It refers to various groups in folklore who were said to change the physical appearance of human beings by manipulating growing children , in a similar way to the horticultural method of bonsai – that is , deliberate mutilation .


From 1905 to 1917 , the Danish West Indies used the bit as part of its currency system .


A " dog breed " is a particular strain or dog type that was purposefully bred by humans to perform specific tasks , such as herding , hunting , and guarding .


These breeds can vary in size and weight from a teacup poodle to a giant mastiff .


They often serve as registries , which are lists of adult purebred dogs and lists of litters of puppies born to purebred parents .


For instance , the feist is a hunting dog raised in the Southern United States for hunting small game .


In addition , most breed standards include a historical section , describing the place of origin and the original work done by the breed or its ancestor types .


Purebred dogs have more health problems than mongrel dogs , and require more veterinary visits , and tend to have lower longevity .


French police were also reported to have seized computer files and personal papers from his home in Cannes .


President Jacques Chirac and his wife also wished to pay their respects .


Similarly , the books espouse the use of mind-altering substances to achieve higher states of consciousness , in line with the beliefs of key counterculture figures like Timothy Leary , who is mentioned throughout the three novels .


Trilogy " and is a favorite author of Robert Anton Wilson .


The phrase " So it goes " is repeatedly used in reference to death , a deliberate echoing of Kurt Vonnegut 's " Slaughterhouse-Five " .


It had first opened in Liverpool on 23 November 1976 .


There were numerous blockades and attempts at blockade running during the Peloponnesian War .


Cyprus introduced the euro ( € ) on 1 " January 2008 .


In 2000 , in such a short time , the Central Bank of Cyprus has produced the first commemorative euro coin in silver .


In 2010 the Central Bank of Cyprus has produced 2 more commemorative euro coin in gold and silver .


The coins usually commemorate the anniversaries of historical events or draw attention to current events of special importance .


50 Years of the Central Bank of Cyprus .


Anniversary of the death of Costas Montis .


Malta introduced the euro ( € ) on 1 January 2008 .


The building is situated at the highest point of Valletta and was built in 1574 .


The project was initiated in 1979 by Thomas Lovejoy to investigate the SLOSS debate .


The research area is about north of the city of Manaus .


Plant responses : For leaf expansion in " Duguetia " , there was no difference in the rate of leaf expansion between plants in edge zones and those in control areas .


Slovenia introduced the euro ( € ) on 1 " January 2007 .


The Environmental Protection Agency has advanced restrictions on coal plants to counteract mercury pollution , smog , and global warming .


The development of renewable energy and efficient energy use marks " a new era of energy exploration " in the United States , according to President Barack Obama .


Vilayanur S. Ramachandran believes that if the brain received visual feedback that the limb had moved , then the phantom limb would become unparalyzed .


The two projects created over 7,000 jobs in Kazakhstan and aided the development of the economy .


The aircraft was then tested in 1938 in the Langley Research Center full-scale wind tunnel , where it was determined that certain factors were contributing to parasitic drag .


Appraisal by Royal Air Force acceptance personnel criticized it on numerous points including inadequate armament and lack of pilot armor , poor high-altitude performance , engine overheating , maintenance issues , and cockpit controls , while it was praised for its handling , roomy cockpit , and visibility .


Its artists include Sam Kieth , Mike Dringenberg , Jill Thompson , Shawn McManus , Marc Hempel , and Michael Zulli , with lettering by Todd Klein and covers by Dave McKean .


As of June 2019 , an adaptation is in development for Netflix .


Dave McKean 's covers use techniques such as painting , sculpture , photography , drawing , and computer manipulation .


The DC Comics Absolute Edition series are large 8 " by 12 " prints of a considerably higher quality and price than the library edition , and include a leather-like cover and a slipcase .


Television was licensing the rights to produce a TV series , and that " Supernatural " creator Eric Kripke was their preferred candidate to adapt the saga .


Sick leave is normally compensated at 100 % of pay , while other types of leave are often more restrictive , such as only compensating a certain percentage of normal pay , or as regards " paid holidays " , which in some countries are granted automatically by national governments , such as in most European Union countries , and in others , such as the United States , are a matter of the individual worker accumulating holiday entitlements over a period of time in the workplace and then using them once a sufficient number of such days have been accumulated .


The " Coat of arms of Udmurtia " is one of the official state symbols of Udmurtia .


In the emblem , black represents stability and earth ; red life and the sun ; and white moral purity and space .


The white swan is a symbol of revival , wisdom and perfection .


Some well known heterocyclic amines are niacin ( vitamin B3 ) , nicotine ( psychoactive alkaloid and recreational drug ) , and the nucleobases that encode genetic information in DNA .


The rings of porphyrin are components of hemoglobin , myoglobin , vitamin B12 , chlorophyll , and cytochromes .


A deficiency of niacin leads to a disease called pellagra .


For example , heterocyclic amines are the carcinogenic chemicals formed from the cooking of muscle meats such as beef , pork , fowl , and fish .


Other sources of protein ( milk , eggs , tofu , and organ meats such as liver ) have very little or no HCA content naturally or when cooked .


This station would be able to communicate news about the Cuban Revolution to countries around the world .


The film was written by Natalie Marcin and Isobel Lennart and directed by George Sidney .


The animation was entirely undertaken by Kenneth Muse , Ray Patterson and Ed Barge .


Israel , for example , a country that otherwise struggles to implement LGBTQ-positive social policy , nevertheless has a military well known for its broad acceptance of openly gay soldiers .


They are : Australia , Austria , Belgium , Bolivia , Canada , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Israel , Netherlands , New Zealand , Norway , Spain , Sweden , and the United Kingdom .


He developed the structure mapping engine based on the structure-mapping theory of Dedre Gentner .


She inspired Edgar Allan Poe 's pioneering detective story " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " .


Founded in 1982 , the firm has offices in New York , London , Bahrain , Abu Dhabi , Riyadh , Doha , Mumbai and Singapore .


It had been stated as early as 1714 in " The Fable of the Bees " , and similar sentiments date to antiquity .


It was his last completed opera , and in composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his Bayreuth Festspielhaus .


Engelbert Humperdinck , who was assisting the production , provided a few extra bars of music to cover this gap .


Among the more significant post-war productions was that directed in 1951 by Wieland Wagner , the composer 's grandson .


The conductor of the 1951 production , Hans Knappertsbusch , on being asked how he could conduct such a disgraceful travesty , declared that right up until the dress rehearsal he imagined that the stage decorations were still to come .


Theorists such as David Lewin and Richard Cohn have explored the importance of certain pitches and harmonic progressions both in structuring and symbolizing the work .


These are gregarious ducks , mainly found on fresh water or on estuaries , though the greater scaup becomes marine during the northern winter .


which did administrative work for the university , and the applications were forwarded to its Pennsylvania address .


She began painting in her early teens , and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Joshua Chaplin , Jean-Jacques Henner and Carolus-Duran .


She first received recognition for her work at age 23 when she painted a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt , her lifelong friend and possibly her lover .


The music was written by Jason Robert Brown .


54 delegates vied for the crown won by Marjorie Wallace of United States .


While death rattle is a strong indication that someone is near death , it can also be produced by other problems that cause interference with the swallowing reflex , such as brain injuries .


In 1779 , Pierre Méchain independently rediscovered both galaxies and reported them to Charles Messier , who added them to his catalog .


It was later determined to be a Type II supernova .


In the United Kingdom , especially in football , the terms " kit " or " strip " ( as in ' football kit ' ) are more common ( instead of uniform ) .


In some countries or regions such as the UK , Australia or Hong Kong , the cost of cleaning one 's uniform or work clothing can be partially deducted or rebated from the personal income tax , if the organization for which the person works does not have a laundry department or an outsourced commercial laundry .


All of the above has taken place in an era of data constraint as identified by Zvi Griliches in the 1990 s .


In global economic restructuring , location has become a key element in establishing competitive advantage as regions focus on their unique assets to spur innovation ( i.e. information technology in Silicon Valley , or digital media in Seoul ) .


Even more , thriving metropolitan economies that carry multiple clusters ( i.e. Tokyo , Chicago and London ) essentially fuel national economies through their pools of human capital , innovation , quality places and infrastructure .


Shoe size in the United Kingdom , Ireland , India , Pakistan and South Africa is based on the length of the last used to make the shoes , measured in barleycorns ( inch ) starting from the smallest size deemed practical , which is called size zero .


In the United States and Canada , there are different systems that are used concurrently .


Mondopoint system is also used by NATO and other military services .


During Brazil 's military rule period , the president was elected by an electoral college comprising senators , deputies , state deputies , and lawmakers in the cities .


In France , the president was elected by the legislature from 1875 to 1954 .


Typically , a piece of zinc metal ( such as a galvanized nail ) and a piece of copper ( such as a penny ) are inserted into a lemon and connected by wires .


Studios and Valiant Comics , among others .


A 1983 report by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review , shampoos containing up to 31 % ALS registered 6 health complaints out of 6.8 million units sold .


Its surviving members are the " dabbling ducks " , which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving .


Those distant yardsticks can then be employed to measure other phenomena in that neighborhood , including the distance to a galaxy .


In a few locations such as the state of Arizona and in the United Kingdom , this has led to campaigns for the reduction of light pollution .


The earliest such non-optical measurements were made of the thermal properties of the Sun .


For this reason , in the future radio astronomy might be performed from shielded locations , such as the far side of the Moon .


Doppler shift ( particularly " redshift " ) of spectra can also be used to determine the radial motion or distance with respect to the Earth .


The technique is an evolution of William Duddell 's " singing arc " of 1900 , and an innovation related to ion thruster spacecraft propulsion .


The character first appeared in " The Sandman " vol. 2 , # 8 ( August 1989 ) , and was created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg .


Its notable side effects include a risk of agranulocytosis and aplastic anemia .


Groups that were controversially included are found in parts of Southeast Asia , and South Asia .


It occurs in eastern and southern Africa in open , mountainous country .


It has been seen to drop a tortoise from a height on to hard ground , preferably on rocks , and then swoop down to eat it , or even pick it up again if not sufficiently broken .


