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Understanding of the Asian early Paleogene avifauna is limited relative to that of North American and European avifauna of the same period. While major patterns of mammalian faunal exchange among these three regions across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary have been described, much less is known about the dynamics of bird diversity over the same time interval. Here, we report bird fossils from the earliest Eocene Bumban Member of the Naranbulag Formation in central Mongolia that add to the known record from Asia from just after this boundary. Most of this material, collected by the joint American Museum of Natural History/Mongolia Academy of Sciences expeditions, is referable to a previously described taxon in Presbyornithidae (Anseriformes). However, five isolated elements are identified as comprising at least four species from at least three other major avian clades. While further inclusive phylogenetic analyses of each of these clades are necessary, the new remains represent possible earliest occurrences in Asia of these clades. The material includes a humerus and a furcula from shorebirds (Pan-Charadriiformes), a quadrate from a stem member of the flamingo-grebe lineage (Pan-Mirandornithes), and a coracoid from a stem galliform (Pangalliformes). We also report a humerus with uncertain phylogenetic affinities but with similarities to core Gruiformes. These new fossils expand our knowledge of the Asian avifauna during this time and have the potential to further inform our understanding of the early biogeography of these clades. The shorebird and flamingo-grebe material indicate that both these lineages were present in Asia by the earliest Eocene. The pan-mirandornithine quadrate provides insight into the early feeding ecology of the flamingo-grebe clade.

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The controversial music and image of Lil Wayne, who is the best-selling hip-hop artist of the last decade and an outspoken member of the notorious Bloods gang, have provided fodder for debates on the influence of gangsta rap on America's youth. My dissertation analyzes Lil Wayne's music and image at the interstices of race, space, and place, towards a more in-depth understanding of the conflicts and contributions of the gangsta figure in contemporary popular music. Scholars and popular music journalists alike often indiscriminately designate many hip-hop artists as "gangsta rappers," and assess their contributions across a spectrum varying from representing "real" conditions in ghettoized locations, to "blacking up" for white audiences in a modern-day reprisal of the minstrel show. Too often, scholars facilely apply the category of gangsta rap, and ghettoize artists in the process, mirroring the over-simplistic and divisive binaries of popular discourse. Consequently, these artists are relegated to scholar-imposed "blocks and corners" (to use a phrase popularized by hip hop lexicon), and severed from the rich historical and social context of the characters they create and enact through their music. By unpacking the relationship between Lil Wayne and the conceptual spaces of 'hood, prison, and body, I offer a more complex theory of authenticity as it relates to hip-hop's portrayal of space: one that contextualizes the gangsta figure in its historical precedents and thematic juxtapositions, the sociocultural realities of ghettoized spaces populated by increasingly disenfranchised and criminalized youth, and the musical signifiers that speak to the growing social impermeability of blackness in U.S. America

Jane Austen is one of the world's most famous writers. Who has not heard about the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice? We do not know much abaout Jane's romantic life. But we know about the problems of girls like Jane, in the late 1700's, who fell in love with the wrong man.

Presents a retelling of the classic story of a little girl who meets a devious wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother complete with exciting, fun pop-ups and beautiful pictures.