Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? (62 page)

Mason-Dixon Line,
15
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198

Massachusetts,
110
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114

Mather, Cotton,
158

Matisoo-Smith, Lisa,
73
,
74
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75

Mayflower
,
192

McCall, Daniel,
183

McConnell, Mitch,
105

McPherson, H. P.,
204

Meadow, Richard,
33
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41
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42

Medes,
44
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45

Mediterranean Sea,
29
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47
,
100

Melbourne, Lord,
113

Melville, Herman,
109
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198

Mencken, H. L.,
152

Mercer, James,
194

Mesopotamia,
29
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32
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34
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36
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37
–39,
42
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43
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44
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45
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71
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154

Mexico,
71
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73
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91
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93
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106
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213
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257

Mexico City,
3
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71

Miami, Fla.,
181
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190
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191

Middle Ages,
117
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164

Middle East,
2
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28
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41
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44
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48
,
152
,
177
,
257

millinery industry,
10

Ministry of Livestock Development,
249

Mitchel, John,
122

Mithras,
47
,
153

Monograph of the Pheasants, The
(Beebe),
7
,
11

Monroe, James,
195

Morgan, Thomas Hunt,
13

Morton, Samuel George,
133

Mountaire Farms,
238

Mugabe, Robert,
158

Muhammad, Prophet,
46
,
48

Muir, Edwin,
vii

Muscovy duck,
22

Mutineers of the Bounty, The
(Belcher),
110

Mwacharo, Joram,
145
–46

My Fine Feathered Friend
(Grimes),
239

Mystery of Easter Island, The
(Routledge),
67

N

Nabonidus, king of Babylon,
45
,
154

Nairobi,
248
–49,
259

Napoleon,
132

Napoleonic wars,
110

Napoleon's Council of State,
229

NASA,
1
,
19
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20

Nashville, Tenn.,
60
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105

National Audubon Society,
10

National Chicken Council,
217
–18,
220
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236

National Institute of Animal Husbandry,
252

National Museum,
34

National Poultry Society,
197

National Register of Historic Places,
206

Native Americans,
33
,
91
,
92
,
192

Natural History
(Pliny the Elder),
169

Natural History Museum (London),
129
,
143

Natural History of Birds, The
(Buffon),
129

natural selection,
134
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138
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139
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142

Netherlands,
4
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56
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67
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69

New Delhi,
16
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17
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34
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36

New Guinea,
65
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83
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84

New Hampshires,
209
–10

New York, N.Y.,
125
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178
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180
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197
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202
–3,
209
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221
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231

Jews in,
202
–3,
206

New York Daily News
,
180

New Yorker,
3,
218

New York state,
10
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20
,
197
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198
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239

New York Times
,
63
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69
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197
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202

New York Zoological Society,
10

New Zealand,
66
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73
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76
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84

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
50

Nigeria,
182
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183

Nile River,
29
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31
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45

Nixon, Richard,
18

Nolan, James Joseph,
124
–25

North Carolina,
105
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203
–4,
237

O

Ommeh, Sheila,
248
–50,
252

On the Nature of Things
(Carus),
154

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
130
,
141

Orlean, Susan,
3

Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and Management
(Dixon),
65
,
137

Orr, Yancey,
175

Orthodox Judaism,
179
,
202

Osborn, Henry Fairfield,
10
–11

ostrich fowl,
113
–14

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,
110

Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
,
193

Ozma of Oz
(Baum),
239

P

Pacific Ocean,
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–66,
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–70,
75
–77,
79
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82
–84,
111
–12

Pakistan,
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32
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33
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34
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35
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46
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51
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139
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144
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146

Paris,
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partridges,
34
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41
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131

Pasteur, Louis,
4
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61
–62

Patel, Ajita,
33
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41

Paul, Apostle,
54

Peacham, Henry,
157

peacocks,
43
,
200

peafowl,
131

Peel, Robert,
122

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA),
179

Pepys, Samuel,
102

Perdue, Frank,
213

Perdue Farms,
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Perkins, Marlin,
21

