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  2. The milkmaid and her pail - Wikipedia

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    There the fable is made an example of the practice of alchemists, who are like 'a good woman that was carrying a pot of milk to market and reckoning up her account as follows: she would sell it for half a sou and with that would buy a dozen eggs which she would set to hatch and have from them a dozen chicks; when they were grown she would have ...

  3. Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots ...

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    A large collection of sketches and studies for Parrots are included in the major Lear art collection held at the Harvard University Houghton Library. [55] In 2018, a copy of Parrots was sold at auction by Bonhams for £90,000, [56] and in 2020 another copy was listed by Christie's with a guide price of £40,000–60,000, and fetched £60,000. [29]

  4. Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the book of Genesis chapters 1 and 2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two different stories drawn from different sources.

  5. Horton Hatches the Egg - Wikipedia

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    Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother, Mayzie, takes a permanent vacation to Palm Beach. Horton endures a number of ...

  6. List of creation myths - Wikipedia

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    A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions, and are found throughout human culture.

  7. Creation myth - Wikipedia

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    A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, [2] a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. [3] [4] [5] While in popular usage the term myth often refers to false or fanciful stories, members of cultures often ascribe varying degrees of truth to their creation myths.

  8. Animals in ancient Greece and Rome - Wikipedia

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    The Aigiothos or Aigithos is a bird described by Aristotle as fighting a war against donkeys. Donkeys rub their sides on thorn bushes which hide the nests and eggs of the bird, thus destroying them. The birds would peck the sores on the donkey’s back. This species is described as producing many children and being lame in one foot.

  9. Book of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    In order to make sense out of the variety of different and often conflicting versions of stories, and to relate the stories to each other, they fitted them into a genealogical chronology." [26] Tremper Longman describes Genesis as theological history: "the fact that these events took place is assumed, and not argued. The concern of the text is ...