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	Siegel pigeons: News
		Dr. Charles Wolcott is professor and chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
		Walcott said you’d expect that the stronger the magnetic anomaly, the worse the pigeons’ disorientation.
		Walcott was asked from the audience if he believes that cellular phones and their transmission towers have an effect on pigeons’ homing.
	www.siegelpigeons.com /news/news-walcott.html (1047 words)

	William Walcott of Salem MA, 1630-c.1650
		Walcotts wife children and estate committed to Richard Inkersell hs father in law 27:10:1643 to be disposed of according to God and the said Wm.
		In 1670 Abraham Walcott, husbandman, purchased from Joseph Foster of Salem for 25L 8 acres of land with an incomplete frame house, and is recorded at Salem Village 1678.
		Charles, enlisted in Arty Co. at beginning of Civil War, promoted to Sgt., commissioned 1st Lt. 1861, Capt. 1864, lost leg at Battle of Gettysburg 1864, retired 1865, brevetted Col. for meritorious service, died insane in Washington DC hospital; m.
	www.wolcottfamily.com /salem.html (6051 words)

	Charles Walcott
		Walcott, C. and David Evers 2000, Loon Vocal Tagging: An Evaluation of its Feasibility Using a Banded Population of Loons.
		Walcott, C., Evers, D, Froehler, M. and A. Krakauer, 1999, Individuality in "Yodel" calls recorded from a banded population of Common Loons, Gavia immer.
		Walcott, C. The disorientation of pigeons at Jersey Hill.
	www.nbb.cornell.edu /neurobio/department/faculty/Walcott/Walcott.html (360 words)

	Beauty in Service to Science
		Charles Doolittle Walcott was the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian, serving as Secretary from 1907 to 1927.
		Dr Walcott was a paleontologist who, at the time of his appointment, was the Director of the US Geological Survey.
		Neither Walcott nor the scientific community as a whole realized the importance of this discovery at the time, but the Burgess Shale came to be recognized as one of the most important geologic findings of the 20th century.
	www.si.edu /archives/techsvcs/walcott/main_article.htm (551 words)

	Hallucigenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hallucigenia is an extinct genus of animal found as fossils in the Middle Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale formation of British Columbia, Canada.
		It was named by Simon Conway Morris when he re-examined Charles Walcott's Burgess Shale genus Canadia in 1979.
		Morris found that what Walcott had called one genus in fact included several quite different animals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hallucigenia (740 words)

	Charles-Walcott and a Heavyweight Transition \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		Because the fight was in New York State, Charles became recognized by the NYSAC as the titleholder.
		Ezzard Charles won a 15 round unanimous decision leaving no doubt that he was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
		Walcott’s title defense against Ezzard Charles in Philadelphia would be his last fight as a heavyweight champion.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1422/charles-walcott-heavyweight-transition (1063 words)

	The Story of Walcott-Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Dominating Louis most of the fight, Walcott cruised down the stretch and Louis was granted a controversial decision that even he did not believe he deserved.
		Jersey Joe Walcott began his career by losing to the major contenders in the early 40's and it was not until after the Louis fight that it became apparent that he was indeed world class fighter.
		Both Walcott and Charles place in history had less to do with their fighting skills but toward another fact.
	www.insideboxing.com /Featured%5fpieces/story_of_walcottcharles.htm (951 words)

	Dempsey Could Flatten Today's Heavies All in One Night Magazine Article by Gene Tunney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In their third fight, you'll recall, Walcott won the championship by knocking out Charles with one punch, a left hook to the jaw.
		Yet, Charles was knocked kicking with one punch by Walcott, who is a stiff puncher but not to be compared with Dempsey.
		Charles, however, would probably get by the first round, because he is such an essentially cautious fighter, and caution always was an admirable quality to carry into a fight with Dempsey.
	www.genetunney.com /magazine87.html (2503 words)

	History of the Burgess Shale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institute, the leading expert on Cambrian-age fossils at that time, heard about their reports of "stone bugs" and first visited the site on Mt. Stephen in July, 1907.
		Walcott spent the summers between 1910-1917 excavating the quarry with the help of his family.
		Walcott's notes and photos had lain in drawers alongside his fossil specimens for nearly half a century, until 1973, when the Cambridge scientists dusted them off to have another look.
	www.burgess-shale.bc.ca /history/history.htm (1143 words)

	Past lives: Chronicles of Canadian Paleontology - Marrella and the Burgess Shale
		Marella splendens, the "lace crab" from Walcott's quarry, is the most abundant fossil in the Burgess Shale.
		On the last day of August, 1909, Charles Walcott and his family and field crew were wrapping up work for the season.
		Walcott also spotted segmented worms and sponges among the fossils as well as a few familiar trilobites establishing that these strange fossils were of Middle Cambrian age.
	gsc.nrcan.gc.ca /paleochron/08_e.php (594 words)

