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Albatross plumes were popular in the early 20th century. In 1909 alone, over 300,000 albatrosses were killed on Midway Island and Laysan Island for their plumes. [20] Another threat to albatrosses is introduced species, such as rats or feral cats, which directly attack albatrosses or their chicks and eggs. Albatrosses have evolved to breed on ...
The Albatross centers around Duncan, an intellectually disabled 18-year-old who has grown up with his domineering wheelchair-using mother [1] in Heype, a Suffolk seaside town based on Aldeburgh. [5] Duncan finds it difficult to cope with anything outside his daily routine but is forced to interact with the wider world when his claustrophobic ...
Prelude to America's Albatross, [15] which described his OSS-assigned activities with Ho Chi Minh, the communist and nationalist Viet Minh leader in 1946. His book grew out of his much-shorter 1946 memoir, which was completed in the 1950s, but on which the Department of the Army had put an injunction to prevent its publication due to the ...
The southern royal albatross or toroa, (Diomedea epomophora) is a large seabird from the albatross family. At an average wingspan of above 3 m (9.8 ft), it is one of the two largest species of albatross , together with the wandering albatross .
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Together with the Amsterdam albatross, it forms the wandering albatross species complex, which some began referring to more recently as "snowy" [3]. The snowy albatross is one of the two largest members of the genus Diomedea (the great albatrosses), being similar in size to the southern royal albatross. It has the greatest known wingspan of any ...
Albatross, originally named Albatros, later Alk, was a sailing ship that became famous when she sank in 1961 with a group of American teenagers on board. The events were the basis for 1996 film White Squall .
Madeon played a song entitled "Albatross" as part of his Pixel Empire tour, as well as during his DJ sets. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band has a song called "Albatross, Albatross, Albatross". Port Blue has an album entitled The Albatross EP; The Sweden indie-pop band Sambassadeur has a song titled "Albatross" on their 2010 albums European.