on wings made from wax and feathers, Icarus, the son of Daedalus, defied the laws of both man and nature.
Using feathers from the flocks that perched on the tower, and the wax from candles, Daedalus constructed two pairs of giant wings.
Their sturdy feathers turn to fluff.
In doing so, we found over 600 species of bugs that live in USA homes, everything from spiders and cockroaches to tiny mites that cling to feathers.
They are thought to store the air under their feathers before they dive and then progressively release it as a cloud of bubbles.
If you've taken time when you are outdoors to look at the feathers around you, you'll have noticed that there is this huge variety of different sizes, shapes and even colors.
It's not about feathers or beadwork.
I was drinking this guy's Kool-Aid so much, he could have served me goose feathers and I would have been like, this guy's a genius, you know?
It can fly at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour, has talons the size of a grizzly bear's, razor-sharp eyesight, and that ring of feathers focuses sound so that it can hear the slightest leaf rustle.
Meanwhile, Tecciztecatl flaunted his riches, using magnificent jade spines and branches adorned with iridescent quetzal feathers for his own blood offering.
The other gods painted him chalky white and glued feathers to him.
Each is scattering away at random to try to save its scales or feathers.
To be forged from “the tips of white-swan feathers," “the milk of greatest virtue," “a single grain of barley," and “the finest wool of lambskins," this artifact was said to be an endless font of wealth.
There was a cleft in the rock by the brushing of the feathers of generations of the birds.
He said, "Yeah, feathers, skin, bone meal, scraps, dried and processed into feed."
There is story in Panchtantra , that a crow attachés so many feathers of a peacock, to look beautiful, and appeal to the birds; but the feathers fall off ultimately, and the real dark crow is revealed !
The costumes are over-the-top and feature some truly ghoulish excesses -- was the costume designer obsessed with feathers for women's hats?
Surely EVERY woman in Bath didn't have feathers in her headpiece in the early 19th century.
We usually think of the British as the experts at rendering great adventure from the Imperial age, with the likes of The Four Feathers (1939) and Zulu, simply because the Imperial age was, for the most part, British.
What I found a bit hard to believe is that the popular girls finally accept her - in my experience that crowd has a longer memory than that, and knowing how AWFUL Drew's character was (ostrich feathers?) at the start of the school year would have kept them miles away, regardless of what rumors her brother drums up.
Nanette wears this crazy hat with two feathers that stick out like rabbit ears and Kansas Kitty has this bizarre feather muff that she keeps on her fore arm and then has herself wrapped in this net scarf.
While he's out there, some other Indian boys come running out and put some feathers on him, and he turns into an eagle.
At the end the other Indian boys in the village attach the feathers to Tutazema and he becomes an eagle himself.
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