Summary of Jack E. Davis's The Bald Eagle

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The position of national bird remains vacant. No president or Congress has ever signed a proclamation or passed a law to fill it. The bald eagle has falsely basked in the position of national bird since Congress affixed the bald eagle on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782.
#2 The bald eagle was chosen as the representative of America, and many of the American veterans who joined the Society of the Cincinnati rejected it. Franklin, however, was against it. He thought the eagle was a lazy, thieving bird that did not get its food honestly.
#3 Franklin’s criticism of the bald eagle was just a small part of the story in establishing the turkey as a founding bird. He never said in a letter or anywhere else that he preferred the turkey over the bald eagle.
#4 The American Revolution was the first time a country needed a seal to prove its legitimacy. The Americans flew their first flag, the Continental Colours, on New Year’s Day 1775, and put up a new rendition with thirteen red and white horizontal stripes and a blue canton with thirteen white stars in September 1777.

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• Animals
• birds

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669383482
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The position of national bird remains vacant. No president or Congress has ever signed a proclamation or passed a law to fill it. The bald eagle has falsely basked in the position of national bird since Congress affixed the bald eagle on the Great Seal of the United States in 1782.

#2

The bald eagle was chosen as the representative of America, and many of the American veterans who joined the Society of the Cincinnati rejected it. Franklin, however, was against it. He thought the eagle was a lazy, thieving bird that did not get its food honestly.

#3

Franklin’s criticism of the bald eagle was just a small part of the story in establishing the turkey as a founding bird. He never said in a letter or anywhere else that he preferred the turkey over the bald eagle.

#4

The American Revolution was the first time a country needed a seal to prove its legitimacy. The Americans flew their first flag, the Continental Colours, on New Year’s Day 1775, and put up a new rendition with thirteen red and white horizontal stripes and a blue canton with thirteen white stars in September 1777.

#5

The American bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. It is also used as a symbol of sovereignty and nobility. birds do not organize their world the way we do, from the lowly to the kingly.

#6

The bald eagle was chosen as the national bird. It was not an obvious choice, as nothing was. The endeavor to design a seal that appealed to congressional members was not as arduous as winning the war, but it was still trying in its own way.

#7

The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, and was approved by Congress on July 8. The seal committee, which consisted of Franklin and Jefferson, was tasked with designing a new seal for the country.

#8

Seals are works of art that display the ownership or authority of the person who created them. They are typically circular in shape, and they display a patterned shield with a supporter on each side. Mottos are often displayed on seals.

#9

The American eagle is not actually based on an ancient Roman bird, but it is still considered to be a Roman symbol. It has been used as both a single- and double-headed bird, and its wings have always been displayed spread and the talons open.

#10

The seal committee began by searching for ideas and inspiration. They hired Pierre Eugène du Simitière, a Swiss-born naturalized citizen who had come to Philadelphia by way of the West Indies and New York, to develop a seal for the United States.

#11

The three congressional delegates each worked on their own ideas for a seal. Adams suggested duplicating The Judgement of Hercules, by Simon Gribelin, a French-born engraver who spent his adult life and career in England.

#12

The seal design that was chosen by Congress had the Goddess of Liberty and a buckskin-clad, musket-bearing American soldier. The visual was too busy, and it failed to excite fellow delegates.

#13

The regal eagle is of our imagination. The person who first called North America’s sea eagle a bald eagle was most likely a man or woman in seventeenth-century British America, when people were surrounded by an array of wild and domesticated animals.

#14

The American eagle is named after its bald head. The most prominent feature of the bald eagle is its white feathers, which develop between the age of four and six. Its eyes are among the most striking in nature.

#15

The first seal committee’s conceptual metaphor was paradoxical. They had consulted Old World tradition, yet these were men who were also turning tradition on its head with self-evident truths, unalienable rights, liberty, equality, and happiness.

#16

The second committee sought the help of a consultant, Francis Hopkinson, to redesign the seal. He eliminated Du Simitière’s crazy quilt of nineteen escutcheons and replaced them with thirteen diagonal stripes, the same number of stars floating above like stardust from heaven.

#17

The third seal committee was organized by Congress, and they turned to an outside consultant. William Barton was the choice of Thomson and the committee. He contributed more to the American experiment than egalitarian heraldry ever would.

#18

Charles Thomson was the American who was in charge of getting the job done with the new country’s flag. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery, and he had served throughout the body’s existence.

#19

The seal was approved by Congress on June 20, 1782, and with that the bald eagle became an American symbol.

#20

The American bald eagle was inspired by the image of the Charles V coin, which was used as a medium of exchange in the 1500s. The secretary may have just looked out his window or walked along the waterfront and seen eagles everywhere.

#21

The Delaware River was the largest breeding ground of the American shad, a fish that was a staple in the Philadelphia diet. The estuary was also a popular spot for sportfishing, and eagles would often swoop in and take advantage of the fisherman’s offerings.

#22

The osprey is a favorite target for the bald eagle. It is anatomically built for the job, with a body weight about one-third the eagle’s and a wingspan nearly as broad. It is capable of ferrying up to ninety percent of its weight, which at the uppermost is four and a half pounds.

#23

The bald eagle is known for its intelligence, and it is also known for stealing food from other birds. It is not just the big who are victims of this behavior, but also the small.

#24

The bald eagle was chosen as the national emblem of the United States, but it wasn’t always that way. Before the bald eagle, there were a number of other hopeful animal representatives, including a flock of birds, a drove of sheep, and a kettle of fish.

#25

The bald eagle was the picture of America’s full-fledged independence and sovereignty. It was inherently stalwart and handsome, and over the years, engravers fine-tuned its features.

#26

The Great Seal of the United States was not a month old when the bald eagle was adopted as the national symbol. The French ambassador had preempted an American unveiling of the founding bird on its new patriotic perch.

#27

When he set out on an official tour of the states, the bird of his buttons seemed everywhere. Washington had become more than a name and national hero. He was now a moral force, a virtue, and a motif.

#28

The quarter’s debut in 1796 sparked a minor panic. The eagle on the coin was not ornithologically correct, because the eagle was cast on a monometallic surface that did not reveal the coloration of a bald.

#29

When Horsfall examined the engraved bird’s legs, he saw that its feet were featherless, which was a violation of the rules. The critics and the committee had been horrified by the possibility that an engraver might have coupled the native-born father of their country with an international eagle instead of the bald or American variety.

#30

The story of the American War of Independence is that the eagles that flew overhead when the Americans were fighting the British inspired the Patriots to win. However, this story is not true.

#31

The way we perceive the voice of a person is not necessarily how other living species do. The sound and vocal behavior of the bald eagle is not well understood by scientists. They don’t know whether the balds’ voice and cadence are learned or innate.

#32

The bald eagle was the national bird of the United States, and it was used as an example of American exceptionalism. The rock that was found near the rural village of Claverack in New York’s Hudson River valley was believed to be the tooth of a giant people who lived before the Great Flood.