He was a close friend of Martin Luther .


The painting already shows remarkable skill and grace , and the pine forest in the background shows a painter familiar with the mountain scenery of Thuringia .


For some years thereafter , the only performers of the roles were another husband–wife team , Heinrich Vogl and Therese Vogl .


It was conducted by Hans Richter , who also conducted the first Covent Garden production two years later .


Not all composers , however , reacted favourably : Claude Debussy 's piano piece " Golliwog 's Cakewalk " mockingly quotes the opening of the opera in a distorted form , instructing the passage to be played " .


In the 1980 s recordings by conductors such as Carlos Kleiber , Reginald Goodall and Leonard Bernstein were mostly considered to be important for the interpretation of the conductor , rather than that of the lead performers .


The music was lost until 1950 , then passed into private hands , before coming to the attention of Daniel Barenboim , who passed it on to Sir Antonio Pappano .


The " breadbasket " of a country is a region which , because of the richness of the soil and / or advantageous climate , produces large quantities of wheat or other grain .


The plains of Java are considered the rice bowls of Indonesia .


The island of Mindanao is known as the country 's food basket .


The Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar used to be one of the most important sources of rice in the region until its production declined due to various reasons , including the country 's unstable political situation .


In the 19th century , Romania was considered part of Europe 's breadbasket .


Additionally , the San Joaquin Valley in California has also been called the breadbasket of the world .


As he has consistently voted against the positions of the National Rifle Association , in 2002 he was given a performance rating of " F " , their lowest rating .


He also received the support of each of his former competitors as they lost primaries and dropped out of the race , beginning with Missouri representative Dick Gephardt .


They criticized the Bush administration for reducing funding for scientific research , setting restrictions on stem cell research , ignoring scientific consensus on critical issues such as global warming , and hampering cooperation with foreign scientists by employing deterring immigration and visa practices .


It has been the topic of extensive study by military strategists , and was an important part of the planning for both sides in many conflicts , including World War II and the Vietnam War .


For example , the Northern Song Dynasty ( 960 - 1127 ) constructed and maintained an extensive defensive forest in present-day Hebei .


These operations were part of what is collectively known as the " Portuguese Colonial War " .


The terms JCR , MCR , and SCR are used by Harvard University , Yale University , Princeton University , and the University of Toronto .


The terms JCR , MCR and SCR originated from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge .


At the University of Cambridge , most colleges have either common rooms or combination rooms , a tradition dating from the seventeenth century .


At the University of Exeter , a number of residential halls for first year undergraduates retain traditional common room structures .


At the University of St Andrews , each hall of residence has a common room for use by all the resident students .


His successor , Louise Richardson , has indicated that she will not continue this or any similar practice .


A much rarer runaway helium fusion process can also occur on the surface of accreting white dwarf stars .


This produces a flash of very intense helium fusion that lasts only a few minutes , but briefly emits energy at a rate comparable to the entire Milky Way galaxy .


During the red giant phase of stellar evolution in stars with less than 2.0 the nuclear fusion of hydrogen ceases in the core as it is depleted , leaving a helium-rich core .


In a one solar mass star , the helium flash is estimated to release about , or about 0.3 % of the energy release of a type Ia supernova , which is triggered by an analogous ignition of carbon fusion in a carbon–oxygen white dwarf .


When the mass of hydrogen becomes sufficiently large , runaway fusion causes a nova .


This was Benjamin Beddome , but she turned him down , and remained unmarried .


In both , there was the same evangelic fervour , in both the same intense personal devotion to Jesus .


The pintails are sometimes separated in the genus " Dafila " ( described by Stephens , 1824 ) , an arrangement supported by morphological , molecular and behavioural data .


The northern pintail broadly overlaps in size with the similarly-widespread mallard , but is more slender , elongated and gracile , with a relatively longer neck and ( in males ) a longer tail .


It is often the dominant species in major mortality events from avian botulism and avian cholera , and can also contract avian influenza , the H5N1 strain of which is highly pathogenic and occasionally infects humans .


Hunting with lead shot , along with the use of lead sinkers in angling , has been identified as a major cause of lead poisoning in waterfowl , which often feed off the bottom of lakes and wetlands where the shot collects .


It is useful when preparing particularly tough cuts of steak , and works well when broiling or frying the meat .


It is also used to " pound out " dishes such as chicken-fried steak , palomilla , and schnitzel , to make them wider and thinner .


While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot - musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker " - the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged .


Beniamino Gigli , who performed the role many times in his forty-year operatic career , was one of the first to assume that the painter knows , or strongly suspects , that he will be shot .


Herbert von Karajan 's acclaimed performance with the Vienna State Opera was in 1963 , with Leontyne Price , Giuseppe Di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei in the leading roles .


The adjacent castle Vysoký Hrádek serves as an information centre .


The " inti " was the currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991 .


It was created in 1972 from the High Park district , maintaining the same boundaries as the former district .


Its only Member of Parliament was Otto Jelinek .


Failure to make adequate provision for disabled electors can result in the selective disenfranchisement of disabled people .


Twenty states ( Alaska , Arkansas , Georgia , Idaho , Iowa , Kansas , Louisiana , Maryland , Minnesota , Missouri , Nebraska , Nevada , New Mexico , North Carolina , Oklahoma , South Carolina , Texas , Washington , West Virginia , and Wisconsin ) do not allow persons convicted of a felony to vote while serving a sentence , but automatically restore the franchise to the person upon completion of a sentence .


The ruling did not exclude the possibility of disenfranchisement as a consequence of deliberation in individual cases ( such as that of Mohammed Bouyeri ) .


In Germany the law calls on prisons to encourage prisoners to vote .


This is the case for example in Finland .


In Taiwan the abrogation of political rights is a form of punishment used in sentencing , available only for some crimes or along with a sentence of death or imprisonment for life .


In some countries , such as China and Portugal , disfranchisement due to criminal conviction is an exception , meted out separately in a particular sentence .


In South Africa the constitution protects the right of prisoners to vote .


The winner was Kiki Håkansson from Sweden .


Tofu , Chinese cabbage , bean sprouts , and vermicelli are normally included in the hot-pot .


Such garments have been traditionally used at least from the 15th century in festivities such as Holy Week , symbolizing the act of penance .


His grandson Louis Alexander Fagan was a noted engraver and writer .


The intentional exposure of one 's intimate parts is a form of exhibitionism .


studies into equipping the AGM-114 Hellfire have been performed , and air-to-air missiles could also reportedly be adopted if the capability is sought by operators .


7 was deployed to Helmand Province , Afghanistan ; this variant would only be subsequently used during winter months due to the performance limitations imposed during the high summer temperatures .


It was poorly received , despite having such notable singers as soprano Rosina Storchio , tenor Giovanni Zenatello and baritone Giuseppe De Luca in lead roles .


Success ensued , starting with the first performance on 28 May 1904 in Brescia .


Now , iBiquity works with the major owners of the stations to provide various additional choices for listeners instead of having several stations independently deciding to create the same format .


Government crackdowns have resulted in the arrest of sellers of recreational drug paraphernalia , such as actor Tommy Chong , who spent time in prison in 2003 for having his name used on bongs for sale via the internet .


She had also studied sociology at Sheffield University .


" The purpose of a system is what it does " ( " POSIWID " ) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer .


It looks like a deer with green coat , the tail of a horse and a single horn on its head .


The term " " sweater girl " " was made popular in the 1940 s and 1950 s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner , Jayne Mansfield , and Jane Russell , who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight , form-fitting sweaters that emphasized the woman 's bustline .


Interest in the bullet bra revived after Madonna wore a cone bra during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour .


It is closely related to the western jackdaw .


It is a scarce winter visitor to Korea , a rare annual winter visitor to Japan , and a vagrant to Taiwan .


There are a few records from Western Europe .


The food is similar to that of the western jackdaw and includes cultivated grains , insects , berries , eggs , carrion , and faeces .


Held in Aydın , with 53 hours of flight with powered hang gliders .


In Denizli - Pamukkale , 699 flights were completed in hang gliding .


Held in Aydın , with 28 hours of flight with powered paragliders .


In Denizli - Pamukkale , 1,040 flights were completed in paragliding .


Held in Cappadocia region with 868 hours balloon flight with 62 balloons and 7 hours flight time .


One of the systems tested was based on a touch panel similar to those used in the Netherlands .


It was an international collaboration , with director Zhang Yimou as choreographer and Zubin Mehta as conductor .


He also has a Ph.D. ( 1972 ) in Anthropology from University of Wisconsin–Madison .


The most familiar species , the common raccoon ( " P. lotor " ) , is often known simply as " the " raccoon , as the two other raccoon species in the genus are native only to the tropics and less well known .


Perhaps his most famous discovery was the first dwarf planet , Ceres .


He was not able to observe it long enough as it was soon lost in the glare of the Sun .


Unable to compute its orbit with existing methods , the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss developed a new method of orbit calculation that allowed astronomers to locate it again .


In 1923 , the 1000th asteroid to be numbered was named 1000 Piazzia in his honour .


Many showbiz stars have used it to their advantage , including Jean Harlow , Marlene Dietrich , Marilyn Monroe , Jayne Mansfield , Brigitte Bardot and Mamie Van Doren .


For example , Anita Loos popularized this idea in her 1925 novel " Gentlemen Prefer Blondes " .


A Cornell University study showed that blonde waitresses receive larger tips than brunettes , even when controlling for other variables such as age , breast size , height and weight .


A 2011 University of Westminster study evaluated how men perceived women who entered a London nightclub as a blonde or a brunette .


He has published several seminal papers in the field of cryptography ( notably in the area of provable security ) , many of which were co-written with Phillip Rogaway .


A DEC publication states that the first units shipped to customers in November 1964 .


Psychologist Albert Bandura has observed that moral agents engage in selective moral disengagement in regards to their own inhumane conduct .


The pilot of the spacecraft survived in the Moon , until awakened by astronauts on July 20 , 1969 .


started in 2009 and takes place in an alternate reality where the allies of World War II lost the war .


