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My wife's uncle has spent fifty years watching birds. He's 74. A retired ornithologist. He has studied one bird his whole life: the red-crowned crane of Japan. Last March, he flew to Nebraska to see the sandhill cranes. Every spring, hundreds of thousands of them stop on the Platte River. He stayed six weeks in a small town nearby. He came home with two field notebooks. The first one is about cranes. The second one is about you. He's a scientist. So he did what scientists do. He observed. He took notes. He gave everything a Latin name. The title on the cover: "FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN HUMAN (Midwestern subspecies)" He let me copy some entries. THE DRIVEWAY DAD Pater drivewayensis Habitat: Driveways. Garages. The edge of the lawn at dusk. Identification: Shorts in 40-degree weather. Coffee mug that says #1# GRANDPA. Has never been observed sitting down in his own yard. Call: "Eh, she'll run." Behavior: If your car will not start, he will appear. He does not know you. This is not relevant to him. THE CHURCH LADY Casserola benevolens Identification: Travels in flocks of four. Always carrying a pan covered in foil. Call: "Oh, honey." Behavior: Arrives within three hours of any bad news. Nobody has ever seen her called. She can detect a funeral two counties away. THE DINER WAITRESS Refilla perpetua Habitat: Diners near the highway. Open since 5 a.m. Possibly since 1962. Call: "You want a warm-up, sweetie?" Behavior: Refills coffee before it is empty. Knows every regular's name, children, and dog. Field note: Called me "sweetie" on the first day. I am 74 years old and a doctor of science. I did not object. THE TRUCK GUY Ferens couchus Identification: Owns a pickup truck. Therefore owns your Saturday. Call: "You need help moving?" (Asked before you have mentioned moving.) Behavior: Will carry your couch up three flights of stairs. Will not accept money. Will accept pizza. Will accept exactly one beer. THE COFFEE CLUB Senex consilium Habitat: Corner booth of the fast-food restaurant. 6 a.m. The same five men since 1987. Behavior: Solves every problem in the nation by 7:15 a.m. Implements none of them. Field note: On my first morning, they asked where I was from. I said Japan. A man in a seed cap said, "Well, welcome." Then he paid for my coffee. By the third morning, they had voted. I was "alright." By the fifth morning, one of them was driving me to the river at 5 a.m. to see the cranes. He has lived next to the cranes for seventy years. He said he came for the cranes. He did not watch the cranes. He watched me watching them. THE BLEACHER MOM Mater bandaidus Habitat: Bleachers. A folding chair with a cupholder. Call: "GOOD EYE!" (Shouted at children who have done nothing.) Behavior: Carries snacks for her child and for eleven children who are not hers. Has a bandage at all times, from a source no scientist has located. THE TEENAGE BAGGER Juvenis sleetfortis Identification: Sixteen. Name tag. Voice still deciding. Call: "Need help out to your car, ma'am?" Behavior: Will carry an old woman's groceries across a parking lot in sleet, then say "No problem!" as if it were no problem. Field note: It was a problem. It was sleet. THE SNOWBLOWER NEIGHBOR Vicinus invisibilis Behavior: Clears his own driveway. Then yours. Then the widow's at the end of the street. Then disappears. Field note: Very common. Never photographed in the act. I waited at the window for three mornings. I only ever found the tracks. FLOCKING BEHAVIOR Observed on a Friday night at a high school football field. Two thousand individuals. When the music began, every one of them stood up. The men removed their hats. A four-year-old in the front row saw his father do it, and removed his hat too. Then he put his hand over his heart, on the wrong side. Nobody corrected him. Field note: I have watched ten thousand cranes rise from a river at once. I have never seen anything move together like that. On the last page of the notebook, he stopped writing like a scientist. He wrote about his cranes. In the 1920s, everyone in Japan believed the red-crowned crane was extinct. Then a few were found in a marsh in Hokkaido. About twenty birds. That was all that was left. They were not saved by scientists. He says that himself. They were saved by farmers. Ordinary people, in the hardest winters, who walked out into the snow and scattered corn for birds that did not belong to them. Year after year. Nobody asked them to. Today there are more than a thousand. Then, in Nebraska, he watched hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes rest on their long journey north. Eating the corn left behind in farmers' fields. He watched the people too. Stopping. Carrying. Shoveling. Feeding. Standing up together in the cold. At the bottom of the very last page, he filled in the box every field guide has for every species. CONSERVATION STATUS: According to the news: critically endangered. According to the field: abundant. Thriving. Found in every town I visited. Feeding other people's cranes.

