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  • Prehistoric Surveillance in Bethlehem?
  • Carter Revard (bio)

Chaunteclere Has 100,000,000-Year-Old HD Curved-Screen 3D & Binocular Color TeleVision1 inherited from his Grandpa, Tyrannosaurus Rex,2 installed Behind His Third Eyelids3 (Eco-f riendly: No Batteries or Plug-i n Needed). Several famous people are spinning cuckoons in their graves at this revelation: for instance, Geoffrey Chaucer,4 William Shakespeare,5 Henry Vaughan,6 William Blake and Isaac Newton,7 Pieter Breughel Jr,8 and Karl Marx.9

So three questions remainin this supernatural mystery:What did Chaunteclere SEE,when did he see it,   ANDdo roosters crow in Heaven?10

Carter Revard

Carter Revard, Osage on his father's side and with a Ponca aunt and cousins, was born in the Osage Agency town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in 1931. In 1933 his mother married his "full-blood" Osage father, and in Dust Bowl times they moved to Buck Creek, twenty miles east of Pawhuska, where he and six siblings graduated from its one-room school. He went on to Bartlesville College-High, winning a radio quiz scholarship to Tulsa University and in 1952 a Rhodes Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, at which time his grandmother Mrs. Josephine Jump and the Osage elders gave him his Osage name. After a BA in English from Oxford, he took a PhD from Yale, taught at Amherst College, then moved to St. Louis and taught medieval and American Indian literature and linguistics at Washington University, St. Louis, retiring in 1997. Besides scholarly essays, he has published poetry (Ponca War Dancers; Cowboys and Indians, Christmas Shopping; An Eagle Nation; How the Songs Come Down), essays (Family Matters, Tribal Affairs); and poems/memoirs (Winning the Dust Bowl). A new collection of poems, From the Extinct Volcano, A Bird of Paradise, is forthcoming from the Mongrel Empire Press.

Notes

1. Since Chaunteclere has always lived in the light, his inherited con-dominium in Bethlehem uses color TV for round-the-clock surveillance. Adam and Eve, by fortunate fall, went 24/7 and daily walk in darkness, but have inward eyes.

2. DNA from the fossilized femur of a Tyrannosaurus has been found to resemble most closely that of the domestic chicken. The reported comment on this from publicists for the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise operators was, "What clucks we have been." A new ad campaign is reported to be in preparation, based on the theme Our Customers Can Eat Them First.

"The domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus) originally descended from the wild red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) of southeastern Asia. The females, including mature hens and younger pullets, are raised for their edible eggs and meat. Immature males, called cockerels, are castrated to become meat birds called capons. Mature males, called cocks, or roosters, have long been used for sport." (Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed. [Micropædia 2.830]) [End Page 79]

3. Here are excerpts from an article by Michael Purdy in the Washington University Record for the week of February 15, 2010:

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have peered deep into the eye of the chicken and found a masterpiece of biological design. Scientists mapped five types of light receptors in the chicken's eye. They discovered the receptors were laid out in interwoven mosaics that maximized the chicken's ability to see many colors in any given part of the retina, the light-sensing structure at the back of the eye.

"Based on this analysis, birds have clearly one-upped us in several ways in terms of color vision," says Joseph C. Corbo, MD, PhD, senior author and assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of genetics. "Color receptor organization in the chicken retina greatly exceeds that seen in most other retinas and certainly that in most mammalian retinas." Corbo plans follow-up studies of how this organization is established. He says such insights could eventually help scientists seeking to use stem cells and other new techniques to treat the nearly 200 genetic disorders that can cause various forms of blindness.

[Kram YA, Mantey S, Corbo JC. Avian cone photoreceptors tile the retina as five independent, self-organizing mosaics. PLoS One, Feb. 1...

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