Muscovy duck

It was banned by Russians and Austrians alike until the end of 1912, when the aged emperor of Austria officially recognized it.

But ladies and gentlemen, the word does exist, buried in the hearts of nearly 36 million people.

And what is more alive than the thoughts of 36 million people? The Ukraine, once the largest kingdom in Europe, has been divided between her enemies.

Russia holds the larger part, with some 28 million Ukrainians extending over thousand square kilometers and the russian nationalists call that country malo russia or little russia and the people little russians when they do not call them by worse names austria-hungary holds a much smaller number some three million five hundred thousand in galicia 500,000 in Bukovina, and 700,000 in the sub-Carpathian districts of Hungary.

professor nidalee traces the muscovites to the novgorodians the viatiches and kravitches the ukrainians according to the same authority are of all the slavs those who retain most purely the characteristics of the race especially from the point of view of the language Much before the 9th century, Slav populations were settled in the country about Kiev, where they extended gradually and federated.

According to the Nestor Chronicles, they were there already in the 7th century.

They adopted for themselves the name of Rus, a word derived, according to some authorities, but we shall come back to that point, from Ruotsi, a Finnish name for the Swedes.

It is certainly a Scandinavian term, and it was applied to the Slavs of Kiev, ruled over by Scandinavian kings.

And we have this amazing relationship with Hudson Valley Farms and now we're from New York and they grow the perfect duck for us.

That's a mix of like Muscovy and the Peking duck.

And it's just amazing.

It's truly exquisite.

[laughs] But no, I will say, you know, some things you can't judge a book by its cover, like Muscovy ducks.

I used to trap Muscovies.

It was, it was-

Oh, those are delicious

There, there is a, there is a cer- certain size when we're talking about birds, where they hit that size and everything above it, they're just ornery and they're tough.

So-

Muscovies are huge.

If you completed-

not give them that.

Moscow is probably the only exception.

They like water, but out of all the waterfowl, they're definitely the least water-oriented.

They're jungle birds.

They're jungle

birds, too.

I didn't know Muscovies were.

I guess I missed that memo.

housing.

We should mention, though, if you are if you have a system where you need all your birds to perch, you could think about Muscovies.

Because they do perch.

I love Muscovies.

I think they're amazing.

They're super cool birds.

Yeah.

I really, so literally right now I'm looking out the window at a like five day old Muscovy chick who's, who's walking around eating stuff.

Heck yeah.

Yeah.

He had much to relate touching the lighting of the Humber.

A more interesting appointment, had he only left an account of it, was his secretaryship to the old parliamentarian Lord Carlisle on an embassage to Muscovy, Sweden and Denmark, which left London in April 1663 and returned in June 1665.

Unhappily we have a mere official relation of the journey containing the letters of state and addresses written by the secretary.

Marvell's travels and Milton's retirement into the country somewhat interrupted their intimacy, and after the Restoration when Marvell, according to Milton's nephew Edward Phillips, made a considerable party in Parliament in the interest of the great poet and protected him from the fierce resentment of the cavaliers, the two friends began to see less and less of each other.

It's all the time.

So we have roosters, we have ducks and Muscovy, we have goats, we have cattle, we have sheep, we have two absolutely useless, furry little dogs.

Myself, my partner, my sister, two of her kids, and another family all living here.

It's a proper Gypo community.

My argument in the book and based on the research is that the East India Company is bedrocked on a whole generation of English joint stock companies, initiatives which are designed to work with Islamic communities.

So these go back right to the 1560s when they set up what's called the Muscovy Company, which is a bit confusing because Muscovy is often an archaic word for Russia.

but it's actually an attempt in the 1550s by English merchants to get to Persia.

There is then the establishment of the Turkey Company, which as it suggests is working with the Turkish Ottoman Empire, which is from the late 1570s.

Oh.

Can I just suggest that the Andean cock-of-the-rock in combination with the Muscovy duck would probably be the most powerful or one of the most powerful combinations you could consider? There-

[laughing] I've just seen what the Muscovy duck is.

The Muscovy duck.

Is it Muscovy, Muscovy? I'm not sure, but it's, it's obviously-

I don't know.

That is funny

... an A-Americas bird.