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  1. Alexjh1

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2019

    There's a difference between someone being in history and them being honoured. No one I know is reasoning that we try erase people from history, but a statue or an eponym is a an honouring. To take an example of one I consider "cool" - Eleonara of Arborea after whom Eleonara's Falcon is...
  2. Alexjh1

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2019

    That's fair, but we are trying to be thorough here, there are literally hundreds of these people and many of them require trawling through obscure texts to get an idea of what they were doing behind the white-washed version that tends to be presented. We are looking at how we might release...
  3. Alexjh1

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2019

    I'm helping with a small part of the back research to this proposal, making a catalogue of who exactly the people are that have birds named after them - it's a big task and we're only beginning to scratch the surface, but even so far the list includes: Murderers - most often of indiginous...
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