For those looking to match up common plant names with botanical names, we offer the following simple list. Common name is listed first, followed by botanical name and extension ( if known ). Abscess Root Polemonium reptans Acanthus-leaved Thistle Carlina acanthifolia Accocha Cyclanthera pedata A...
Of course, 1 needs to acknowledge that Carl Jung had UFOs pegged in 1 of his final books Flying Saucers printed over 40 years ago: ‘As we know from ancient Egyptian history, they are manifestations of psychic changes which always appear at the end of one Platonic month and at the ...
The rarest of all animal eye colors, iridescence appears in a few birds, fish, reptiles, insects, and spiders. Scientists agree that animalsuse iridescence for many reasonsthough mostly for visual communication, such as which individuals are male or female. However, when it comes to eyes, scien...
Because we were a large group of veterans, mostly male, we faced what women routinely endure: long lines at the public toilets. It put some of us in mind of long lines in our military past—chow lines, or lines we stood in while waiting to be immunized by medics wielding high-pressure...
It appears, from various paintings, that the species was well known to the Ancient Egyptians. One such illustration is found onancient Egyptian tombdepicting fish, most possibly tilapia, in a man-made pond. Nile tilapias are highly social. They even exhibit social hierarchies, where males are ...
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“The royal cubit is greater by three fingers’ breadth than the common cubit” (Herodotus 1.178) or “the Egyptian cubit is equal to the Samian cubit” (Herodotus 2.168). Herodotus (1.178) also gives the height and breadth of the Babylonian Wall in royal cubits explicitly differentiating them...
Study of Selective Immunoglobulin A Deficiency among Egyptian Patients with Food Allergy. Cent. Eur. J. Immunol. 2020, 45, 184–188. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Tuano, K.S.; Orange, J.S.; Sullivan, K.; Cunningham-Rundles, C.; Bonilla, F.A.; Davis, C.M. Food Allergy ...
Many species are named for the sounds they make—e.g., brain-fever bird (a hawk cuckoo, Cuculus varius), koel (Eudynamys scolopacea), and cuckoo itself, the latter two names being imitations of the bird’s song. Cuculids range in length from about 16 cm (6.5 inches) in the glossy...
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