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Nearly two dozen species, including the iconic ivory-billed woodpecker and several kinds of freshwater mussels, were declared extinct this week by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, after years of surveys failed to turn up any of them.

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These pretty wooden pumpkins, which come in a set that includes ivory and sage shades, look like the real thing.

In 1924, famed Cornell University ornithologist Arthur “Doc” Allen took the world’s first photograph of the ivory bill in Florida — just days before two collectors shot the mating pair.

I set about cleaning, dipping a rag into a bowl of milk and carefully wiping down the ivory keys.

Milk, according to ’70s-era design magazines, made ivory, well, ivory-er, and I was hard at work when my father stumbled onto the scene.

Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory.

These goods were probably exchanged with Gedi inhabitants for animal skins and ivory.

The new regs say: “Personal possession of legally acquired items containing elephant ivory will remain legal.”

“We can only save African elephants if China and Japan ban the ivory trade,” Thornton told me.

Today, ivory prices are at record highs, having tripled since that 2008 auction, up to around $1,500 a pound.

Stradiuarius made a few instruments inlaid with ebony and ivory round the edges.

Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

Gwynne thought her a creature of infinite possibilities, beside whom Isabel was a statue in ivory.

Of course, it was not smoke obscuring the moon, she decided; it was a lamp, upheld by an ivory figure—a lamp with a Chinese shade.

The Chinese possess marvellous skill in carving ivory, tortoiseshell, and wood.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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