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The vase scholar Sir John Beazley wrote in 1918 in "Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums" (p. 18): "The best of [Epiktetos] is in his plates. You cannot draw better, you can only draw differently. Epiktetos' people are all lightness and fairy grace, as if they belonged to a world where passion and pain were unknown, to those 'woods of Athens' where Oberon reigned in the days before 'the middle summer's spring'".
Footrace on a Panathenaic Amphora is a depiction of an ancient Greek footrace on a terracotta amphora dated about 530 BC. It is said to be by the Euphiletos Painter. The height of the amphora is tall.
Vicki Ann Axelrad (also called Vicki Lawrence; born March 26 1949) is an American comedienne, actress and a singer. She is best known for her acting on the "Carol Burnett Show" and as Thelma Harper on "Mama's Family". She was often on game shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou ( , ; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician. He was the President of the French Republic from 20 June 1969 until 2 April 1974. He was born in Cantal. He fought in World War II.
John Deszo Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American actor, voice actor, and entrepreneur. Best known for his work with Pixar, he has been referred to as the Pixar Good Luck Charm, as he has voice acted in every movie for Pixar except for Soul.
After being on stage, he acted in his first movie "Stage Struck" (1958). He had his very first main role that same year in "Wind Across the Everglades". He became well known for playing Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical movie "The Sound of Music" (1965).
Plummer played many historical people in movies, including Commodus in "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in "Waterloo" (1970), Rudyard Kipling in "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975), Mike Wallace in "The Insider" (1999), Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station" (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in "The Exception" (2016), and J. Paul Getty in "All the Money in the World" (2017).
Plummer narrated the animated series "Madeline". He voiced Charles Muntz in the Disney Pixar movie "Up" (2009). His final roles before his death were as Harlan Thrombey in "Knives Out" (2019), Frank Pitsenbarger in "The Last Full Measure" (2020) and Howard Lawson in the television drama "Departure".
Plummer won many awards for his work. He won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award. He was one of the few actors and only Canadian to have won the Triple Crown of Acting. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Beginners" (2010). At the time, at age 82 he was the oldest person to win an acting Oscar. He was nominated again for an Academy Award for "All the Money in the World". This made him the oldest person to be nominated for an acting Oscar at age 88.
Plummer was born on December 13, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario. He was the only child of John Orme Plummer and Isabella Mary Abbott. His great-grandfather was Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott. Plummer's parents divorced not long after he was born. He was raised by his mother in the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec. He spoke English and French very well.
At an early age, he loved acting and went to High School of Montreal. He wanted to become an actor after watching Laurence Olivier's movie "Henry V" (1944). He learned acting as an apprentice with the Montreal Repertory Theatre. Plummer never went to college or university, something he wished he did. Later in life, McGill University gave an honorary degree to Plummer.
In 1946, the "Montreal Gazette"s theatre critic Herbert Whittaker liked Plummer's role as Mr Darcy in a Montreal High School play of "Pride and Prejudice". Whittaker was also a stage director and he hired Plummer at age 18 to play Oedipus in Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale".
Plummer had his first Broadway role in January 1953 in "The Starcross Story". His next Broadway role, "Home is the Hero", lasted from September to October 1954. Plummer was Tyrone Power's understudy. After acting in "Night of the Auk", Plummer was in Elia Kazan's Broadway play "J.B.". He played Jason in Robinson Jeffers' version of "Medea" in Paris in 1955. Also in 1955, he played Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar". He also played Ferdinand in "The Tempest" at the American Shakespeare Festival.
Plummer began acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1956. He played the main character in "Henry V". He played the main role in "Hamlet" and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night" in 1957. The next year, he played Leontes in "The Winter's Tale", Bardolph in "Henry IV, Part 1", and Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing".
In April 1961, he played Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He later played the main character of "Richard III" a month later. He played King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's "Becket". For his role, Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.
At the Stratford Festival, he played Philip the Bastard in "King John" and Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet". In 1962, he played the main roles in both "Cyrano de Bergerac" and "Macbeth". He returned in 1967 to play Mark Antony in "Antony and Cleopatra".
