It is a signed, written statement describing how a person wants his or her property owned in individual name to pass at death, which, if executed in accordance with the requirements of Maryland Law, will be enforced by the courts.
Scientists believe they have finally worked out how the mighty albatross â a seabird capable of travelling 10,000 miles in a single journey and circumnavigating the globe in 46 days â manages to fly without expending almost any energy.
An albatross is the grandest living flying machine on Earth. An albatross is bone, feathers, muscle, and the wind. An albatross is its own taut longbow, the breeze its bowstring, propelling its projectile body. An albatross is an art deco bird, striking of pattern, clean of line, epic in travels, heroically faithful. A parent albatross may fly more than 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) to deliver one meal to its chick. Wielding the longest wings in natureâup to eleven and a half feet (3.5 meters)âalbatrosses can glide hundreds of miles without flapping, crossing ocean basins, circumnavigating the globe. A 50-year-old albatross has flown, at least, 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometers). If people know the albatross at all, most harbor vague impressions of an ungainly, burdensome creature, derived from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.