A Mauritian woman recalling observations of Mauritius blue pigeons around 1815 mentioned green as one of its colours.
Slavery existed throughout west Africa, and during the wars that convulsed the upper Niger valley in the early 19th century prisoners seized during the fighting were sold to Europeans by African rulers.In describing the awfulness of their fate, Mr Grandin recalls the observations of a slave-ship's surgeon.
In 1911, Réunion resident Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy recalled his observations of the bird about 50 years before, suggesting that only males had a white crest, but this is thought to be incorrect.
As can be recalled, these observations may be due to post-transcriptional modifications that produce an all-or-none effect.
But when I arrived at the library I was put in mind of more recent mythology: the architecture recalled the observation deck of the U.S.S.
The government plan, no doubt, will strike the executive team at Microsoft as a "Pogo" policy for competition, recalling the observation of Walt Kelly's cartoon possum: "We have met the enemy and he is us".
The great Bill Walsh always maintained that he went through each season under a self-imposed media blackout, but when it served his purpose, he would recall an observation made months earlier, point out why it was wrong and cite each misplaced comma or dangling modifier for good measure.
He explores plausible explanations in terms of "definition," "intension," "possibility," and "contradiction,", plausibly pointing out that each of these notions stand in precisely as much need of explanation as synonymy itself (recall our observation in §1.2 above regarding the lack of overt contradiction in "married bachelor").
Throughout these festivities I kept recalling the observation of my friend Norman Cousins when he said "nobody is smart enough to be a pessimist".
We would do well to recall an observation by one of the great prophets of our time, Martin Luther King, Jr.: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death".