Plummer played the main role in a 1963 play of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui". He was also in Peter Shaffer's "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", playing Francisco Pizarro. Many critics liked Plummer's roles as Ui and Pizarro.
Plummer was in "Lovers and Madmen" at the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 1973. He also appeared in "Love and Master Will" at the same place in 1975.
In 1982, he was in the Broadway play of the Shakespearean tragedy "Othello", playing Iago. His role as the main villain had positive reviews from critics, such as "The New York Times". For his role, he got a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination losing to Roger Rees.
In 1988, he played the main role in Broadway's "Macbeth". He also had positive reviews for his role as the main character. He worked with Jason Robards in the 1994 version of Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land". For his role in "No Man's Land", Plummer was nominated for a Tony Award.
Plummer became well known for playing actor John Barrymore in the 1997 Broadway play of William Luce's "Barrymore". He had many positive reviews from critics. Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" called Plummer a great actor. His role as Barrymore, gave Plummer his second Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
In 2002, he appeared in "King Lear", directed by Jonathan Miller. The play had strong positive reviews. He was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his role in "King Lear". He also got a Tony Award nomination for playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 version of "Inherit the Wind". He played Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra". The play was filmed and shown in Canadian movie theaters on January 31, 2009. In 2009 and 2010, Plummer was in two Stratford Festival plays of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" and William Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Plummer returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in "The Tempest" where he played Prospero. In 2014, Plummer presented a stage play "A Word or Two" in Los Angeles.
Plummer's movie career began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet hired him as a young writer in "Stage Struck". That same year, Plummer played the main character in Nicholas Ray's movie "Wind Across the Everglades". Plummer did not appear in any other movie for six years after 1958. He returned to acting to play Roman emperor Commodus in Anthony Mann's "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964).
Plummer became well known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in Robert Wise's musical movie "The Sound of Music" (1965). Plummer however, said the movie was "so awful and sentimental and gooey". The movie made the most money than any other movie since "Gone with the Wind". Plummer hated being on the movie, but liked working with Julie Andrews. During his career, he tried not to talk about the movie. He did not show up at the 40th Anniversary cast reunion. He did talk about the movie for the 2005 DVD release. He appeared for the 45th anniversary with the full cast on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on October 28, 2010. In one interview he said that he had great memories of making the movie.
He was in "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965) and then played World War II agent Eddie Chapman in "Triple Cross" (1966). He had a role as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in "The Night of the Generals" (1967). Plummer replaced Rex Harrison for the movie version of "Doctor Dolittle". However, Harrison later came back for the movie. Plummer was paid $87,500 for signing the contract.
Plummer had the main role in "Oedipus the King" (1968) and "The High Commissioner" (1968). He was later in "Battle of Britain" (1969) and "Lock Up Your Daughters" (1969). That same year, he played Inca Emperor Atahualpa in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun". Plummer played the Duke of Wellington in "Waterloo" (1970) with Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte. He played Rudyard Kipling in "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975). He was also in the comedy "The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975), with Peter Sellers and "The Silent Partner" (1978). He was in "Aces High" (1976), "Starcrash" (1978), and "International Velvet" (1978). He played Sherlock Holmes in "Murder by Decree" (1979).
Plummer was in the romantic drama "Somewhere in Time" (1980), the drama "Eyewitness" (1981), and the comedy "Dragnet" (1987). Plummer also did some voice work. He voiced Henri the pigeon in "An American Tail" (1986) and the Grand Duke of Owls in "Rock-a-Doodle" (1991).
Plummer was in "" (1991). He was also in Spike Lee's drama biographical movie "Malcolm X" (1992), Mike Nichols' horror drama "Wolf" (1994), Taylor Hackford's psychological drama "Dolores Claiborne" (1995), and Terry Gilliam's science fiction drama "12 Monkeys" (1995). One of Plummer's most well known roles was as journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's "The Insider" (1999). Plummer later played Dr. Rosen in Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning movie "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). He played Uncle Ralph in the 2002 movie version of Charles Dickens novel "Nicholas Nickleby". He also played the philosopher Aristotle in "Alexander" (2004). Plummer was wanted for the role of Gandalf for "The Lord of the Rings" movie series. He did not want the role.