In an attempt to salvage her career , the label set her up with a manager who sent her to Los Angeles to become an actress .


Discouraged with the roles she was offered she returned to New York City .


A " corn maze " or " maize maze " is a maze cut out of a corn field .


He was relieved of this position in September 2015 when Tatsumi Kimishima assumed the role of the company 's president .


The first competition was held in Reggio Emilia , Italy on 16 June 1985 .


The first host city was Copenhagen ( 2003 ) and the most recent is Gliwice ( 2019 ) .


The water level management activities of internal drainage boards cover 1.2 million hectares of England which represents 9.7 % of the total land area .


It will build 33 otter holts and 15 other habitat areas .


He was a candidate for the Christian Labour Party .


The rim of this crater was chosen as the target of the Surveyor 7 mission .


The crater was also imaged in great detail by Lunar Orbiter 5 .


During its flight test programme , the prototype demonstrated its high altitude capabilities on several occasions ; in June 1959 , it landed at an altitude of over 4,000 meters in the Mont Blanc mountain range and , during October 1960 , it was able to achieve the same feat at an altitude in excess of 6,000 meters in the Himalayas .


The same helicopter again demonstrated the types extraordinary performance in November 1960 by making take-offs and landings with a crew of two and a payload of 250 " kg ( 551 " lbs ) in the Himalayas at an altitude of 6,004 meters ( 19,698 feet ) .


The Dalai Lama is reported as using the " mo " , balls of dough in which have been placed pieces of paper with possible " choices " written on them , to help in making important decisions .


A salt that is normally liquid even at standard temperature and pressure is usually called a room temperature ionic liquid , although technically molten salts are a class of ionic liquids .


Regular table salt has a melting point of 800 " °C and a heat of fusion of 520 J / g .


Ambient temperature molten salts ( also known as ionic liquids ) are present in the liquid phase at standard conditions for temperature and pressure .


Examples of such salts include " N " - ethylpyridinium bromide and aluminium chloride mix , discovered in 1951 and ethylammonium nitrate discovered by Paul Walden .


1630 in Bologna as well as Turin and Mantua .


110 , the latter of which held the advantage of also being under consideration for the Royal Navy .


The Gold Coast profile nourishment program placed 75 % of its total sand volume below low water level .


More than one-quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level and about 81 % of the coast consists of sand dune or beach .


A disputed passage in his writings has been used to suggest that it was Nicaea in Bithynia .


Werner Jaeger ( 1888 – 1961 ) damned him as " that great ignoramus " .


This epidemic appears to have been carried into the region from two opposing directions .


It had been raging in Western Europe for many years , traveling East by trade routes .


In 1666 a severe plague raged in Cologne and on the Rhine , which was prolonged until 1670 in the district .


In the years 1675 – 1684 a new plague wave originated in the Ottoman Empire ( Turkey and areas of the Balkans ) .


It moved into North Africa , Bohemia , Poland , Hungary , Austria and Saxony , progressing generally northward .


The island of Malta lost 11,000 people in an epidemic in 1675 – 76 .


For instance , Prague in 1681 lost 83,000 due to plague .


The ram represents sheep farming , which until recently was the principal economic activity of the islands , and the tussock grass shows the most notable native vegetation .


The festival was previously held on the National Mall for two days in the fall .


Founded in 1995 under former Poet Laureate Robert Hass , the contest is free to all contestants .


Four individuals have held the positions since its creation in 2008 : Jon Scieszka , Katherine Paterson , Walter Dean Myers , Kate DiCamillo , and current ambassador Gene Luen Yang .


Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920 s designs of Coco Chanel and Jean Patou intended to be long-lasting , versatile , affordable , accessible to the widest market possible and in a neutral colour .


In an incident at London 's Covent Garden theatre in 2004 , a director fired the then-obese soprano Deborah Voigt from an opera because she could not fit into a " little black cocktail dress " , replacing her with the slimmer Anne Schwanewilms .


The compressor station near Wardenburg was built in 2003 .


He attended the University of Missouri–Kansas City for two semesters before withdrawing to work as a freelance programmer .


Artificial flies are of several types ; some imitating an insect ( either flying or swimming ) , others a bait fish or crustacean , others " attractors " are known to attract fish although they look like nothing in nature .


Fly fishing is most renowned as a method for catching trout , grayling and salmon , but it is also used for a wide variety of species including pike , bass , panfish , and carp , as well as marine species , such as redfish , snook , tarpon , bonefish and striped bass .


Many fly anglers catch unintended species such as chub , bream and rudd while fishing for ' main target ' species such as trout .


With the advancement of technology and development of stronger rods and reels , larger predatory saltwater species such as wahoo , tuna , marlin and sharks have become target species on fly .


The art of fly fishing took a great leap forward after the English Civil War , where a newly found interest in the activity left its mark on the many books and treatises that were written on the subject at the time .


He was the first angler to name the burbot , and commended the salmon of the River Thames .


It was a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse ; 6 verses were quoted from John Dennys 's earlier work .


Jointed rods became common from the middle of the century and bamboo came to be used for the top section of the rod , giving it a much greater strength and flexibility .


The book was mostly about the aquatic insects - mayflies , caddisflies and stoneflies - that trout and grayling feed on and their counterpart artificial imitations .


Bamboo rods became the generally favoured option from the mid-19 th century , and several strips of the material were cut from the cane , milled into shape , and then glued together to form light , strong , hexagonal rods with a solid core that were superior to anything that preceded them .


George Cotton and his predecessors fished their flies with long rods and light lines , allowing the wind to do most of the work of getting the fly to the fish .


However , there was nothing to prevent the successful employment of wet flies on these chalk streams , as G. E. M. Skues proved with his nymph and wet fly techniques .


Offshore saltwater species are usually attracted to the fly by " chumming " with small baitfish , or " teasing " the fish to the boat by trolling a large hookless lure ( Billfish are most often caught using this latter method ) .


A dry fly is typically thought to represent an insect landing on , falling on ( terrestrials ) , or emerging from , the water 's surface as might a grasshopper , dragonfly , mayfly , ant , beetle , stonefly or caddisfly .


The school of behavior-based robots owes much to work undertaken in the 1980 s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Rodney Brooks , who with students and colleagues built a series of wheeled and legged robots utilizing the subsumption architecture .


While mainly used for training , they were used operationally by the 90th Aero Squadron as an interim measure , due to a shortage of later types .


The position was not filled again until under Augustus , between 16 and 10 BC , dated by Cassius Dio to 11 BC , but Tacitus to 15 BC .


Opponents , on the other hand , cite cases of rampant abuse : for example , in Chile and Argentina in the 1970 s and 1980 s thousands of people " disappeared " and were tortured or killed or both .


Juno was discovered on 1 September 1804 , by Karl Ludwig Harding .


In October 2006 , Unilever chose the firm to manage its global trademark portfolio , the largest in the world , with over 160,000 registrations , marking the first time a multinational company outsourced its trademark management to a law firm on such a large scale .


However , the University of Utah considers dimples an " irregular " dominant trait that is probably controlled mostly by one gene but is influenced by other genes .


" X-ray pulsar-based navigation and timing ( XNAV ) " or simply " pulsar navigation " is a navigation technique whereby the periodic X-ray signals emitted from pulsars are used to determine the location of a vehicle , such as a spacecraft in deep space .


Richard argues for this form of moral nihilism under the name " fictionalism " .


It has internationally recognized authors such as Octavio Paz , Alfonso Reyes , Carlos Fuentes , Sergio Pitol , José Emilio Pacheco , Elena Poniatowska , Fernando del Paso , Juan Rulfo , Amado Nervo , Juana Inés de la Cruz , Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora , and several others .


This trend would be an antecedent for the flowering of ' revolutionary literature ' , which was embodied in the work of writers like Rosario Castellanos or Juan Rulfo .


While the peoples of Mesoamerica developed systems of writing , these were not often used to preserve the literature of these peoples .


Two modernist poets that stand out are Amado Nervo and Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera .


This tendency would anticipate the flowering of a nationalist literature , which took shape in the works of writers such as Rosario Castellanos and Juan Rulfo .


Early on he was taken to the Louvre and became interested in the arts , cinema , theatre and music .


In 1999 , the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began investigating perfluorinated chemicals after receiving data on the global distribution and toxicity of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid ( PFOS ) .


In the coast of Colombia , butifarra is a dried , shorter , almost round version of the sausage eaten with " bollo " of yuca and lime juice .


In Argentina and Uruguay , butifarra is a very fatty , tender and whitish sausage much more like a cased pate , rioplatense butifarra is made with finely minced pork fat and meat that is cased in a soft sausage case and boiled .


In Paraguay , " butifarra " is a finely minced fatty chorizo that is commonly prepared in asado .


In Belize , empanadas are known as " panades " .


They are made with masa ( corn dough ) and typically stuffed with fish , chicken , or beans .


In Chile , empanadas are a staple part of the national cuisine .


In Indonesia , empanadas are known as panada .


There have also been people who make empanada filled with mashed eggplant , scrambled eggs , and cabbage , which they call " poqui poqui " .


In Bulacan , empanada de kaliskis ( lit. " scale empanada " ) , uniquely has a flaky multilayered crust resembling scales , hence the name .


In Cebu , sinudlan empanada is a small deep-fried empanada with " bukayo " ( sweetened coconut meat ) filling .


The empanada resembles savory pastries found in many other cultures , such as the pirozhki , calzone , knish , kreatopitakia , Khuushuur , and pasty .


Some sopranos , including Maria Callas , have performed the scene in a " ( " as written " ) fashion , adding minimal ornamentation to their interpretations .


The popular soprano and flute duet cadenza was composed in 1888 by Mathilde Marchesi for her student Nellie Melba 's performance of the role , requiring ten weeks of rehearsal for the new addition and causing a critical reevaluation and surge of new interest in the opera .


There are several recordings with Maria Callas in the title role , including two versions conducted by Tullio Serafin ( 1953 and 1959 ) and one by Herbert von Karajan ( 1955 ) .


Galileo Galilei and Giovanni Francesco Sagredo had discussed using a mirror as the image forming objective soon after the invention of the refracting telescope , and others , such as Niccolò Zucchi , claimed to have experimented with the idea as far back as 1616 .


