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  • The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

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  • According to the US Geological Survey, the American Buff-Bellied Pipit is 5.5in (14cm) in length and is usually found in flocks in ploughed fields, shores and tundra.

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  • But the Albula steepens quickly, and the river disappears into a dramatic ravine, forcing the train to criss-cross the gorge, creaking like a sailing ship in a full-bellied wind.

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  • Birders to Liuwa will be treated to glimpses of many winged critters that are rare in Zambia, such as the pink-billed lark, white-cheeked and blue-breasted bee-eaters, and red-crested and white-bellied korhaans.

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  • Lining the steps up to a temple are scores of beggars: soldiers with legs lost to landmines, mothers with pot-bellied babies, a dwarf with misshapen limbs who could be ten or 30.

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  • Nevertheless, he bellied up to the microphone by himself and treated us to a brief but well-rounded survey of his expansive catalog: a selection from the Eban and Charley soundtrack, one song apiece from the albums Get Lost and Distortion, and a number originally composed for the audio book of Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital.

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