In 2004, Plummer played John Adams Gates in the Disney adventure movie "National Treasure". In 2005, he appeared in Stephen Gaghan's drama "Syriana", the romantic comedy "Must Love Dogs", and Terrence Malick's drama "The New World". Plummer did not like working with Malick on "The New World". He called Malick "boring" and told him to get a writer instead of Malick doing everything. He played Arthur Case in another Spike Lee's movie called "Inside Man" (2006). That same year, he was in the romantic drama "The Lake House" (2006). In 2009, Plummer voiced the main villain Charles Muntz in Pixar's animated movie "Up". Muntz character design was inspired by Plummer. That same year he also had a voice role in "9" playing 1.
In January 2010, Plummer got his first Academy Award nomination for his role as author Leo Tolstoy in "The Last Station" (2009). In an interview about his Academy Award nomination, Plummer said: "Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy". He lost the Academy Award to Christoph Waltz.
Plummer had a role in David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", playing businessman Henrik Vanger. Plummer got his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Hal in Mike Mills' independent comedy drama movie "Beginners" (2011). In the role, Plummer played a dying 80-year old who recently came out as gay to his son. He won the Academy Award for his role in "Beginners" at age 82. At the time, this made Plummer the oldest actor to win an Academy Award. In 2021, Anthony Hopkins won an Academy Award at age 83, beating Plummer's record. His Academy Award also made Plummer one of the few actors and only Canadian to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In 2014, he appeared with Shirley MacLaine in the comedy-drama "Elsa & Fred". In 2015, he was in "Remember" as a Holocaust survivor with dementia. Plummer played Ebenezer Scrooge in "The Man Who Invented Christmas" (2017).
In November 2017, Plummer was hired to replace Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty in "All the Money in the World". He was director Ridley Scott's first choice for the role, but TriStar Pictures wanted a more well known actor for the role. Plummer was hired because Spacey had been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault. All scenes that had Spacey were filmed again with Plummer. This happened a few weeks before the movie's release. For his role, Plummer earned Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Plummer, at age 89, became the oldest actor to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Plummer had a role in Rian Johnson's mystery thriller movie "Knives Out" (2019) as rich mystery writer Harlan Thrombey. Plummer also played Frank Pitsenbarger in the war drama "The Last Full Measure" (2020), in his final movie role. In 2021 before his death, Plummer was hired to play the main character for a movie version of Shakespeare's "King Lear".
Plummer had his first television role in 1953 for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation version of "Othello". He was also in a 1953 "Studio One" episode "The Gathering Night". In the 1950s, he appeared in "The Alcoa Hour", "General Electric Theater", "Kraft Television Theatre", and "Omnibus". In 1956, he was in an episode of CBS's "Appointment with Adventure".
He was in the live television drama "Little Moon of Alban". He got his first Emmy Award nomination for this role. He played Torvald Helmer in a 1959 television movie version of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House". Plummer had a role in the television version of Philip Barry's "The Philadelphia Story" (1959). In 1964, his role as Gloomy Dane in the BBC's "Hamlet at Elsinore" got him his second Emmy nomination. He played Hamlet in "Hamlet at Elsinore".
He played Herod Antipas in the television miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977). Plummer played Herbert Kappler in the television movie "The Scarlet and the Black". He had a role in the television series "The Thorn Birds". From 1993 to 1995, he narrated the animated television series "Madeline" and won an Emmy Award for his voice work. He also narrated the animated television series "The World of David the Gnome".
In 2000, Plummer played Sir David Maxwell Fyfe in the Emmy Award-winning "Nuremberg" (2000). That same year he was in "American Tragedy" as F. Lee Bailey. He was in "Miracle Planet", and a documentary by Ric Burns about Eugene O'Neill. He got an Emmy Award nomination for his role in the television movie version of the play "On Golden Pond". Plummer voiced Arngeir, speaker for the Greybeards, in the video game "".