They were so impressed with it that they demonstrated it to Charles II in January 1672 .


He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 .


Their mission was to fly orbits to the Azores and back .


The fiddle game may be played with any sufficiently valuable-seeming piece of property ; a common variation known as the pedigreed-dog swindle uses a mongrel dog upsold as a rare breed but is otherwise identical .


A variation on this scam exists in Barcelona , Spain , but with the addition of a pickpocket .


In the United Kingdom it is an earned postdoctoral credential which requires a string of publications , but in the United States any church may confer it as an honorary title ; ordination mills readily grant this doctorate for a moderate fee and token amount of study .


Cases have been reported in Florida , Georgia , Kansas and Oregon .


They eventually settled in Southampton .


He was born in Radomsko , near Łódź , in 1921 .


His younger brother , Stanisław , became a noted film director and screenwriter .


In some notions of an afterlife , the deceased will benefit from victims killed at his funeral .


There may be evidence of retainer sacrifice in the early dynastic period at Abydos , when on the death of a King he would be accompanied with servants , and possibly high officials , who would continue to serve him in eternal life .


At about 2800 BCE , any possible evidence of such practices disappeared , though echoes are perhaps to be seen in the burial of statues of servants in Old Kingdom tombs .


Some , like the Lindow Man , may have gone to their deaths willingly .


According to an 1817 account , in Tonga , a child was strangled to assist the recovery of a sick relation .


The people of Fiji practised widow-strangling .


He was buried on an elevated platform covered by a bed of more than 20,000 marine-shell disc beads arranged in the shape of a falcon , with the bird 's head appearing beneath and beside the man 's head , and its wings and tail beneath his arms and legs .


In the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana , human sacrifice was often combined with capital punishment .


This society was powerful in a large number of states in what is now south-eastern Nigeria .


In Tanganyika , the " Lion men " committed an estimated 200 murders in a single three-month period .


The drug dealer and cult leader Adolfo Constanzo orchestrated several executions during rituals that included the victims ' dismemberment .


Similarly , police in Khurja reported " dozens of sacrifices " in the period of half a year in 2006 , by followers of Kali , the goddess of death and time .


The first opening title sequence , used in the first five seasons , shows a slow-pan camera move over Ra 's mask .


" Muthi " is a term for traditional medicine in Southern Africa as far north as Lake Tanganyika .


A small number of these $ 1 bills entered circulation and the rest were kept in Treasury vaults until 1949 when they were issued in Puerto Rico .


In 1968 – 69 Joseph W. Barr was Secretary of the Treasury for only 31 days and his signature appeared solely on the 1963B dollar bill .


Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2007 .


Though ultimately decided by personal taste , the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables , including geographical location , culture , maturity , level of education , intelligence and context .


The benign-violation theory , endorsed by Peter McGraw , attempts to explain humour 's existence .


Such benefits as higher self-esteem , lower levels of depression , anxiety , and perceived stress , and a more positive self-concept as well as other health benefits which have been recorded and acknowledged through various studies .


Nothing is known of his life , other than what can be found in his own writings : that he had a son named Hermodorus , and was a teacher in Alexandria .


If no other date information were available , all that could be known would be that he was later than Ptolemy ( died c .


168 AD ) , whom he quotes , and earlier than Proclus ( born ) , who quotes him .


The British Ornithologists ' Union followed suit in June 2005 .


minima " , is scarcely larger than a mallard .


The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recommends a number of non-lethal scare and hazing tactics for nuisance geese , but if such methods have been used without success , they may issue a permit which can be used from March 11 through August 31 to destroy nests , conduct a goose roundup or shoot geese .


These geese are also found naturally on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia , and eastern China .


Their diet includes green vegetation and grains .


The increased T levels are also associated with increased muscle mass ( hypertrophy ) of the breast muscle , also because of the longer time spent flying .


" The British Trust for Ornithology , however , has described them as " reputedly amongst the most inedible of birds .


While in Java , it is called " kopiah " or " kopeah " .


However , in Indonesia , the songkok has become the national headress with secular nationalist connotations made popular by Sukarno .


Nevertheless , they laid the basis for political anthropology by undertaking a modern study inspired by modern science , and in particular by Charles Darwin .


The first recorded observation of capillary action was by Leonardo da Vinci .


Hatching takes place after 10 days of gestation ; the young echidna , called a puggle , born larval and fetus-like , then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches ( monotremes have no nipples ) and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days , During mating , the heads on one side " shut down " and do not grow in size ; the other two are used to release semen into the female 's two-branched reproductive tract .


After that she moved to Martinique and then to the United States before emigrating to Canada .


Her translations of works included texts by Herman Melville , Gertrude Stein , Ti-Grace Atkinson , Djuna Barnes , Jane Bowles , Willa Cather , Mary Daly , Ignazio Silone and Alice Munro .


The final debate occurred on October 13 at Arizona State University and was moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS News .


The only vice presidential debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards happened on October 5 at Case Western Reserve University .


The key state that both candidates needed was Ohio .


Earlier researchers such as Richard von Mises had attempted to formalize the notion of a test for randomness in order to define a random sequence as one that passed all tests for randomness ; however , the precise notion of a randomness test was left vague .


Polo shirts are usually made of knitted cotton ( rather than woven cloth ) , usually a piqué knit , or less commonly an interlock knit ( the latter used frequently , though not exclusively , with pima cotton polos ) , or using other fibers such as silk , merino wool , synthetic fibers , or blends of natural and synthetic fibers .


The conference began in 1991 as a one-day meeting of students from universities around Sydney .


A challenge to the conference occurred in 2001 in Newcastle , when a political dispute caused the conference floor to split .


For the most part , the ideal " breed type " is defined in the breed standard , a written list of attributes that defines the breed and separates the breed from other breeds based on the same ancestral type .


Even the common swift can cruise at a maximum speed of 31 metres per second ( ) .


These problems were not fixed by the time of the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942 .


The plane was donated from Lionsgate following the conclusion of filming and will become an exhibit on 's hangar .


In Athens such speeches were delivered at national festivals or games , with the object of rousing the citizens to emulate the glorious deeds of their ancestors .


Due to their activity , these galaxies almost certainly contain accreting black holes , and in some cases the black hole masses can be estimated using the technique of reverberation mapping .


X-ray emission was detected from 10 of these candidates The ULXs are observed in star-forming regions ( e.g. , in starburst galaxy M82 ) , and are seemingly associated with young star clusters which are also observed in these regions .


He died in an accident while shooting the Mountain Dew " 007 " commercial directed by David Kellogg and lensed by Janusz Kamiński .


's first client , pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman .


Seabiscuit was named for his father , as hardtack or " sea biscuit " is the name for a type of cracker eaten by sailors .


Woolf , who was riding him , said that he felt the horse stumble .


Further contention was caused by the hiring of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí to conceive certain scenes in the film 's key dream sequence .


Intrada Records made the first recording of the film 's complete score with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra .


Their economic importance includes the use of their meat as venison , their skins as soft , strong buckskin , and their antlers as handles for knives .


The adjacent Great Plains grassland habitats are left to herds of elk , American bison , and pronghorn .


These are among some of the richest deciduous and coniferous forests in the world where one can find Siberian roe deer , sika deer , elk , and moose .


The largest extant deer is the moose , which is nearly tall and weighs up to .


Some deer , such as those on the island of Rùm , do consume meat when it is available .


In elk in Yellowstone National Park , antlers also provide protection against predation by wolves .


They have small , unspecialized stomachs by ruminant standards , and high nutrition requirements .


Biologist Valerius Geist suggests evolution to have occurred in stages .


Andromeryx " is another prominent prehistoric ruminant , but appears to be closer to the tragulids .


The formation of the Himalayas and the Alps brought about significant geographic changes .


The hoofs and horns are used for ornamental purposes , especially the antlers of the roe deer , which are utilized for making umbrella handles , and for similar purposes ; elk horn is often employed in making knife handles .


in contrast to " cattle " , which then meant any sort of domestic livestock that could be removed from the land , related to personal-property ownership , as with modern " chattel " ( property ) and financial " capital " .


The male red deer is a " stag " , while for other large species the male is a " bull " , the female a " cow " , as in cattle .


In older usage , the male of any species is a " hart " , especially if over five years old , and the female is a " hind " , especially if three or more years old .


The film stars Gregory Peck , Jane Wyman , Claude Jarman Jr. , Chill Wills , and Forrest Tucker .


The story was later adapted as the 1994 TV film " The Yearling " starring Peter Strauss and Jean Smart .


The 30-minute radio adaptation starred Gregory Peck and Jean Hagen .


A ballad by Marjory Stoneman Douglas memorialized the case .


She was the daughter of a painter , and created an image of a girl that was housed at Eleusis .


This was first used in DEC 's PDP-11 minicomputer .


This was supported by a cactus stack , whose layout diagram resembled the trunk and arms of a Saguaro cactus .


They were seen and survived in Port Victoria during the late 1800 s , but other folds were believed to have died out in areas such as New South Wales .


Since then , numbers have been growing and semen is being exported to New Zealand to establish the breed there .


They have a docile temperament and the milk has a high butterfat content , so have traditionally been used as house cows .


72 , is Ludwig van Beethoven 's only opera .


After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke , a final version was performed at the Kärntnertortheater on 23 May 1814 .


The 17-year - old Franz Schubert was in the audience , having sold his school books to obtain a ticket .


His successor Senusret II was likely his son , although this is never explicitly stated anywhere .


Senusret was the vizier at the beginning of his reign , and one of his successors was Ameny , later likely followed by Siese who had a remarkable career and also was a treasurer and a high steward before his vizierate .


As " great overseer of troops " , a certain Ameny dates most likely under the king .


Often , this bird will nest in a thorny tree or a tall coconut palm where its nest is said to be similar to the American crow though smaller .


In another case , a court in Uttarakhand state mandated that animals have the same rights as humans .


He also organized an expedition to a Western Desert oasis .


Towards the end of his own life , he appointed his son Amenemhat II as his coregent .


