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Shoal - A group of fish swimming together.
Albert Einstein - A German-born physicist, whose work in the early 20th Century revolutionised scientific understanding of the world.
Ornithologist - An expert in birds.
Avian - To do with birds.
Treatise - A written work formally addressing a subject.
John Keats - An English Romantic poet who died in 1821 aged 25 from tuberculosis.
Mortality - Things that can die are mortal.
John Stuart Mill - A 19th-Century English philosopher who wrote extensively about freedom and democracy. He is regarded as the father of modern liberalism.