At the age of 89, he appeared in a main role in "Departure". It was a Canadian-British television series. Plummer returned for season 2, but worked from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He finished filming for the second season before his death.
Plummer married Tammy Grimes in 1956. Their marriage lasted four years. They had a daughter together, actress Amanda Plummer. Plummer was married to journalist Patricia Lewis from 1962, until their divorce in 1967. He later married actress Elaine Taylor in 1970. They lived together in Weston, Connecticut. He used to live in Darien, Connecticut before moving to Weston. Plummer had no children by his second or third marriages.
In 1968, Plummer was honored as a Companion of the Order of Canada. His memoir, "In Spite of Myself", was published in November 2008. Plummer supported the Theatre Museum Canada and donated money to keep the museum open.
Plummer died at his home in Weston, Connecticut on February 5, 2021 at the age of 91. He died two and a half weeks after a fall where he hit his head. Plummer's wife Elaine said that he had died "peacefully" when she was at his side. Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau said that there is "no doubt [that] his work will continue to inspire and entertain us all for years to come". He called Plummer an "iconic actor".
"The Sound of Music" actress Julie Andrews said that "The world has lost a [great] actor today and I have lost a [good] friend".
Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Katherine Langford, Rian Johnson, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, William Shatner, Anne Hathaway, Elijah Wood, Vera Farmiga, Ed Asner, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee, Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Antonio Banderas, Leonard Maltin, Daniel Dae Kim, George Takei, Russell Crowe, Bruce Greenwood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt also reacted to his death.
A postage stamp honoring Plummer was released by Canada Post on October 13, 2021.
Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor and voice artist. He is known for his role as Hank Knigsley on "The Larry Sanders Show", King Atlantis in "SpongeBob SquarePants", and as George Bluth, Sr. and Oscar Bluth on "Arrested Development". He won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award in 2015.
George Homer Ryan, Sr. (born February 24 1934) is an American politician. He is a Republican. He was the former Governor of Illinois. He is a member for the United States Republican Party. His political career was tarnished due to scandals and corruption: Ryan was found guilty on almost all charges and sent to prison. He was released in 2013. Ryan was Illinois' Governor beginning 1999 until 2003. He is listed as Federal Inmate Number 16627-424, and was scheduled July 4, 2013. He was released in June 2013.
Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer (born May 27, 1977 in Dellys) is a former Algerian track and field athlete. He was in the high jump. He won the bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was also in the 2004 Athens Olympics. His personal best of 2.34 m is the Algerian record for the event. He retired from the sport in 2010.
The 2000 season was the top of his career. He kept his title at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics in Algiers. He made his areer best jump of 2.34 m. He then was in his first Olympicss at the 2000 Sydney Games. He won the bronze medal. He won the high jump at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. He was ninth at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. He won his third high jump title in a row at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics. He took bronze at the 2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final. He placed fourth for Africa at the 2002 IAAF World Cup.
Mohamed Allalou (born September 28, 1973) is an Algerian boxer. He was in the Men's Light Welterweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal. He was also in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Epiktetos was an ancient Greek potter and vase painter. His name means "newly acquired". He may have been a slave, as were most potters and painters in ancient Greece. He worked mostly with cups and plates between 520 and 490 BC in the red-figure style. He signed more than half his works. He was an expert with the "tondo"the circular picture at the bottom of a cup. He painted mostly everyday scenes rather than mythological ones. His end is unknown.
Soraya Haddad (born September 30, 1984 in El-Kseur) is an Algerian judoka. She won the bronze medal in the Women's 52 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was African champion four times: 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2011. She also won the bronze medal in the 48 kg category in the 2005 World Championships in Egypt.
Amar Benikhlef (born 11 January 1982) is an Algerian judoka. He won the silver medal in the 90 kg group of Judo in 2008.
The Disrobing of Christ is an oil painting by El Greco. It was completed in the spring of 1579 for the High Altar of the sacristy of the Cathedral of Toledo, where it still hangs. It measures 285 x 173cm. Harold Wethey says that the painting is a "masterpiece of extraordinary originality". The power of the picture depends upon El Greco's original and forceful use of color.
