Professor Donato Matassino, who will be leading tests on Gianni, said: ‘This rooster-hen will be taken to the laboratories of Consdabi (Consortium for the experimentation and application of innovative biotechniques) for a series of behavioral and genetic tests'..in a white wine sauce, with mushrooms, shallots, and garlic.
Thoreau was much better known in his own time for greatly improving the manufacture of pencils. It's a lot harder to make a decent lead pencil than you might think , and the Thoreau pencil company made the finest US pencils by far, after his innovations. The whole story (and more penciliana) is detailed in Henry Petroski's interesting book "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance"
We used to make a big pile of the old ones and light them all at once. With enough tablets, you could crack a sidewalk. God knows what the fumes were doing to us.
http://www.amazon.com/Pencil-History-Design-Circumstance/dp/0679734155
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/blacksnakes.htm
We used to make a big pile of the old ones and light them all at once. With enough tablets, you could crack a sidewalk. God knows what the fumes were doing to us.