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  • The colors themselves dazzle: blues from the palest robin's egg to the deepest cyanide and cobalt; a deep blue-black background for the white Pelicanus Americanus; crimson red and paler pinks for the flamingo; so many shades of beige, brown and gray for the owls that you can't tell where one stops and another begins; an iridescent rainbow for ducks; a psychedelic palette for finches.

    The Joys of Slow Looking Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • Sure, I have observed Teenageus Americanus at both places, and yeah, the females need to cover themselves and the males need a haircut.

    Matthew Yglesias » Rich Lawyers Boosting Traffic Jams and Calling It Charity 2009

  • NOTES: I spent one summer at my mother's house with a toad, an American toad, a female American toad, aBufo Americanus, who visited each night at ten and left in the morning at six for twelve weeks; then she did not appear at her perch by the glass door for two weeks, a summer vacation.

    Tilly Artaud 2010

  • The populus Americanus will be forgiving in their gratitude.

    Ron Paul’s Good News « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • An American foreign policy for peace: An American viewpoint by Americanus

    A New Strategy for America 2010

  • Many decades ago, H.L. Mencken coined the term "Boobus Americanus" to describe the average citizen.

    freedom fries, french's, fox 2009

  • Americanus Stupidoculus by William Whitten on Sunday, Feb 22, 2009 at 8: 09: 54 PM

    It's Bigger than Wall Street, Worse than the Economy, and It Requires Anger 2009

  • Americanus Ignoroopius by William Whitten on Saturday, Apr 4, 2009 at 1: 11: 17 PM

    Feith Dares Obama to Enforce the Law 2009

  • Left to its own devices, the American celebrity (celebritus Americanus) finds its own kind and moves among them in a herd of Blackberrying fingers and venti skinny lattes.

    Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2008

  • Leo Americanus thinks that there is something seriously wrong with the perception of women in the Arab culture.

    Oman: Ramadan Unusual 2008

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