The Feas's vipers can grow up to the length of 77 cm. They are blueish-gray or black in color with orange crossbands, the head is orange while the chin and throat is yellow, it also has yellow eyes.
Pet frogs can be fed a lot of different live foods. These include crickets, rodents and fish. Small pet frogs will only eat crickets, fruit flies, springtails and other small arthropods. Medium-sized pet frogs can be fed larger crickets, mealworms, butterworms, silkworms, grasshoppers and small fish. Large pet frogs like "Ceratophrys" can be fed small fish, other frogs, reptiles, and small mammals such as mice or rats.
Amphibians of all sizes would need different terrariums. Tree frogs like to climb and can escape if a pet owner does not add a top cover for their tanks. Semi-aquatic amphibians need both land and water divided in the tank. Tropical frogs would need mist and high humidity in their terrariums. All water for amphibians must be dechlorinated. The chlorine can kill amphibians, and may be in tap water. Many amphibians are popular exotic pets and are found in some pet stores.
Deborrah Kaye "Debbie" Allen (born January 16, 1950, Houston ) is an American dancer, actress and television producer. She also taught choreography and acted in Broadway plays.
Ascaphidae is a family of frogs. They are called tailed frogs because they have an organ that looks like a tail. The tail helps them to live in fast-moving streams. They live in North America.
Chytridiomycosis is a disease that can kill amphibians, for example frogs. A fungus causes it. THe chytrid fungus "Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis" causes the disease. The animals can catch it from each other. Chytridiomycosis one reason why there are fewer amphibians on Earth than there were. The fungus has decreased the amphibian population by 30% worldwide. Many spcies are now extict because they died of chitridiomycosis. In some species, only a few animals die, but in other species, they all die. This is called 100% mortality. There is no cure.
Peltobatrachus (from Greek pelte, meaning shield and batrakhos, meaning frog) is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibians from the late Permian period of Tanzania. They were large and slow-moving animals. They reached 70 centimeters (2.3 ft) in length. They were terrestrial amphibians. They only went back to the water to lay their eggs. They eat insects, worms and snails.
A terrestrial animal is an animal that lives on land such as dog, cat, an ant or an emu. It can also be used for some species of amphibians that only go back to the water to lay their eggs. It is usually a term to describe the difference between animals that live in water, (such as lobsters and fish), from animals that live on land.
The genre known as Spy-fi is a cross-over between the genres of spy fiction and science fiction. The story usually involves a spy with advanced technological weapons or gadgets, and sometimes the villain is a mad scientist or evil genius with robots or advanced technological weapons and gadgets. The film and novel series "James Bond" was a popularizer of the genre, as well as such TV shows as The Man from UNCLE, , and I Spy.
Amanda Marshall (born August 29, 1972) is a Canadian pop-rock singer. Her self-titled first record was in 1995. It was a major success in Canada. Her most successful single was "Birmingham". Marshall has released many singles. She has not had a studio album since around 2001.
Pentathletes is a painting on an ancient Greek terracotta drinking cup from Athens. It is said to be the work of the Carpenter Painter. It is dated about 510500 BC. The cup measures 4 5/16 x 15 x 13 3/16 in. In the circular painting (tondo) at the bottom of the bowl of the cup, a youth pulls an older man to him for a kiss. The outside of the cup depicts bearded men and youths exercising with discus and javelin. A youth in a long robe plays music. The pictures reflect the interests of the aristocrats who would have used such a cup at a drinking party.
The Carpenter Painter was a red-figure vase painter. He worked in Athens. He was active between 515 and 500 BC. He chiefly painted cups. His real name is unknown. "Carpenter Painter" is taken from his depiction of a carpenter at work on a cup in the British Museum. Few of his works are known. The way he painted nipples, pectorals, hands, garments, and other details identify his work.
