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May 10, 2024 · Birds of New Guinea includes the spectacular birds of paradise, the subject of a separate monograph issued after Gould’s death by his old friend Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1891-98.
May 4, 2024 · ‘Sharpe’ is the ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe, who worked closely with Gould in his later years.” The volume sold then for £507,500 but the 1997 auction record described the set as...
3 days ago · t. e. The 1962 California gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1962. The Democratic incumbent, Pat Brown, ran for re-election against former U.S. vice president and 1960 Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon.
May 16, 2024 · Sharpe is a popular British television series based on the historical fiction novels written by Bernard Cornwell. It follows the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a British Army officer in the...
May 15, 2024 · First published in 1981, Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction books about the adventures of British soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars have been enjoyed by millions, mixing—as they do—a combination of action, combat, and historical research.
5 days ago · The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. Opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for White because of the high success rate of the Sicilian defence against 1.e4. [1]
May 1, 2024 · Highlighting the range of offerings from the Ken Harte Collection of Natural History was a first edition Richard Bowdler Sharpe’s beautifully illustrated monograph of Kingfishers, 1868-71, that sold for $14,080, doubling its $6,000-8,000 estimate.