Persian Empire,
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–53,
54
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140
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Persian fowls,
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Peter, Apostle,
47
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Peter, Saint,
154
–56,
158

Peters, Joris,
39
–42

Peterson, Town,
22
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23

pheasants,
10
–12,
14
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15
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16
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24
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118
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131
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Philippine Moral Progress League,
94

Philippines,
83
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–85,
86
–98,
101
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141
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cockfighting in,
86
–98,
107

Picasso, Pablo,
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Pichardo, Ernesto,
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–82,
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Pierce, Howard,
208
–9

Pigafetta, Antonio,
71
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pigeons,
120
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130
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134
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139
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184
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186
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Pilgrim's Pride,
218

Pit Games
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Pizarro, Francisco,
72
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91

Plato,
50

Pliny,
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Pliny the Elder,
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169
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200

Plymouth Rock,
199

Polo, Marco,
109

Polynesia,
66
–70,
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–74,
75
–76,
77
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81
–83

Polynesian expansion,
83
–84

Portugal,
71
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73

potato famine,
122
–25

Poulet Rouge de Fermier du Piedmont,
237

Poultry Chronicle, The
,
126
,
127

Power, Tyrone,
240

Premack, David,
241

Progressive Farmer
,
204
,
206

Prosser, Gabriel,
195

Protestants,
94
,
157

Proust, Marcel,
222
–23

Punch
,
127

Pura Penataran Agung Taman Bali,
173

Puritans,
151
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158

Pythagoras,
51
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228

Q

quail,
24
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33
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34
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Quetelet, Adolphe,
119

R

Ramses (the Great) II, Pharaoh,
30
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31
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83

Randolph, Ann Cary,
194

Randolph, Mr. and Mary,
195
–96

Rangoon,
11
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140

Razorback Stadium,
207
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214

Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de,
202

red jungle fowl,
7
–25,
26
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as ancestor of chicken,
25

introgression of,
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wild and sensitive nature of,
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red naked neck,
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Regent's Park,
112
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Rehnquist, William,
191

Rekhmire, vizier,
30

religious freedom,
181
–82,
189
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Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust),
222
–23

Rhode Island Reds,
199
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229
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–50,
256

Rice, Mary Blair,
11

Richardson, Isaac,
20
–21,
23
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ring-necked pheasant,
15

Rizal, José,
93
–94,
95

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research,
63

Rockwell, Norman,
105

Roenigk, Bill,
219
–20,
227

Roman Empire,
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40
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46
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47
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54
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92
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101
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117
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141
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153
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155
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–201

Roman Republic,
188
–89

Rome,
154
–55,
157

Roosevelt, Franklin,
15
,
207
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244

Roosevelt, Theodore,
11

”Rooster King, The” (Hopler),
28

Roslin Institute,
64
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164
–65

Rothschild, Lionel Walter,
129

Roundheads,
88

Rousseau, Jean–Jacques,
130

Routledge, Katherine,
67
,
68

Royal Dublin Society,
123

Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting, The
(Howlett),
86

Royal Sport
,
102

rubber plantations,
10
,
11

rumpless fowl,
143

Russia,
4
,
41
,
219

S

sacrifice,
47
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48
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50
,
53
–54,
117
,
154
,
171
–72,
174
–75,
176
–80,
181
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185
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187
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legal controversy over,
181
–82,
189
,
190
–91

origin of word,
189

Saint Peter's Basilica,
155
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salmonella,
220
,
259

Sanders, Harland,
196

Santeria,
181
–82,
187
,
189
,
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,
191

Saramago, José,
149

Saudi Arabia,
221
,
222
,
254

Savannah River Site,
19
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20
–21,
27

Scalia, Antonin,
181
,
190

Schein, Philip,
179