	No. 32: Wright and Langley
		Their advantage was that they'd mastered the problem of controlling the movement of their plane, and they'd preceded their work with four years of careful experimentation with kites and gliders.
		Charles Walcott, a long-time friend of Langley's who'd been influential in funding his work, was made director of the Smithsonian Institution in 1906 -- the same year Langley died.
		In 1942 the Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Abbot, finally authorized publication of an article that clearly showed the Langley reconstruction was rigged.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi32.htm (503 words)

	Rocky Marciano - The Unstoppable Force - Boxing News
		Jersey Joe Walcott, also rated by the Ring as an all time great puncher, floored Rocky with one of his classic left hooks, but was surprised to see that when he turned around, Marciano was staring straight back at him, on his feet.
		Walcott was not over the hill - infact far from it, he was close to his peak.
		Charles was a highly regarded heavyweight, an ex champion who had gotten the better of Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott, and was one of the only light heavyweights in history that made it big time in the top division.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=4488&more=1 (2224 words)

	Governing the White House
		WINNER OF THE RICHARD E. Charles Walcott and Karen Hult maintain that the organization of the White House influences presidential performance much more than commonly thought and that organization theory is an essential tool for understanding that influence.
		Walcott and Hult trace the development of functional specialization in the White House and propose a theoretically rich explanation for the organizational structures of those specializations.
		CHARLES E. and KAREN M. are associate professors of political science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and coauthors of Governing Public Organizations.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /walgov.html (435 words)

	Inter. Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy
		The escarpment beyond the edge of the quarry on the left is formed by the contact between dark shales and light-colored dolomites of the Stephen Formation.
		On August 30, 1909, Charles D. Walcott, the perhaps most outstanding American paleontologist of his time, discovered beautifully preserved fossils in the Stephen Formation near the Burgess Pass in the present-day Yoho National Park, British Columbia.
		Other fossil remains, originally interpreted as jellyfish and remains of unknown affinities, were finally combined with this type of limb, and the discovery of complete specimens finally confirmed the reconstruction.
	www.uni-wuerzburg.de /palaeontologie/Stuff/casu9.htm (762 words)

	Brown, R. H. & Coffin, H. G. --- Burgess Shale Re-Examined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The trail from Takakkaw Falls to the Walcott quarry is not four miles (as stated on page 68) but over six miles and with a 2700 ft rise in elevation.
		Charles Walcott was a devout Presbyterian, an ardent theistic evolutionist, and distinguished director of the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years until his death in 1927.
		The extended discussion of Walcott as a person, his view of evolution, his attempt to 'shoehorn' all the Burgess Shale animals into the modern classification, and his subsequent failure to complete the study of the fossils he collected make an interesting contribution to the history of American paleontology.
	www.grisda.org /origins/17033.htm (1633 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Walcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Walcott, Jan. 12 - Twenty-year-old Army Specialist Luke Frist, one of the latest US casualities in Iraq, was buried Monday in his hometown of Walcott.
		At 11:35 ama Walcott Street resident reported that a group of children spat on her son while he was walking home from school that day.
		Neldann Knickrehm was born Sept. 25, 1929, in rural Walcott, the daughter of John and Frances (Geurink) Knickrehm.
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/W/Walcott.shtml (2440 words)

	Matter of Perspective; Part Two - Boxing News
		By August of 1951 Walcott was the Champ, Charles was the #1 contender with Louis and Rocky breathing hot and heavy down his neck.
		It is safe to say that Louis, Walcott, Marciano, and Charles were all scrambling for the top spot throughout the time frame from 50 to 52.
		Walcott had 5 bouts all for titles from March 51 to May 53 all for the heavyweight title.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=78&more=1 (972 words)

	News articles for Walcott, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mary Walcott looked at what's left of her belongings from her burned out second-floor bedroom after they were scattered in the front yard of her Dubonnet Court...
		Stephen Walcott at the London School of Economics says the failure of Cancun was in part due to the complexity of the trade round and the rise of the Group of...
		Walcott Police Chief Dave Kopatich added that sleepy drivers who are stopped along Interstate 80 near the Walcott exit are referred to one of the hotels or...
	www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Arkansas/Walcott.html (2659 words)

	walcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Walcott was born in St. Lucia in the West Indies, and has lived most of his life in Trinidad.
		Derek Walcott was born in Saint Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930, and began writing Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where features links to poems, photos, and background.
		This site is dedicated to the loving memory of one of the greatest Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward the West Indies in Jamaica, Walcott moved in 1953 to Trinidad, where May 6, 1900.
	www.goodnightdreams.com /bot/walcott.htm (480 words)