O'Toole was born on 2 August 1932 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Cerastes is a genus of small venomous vipers growing up to the length of around 50 cm. There are currently three species found. They are usually known as the ""Horned Vipers"", the ""North African Desert Vipers"", or the ""Cerastes Vipers"".
Yu Kil-chun was born in Kwangju. In his early years he studied under Park Kyu-su and Oh Kyung-suk. As a young man in 1881, he went to Meiji Japan to study at Keio University. He then went to the United States in 1884 to study mathematics. After that, he was accused of supporting the "Gaehwadang" (enlightenment party). He was arrested and put in jail from 1885 to 1894.
Katherine Esther Jackson (born May 4, 1930 as Kattie B. Screws) is the matriarch of the Jackson family of musicians and singers, including Michael Jackson, La Toya and Janet Jackson. She is the widow of Joe Jackson.
Jackson had 10 children. Several of the children became famous. In 1986 "Essence" honored her as "Mother of the Year".
In 1990, Jackson released her autobiography, "My Family". The book told about her elderly years and her relationship with her husband and their children.
The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which turns the contents (text or images) into a bitmap, then the bitmap is sent through the telephone system. The receiving fax machine reconverts the coded image, printing a paper copy.
Audrey Meadows (born February 8 1922; died February 3 1996) was an American actress. She was best known for her role as Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy "The Honeymooners". She was born in New York City by the name Audrey Cotter. Meadows died as a result of lung cancer on February 3, 1996, five days before her 74th birthday.
She was in many stage plays, movies, and television programs. She won eight Primetime Emmy Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award. She was a vegetarian. Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Neue Kirche (; colloquially , meaning "German Cathedral"), is in Berlin. It is on the Gendarmenmarkt across from the "French Church". The Lutheran and Calvinist congregants used German as their native language. This is different than the French-speaking Calvinist congregation who owned the on the opposite side of Gendarmenmarkt. The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower gave the church its colloquial naming.
The Pacific tree frog ("Pseudacris regilla") is a species of tree frog. They live on the West Coast of North America. This includes California, Oregon and Washington in the United States, and British Columbia in Canada. They live on the ground, but some have been found living in places 10,000 feet above sea level. They are the only frogs to make a "ribbit" sound. Human beings also brought it to Ketchikan, Alaska.
This frog is small. The adult frog is 3/4 of an inch to 2 inches long from nose to rear end. It has a stripe near each eye. Sometimes there is a mark in the shape of a triangle on its head and dark marks on the legs. The frog's main body can be gray, green, light brown, brown, or black. in color. This frog can change color. It can be dark in color with no spots, then medium in color with spots, then light in color with no spots. It takes the frog about 8 to 10 minutes to change from dark to light. This frog has large disks on its toes for climbing and webbed skin on its back feet.
This frog eats insects: leaf-hoppers, spring-tails, flies, stoneflies, ants, wasps, beetles, and caterpillars. It can also eat spiders, snails, and isopods.
This frog moves around at night but it does sometimes move during the day. It can climb trees but it spends most of its time on the ground.
The female frog lays 5 to 60 eggs at a time in bodies of water at least 4 inches deep. The eggs sometimes stick to twigs or other things underwater. The tadpoles are about 45 mm long. They are black or yellow-brown in color with a white or near-white belly.
The Texas toad ("Bufo speciosus") is a species of toads. They are very small only reaching three inches. They live in the United States in the state of Texas. But they are also found in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Mexico.
The cane toad ("Bufo marinus") is a species of toad. They are also known as the marine toad or the giant neotropical toad.
Cane toads are terrestrial amphibians. This means that they only go back to the water to lay their eggs. They live in Central America and South America. However, they have been introduced to Australia, Oceania in general and the Caribbean.
The first cane toads were brought into Queensland by Reginald Mungomery, an entomologist. Before 1935, Australia had no toads. The entire continent, full of various frog species, had no toads. Tough and always moving into new areas, the cane toads started reproducing and expanding outwards every wet season. This "invasion front" moved around 10 km a year until the 1960s, when it began speeding up significantly.
Ibis flip the toads about, throwing them in the air. After this they either wipe the toads in the wet grass, or they go down to a water source and rinse the toads out.
