The Nun is a breed of fancy pigeon developed through many years of selective breeding. It was known as the Dutch Shell Pigeon in continental Europe. Nuns, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock pigeon (Columba livia). The Nun is one of the oldest breeds and was originally a flying tumbler before being developed for exhibition. It is a mostly white breed, with a hood of feathers, which gives the name to the breed. Description The Nun is given its name by the raised feathers which form a kind of hood which covers the back of the neck and head, resembling a nun. Continental Europe previously referred to the Nun as the Dutch Shell Pigeon during the early part of the 20th century. It resembles the tumbler, from which this breed of pigeon originated; although as with all domestic pigeons they are descended from the rock pigeon (Columba livia). They have mostly white bodies and are designated according to the color of their head, for example, a black headed Nun, or a yellow headed Nun. Only the head, tail and the flight feathers are colored. Nuns are one breed in a group of pigeons who fly at high altitudes, along with types of tumblers and the magpie pigeon. The British Nun Club standard for the Nun states that the ideal size for male Nuns should be from the top of the bird's head to their feet, and from the front of the chest to its tail. Female and young Nuns should be roughly the same size. The beak should be straight but stout, and the eyes a pearly white.

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“If he goes forth from the household life into homelessness, then he will become an Arahant, a fully-enlightened Buddha, one who draws back the veil from the world.”
— Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 3 (Ambattha Sutta), verse 1.5, p. 112
“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”
— John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, as translated by Archimandrite Lazarus Moore (Holy Transfiguration Monastery: 1959), 23:25
“Monasticism, retreat from the world, reclusivism, that’s a lot of crap.”
— Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Chapter 18
“Academe needs deprofessionalization and deyuppification. It has to recover its clerical or spiritual roots. Scholarship is an ideal and a calling, not merely a trade or living. Every year at commencement, we put on medieval robes that connect us to a great monastic past.”
— Camille Paglia, “Academe Has to Recover Its Spiritual Roots and Overthrow the Establishment of Invested Self-Interest,” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1991
“Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.”
— Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), as translated by Stephen Kalberg (2011), p. 100

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Notable quotes

“If he goes forth from the household life into homelessness, then he will become an Arahant, a fully-enlightened Buddha, one who draws back the veil from the world.”
— Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, M. Walshe, trans. (1987), Sutta 3 (Ambattha Sutta), verse 1.5, p. 112
“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”
— John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, as translated by Archimandrite Lazarus Moore (Holy Transfiguration Monastery: 1959), 23:25
“Monasticism, retreat from the world, reclusivism, that’s a lot of crap.”
— Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Chapter 18
“Academe needs deprofessionalization and deyuppification. It has to recover its clerical or spiritual roots. Scholarship is an ideal and a calling, not merely a trade or living. Every year at commencement, we put on medieval robes that connect us to a great monastic past.”
— Camille Paglia, “Academe Has to Recover Its Spiritual Roots and Overthrow the Establishment of Invested Self-Interest,” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1991
“Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.”
— Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), as translated by Stephen Kalberg (2011), p. 100

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The Nun is a breed of fancy pigeon developed through many years of selective breeding. It was known as the Dutch Shell Pigeon in continental Europe. Nuns, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock pigeon (Columba livia). The Nun is one of the oldest breeds and was originally a flying tumbler before being developed for exhibition. It is a mostly white breed, with a hood of feathers, which gives the name to the breed. Description The Nun is given its name by the raised feathers which form a kind of hood which covers the back of the neck and head, resembling a nun. Continental Europe previously referred to the Nun as the Dutch Shell Pigeon during the early part of the 20th century. It resembles the tumbler, from which this breed of pigeon originated; although as with all domestic pigeons they are descended from the rock pigeon (Columba livia). They have mostly white bodies and are designated according to the color of their head, for example, a black headed Nun, or a yellow headed Nun. Only the head, tail and the flight feathers are colored. Nuns are one breed in a group of pigeons who fly at high altitudes, along with types of tumblers and the magpie pigeon. The British Nun Club standard for the Nun states that the ideal size for male Nuns should be from the top of the bird's head to their feet, and from the front of the chest to its tail. Female and young Nuns should be roughly the same size. The beak should be straight but stout, and the eyes a pearly white.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Nun is a breed of fancy pigeon developed through many years of selective breeding. It was known as the Dutch Shell Pigeon in continental Europe. Nuns, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock pigeon (Columba livia).

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