These sat at San Diego 's Lindbergh Field for a long time before all were eventually sold for scrap in 1950 .


It stars Maureen O'Hara , John Payne , Natalie Wood , and Edmund Gwenn .


The film currently holds a 96 % " Fresh " rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes .


The Catholic Legion of Decency gave the movie a " B " , " morally objectionable in part " rating .


His later defence against his confession was based on partial insanity , alleging that he had been troubled with Korsakoff 's syndrome ( as a result of rabies inoculation ) and so his confession was not reliable .


Besides the case , he took part in controversial trials such as that of Norio Nagayama .


The BCL originated as a postgraduate degree in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge , but many universities now offer undergraduate law degrees under the same label .


The course differs from many LLM programmes insofar as it provides not only seminar - and lecture - format teaching , but also the intensive small-group tutorials that characterize Oxbridge 's undergraduate tutorial system .


The B.C.L. degree is also a standard law degree in Ireland .


The B.C.L. degree is also offered by Dublin City University .


Amenemhat III was most likely a son of the king .


His court included the viziers Sobekemhat , Nebit , and Khnumhotep .


Since the 1970 s and the well-publicized advocacy of Benjamin Feingold , there has been public concern that food colorings may cause ADHD-like behavior in children .


The film stars Jane Wyman , Lew Ayres , Charles Bickford , Agnes Moorehead , Stephen McNally , and Jan Sterling .


Content aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an 89 % " Fresh " rating based on 8 out of 9 surveyed critics giving the film a positive review .


The only mockingbird commonly found in North America is the northern mockingbird " ( Mimus polyglottos ) " .


Based on Mary Jane Ward 's 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name , the film recounts the tale of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there .


The novel was adapted for the screen by Frank Partos and Millen Brand , in screen credits order , and Arthur Laurents ( uncredited ) .


Director Anatole Litvak insisted upon three months of grueling research .


On Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 100 % based on , with a weighted average rating of 8.1 / 10 .


Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film three and a half out of a possible four stars , calling it " gripping " and " one of the first films to deal intelligently with mental breakdown and the painstakingly slow recovery process " .


After several earlier attempts the Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted the gold standard in 1892 according to a plan drawn up by Minister of Finance Sándor Wekerle .


In Czechoslovakia the currency was superseded by the koruna , at par .


Krone / korona banknotes were designed and printed in Vienna from 1900 onward .


From 1990 to 2006 he was professor ( full professor from 1998 on ) at Boise State University .


Ezra Jack Keats illustrated the first four novels in the series .


Its shape and soft , satiny plumage resembles that of the waxwing .


It is a vagrant to Turkey , Israel , Egypt and Oman .


During his PhD he spent a year as a visiting student at Princeton University .


From 2004 – 2010 , in joint work with Terence Tao and Tamar Ziegler , he developed so-called higher order Fourier analysis .


Together with Tom Sanders he proved that , if a sufficiently large finite field of prime order is coloured with a fixed number of colours , then the field has elements such that all have the same colour .


A " stellar black hole " ( or " stellar-mass black hole " ) is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star .


The large distances above the galactic plane achieved by some binaries are the result of black hole natal kicks .


The velocity distribution of black hole natal kicks seems similar to that of neutron star kick velocities .


" Presidential elections " were held in Ukraine on 17 January 2010 .


As no candidate received a majority of the vote , a run-off was held between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych followed on 7 February .


Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc members immediately claimed that there was systematic and large-scale vote rigging in this run-off .


On May 14 , 2009 , the Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych stated that the presidential elections should now be held on January 17 , 2010 .


An opinion poll conducted by FOM-Ukraine in September / October 2009 expected the turnout to be at least 85.1 % .


The European Union member-states will send over 700 observers to monitor the elections .


Incumbent president Viktor Yushchenko was defeated having received only 5.45 % of the vote .


Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko finished first and second in the first round and faced each other in the second round ballot held on February 7 .


They have highly specialized rasping mouth parts suitable for herbivorous , omnivorous or planktivorous diets .


Frog skin has a rich microbiome which is important to their health .


The use of the common names " frog " and " toad " has no taxonomic justification .


The European fire-bellied toad ( " Bombina bombina " ) has a slightly warty skin and prefers a watery habitat whereas the Panamanian golden frog ( " Atelopus zeteki " ) is in the toad family Bufonidae and has a smooth skin .


For instance , the edible frog ( " Pelophylax esculentus " ) is a hybrid between the pool frog ( " P. lessonae " ) and the marsh frog ( " P. ridibundus " ) .


In 2008 , " Gerobatrachus hottoni " , a temnospondyl with many frog - and salamander-like characteristics , was discovered in Texas .


Occasionally , a parasitic flatworm ( " Ribeiroia ondatrae " ) digs into the rear of a tadpole , causing a rearrangement of the limb bud cells and the frog develops one or more extra legs .


The fully aquatic Bornean flat-headed frog ( " Barbourula kalimantanensis " ) is the first frog known to lack lungs entirely .


Frogs in the genera " Heleioporus " and " Neobatrachus " lack vocal sacs but can still produce a loud call .


The calls of the Concave-eared torrent frog ( " Amolops tormotus " ) are unusual in many aspects .


Those that live on land such as the American toad ( " Bufo americanus " ) dig a burrow and make a hibernaculum in which to lie dormant .


Aquatic species such as the American bullfrog ( " Rana catesbeiana " ) normally sink to the bottom of the pond where they lie , semi-immersed in mud but still able to access the oxygen dissolved in the water .


Some frogs such as the wood frog or spring peeper can even survive being frozen .


Researchers at the University of Queensland have found that during aestivation , the metabolism of the frog is altered and the operational efficiency of the mitochondria is increased .


The tiny northern cricket frog ( " Acris crepitans " ) can " skitter " across the surface of a pond with a series of short rapid jumps .


The red-legged running frog ( " Kassina maculata " ) has short , slim hind limbs unsuited to jumping .


The western spotted frog ( " Heleioporus albopunctatus " ) digs a burrow beside a river or in the bed of an ephemeral stream and regularly emerges to forage .


One of these , the green burrowing frog ( " Scaphiophryne marmorata " ) , has a flattened head with a short snout and well-developed metatarsal tubercles on its hind feet to help with excavation .


Some members of the subfamily Phyllomedusinae have opposable toes on their feet .


The reticulated leaf frog ( " Phyllomedusa ayeaye " ) has a single opposed digit on each fore foot and two opposed digits on its hind feet .


In certain species , such as the Northern red-legged frog ( " Rana aurora " ) and the wood frog ( " Rana sylvatica " ) , symbiotic unicellular green algae are present in the gelatinous material .


The interior of globular egg clusters of the wood frog ( " Rana sylvatica " ) has been found to be up to 6 " °C ( 11 " °F ) warmer than the surrounding water and this speeds up the development of the larvae .


The tiny yellow-striped pygmy eleuth ( " Eleutherodactylus limbatus " ) lays eggs singly , burying them in moist soil .


The smoky jungle frog ( " Leptodactylus pentadactylus " ) makes a nest of foam in a hollow .


As a general rule , free-living larvae are fully aquatic , but at least one species ( " Nannophrys ceylonensis " ) has semiterrestrial tadpoles which live among wet rocks .


Tadpoles are typically herbivorous , feeding mostly on algae , including diatoms filtered from the water through the gills .


Some tadpoles , including those of the cane toad ( " Bufo marinus " ) , are poisonous .


" Leptodactylus mystaceus " has been found to eat plants , and folivory occurs in " Euphlyctis hexadactylus " , with plants constituting 79.5 % of its diet by volume .


Being cold-blooded , they make efficient use of the food they eat with little energy being used for metabolic processes , while the rest is transformed into biomass .


The granular poison frog ( " Oophaga granulifera " ) looks after its tadpoles in a similar way .


The male common midwife toad ( " Alytes obstetricans " ) carries the eggs around with him attached to his hind legs .


The female gastric-brooding frog ( " Rheobatrachus " sp. ) from Australia , now probably extinct , swallows her fertilized eggs , which then develop inside her stomach .


" Allobates zaparo " is not poisonous , but mimics the appearance of two different toxic species with which it shares a common range in an effort to deceive predators .


Other species , such as the European fire-bellied toad ( " Bombina bombina " ) , have their warning colour underneath .


The latter is of particular concern to scientists because it inhabited the pristine Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and its population crashed in 1987 , along with about 20 other frog species in the area .


Eighteenth-century biologist Luigi Galvani discovered the link between electricity and the nervous system by studying frogs .


The African clawed frog or platanna ( " Xenopus laevis " ) was first widely used in laboratories in pregnancy tests in the first half of the 20th century .


In Panama , local legend held that good fortune would come to anyone who spotted a Panamanian golden frog .


They also appear as part of the inlaid design on a new overpass in Panama City , on T-shirts , and even on lottery tickets .


A " hobby " is a fairly small , very swift falcon with long , narrow wings .


By the second half of the 18th century , however , the polymath Lomonosov ( c .


The dish is served with rice and cassava meal ( called " farinha " ) .


It prohibits cloning or attempting to clone a human being , which is defined to mean " to implant in a uterus or attempt to implant in a uterus anything other than the product of fertilisation of an egg of a human female by a sperm of a human male for the purpose of initiating a pregnancy that could result in the creation of a human fetus , or the birth of a human being " .


Jeff Suppan , a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals , also appeared in opposition to the amendment .


A person who is incapable of feeling remorse is often diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder , as characterized in the DSM IV-TR .


In an effort to combat this problem , some journals require that studies submitted for publication are pre-registered ( registering a study prior to collection of data and analysis ) with organizations like the Center for Open Science .


The term " file drawer problem " was coined by Rosenthal in 1979 .


The largest such analysis investigated the presence of publication bias in systematic reviews of medical treatments from the Cochrane Library .


A 2010 meta-analysis concluded that reboxetine was ineffective and that the preponderance of positive-outcome trials reflected publication bias , mostly due to trials published by the drug manufacturer Pfizer .


Examples of publication bias are given by Ben Goldacre and Peter Wilmshurst .


" Key " in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937 .


