New and improved -- and more comprehensive version: how about running the images of an F-style, a flatback and a bowlback on top and the words "do they look hawaiian?" underneath.— Mandolin Cafe News
I've been inspired by hearing it played by someone. those neighbors and friends here in italy who've seen my f-4 mandolin invariably ask: "what is it?" everyone knows the neaopolitan-style mandolin - correct recognition of the flatback runs about half and half. if it's not already considered as such, i wonder if the f-style can assume its rightful place in the smithsonian as a genuinely american instrument?— Mandolin Cafe News
Little-known flatback sea turtle receives extra attention at symposium in Australia— Mongabay.com News
(02 / 17 / 2009) Beginning today in Brisbane, Australia, the 29th annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation will feature the flatback sea turtle, native to Australia and probably the least-studied of the marine turtle species.— Mongabay.com News
For a hundred years biologists debated as to how closely the flatback marine turtle was related to the green sea turtle.— Mongabay.com News

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