The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species of deer in the world, and one of the largest land mammals in North America and eastern Asia. It was long believed to be a subspecies of the European red deer (Cervus elaphus), but evidence from a 2004 study of the mitochondrial DNA indicates that the two are distinct species.
This animal should not be confused with the larger moose (Alces alces), to which the name "elk" applies in Eurasia. Apart from the moose, the only other member of the deer family to rival the elk in size is the south Asian sambar (Rusa unicolor).
Elk range in forest and forest-edge habitat, feeding on grasses, plants, leaves, and bark. Although native to North America and eastern Asia, they have adapted well to countries where they have been introduced, including Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand. Their great adaptability may threaten endemic species and ecosystems into which they have been introduced.
Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Males also engage in ritualized mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling (sparring), and bugling, a loud series of vocalizations which establishes dominance over other males and attracts females.
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Wild Sunflowers chronicles the story of Bobby Hatcher, a Florida National Guard soldier from a poor rural farming community. His Company is deployed to Iraq, where he is wounded in combat. He returns home to his family with severe PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and a physical wound that he received from an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). There is no local support to help him deal with his mental disorder and his physical wound. He is getting the bureaucrat run around from a Veterans system that is not working. His wife, Molly Hatcher, works in a local farm equipment parts supply store. Bobby is not capable of holding down a job, due to his war wounds. He has frequent 'flash-backs' and is tormented with pain from his injury. He has become a pain pill addict. It's election year, and Wes Van Hoevan is running for the local Congressional seat which has been held for twelve years by Ed Sutil. Wes is much more liberal than Ed, and believes the troops should be brought home. This does not set well in the local conservative Congressional district. Now Molly must try to attain help for her husband through a 'broken' system, while working and raising the children on her own. Bobby continues to get worse with continuous bouts of war memories, and a growing addiction that has the family going into debt.
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Join Elk, the youngest member of the Hunters Guild, who finds himself propelled into an epic odyssey across a mysterious world in search of the enigmatic outlaw known as Arc The Lad. Together with the mysterious Lieza and the powerful warrior Shu, Elk must defeat a sinister organization that's creating half-human monsters and find his way to Arc, whom Elk believes responsible for the destruction of his village!
Keywords: anime, corruption, genetic-experimentation, resistance, super-power, transformation
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Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI's occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident. One guy falls in love with a Volkswagon. A baker among them moves in with another baker's wife. A group of shell shocked holy rollers wander the bombed out streets. A GI art historian tries vainly to protect the castle and its masterpieces.
Keywords: 1940s, adultery, anti-war, ardennes, ardennes-forest, aristocrat, art-collection, baker's-shop, bakery, based-on-novel
A 10th-Century castle...a 20th-Century war...and the outspoken novel come to life on the screen!
The bold bawdy novel comes to life!
The major took the castle and then he took its mistress!
A one-eyed major and his oddball heroes fight a twentieth-century war in a tenth-century castle!
The Count: You find me degenerate - or worse even, French.
Lt. Billy Byron Bix: [leading singing]::Sfc. Rossie Baker: Hey, you're waking everybody up! Go back to your outfit!::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: [singing subsides] Excuse me?::Sfc. Rossie Baker: You're waking everybody up, go back to your outfit.::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: We have no outfit. We've withdrawn. We don't believe in fighting.::Sfc. Rossie Baker: Well who believes in fighting?::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: We believe in God. That frightens you, doesn't it? All you believe in is fornication, and killing.::Sfc. Rossie Baker: What?::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: We're conscientious objectors!::Sfc. Rossie Baker: You mean, you conscientiously object to fornicating?::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: [leads singing again, loudly]::Sfc. Rossie Baker: [taps Lt. Bix on shoulder as singing continues] Hey! Didn't you tell 'em? They're supposed to excuse you from combat.::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: They said that our sect was too small!::Sfc. Rossie Baker: Your what was too small?::Lt. Billy Byron Bix: Sect! S-E-C-T!
Sfc. Rossie Baker: [enterting brothel with loaves] Everybody should eat more bread. Feeds the heart. And remember, the heart's the second-most important organ in the human body.
Sfc. Rossie Baker: Listen, battles are lost because people get excited. There's only one way to calm the situation down - go to bed with a woman. Afterwards you'll be able to concentrate.
Maj. Abraham Falconer: When the German tanks get here, we'll have a reception. They're brave sons of bitches, and we should not allow their heroic actions to go unsung. They should all have a cocktail!::Red Queen: Cocktail?::Maj. Abraham Falconer: Cognac bottle filled with gasoline.
Sfc. Rossie Baker: If we get caught, can they shoot us for wearing a German tank?
Maj. Abraham Falconer: What do you see out there, Beckman?::Capt. Lionel Beckman: No Krauts yet!::Maj. Abraham Falconer: You never will. You're a dreamer, Beckman. They'll get you first!
Maj. Abraham Falconer: I warned you about thinking, Beckman!
Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin: Napoleon before Venice said, 'If my cannon destroy but one statue, I would rather not take Venice.::Capt. Lionel Beckman: Did Napoleon say that? Doesn't sound like Napoleon.::Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin: Oh, well, no he didn't, but I thought it would cheer you up.::Capt. Lionel Beckman: I appreciate that, but Napoleon was a louse.
Pvt. Allistair Piersall Benjamin: My purpose is madness. It's the only way you can really tell what happens in war. By lying you can open the door a little crack on the truth.
Loss of your heart
You fall into danger
A hawksept boy
Two moons around him
I watch him break the dawn this morning
He's all I needed
He's all I've wanted
For a new day will rise
We meet the dawn with sleepless eyes
Don't we love
I trace the lines around your eyes
Try to recognize the signs
North wind is cold today
Ain't it love
This place I waited all day for you
Rainjacket pulled over your head
Your face is all agrain (?)
My lovers like the sun
He's come to warm me
Thaw this ice
It goes right through
To the core in me
For a new day will rise
We meet the dawn with sleepless eyes
Don't we love
I trace the places you have been in me
Come my love only you can
Thaw this ice to me now
And a new day has come
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