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  2. List of Law & Order: LA characters - Wikipedia

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    This is an overview of regular and recurring characters on the NBC legal drama Law & Order: LA.. Law & Order: LA, a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order, follows the detectives who work in the Robbery-Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, a unit that focuses on homicide related crimes featuring two homicide detectives, a senior partner and a junior partner, who investigate ...

  3. Bradley C. Livezey - Wikipedia

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    His general interests included phylogenetic relationships of avian families, phylogenetic relationships of waterfowl, evolution of avian flightlessness, comparative osteology of birds, multivariate morphometrics, and avian paleontology. He was generally considered to be the world authority on the osteology—the study of skeletons—of birds.

  4. Bird - Wikipedia

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    Many groups retained primitive characteristics, such as clawed wings and teeth, though the latter were lost independently in a number of avialan groups, including modern birds (Aves). [36] Increasingly stiff tails (especially the outermost half) can be seen in the evolution of maniraptoromorphs, and this process culminated in the appearance of ...

  5. List of bird genera - Wikipedia

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    List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and a high metabolic rate. Restless flycatcher in the downstroke of flapping flight

  6. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    "The specific name pandafilandi refers to Pandafilando de la fosca vista, one of the characters in the novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha) written by Miguel de Cervantes and published in the early seventeenth century. Pandafilando is, in the mind of the protagonist, a giant ...

  7. Aves in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Linnaeus generally followed the classification scheme introduced by the English parson and naturalist John Ray which grouped species based on the characteristics of each species’ bill and feet. [3] The 10th edition appeared in 1758 and was the first in which Linnaeus consistently used his binomial system of nomenclature. He increased ...

  8. Avenues (gang) - Wikipedia

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    Respect and loyalty are considered to be very important. They challenge anyone and enforce the borders of their territory with deadly accuracy. Avenues gang members tattoos are known by a skull with a fedora and a bullet hole in the skull, or the letters LA, AVES, A's and Avenidas. The Avenues are one of LA's most violent gangs.

  9. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 - Wikipedia

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    Smith interviewed some 300 people to gain opinions and viewpoints about the events related to the 1992 riots. From these interviews, she chose numerous subjects to feature as characters of the play, including such public officials as LAPD chief Daryl Gates and Congresswoman Maxine Waters; a nameless juror on the Rodney King police trial, which ended in the acquittal of police officers in his ...