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"We made the hat with wonderful feathers, very shiny and that went directly with the driver to the Queen. No trial," milliner Fabienne Delvigne recalled Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...
The project focuses on the things we have made, from flint to mobile phone. BBC - A History of the World - Object : Feather tippet British Broadcasting Corporation Home ...
This fan is made from feathers, and has a humming bird at the centre. It originated in France - from the Mlles M&E Nashe - Fleuristes. It's unlikely these humming bird feathers could be used now ...
The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...
The feathers have been cut, so they’re fixed in place, almost like lacquer, like inlaid gems. When you look at the pins really closely you see that they’re made of feathers. But then, these are ...
Little of the organic matter from human-made objects have been preserved in Stone Age graves in Finland, but it is known, on the basis of burial sites in the surrounding regions, that objects made of ...
These feathers are a key part of the package of adaptations that have made penguins the undisputed diving champions of the avian world, capable of reaching depths of more than 1,600 feet in search ...