The underside of the monarch butterflies' wings can be seen when the butterfly is at rest or when it is feeding on a flower. Instead of bright orange, the underside is more drab and orange-brown. Males and females can be told apart by looking at the top of their hind wings.
Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of the 19th century, Belgium's King Leopold II left arguably the largest and most horrid legacy of all. While the Great Powers competed for territory elsewhere, the king of one of Europe's smallest countries carved his own private colony out of 100km2 of Central African rainforest.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius OIB (/pÉªsËtÉËriÉs/; Afrikaans pronunciation: [pisËtÉrjus]; born 22 November 1986) is a South African sprint runner and convicted murderer.[10] Both of Pistorius' legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old.