	Marella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is however quite numerous in bed and is the most common fossil the Burgess Shale with over 15000 specimens Historically Marella was the first fossil collected by Charles Walcott from the Burgess Shale.
		Walcott described Marella informally as a "lace crab" and it more formally as an odd Trilobite.
		It was later reassigned to the defunct class Trilobitoidea in the 'Treatise on Invertebrate In 1971 Whittington did a thorough redescription the animal concluding on the basis of legs gills and the appendages on the that it was not a trilobite not a chelicerate and not a crustacean.
	www.freeglossary.com /Marella (499 words)

	No. 1342: Wright and Langley
		Charles Walcott, a longtime friend of Langley's, had been influential in funding Langley's work.
		Walcott became director of the Smithsonian Institution in 1906, the same year Langley died.
		Finally, in 1942, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Abbot, authorized publication of an article that clearly showed how the reconstruction of Langley's Aerodrome had been rigged.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1342.htm (535 words)

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		He was admitted to the bar in 1874, at which time he formed a partnership with C. Exq., and his former instructor, under the firm name of Fifield, Pitkin & Porter, and later a new firm was organized under the title of Pitkin & Porter, which arrangement remained unchanged until 1880, when Mr.
		He was always a Republican; in 1872 received the appointment of deputy secretary of state, and held that position twelve years; also was made deputy insurance commissioner; in 1884 was elected secretary of state and by successive re-elections continued in that office for six years.
		On 16 July 1885 at Montpelier he [Charles Walcott PORTER] was married to Florence, only daughter of Charles W. and Olive (EATON) BAILEY.
	www.rockvillemama.com /windsor/portercharleswalcott.txt (270 words)

	Department of Political Science
		A graduate of Occidental College (1964), Professor Walcott taught at the University of Minnesota for 21 years before coming to Virginia Tech in 1989.
		He is a member of the editorial board of the Presidential Studies Quarterly, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Presidency Research Group, which is the American Political Science Association’s organized section on presidency scholarship.
		Professor Walcott has also won several awards for teaching excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the Virginia Tech College of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
	www.psci.vt.edu /main/faculty/walcott.html (531 words)

	The Burgess Shale
		In 1909, the Burgess Shale was discovered by Charles D. Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Walcott's Quarry : This is the site where Charles Walcott (pictured at left) first discovered fossils of the Burgess Shale.
		Walcott and later workers have used several different methods to excavate these highly delicate fossils.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /cambrian/burgess.html (2184 words)

	Charles Greeley Abbot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 – December 17, 1973) was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Charles Tenshin Fletcher Sensei received Dharma Transmission in the White Plum lineage from Maezumi Roshi in 1994.
		Charles talks about the album, his career and why after 50 years in the business, he still finds enjoyment in making music.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=C._G._Abbot (1743 words)

	Jet: Former heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott dies. (Brief Article) (Obituary)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to his nephew, Richard Cream, Walcott died from complications from diabetes.
		Bron Arnold Raymond Cream in Merchantville, NJ, Walcott rocked the boxing world when he became the oldest fighter ever to win the heavyweight title in 1951.
		Walcott unleashed one of his explosive left hooks which sent Charles to the...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14919022&refid=ip_almanac_hf (150 words)

	The Science Channel :: 100 Greatest Discoveries: Evolution
		Charles Walcott exposes a mother lode of Cambrian fossils high in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, providing a glimpse of what life was like on Earth more than 500 million years ago.
		Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in which he challenges contemporary beliefs about the creation of life on Earth.
		Darwin had served as an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle, which set out on a five-year scientific expedition to the Pacific coast of South America in early 1832.
	science.discovery.com /convergence/100discoveries/big100/evolution.html (632 words)

	migration.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		While scientists have guessed for years that migrating birds use the sun and stars as a compass reference, only recently have they discovered an unusual deposit of magnetic tissue that they believe is sensitive to the earth's (and maybe even the moon's) magnetic field.
		According to Dr. Charles Walcott, a prominent pigeon researcher and Director of the Ornithology Lab at Cornell University, scientists have found that some fibers in pigeons' optic nerves as well as a sort of magnetic facial nerve are responsive to the earth's magnetic pull.
		In the daytime they determine which way is south "boy-scout style," Walcott said, by looking at the location of the sun.
	www.intercom.net /~terrypl/migration.html (528 words)

	Les vies anciennes : chroniques de paléontologie canadienne - Marrella et le Shale de Burgess
		Le 31 août 1909, Charles Walcott, sa famille et son équipe de terrain concluaient le travail de la saison de fouille.
		Walcott connaissait mieux que quiconque les fossiles du Cambrien et il reconnut immédiatement qu'ils étaient ceux d'arthropodes de types encore inconnus.
		Walcott a aussi discerné des vers segmentés et des éponges parmi les fossiles en plus de quelques trilobites familiers et a déterminé que ces fossiles étranges remontaient au Cambrien moyen.
	gsc.nrcan.gc.ca /paleochron/08_f.php (645 words)

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