He was in a ( " so-called " ) hospital at Monflorite for ten days at the end of March 1937 with a poisoned hand that had to be lanced and put in a sling .


After spending some time in a hospital in Lleida , he was moved to Tarragona where his wound was finally examined more than a week after he 'd left the front .


It is a carved and engraved fragment of a spear-thrower made of reindeer antler .


It depicts the figure of a bison , of the now extinct species steppe wisent ( " Bison priscus " ) with its head turned around and showing its tongue extended .


The bird family " Petroicidae " includes 49 species in 19 genera .


Coined by special effects artist John Stears , the term is a clipped form of " android " , a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human .


His platform included a reference to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller : " Impeach Rocky to prevent imminent nuclear war " .


He held a media conference in which he declared his support for John Kerry and pledged to mobilize his organization to help defeat George W. Bush in the November presidential election .


The land tenure structure of Latin America is called as the ' Latifundio–minifundio ' land tenure structure .


The result was a victory for Barisan Nasional , which won 132 of the 154 seats .


The parallel existence of two concepts of perfection , one strict ( " perfection , " as such ) and the other loose ( " excellence " ) , has given rise , perhaps since antiquity but certainly since the Renaissance , to a singular paradox : that the greatest perfection is imperfection .


To Aristotle , " perfect " meant " complete " ( " nothing to add or subtract " ) .


The first half of the 16th century saw John Calvin 's complete conditioning of man 's perfection on the grace of God .


A classic early-19 th century exponent of this view was Fichte .


His authority was so great that architects and other artists continued using this proportion , even when ignorant of its source , as late as the Middle Ages .


But a true explosion of the imperative for perfection came with the Renaissance .


Paolo Pino held that only that painter would be perfect who combined the talents of Titian and Michelangelo .


In England , in 1757 , the important aesthetician Edmund Burke denied that perfection was the cause of beauty .


In the mannerist , baroque and romantic periods , expression has prevailed .


In the same year , Nike 's breast cancer awareness swimwear collection featured four different cuts of tankini .


A not-too-close-fitting tankini , ensembled with a sarong , has been suggested for gymnophobia or the fear of nudity .


In the United States , one-shots are usually labeled with a " # 1 " despite there being no following issues , and are sometimes subtitled as " specials " .


Others were made with wine and grated cheese .


It was supposed to have digestive properties : In Aristophanes ' " Peace " Hermes recommends it to the hero who ate too much dry fruit and nuts .


The municipality , created in 1971 , uses the same arms on a red field , influenced by the arms of Visby .


The wildman first appears on a few coins minted at the time of Karl IX 's coronation in 1607 , and then at his funeral in 1612 .


" Stenungsund " is one example of a municipality that , having no historic city arms , created wholly new arms in the 1970 s .


" Mullsjö Municipality " was newly created in 1952 .


The collection of proverbs was probably put together in Sussex in the mid-12 th century .


Both programmes starred Kenneth Horne , Kenneth Williams , Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee , with announcer Douglas Smith .


It includes day-to-day care , selective breeding and the raising of livestock .


A wide range of other species such as horse , water buffalo , llama , rabbit and guinea pig are used as livestock in some parts of the world .


Insect farming , as well as aquaculture of fish , molluscs , and crustaceans , is widespread .


Ruminants like cattle and sheep are adapted to feed on grass ; they can forage outdoors , or may be fed entirely or in part on rations richer in energy and protein , such as pelleted cereals .


The first wild animal to be domesticated was the dog .


A cow was a great advantage to a villager as she produced more milk than her calf needed , and her strength could be put to use as a working animal , pulling a plough to increase production of crops , and drawing a sledge , and later a cart , to bring the produce home from the field .


Similar ranching systems have been used for sheep , deer , ostrich , emu , llama and alpaca .


Animals used as livestock are predominantly herbivorous , the main exceptions being the pig and the chicken which are omnivorous .


Cattle , sheep , goats , deer and antelopes are ruminants ; they digest food in two steps , chewing and swallowing in the normal way , and then regurgitating the semidigested cud to chew it again and thus extract the maximum possible food value .


In many climates grass growth is seasonal , for example in the temperate summer or tropical rainy season , so some areas of the crop are set aside to be cut and preserved , either as hay ( dried grass ) , or as silage ( fermented grass ) .


Some , like classical swine fever and scrapie are specific to one type of stock , while others , like foot-and-mouth disease affect all cloven-hoofed animals .


Governments are particularly concerned with zoonoses , diseases that humans may acquire from animals .


Other infectious diseases affecting wild animals , farm animals and humans include rabies , leptospirosis , brucellosis , tuberculosis and trichinosis .


Whereas in the past , cattle had multiple functions , modern dairy cow breeding has resulted in specialised Holstein Friesian-type animals that produce large quantities of milk economically .


The crickets are kept in pens , boxes or drawers and fed on commercial pelleted poultry food , while the palm weevil larvae live on cabbage palm and sago palm trees , which limits their production to areas where these trees grow .


Another delicacy of this region is the bamboo caterpillar , and the best rearing and harvesting techniques in semi-natural habitats are being studied .


Certain diet changes ( such as with " Asparagopsis taxiformis " ) allow for a reduction of up to 99 % in ruminant greenhouse gas emissions .


Possible measures of welfare include longevity , behavior , physiology , reproduction , freedom from disease , and freedom from immunosuppression .


Live export of animals has risen to meet increased global demand for livestock such as in the Middle East .


The years after Charles Lindbergh 's transatlantic flight brought a peak of interest between 1929 and 1933 .


Burt Rutan introduced the canard design to the homebuilding world and pioneered the use of composite construction .


" White 's thrush " ( " Zoothera aurea " ) is a member of the thrush family , Turdidae .


It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe .


Producer-host Allen Funt 's " Candid Camera " , in which unsuspecting people were confronted with funny , unusual situations and filmed with hidden cameras , first aired in 1948 .


" Queen for a Day " ( 1945 – 1964 ) was an early example of reality-based television .


The 1946 television game show " Cash and Carry " sometimes featured contestants performing stunts .


In the 1950 s , game shows " Beat the Clock " and " Truth or Consequences " involved contestants in wacky competitions , stunts , and practical jokes .


The series " You Asked for It " ( 1950 – 1959 ) incorporated audience involvement by basing episodes around requests sent in by postcard from viewers .


The 15-episode series is credited with starting the career of Sheena Easton , who was selected to appear in the episode showing an aspiring pop singer trying to enter the music business .


Many reality television stars of the 2000 s and 2010 s have direct or indirect connections to people involved in the case , most notably Kim Kardashian , daughter of defense attorney Robert Kardashian , and several of her relatives and associates .


The production team from the original series later created the popular reality shows " Strictly Come Dancing " , " Location , Location , Location " , and the revamped " MasterChef " , among others .


Another option is to create documentaries around series , including extended interviews with the participants and outtakes not seen in the original airings ; the syndicated series " American Idol Rewind " is an example of this strategy .


" The Tester " ( 2010 - 2012 ) was the first reality television show aired over a video game console .


, were launching their first scripted shows , and others , including AMC , were abandoning plans to launch further reality programs ; though they clarified that the genre as a whole " is n't going anywhere .


Many shows focus on wealth and conspicuous consumption , including " Platinum Weddings " , and " My Super Sweet 16 " , which documented huge coming of age celebrations thrown by wealthy parents .


Shows that portray a set of people in the same line of work , occasionally competing with each other , include " Deadliest Catch " , " Ice Road Truckers " and " Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles " and its spinoffs .


Other shows , while based around such financial transactions , also show elements of its main cast members ' personal and professional lives ; these shows include " Hardcore Pawn " and " Comic Book Men " .


Other shows in this category , such as " The 1900 House " and " Lads ' Army " , involve historical re-enactment , with cast members living and working as people of a specific time and place .


2001 's " Temptation Island " achieved some notoriety by placing several couples on an island surrounded by single people in order to test the couples ' commitment to each other .


The globally syndicated format " Dragons ' Den " shows a group of wealthy investors choosing whether or not to invest in a series of pitched startup companies and entrepreneurial ventures .


The series " Restaurant Startup " similarly involves investors , but involves more of a game show element in which restaurant owners compete to prove their worth .


The show " Nathan for You " is somewhat a parody of the genre , with host Nathan Fielder offering ludicrous advice to unsuspecting business owners .


The series " Scare Tactics " and " Room 401 " are hidden-camera programs in which the goal is to frighten contestants rather than just befuddle or amuse them .


In " Married by America " , contestants were chosen by viewer voting .


This is one of the older variants of the format ; shows such as " The Dating Game " that date to the 1960 s had similar premises ( though each episode was self-contained , and not the serial format of more modern shows ) .


The first job-search show which showed dramatic , unscripted situations may have been " America 's Next Top Model " , which premiered in May 2003 .


" ( the lead role in a revival of the musical " The Sound of Music " ) .


Sergio Mora , who won , indeed got his title shot and became a world champion boxer .


In " The Ultimate Fighter " , participants have voluntarily withdrawn or expressed the desire to withdraw from the show due to competitive pressure .


She later received extensive media coverage during her battle with cervical cancer , from which she died in 2009 .


Some critics have decried the positive representation of sexually objectified women in shows like " The Girls Next Door " .


" ( 2003 ) , " The Naked Brothers Band " ( 2006 ) , " Summer Heights High " ( 2007 ) , " Parks and Recreation " ( 2009 ) , " Modern Family " ( 2009 ) , " Come Fly With Me " ( 2010 ) , " Real Husbands of Hollywood " ( 2013 ) and " Trial & Error " ( 2017 ) .


Its orbit lies inside Uranus 's magnetosphere .


Google and Yahoo were reportedly among the other bidders .


Her mother was the Baroness Weimar and a descendant of Abram Petrovich Gannibal .


A similar story by Mikhail Zoshchenko involves yet another answer : after great care and multiple drafts to get the genitive case correct , including the substitution of " five " штук " ( pieces ) " for " five pokers " , the response comes back : the warehouse has no " kocherezhek " ( fully regular genitive plural of " kocherezhka " , " little poker " ) .


