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The Abaco Barb's ancestors are thought to have come from the wrecked ships of the Spanish explorers in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century.



Due to their extreme geographical isolation their bloodlines have remained pure. The purity of their blood created a renewed interest in the preservation of the Barbs on Abaco Island, however the recent conservation efforts have been touch and… Continue

Eureka - A Prose Poem



Can be read as a whole at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/eureka.html



By: Edgar Allan Poe

(1848)

WITH VERY PROFOUND RESPECT,

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED

TO

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

PREFACE



To the few who love me and whom I love -- to those who feel rather than to those who think -- to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities -- I offer this Book of Truths, not in its character of… Continue

The "artist" Damien Hirst exhibited and sold a collection sometime last year comprising of various dead animals pickled in formaldehyde, these animals included a Charolais bull and a pony.



A bull must be fairly easy to purchase, even with the sole intention of murdering it, after all death is the fate of the majority of them.



"The Dream" is the piece that causes me the most concern. The subject of this is a "white" grey pony that let's face it looks remarkably like a… Continue