The class Reptilia includes turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, and other large reptiles. All of them have lungs to breathe on land and skin that does not need to be kept wet. They produce an amniote egg which usually has a calcium carbonate rich, leather hard shell that protects the embryo from drying out.
J.J. Field plays British officer John Andre in Turn. Photo courtesy Antony Platt/AMC AMCâs Turn, a period drama about spies spying during the Revolutionary War, is simultaneously bloody and toothless. Early in the pilot, which airs Sunday night, a soldier cleans up after a massacre, noisily bayoneting Revolutionary corpses to make sure they are really dead.
On this day in 1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army.