The parotoid gland is a skin gland on the back, neck and shoulder of toads and some frogs and salamanders. It secretes a substance that predators can smell. This smell will tell them that they are toxic animals. The substance, bufotoxin, acts as a neurotoxin.
Mole salamander
Mole salamanders are member of the genus "Ambystoma". They are a group of animals that live in North America. They are the only genus in the family Ambystomatidae. The Axolotl ("Ambystoma mexicanum") is a popular exotic pet. They are also used in research. The Tiger Salamander ("Ambystoma tigrinum") is an official amphibian of many US states. They are also sold as pets.
Lungless salamander
The Plethodontidae is a family of lungless salamanders. They are the largest groups of salamanders. They probably evolved in North America, where there are 14 genera and about 150 species. Only one species is in Europe: it is "Speleomantes", the cave salamander.
Most of them are terrestrial and are active in daytime. Lungless salamanders may communicate with their nose. Slender salamanders are found in the Pacific Coast. They are sometimes called "worm salamanders". This is because they have slimmer (skinny) bodies than most salamanders. If touched, slender salamanders will bounce on the ground and then run away.
Irritation in biology is a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell damage. The skin and the eyes may turn red.
The Chinese fire belly newt ("Cynops orientalis") is a species of newts. They are small and will reach up to 2.2-4 inches (6-10 cm). They are black and have bright orange colors on their front side. They are commonly found in pet stores. They are sometimes confused with the Japanese fire belly newt. This is because of their small size and colors. However, the Chinese fire belly newt has smoother skin and a rounder tail than the Japanese Fire Belly Newt.
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Ichthyophis beddomei is a species of caecilians. They are sometimes called Beddome's caecilian. They are part of the family Inchthyophiidae. They have a dark violet-brown body. They have yellow stripes from their head to their tail. Their upper lip and lower jaw are yellow. They live in Western Ghats.
Agalychnis callidryas, commonly known as the red-eyed tree frog, is a species of tree frogs.
The Common frog ("Rana temporaria") is a species of frog. They are also known as the European Common Frog or the European Common Brown Frog. They live in Europe, the Arctic Circle, Scandinavia, Urals, Iberia, Italy, Balkans and Ireland. They are an introduced species in most countries.
It is usually dark gray, brown or black. Others can have silver or blue spots on their sides. These salamanders are very skinny with a wide nose and long toes. They can reach up to 11 to 18 cm.
The California giant salamander ("Dicamptodon ensatus") is a species of salamanders. They are part of the family Dicamptodontidae. They live in California and western United States. They are related to the Idaho giant salamander, Pacific giant salamander and the Coastal giant salamander.
He was born in Beijing, China and grew up in Yokohama, Kanagawa. When he was a student of Nihon University College of Art, he was spotted and recruited as a fresh actor by Nikkatsu.
The Smooth Newt is a species of newts. They are also known as the Common Newt. It is the most common newt species of the "Lissotriton" genus of amphibians. They live in Europe, southern France and the Iberian peninsula.
The Midwife toad ("Alytes") is a genus of frogs. They part of the Discoglossidae family. They live in most of Europe and northwestern Africa. They look like toads because of their hard skin. They get their name because they take care of their young on their backs. They help them from not being eaten from hungry animals. When they hatch the frog will go back to the water and allow them to swim away.
Van Dyke's salamander ("Plethodon vandykei") is a species of salamanders. They are part of the family Plethodontidae. These salamanders have been used in research studies.
Potamogeton is a genus of aquatic plants. They live in freshwater such as ponds and lakes. They part of the family Potamogentonaceae. Their common name is pondweed. The genus name means "river neighbor". They are also a food source for many fish and algae eaters.
Filter feeders are animals that feed on matter and food particles from water. Some animals that do this are clams, krill, sponges, baleen whales and many fish such as sharks. Some birds such as flamingos are also filter feeders. Filter feeders can help clear water.