A poll from late August saw the Democrat Party in the lead with 43.0 % , followed by the People 's Power Party with 20.7 % and Thais United with 7.7 % .


The lisping of both names helped reinforce the supposedly effeminate nature of those two names , a fact which George Carlin would later sometimes reference when discussing gay issues .


The essay is dedicated to Pascal Pia and is organized in four chapters and one appendix .


He then characterizes several philosophies that describe and attempt to deal with this feeling of the absurd , by Martin Heidegger , Karl Jaspers , Lev Shestov , Søren Kierkegaard , and Edmund Husserl .


When played live , the song utilizes a characteristic variety of instruments , with Chris Funk on mandolin , Nate Query on stand-up bass and bowed bass , Colin Meloy on vocals and guitar , John Moen on floor tom , and Jenny Conlee on accordion .


Colin Meloy said that they were playing it for all the people who never experienced the song live .


Drummer Rachel Blumberg had to stand much farther away because of the relative loudness of the drums .


They flew for the first time on 10 March 2007 and took part in a public aerial demonstration during a Pakistan Day parade on 23 March 2007 .


In late 2015 , Myanmar ordered 16 RD-33 engines from Russia which were received in 2018 and 2019 .


Friedrich Ebert , one of the two party leaders since 1913 , travelled to Zürich with Otto Braun to save the party 's funds from being confiscated .


In the first days of August , the editors believed themselves to be in line with the late August Bebel , who had died the previous year .


There were 14 deputies , headed by the second party leader , Hugo Haase , who spoke out against the bonds , but nevertheless followed party voting instructions and raised their hands in favour .


Even Karl Liebknecht , who became one of the most outspoken opponents of the war , initially followed the line of the party that his father , Wilhelm Liebknecht , had cofounded : he abstained from voting and did not defy his own political colleagues .


While moving through the Kiel Canal , he had 47 of the crew of , who were seen as the ringleaders , imprisoned .


The governor of the naval station , Wilhelm Souchon , was compelled to negotiate .


Led by their spokesmen Richard Müller and Emil Barth , they formed a revolutionary parliament .


For their part , the employers guaranteed to introduce the eight-hour day , which the workers had demanded in vain for years .


Their commander , Captain Waldemar Pabst , had them questioned .


Philipp Scheidemann was elected as Prime Minister ( Ministerpräsident ) of the newly formed coalition on 13 February .


It has a wide range of applications , including paint , sunscreen , and food coloring .


The photocatalytic properties of nanosized titanium dioxide were discovered by Akira Fujishima in 1967 The process on the surface of the titanium dioxide was called the " Honda-Fujishima effect " ( : ja : 本多-藤嶋効果 ) .


There is some evidence the rare disease yellow nail syndrome may be caused by titanium , either implanted for medical reasons or through eating various foods containing titanium dioxide .


During the 1990 s he devoted his time to restoring the aging family home of Castle Leslie which eventually opened to the public .


Fashion houses such as Chanel and Gucci are at the forefront of the trend .


Few wide-ranging war patrols have been conducted since World War II , so commanding officers have taken other opportunities to fly brooms .


He also appeared onstage as an improv performer with April Winchell and Paul Rugg .


confirming a prediction by Eugene Parker , and the cosmic dust density is much lower than the near-Earth region .


A " siderostat " is a similar device which is designed to follow a fainter star , rather than the sun .


Indeed , the yellow-browed tit and the sultan tit are possibly more distant to the tits than the penduline tits are .


The clinic also trains plant pathologists , and work with all sectors to improve regular and reliable access to technical support and advice .


Other countries which have adopted plant health clinics include Sierra Leone , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Rwanda , India and Vietnam .


The NOMAD is a unique moored aluminum environmental monitoring buoy designed for deployments in extreme conditions near the coast and across the Great Lakes .


The spacecraft was attitude stabilized in three axes , referenced to the sun and the star Canopus .


He resolved to defend the traditional polytheistic religion of Arabia .


use a special layer of XPCOM called XPConnect , which reflects the library interfaces into JavaScript , or other languages .


On 30 March 2020 , justice See Kee Oon consolidated the three challenges into one case and ruled against them , arguing that the law was intended to safeguard morals and prosecute all forms of indecency between men whether in public or private , and not just male prostitution when the law was made in 1938 .


Immediately afterward , the star-tracker locked onto a bright flake of paint which had come off the spacecraft and lost tracking on the guide star Canopus .


It refers to the process of opening a case of MREs , which are packed 12 in a box , opening up individual MRE packages , removing the desired items ( generally M&M 's and other sweets ) , and leaving the unenticing remainder .


It was one of the tampon manufacturers that were sued for aggressively advertising over-absorbent tampons , which led to toxic shock syndrome .


A year later it was acquired for $ 1.25 billion and its cosmetics brands were sold to Revlon .


After complaints were raised by Planned Parenthood a warning label was added saying that some women may experience irritation from the chemicals .


Slice the meat and vegetables for stock into pieces and boil in salted water .


Mix in the sour cream or sour milk and flour to thicken , and continue to cook until all ingredients are soft .


In Iran , oars mounted on the side of ships for steering are documented from the 3rd millennium BCE in artwork , wooden models , and even remnants of actual boats .


Oars mounted on the side of ships evolved into quarter steering oars , which were used from antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages in Europe .


This is a small drink of calvados taken between courses in a very long meal , sometimes with apple or pear sorbet , supposedly to reawaken the appetite .


The later VGA includes one non-planar mode which sacrifices memory efficiency for more convenient access .


The relational dialectic is an elaboration on Mikhail Bakhtin 's idea that life is an open monologue and humans experience collisions between opposing desires and needs within relational communications .


The investigation of dialects includes integration-separation , expression-privacy , and stability-change enhance the understanding of the communication between people with autism spectrum disorders .


Only one was built by Aviastar-SP in Ulyanovsk but has not yet been delivered ( RA-64036 ) .


During 1328 – 1333 , he sailed along the South China Sea and visited many places in Southeast Asia and reached as far as South Asia , landing in Sri Lanka and India , and he even went to Australia .


Then in 1334 – 1339 , he visited North Africa and East Africa .


1486 ) who discovered and ascended the Congo River and reached the coasts of the present-day Angola and Namibia ; Bartolomeu Dias ( c .


This included Juan Ponce de León ( 1474 – 1521 ) , who discovered and mapped the coast of Florida ; Vasco Núñez de Balboa ( c .


With the advent of satellite imagery and aviation , exploration of Earth has largely ceased , however the culture of many disconnected tribes still remain undocumented and left to be explored .


Humanity is continuing to follow the impulse to explore , moving beyond Earth .


He was arrested on May 2 in Epworth , near Harare , and reportedly tortured to death in army barracks .


A surviving example from 1780 exists at Bad Kösen that transmits power approximately 200 meters from a waterwheel to a salt well , and from there , an additional 150 meters to a brine evaporator .


The long thin bill and the large feet with all-webbed toes are black throughout the year , while the patch of dark naked skin below the eye turns a vivid magenta in the breeding season .


Vagrants have been recorded in the Hawaiian Islands .


The large birds from the Prince William Sound region were formerly called " P. p .


A seashell is usually the exoskeleton of an invertebrate ( an animal without a backbone ) , and is typically composed of calcium carbonate or chitin .


There are numerous land and freshwater mollusks , see for example snail and freshwater bivalves .


In addition , not all mollusks have an external shell : some mollusks such as some cephalopods ( squid and octopuses ) have an internal shell , and many mollusks have no shell , see for example slug and nudibranch .


Some cephalopods such as " Sepia " , the cuttlefish , have a large internal shell , the cuttlefish bone , and this often washes up on beaches in parts of the world where cuttlefish are common .


Nautilus " is the only genus of cephalopod that has a well-developed external shell .


Females of the cephalopod genus " Argonauta " create a papery egg case which sometimes washes up on tropical beaches and is referred to as a " paper nautilus " .


Non-marine items offered may include large and colorful tropical land snail shells , freshwater apple snail shells , and pearly freshwater unionid mussel shells .


Because seashells are in some areas a readily available bulk source of calcium carbonate , shells such as oyster shells are sometimes used as soil conditioners in horticulture .


The goddess of love , Venus or Aphrodite , is often traditionally depicted rising from the sea on a seashell .


She is also paired as roommates with X-23 .


He was called to the Ontario bar in 1922 and practised law for 17 years in Trenton .


From 1948 to 1950 he was Vice Chief of General Staff of the Canadian Army .


From 1955 to 1958 he was the Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Army .


Sheldon Leonard was executive producer .


A female writer who appeared in one episode was also loosely based on Dorothy Parker .


The " world 's shortest book " was a joke template that has been popular ever since the end of World War II as a joke .


Polyphase power systems were independently invented by Galileo Ferraris , Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky , Jonas Wenström , John Hopkinson and Nikola Tesla in the late 1880 s .


For domestic use , some countries such as the UK may supply one phase and neutral at a high current ( up to 100 " A ) to one property , while others such as Germany may supply 3 " phases and neutral to each customer , but at a lower fuse rating , typically 40&ndash ; 63 " A per phase , and " rotated " to avoid the effect that more load tends to be put on the first phase .


Standardbreds tend to be more muscled and longer bodied than the Thoroughbred .


She disliked the industry , although she regarded Joey Silvera well .


While her desire to act in mainstream films had generated no offers , she was so prestigious at the time that famed director Francis Ford Coppola was seated at her table .


Around his neck a garland of " Delphinium " flowers had been placed .


The phrase was originated by Commander Charles Rumney Samson , who had recently returned from the front .


After minor modifications , the aircraft was flown to RNAS Eastchurch , where full-speed trials were made .


The revised nacelle was tested in " 3188 " , which in 1917 was flown at Martlesham Heath with a variety of engine installations .


The " climate of Ecuador " varies by region , due to differences in elevation and , to a degree , in proximity to the equator .


The weather in Quito is consistent with that of a subtropical highland climate .


Close out netting differs from novation netting in that it extends to all outstanding obligations of the party under a master agreement similar to the one used by ISDA .


These earliest known specimens were found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey in the 1930 s .


