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Little Pete (c. 1864 – January 23, 1897) was a prominent leader of the Som Yop Tong during the Tong wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1890s.. Born Fung Jing Toy (Chinese: 馮正初; Jyutping: fung4 zing3 co1; pinyin: Féng Zhèngchū) in Kow Kong, Foshan city, Canton, China, around 1864, Little Pete emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of five in 1870.
The Four Pests Campaign is representative of many of the overarching themes of Mao's Great Leap Forward. In order to expedite China's industrialization, and to achieve a socialist utopia, Mao sought to utilize China's natural and human resources. In this future utopia, cleanliness and hygiene would be critical. [13]
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal birds that usually nest on the ground. They have long wings, short legs and very short bills. Most have small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings. Their soft plumage is camouflaged to resemble bark or leaves. Great eared-nightjar, Lyncornis macrotis; Gray nightjar, Caprimulgus jotaka
Little is known of the conservation status of the great shortwing but the bird is suspected of declining in numbers because of the destruction of its habitat and the introduction of feral predators. Its area of occurrence is estimated to be about 13,000 km 2 (5,000 sq mi). It is an uncommon species in the lower part of its range but rather more ...
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Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big) is a 1998 compilation album by Pete Seeger and was released on Smithsonian Folkways as SFW45039. This collection is a compilation of 28 songs and stories about animals that Pete Seeger released in 1955 on two short Folkways Records LPs: Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes (Folkways FC 7610) and Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Bigger Fishes (Folkways FC 7611).
In the last recorded moments before the 13-year-old boy's death, surveillance cameras showed him sitting on a scooter, surrounded by three classmates. The following day, police in a village in ...
Per Cornbread, Maravich passed to Bird as the future star found himself quickly double-teamed. “We come to the timeout, and Pete Maravich says to Larry, ‘Larry, Larry, they’re double-teaming ...