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Isabel

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Subject: Isabel
From: scouler <>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:03:36 +1100

The concept also occurs in the specific name of the Australian
Pratincole Stiltia isabella, referring to the prevailing colour of the
upperparts.
As for the "off-colour" story of the archduchess's underwear, most
historians dismiss it as entirely apocryphal.

Colin Scouler

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