However , the size of the choppers did not suggest that it could be powerful enough to actually kill animals like the hippopotamus .


The vicious circle principle was suggested by Henri Poincaré ( 1905 - 6 , 1908 ) and Bertrand Russell in the wake of the paradoxes as a requirement on legitimate set specifications .


Most of these were onomatopoeic colloquial names for the bird ; the call was described as " bumping " The powerful bill is greenish-yellow with a darker tip to the upper mandible .


It stars Jeanne Crain , Linda Darnell , Ann Sothern , Paul Douglas in his film debut , Kirk Douglas , Jeffrey Lynn , and Thelma Ritter .


In addition to the actresses already named as cast members , Anne Baxter and Tyrone Power were also at one point cast .


Two other reviews and notices of the volume appeared in 2011 by Keren Rice and Jared Diamond .


At that time , it was the 20th - nearest star system to the Sun .


Formerly , a number of relatives were included in " C. aeruginosus " , which was then known as " " marsh harrier " " .


In Great Britain , the population was likely extinct by the end of the 19th century .


It made a comeback in Ireland as well , where it had become extinct in 1918 .


A remake by the same name , starring Steve Martin , Diane Keaton and Kimberly Williams as the bride , was released in 1991 .


Duties of the " viticulturist " include monitoring and controlling pests and diseases , fertilizing , irrigation , canopy management , monitoring fruit development and characteristics , deciding when to harvest , and vine pruning during the winter months .


A great number of varieties are now approved in the European Union as true grapes for winegrowing and viticulture .


In the days before precise varietal identification , let alone rigorous clonal selection , a vineyard might be planted by taking cuttings from another vineyard and therefore approximately copying its genetic makeup .


A decision to reject a candidate for tenure normally requires that the individual leave the institution within two years ( under the AAUP tenure guidelines ) .


One of the earliest accounts can be found in the work of Flaminio Scala , who listed 30 instances of lazzi , though the word " lazzi " was not yet used .


J. Rendel Harris in a series of articles .


The helicopter has also been of use in military humanitarian missions and the extraction of civilians from warzones , such as the evacuation of Sierra Leone in 2000 , and the evacuation from Lebanon in 2006 .


Since 1997 , the company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of shoe industry giant Wolverine World Wide .


Her mother Ceres , also known as Demeter , the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth , went looking for her across all of the world , and all in vain .


It is closely connected with that of Orpheus and Eurydice .


Kate McGarrigle 's song about the legend was one of the last things she wrote prior to her death , and received its only performance at her last concert at Royal Albert Hall in December 2009 .


It was a favorite form of heraldic expression used in the Middle Ages to denote surnames .


A more sophisticated example was the rebus of Bishop Walter Lyhart ( d .


This concept is sometimes extended to include numbers ( as in " Q8 " for " Kuwait " , or " 8 " for " ate " ) .


Lewis Carroll wrote the children he befriended picture-puzzle rebus letters , nonsense letters , and looking-glass letters , which had to be held in front of a mirror to be read .


Construction was carried out by Mitchell Construction and completed in 1962 .


The suspension was then transferred to settling tanks where the precipitate would settle out , and the remaining clarified liquid , or supernate , would be discharged to the Irish Sea .


Technetium-99 is a radioactive element which is produced by nuclear fuel reprocessing , and also as a by-product of medical facilities ( for example Ireland is responsible for the discharge of approximately 11 grams or 6.78 gigabecquerels of technetium-99 each year despite not having a nuclear industry ) .


According to Greenpeace there was an expected 1300 " kg of plutonium , 400 " kg of which was in mud sediments .


They pointed out that the error amounted to about 0.5 % , whereas International Atomic Energy Agency regulations permit a discrepancy up to 1 % as the amount of plutonium recovered from the reprocessing process never precisely matches the pre-process estimates .


Health Minister Melanie Johnson said the quantities were minute and " presented no risk to public health " .


var. " barril " ) , " mexicano " ( " Agave macroacantha " or " Agave rhodacantha " var. " mexicano " , also called " dobadaan " ) Others include " madrecuixe " , " tepeztate " , and " jabalí " .


The smaller Progressive Party appealed to supporters of the proposed change to ' reject " this " republic ' , arguing that such a weighted electorate could not provide a valid test of opinion .


The Rutan answer to this problem is to lower the nose of the aircraft at rest such that the empty center of gravity is then ahead of the main wheels .


In February 2010 , the first CH-148 arrived at CFB Halifax .


In 2004 a TV mini-series was created : " King Solomon 's Mines " .


The first of these , 588 Achilles , was discovered by Max Wolf in 1906 ; since then more than two thousand have been discovered .


It was based on the one-off Adcox Special , and the first example flew on 17 September .


Pliny calls it a " medicus invidiae " , a " doctor " or remedy for envy ( " invidia " , a " looking upon " ) or the evil eye .


For example , the motif is known from multiple relief sculptures from Leptis Magna in present-day Libya , A 1st - century BC terracotta figurine shows " two little phallus-men sawing an eyeball in half " .


Experimental work in Manhattan has found near-Rayleigh fading there .


It was developed in response to NATO requirements for a battlefield helicopter which would also be capable of being operated in naval environments .


Six examples are operated by 808 Squadron of the Royal Australian Navy , which was reformed in 2011 and recommissioned in 2013 .


In July 2014 , the Australian National Audit Office released a report on the MRH90 , citing a series of procurement errors and development deficiencies delaying final operational capability ( FOC ) , originally planned for that month , until April 2019 , nearly five years later than planned .


In August 2003 , Greece ordered 20 NH90s with an option for 14 more .


In April 2013 , the navy deployed the type onboard to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden .


In September 2018 , the Norwegian Armed Forces reversed course and released an updated study that affirms that under " certain conditions " the requirements for both the navy and coast guard can be met with the current order of 14 helicopters .


Sex advice columnist Dan Savage commented on the popularity of the term " straight-acting " in gay personal ads , criticizing both the practice and the idea that a man seeking a gay relationship through a gay personal ad is acting straight .


His close friendship with Vittorio Mussolini , son of " Il Duce " , has been interpreted as a possible reason for having been preferred to other apprentices .


To this period belongs his friendship and cooperation with Federico Fellini and Aldo Fabrizi .


The soaked rice is usually eaten in the morning with salt , lime , chili ( either raw or roasted ) and onions ( sliced or whole ) mostly for flavor .


Pazhedhu saadham , meaning " old rice " , of Tamil Nadu is another variation of the dish .


This cold and wet food , is suitable for summer mornings , but in winter dry foods , such as " chira " ( flattened rice ) and " muri " ( puffed rice ) are more preferred .


In a study conducted by agricultural biotechnology department of the Assam Agricultural University it was concluded that cooked rice had an element that prevented the availability of minerals like iron , potassium , sodium and calcium in high quantities , and the breakdown of the nutritional inhibitor by the lactic acid bacteria increased the mineral content manifolds .


Incumbent Eduard Kokoity was seeking a second full five-year term .


According to the de facto authorities , the election was monitored by a team of 34 international observers from Germany , Austria , Poland , Sweden and other countries at 78 polling stations .


Therefore , the photosphere is typically used to describe the Sun 's or another star 's visual surface .


The Sun is composed primarily of the chemical elements hydrogen and helium ; they account for 74.9 % and 23.8 % of the mass of the Sun in the photosphere , respectively .


A video emerged showing the aircraft diving for attack with soldiers on the ground firing a Strela-2 M MANPADS in response .


On 27 September 2012 , the Reserve Bank of Australia stated that it had ordered work on a project to upgrade the current banknotes .


The tactile feature is an embossed feature to assist the vision-impaired in identifying the denomination .


Originally an order for one of the most difficult emergency repair jobs aboard a sailing ship , it became a euphemism for authorized celebratory drinking afterward , and then the name of an order to grant the crew an extra ration of rum or grog .


" Collies " form a distinctive type of herding dogs , including many related landraces and standardized breeds .


Collie breeds have spread through many parts of the world ( especially Australia and North America ) , and have diversified into many varieties , sometimes mixed with other dog types .


They often have white along with the main color , usually under the belly and chest , over the shoulders , and on parts of the face and legs , but sometimes leaving only the head colored – or white may be absent ( unusual ) or limited to the chest and toes ( as in the Australian Kelpie ) .


Their flight is fast and graceful like a swallow or a tern , with many twists and turns to pursue their prey .


The Australian pratincole , the only species not in the genus " Glareola " , is more terrestrial than the other pratincoles , and may be intermediate between this group and the coursers .


Like the pratincoles , the coursers are found in warmer parts of the Old World .


The term derives from the " whiteout " weather condition where a snowstorm causes loss of vision , and refers to the way one 's skin turns pale during and after a fainting or vomiting episode .


She tried to enlist essayist E. B. White and a number of journalists and scientists to her cause .


Of particular significance was the work of National Cancer Institute researcher and founding director of the environmental cancer section Wilhelm Hueper , who classified many pesticides as carcinogens .


The 1967 formation of the Environmental Defense Fund was the first major milestone in the campaign against DDT .


He was most likely the eldest son of pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai and queen Khentkaus II .


Traces of a possible revival of the cult during the later Middle Kingdom are scant and ambiguous .


This species nests on rock ledges and in cavities in cliffs though very rarely in Somalia it has been known to nest in trees .


He was probably the first of the logographers to attempt a serious prose history and to employ critical method to distinguish myth from historical fact , though he accepts Homer and other poets as trustworthy authorities .


Emil von Sydow designed maps with coloured hachures : green for lowlands and brown for highlands .


In May 2017 , director John McNaughton and Michael Rooker will make a feature film adaptation .


Xylitol is used as a food additive and sugar substitute .


Replacing sugar by xylitol in food products may promote better dental health , but evidence is lacking on whether xylitol itself prevents cavities .


Xylitol is used as a sugar substitute in such manufactured products as drugs , dietary supplements , confections , toothpaste , and chewing gum , but is not a common household sweetener .


No serious health risk exists in most humans for normal levels of consumption ; The European Food Safety Authority has not set a limit on daily intake of xylitol .