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ge People can easily recognize that a butterfly, a horse, or a tree are alive and that a bike, a computer, and a lamp are not. People call a thing living if it is capable of performing certain activities, such as growth or reproduction. Biologists, however, have ....

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.... Up until the last nanoseconds of his execution, he imagines an elaborate escape in which he manages to reach his home and family. Peyton Farquhar is a southern gentleman, “..of a highly respected Alabama family,” in the times of the civil war. “His features were good, a straight nosed, firm mouthed, broad forehead from which his long dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar of his well-fitting frock coat.” Due to circumstances not described in the story, Peyton was not able to join his beloved state to fight for the “southern cause.” Because of this he wanted to do all that he could to f ....