Let's imagine that you are really good at making arrowheads, but you're hopeless at making the wooden shafts with the flight feathers attached.

And what we found was that they have leaf like structures on their toes, with millions of tiny hairs that look like a rug, and each of those hairs has the worst case of split ends possible about 100 to 1000 split ends that are nano size.

But hope the thing with feathers, as the American poet Emily Dickinson put it often bears little resemblance to realities on the ground.

Currently stationed in the main hangar at the airforce base are two Mi 24V helicopters without the blades for their main rotor and one functioning Mi 24P with blades (registration TU VMO).

We discovered it. And what we found was that they have leaf like structures on their toes, with millions of tiny hairs that look like a rug, and each of those hairs has the worst case of split ends possible about 100 to 1000 split ends that are nano size.

There appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the pila, or small ball, used in catching games, the paganica, a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the follis, a leather ball filled with air, the largest of the three.