Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Black Swan
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 05:45:05 +1030
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan

Doug is correct.  Best of all is that a "black swan" was a
euphemistic phrase, pre-european discovery of Australia, for an
impossibility.  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan_(2007_book)
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This bird is very common around here.


Marty
In reply to: Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] IMG: Black Swan)