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  • He has come to a different conclusion: The Oiseau Blanc probably flew over Newfoundland, before crash-landing off the coast of Canada.

    Charles Lindbergh Won the Prize, but Did His Rival Get There First? Sebastian Moffett 2011

  • Haruhi Fujii's "Les Rêves d'un Oiseau Solitaire #3" 2009 is a dead bird lying on snow-covered dried leaves, a stark representation of the end nature has in store for everything that lives.

    Observing Fine Birds And Fine Feathers William Meyers 2011

  • Over the decades, reports circulated of plane wrecks in Newfoundland and Maine—along or near the planned route—that might have been the Oiseau Blanc.

    Charles Lindbergh Won the Prize, but Did His Rival Get There First? Sebastian Moffett 2011

  • He believes the Oiseau Blanc probably flew over Newfoundland, before crash-landing off the coast of Canada.

    Searching for the White Bird 2011

  • "Oiseau Lunaire" 1945 by Joan Miró, a surrealist olive-wood sculpture called moon bird, captures the eye.

    Where the Action Is Margaret Studer 2011

  • Trying to figure out the fate of the Oiseau Blanc, he studied weather records from the day of Mr. Nungesser's flight and interviewed elderly people in Newfoundland.

    Charles Lindbergh Won the Prize, but Did His Rival Get There First? Sebastian Moffett 2011

  • *I've translated this poem from the French version 'Pour faire le portrait d'un Oiseau' appearing on the website xtream.online.fr, which presents a collection of Jacques Prevert's poetry in French, with English interpretations.

    The Creative Process in a (Poetic) Nutshell! Joanna Fay 2010

  • *I've translated this poem from the French version 'Pour faire le portrait d'un Oiseau' appearing on the website xtream.online.fr, which presents a collection of Jacques Prevert's poetry in French, with English interpretations.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Satima Flavell 2010

  • What I recall, and what I photographed, was when a Parisian Grand Oiseau took five, plucked off his head, sat down on a low wall in an attitude of profoundly Gallic weariness, and gazed grimly into the middle distance as he dragged on an unfiltered cigarette.

    dear clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

  • Also at Avignon: "Le Colonel-Oiseau," by Hristo Boytchev.

    Show Time 2008

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