Over nineteenth-century telegraph wires OK would have been sent in the original Morse code, also known as American Morse or Railroad Morse, in the pattern dot-gap-dot dash-dot-dash, rather than dash-dash-dash dash-dot-dash of today’s
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“Each cow was searching for her perfect partner, and despite years of research, no scientist has ever been able to discover the criteria that females use when choosing mates. Maybe it’s because each cow chose, for herself alone, the one bull that would most displease her mother.”
― Fox and I
― Fox and I
“Over nineteenth-century telegraph wires OK would have been sent in the original Morse code, also known as American Morse or Railroad Morse, in the pattern dot-gap-dot dash-dot-dash, rather than dash-dash-dash dash-dot-dash of today’s International Morse Code. The O was signaled by two dots with a long intracharacter gap to distinguish it from I, which used two dots with a short intracharacter gap.”
― OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
― OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
“Unashamedly, I was attracted to all animals that tolerated me.”
― Fox and I
― Fox and I
“Deer were grass eaters, a characteristic that freed them from the responsibility of overanalyzing their surroundings.”
― Fox and I
― Fox and I
“I realized that a fox, like a rainbow and every other gift from Nature, had an intrinsic value that was quite independent of its longevity.”
― Fox and I
― Fox and I
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