Squealer (Animal Farm) wrote, "All people who are morally sound have known since about 1931 that the Russian régime stinks". Squealer, as the chief propagandist of the regime, is prominent in the story and Orwell defines the path down which small lies lead to bigger lies. Orwell regarded propaganda as a feature of all modern governments but especially prominent in totalitarian regimes, which depended on it. In "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) he described 'organised lying' as a crucial element of totalitarian states. 3. Animal Farm by George Orwell Squealer (Animal Farm) Squealer is a fictional character, a pig, in George Orwell's "Animal
Gluteus minimus (fossil) Gluteus minimus (fossil) Gluteus minimus is a fossil from the Upper Devonian of Iowa. It was first collected in 1902, but only described in 1975. Each animal appears as a bi-lobed lens up to , and almost all specimens share the same slight asymmetry. The species is of uncertain affinities, having been thought of as either a fish tooth or a brachiopod. Specimens of "G. minimus" were first collected by Stuart Weller in 1902, from the Maple Mill Shale near Maple Mill on the English River, Washington County, Iowa. The Upper Devonian Maple Mill Shale appears as a series of