37 years ago this week, Whitney Houston earned her fourth of 11 career No. 1s on the #Hot100#, with her classic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me).” #BBChartRewind# 📈💃 It was also one of four No. 1s from her album ‘Whitney’ (along with “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” “So Emotional” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”). It’s one of just nine albums in history to generate four No. 1 songs. Take a look at the top 10 that week, and swipe to see the full chart. ➡️

⭕️First Charter of Human Rights 

I am Kourosh (Cyrus), King of the world, great king, mighty king, king of Babylon, king of the land of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters, son of Camboujiyah (Cambyases), great king, king of Anshân, grandson of Kourosh (Cyrus), great king, king of Anshân, descendant of Chaish-Pesh (Teispes), great king, king of Anshân, progeny of an unending royal line, whose rule Bel and Nabu cherish, whose kingship they desire for their hearts, pleasure. When I well -disposed, entered Babylon, I set up a seat of domination in the royal palace amidst jubilation and rejoicing. Marduk the great god, caused the big-hearted inhabitations of Babylon to .................. me, I sought daily to worship him. At my deeds Marduk, the great lord, rejoiced and to me, Kourosh (Cyrus), the king who worshipped him, and to Kaboujiyah (Cambyases), my son, the offspring of (my) loins, and to all my troops he graciously gave his blessing, and in good sprit before him we glorified exceedingly his high divinity. All the kings who sat in throne rooms, throughout the four quarters, from the Upper to the Lower Sea, those who dwelt in ..................., all the kings of the West Country, who dwelt in tents, brought me their heavy tribute and kissed my feet in Babylon. From ... to the cities of Ashur, Susa, Agade and Eshnuna, the cities of Zamban, Meurnu, Der as far as the region of the land of Gutium, the holy cities beyond the Tigris whose sanctuaries had been in ruins over a long period, the gods whose abode is in the midst of them, I returned to their places and housed them in lasting abodes. 


I gathered together all their inhabitations and restored (to them) their dwellings. The gods of Sumer and Akkad whom Nabounids had, to the anger of the lord of the gods, brought into Babylon. I, at the bidding of Marduk, the great lord, made to dwell in peace in their habitations, delightful abodes. 


May all the gods whom I have placed within their sanctuaries address a daily prayer in my favour before Bel and Nabu, that my days may be long, and may they say to Marduk my lord, "May Kourosh (Cyrus) the King, who reveres thee, and Kaboujiyah (Cambyases) his son ..." Now that I put the crown of kingdom of Iran, Babylon, and the nations of the four directions on the head with the help of (Ahura) Mazda, I announce that I will respect the traditions, customs and religions of the nations of my empire and never let any of my governors and subordinates look down on or insult them until I am alive. From now on, till (Ahura) Mazda grants me the kingdom favor, I will impose my monarchy on no nation. Each is free to accept it , and if any one of them rejects it , I never resolve on war to reign. Until I am the king of Iran, Babylon, and the nations of the four directions, I never let anyone oppress any others, and if it occurs , I will take his or her right back and penalize the oppressor. 


And until I am the monarch, I will never let anyone take possession of movable and landed properties of the others by force or without compensation. Until I am alive, I prevent unpaid, forced labor. To day, I announce that everyone is free to choose a religion. People are free to live in all regions and take up a job provided that they never violate other's rights. 


No one could be penalized for his or her relatives' faults. I prevent slavery and my governors and subordinates are obliged to prohibit exchanging men and women as slaves within their own ruling domains. Such a traditions should be exterminated the world over. 


I implore to (Ahura) Mazda to make me succeed in fulfilling my obligations to the nations of Iran (Persia), Babylon, and the ones of the four directions. #CyrusDay#