Apr 20, 2022 · Albatrosses have huge wings, around 240cm of span and they generally glide on updrafts, which actually prevents it from heading back south due to the still air around the equator. That renders Albert “exiled” in the northern hemisphere.

Perhaps the most famous of these visitors was "Albert" (fully Albert Ross), who first appeared on the Bass Rock in 1967, then subsequently at Hermanness, Shetland almost annually from 1972 to 1995.

Albert Ross managed to paddle painfully to the shore as he couldn’t fly.His wings were clipped while he was on the ship so that the crew could keep him as a mascot and, even if they had been intact, his wingfeathers were waterlogged when he was thrown into the waves.

Hinckley hired New York architect Albert Randolph Ross, who designed an impressive single-story, Classical Revival edifice with central rotunda, portico, and flanking wings, all adorned with such classical features as Tuscan columns in antis and pediments. In the 1970s a suspended ceiling was installed beneath the dome.

Refurbishing the 'Albert Ross' (Albatross from the emblem of the 9 Squadron Crest) A leisure pontoon using fighter jet drop tanks for floats, helicopter seats, an Eski ice box, outboard motor surry sun cover over the top.

Jul 3, 2021 · This allowed the full majesty of this species, which whilst only 20% bigger than the gannets is wholly more impressive in flight with its whippy wingtips and contrasting mantle and tail colour which allied with the eye shadow and mascara makes it very dashing.

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May 27, 2024 · "Albatross?" a voice called for him, breaking him… Mhmhmhmhm yep that's it. She arranged the marriage between him and his wife (Marlin)(yippee yippeee yayayay I get to introduce her this chapter *clicks my heels and jumps in the air*) and I think it's pretty fun to spend a thousand or two words establishing him a little more before then tossing it right in his face.

Jan 23, 2024 · Prosecutors said 53-year-old Albert Ross, aka “Big,” directed “enormous amounts of deadly drugs” into middle Georgia from Mexico for years.

Jan 23, 2024 · A lot of the coke trafficked by 53-year-old Albert "Big" Ross of Atlanta ended up in Athens and surrounding areas. On Monday in U.S. District Court in Macon, Ross. pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.