ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VULTURE
From Old French voltour, from Latin vultur; perhaps related to Latin vellere to pluck, tear.
4 QUOTES WITH «VULTURE»
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vulture.
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VULTURE»
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Vulture offers an enlightening new history of this much-misunderstood bird. Vultures vary in type and size, and while some have a diet mainly of bone, others are actually almost completely vegetarian.
Introduces early readers to the turkey vulture through a review of how they find their meals as soaring scavengers and the important part they play as a member of nature's clean-up crew.
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Vulture: nature's ghastly gourmet
Here VULTURE combines a fascinating, authoritative text with 60 dramatic color photos to examine the myth and reality of this unique creature.
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Vulture Peak: A Royal Thai Detective Novel (5)
All will be revealed here, in John Burdett’s most mordantly funny, propulsive, fiendishly entertaining novel yet.
Rosenberg not only tells their stories with captivating relish but weighs the overall economic impact of their exploits. This book is a valuable introduction to 1990s-style deal-making.
It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee – telling it in the word of the four men who knew him when he was just another kid working after school, hanging out, waiting for something to happen.
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Vulture: Profiling Sadistic Serial Killers
Vulture provides a comprehensive, fascinating new look into the minds and crimes of sadists. The book even includes Dr. Schurman-Kauflin¿s analysis of the BTK serial killer, a profile which BTK renamed "Hits" and sent to police.
Deborah Schurman-Kauflin,
2005
Mark Coggins. best one to next exploit. I think even Douglas might concede that.
But there are many others. Helping people develop motor skills, as Douglas
suggested earlier. Physical therapy to recover from injuries or surgery. Strength
or ...
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Stop
Vulture Fund Lawsuits: A Handbook
This handbook distils the key lessons on best practice in negotiating loan agreements, and responding to the activities of vulture funds - funds that buy up the debt of sovereign countries at a discount in the hope of making significant ...
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Spider-Man: Spider-Man Versus the
Vulture
When Peter Parker is late for his job at the Daily Bugle, he changes into Spider-Man in order to get there faster, but when he runs into the Vulture with some stolen jewels, he knows that he has to stop the thief.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VULTURE»
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Watch Miss Piggy Sing Rihanna's 'BBHMM'
The baton gets passed from one bad girl to another in this week's Vulture Remix. Visually, there's not much overlap between Rihanna and Miss Piggy. But when ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
Fresh Off the Boat's Nahnatchka Khan on the Show's Impressive …
Vulture caught up with Boat creator/showrunner Nahnatchka Khan to talk about how the series has evolved, what might be in store for a season two, and how ... «Vulture, Apr 15»
A Night at the Museum's Dan Stevens on Swords, Shia LaBeouf …
The actor chatted with Vulture about wishing for his own sword, Shia LaBeouf disrupting his Broadway play, and remembering his co-star Robin Williams. «Vulture, Dec 14»
Cary Fukunaga Will Shoot Stephen King's It Next Summer
Vulture spoke with the project's producer Dan Lin last night at an awards-season party celebrating The Lego Movie (which Lin also produced), and he confirmed ... «Vulture, Dec 14»
How Vultures Can Eat Rotting Flesh Without Getting Sick
Vultures' faces and large intestines are covered with bacteria that is toxic to most other creatures, but these birds of prey have evolved a strong gut that helps ... «Live Science, Nov 14»
Justin Theroux on The Leftovers, David Lynch, and Why He Wasn't …
Vulture called up Theroux to discuss the show, how it differs from his experience shooting David Lynch's Mulholland Drive pilot for ABC, what's going on with the ... «Vulture, Aug 14»
Don't Expect Much Pornstache on Orange Is the New Black Next …
When Vulture caught up with Schreiber last night at the premiere of Tammy, we had to ask: Will Pornstache be seen more frequently in the currently shooting ... «Vulture, Jun 14»
Alfie Allen on Threek, Full-Frontal Nudity, and Why There Ain't No …
Luckily, the actor Alfie Allen phoned Vulture up to calm us down, and also took the time to discuss on-set pranks, the cost of full-frontal nudity, and why we ... «Vulture, Jun 14»
NBC Yanking Michael J. Fox Comedy From Thursdays
NBC appears to giving up on The Michael J. Fox Show and Sean Saves the World. Vulture hears the network has decided to pull both shows from its Thursday ... «Vulture, Feb 14»
David Cross Will Guest-Star on a Very Special Episode of Community
Fans of Community have not one but two reasons to be excited this morning. First, Vulture has learned that Arrested Development star David Cross will ... «Vulture, Nov 13»