Surinam horned frog
Balgo is a small community in Western Australia. It is surrounded by the Great Sandy Desert and the Tanami Desert. It is an Aboriginal community; the area is traditionally Kukatja country. There are also some Pintupi families living there, who were displaced in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of them came to live here from Papunya, including some of the original artists of the Papunya Tula movement. Many of them later left Balgo when Kintore and Kiwirrkurra were set up in the 1980s. In 2006, Balgo had about 460 people living there.
Kottabos Player is an Attic red-figure terracotta kylix said to have been painted by someone close to the Kleophrades Painter. It dates to the Greek Archaic period, about 500 BC. The kylix's height with handles is 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm) and its width with handles is 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm).
The diameter of the bowl is 7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm). The kylix is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The figure is a symposiast playing a party game called kottabos. He is about to fling the last of the wine in his cup at a lamp stand in an attempt to knock the lamp stand's finial off. The winner was he who did so.
The Kleophrades Painter was a red-figure Athenian vase painter. His real name is unknown. His name is taken from a potter's signature on a vase. He was active from about 510470 BC. His work is considered some of the finest of the red figure style. He was probably the pupil of Euthymides, one of the red-figure Pioneers. His work is identified by its stylistic traits. He was very productive. More than 100 vases of his work have survived. He worked in both black- and red- figure styles and techniques. He was conservative, often using old-fashioned techniques. His subjects were traditional but with a emphasis on the Trojan War. He preferred painting large vessels such as amphores.
Kottabos () was a party game played at symposia in Ancient Greece. It was popular in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. It was also popular with the Etruscans. The game is played by flinging a bit of wine from one's cup at targets. The player would utter the name of his lover. The game was probably of Sicilian origin but spread throughout the Greek world. Many Greek poets mention the game in their works. By the time of the Roman Empire and the Age of Alexander the Great, the game had died out. It is not mentioned in Latin literature.
A symposium (plural: symposia) was a drinking party in Ancient Greece. Guests were males. Well bred women did not attend. Boys or slave girls served the food and drink, danced, juggled, played music, or otherwise entertained the assembly. These servers were usually nude. The symposium was an aristocratic institution often held to celebrate a young man's entry into adult society, an athletic victory, or a poetic achievement. It was an occasion for male conversation and debate. Party-goers reclined on couches and pillows. Guests played a game called kottabos, wrestled, and held song contests. A symposium is described in Plato's "The Symposium". The party is attended by Socrates and the young, drunken, and nearly nude Alcibiades.
Knight was born in Orrville, Ohio. He studied at Ohio State University.
He was praised for having a clean program. None of his teams was ever sanctioned by the NCAA for any recruitment violations. He did, however, attracted some controversy for throwing a chair across the courts during a game. He was once arrested for assault. He was fired from Indiana in September 2000.
Knight died in Bloomington, Indiana on November 1, 2023, one week after his 83rd birthday.
In June 2021, Tyler said he was diagnosed with stage-4 prostate cancer back in 2018. He died from the disease at his Los Angeles, California home on October 24, 2021 at the age of 59.
The Saw-scaled Vipers are a small group of snakes, with adults growing up to the length of 90 cm (36 in). Its head is short, wide and pear-shaped, its snout is short and round, and it has large eyes.
The school received its first international recognition at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a Gold Medal in recognition of quality education. During the years of the Spanish Civil War, Valldemia was converted into a hospital and blood bank.
Pierce the Veil is a rock band from San Diego, California, United States. It was formed in 2006 by brothers Mike and Vic Fuentes after their last band, Before Today, broke up. Jaime Preciado plays the bass and Tony Perry plays the guitar. The band has made five albums.
Pierce the Veil was created by two brothers named Mike and Vic Fuentes in 2006, after their last band, Before Today, broke up. They joined a label called Equal Vision Records and made their first album, "A Flair for the Dramatic". It was recorded in Seattle, Washington and released in 2007.
Jaime Preciado and Tony Perry joined the band in 2007, and then they started touring.
In 2009, the band revealed they were working on a new album, recorded in Los Angeles. The album, "Selfish Machines", came out on June 21, 2010. They did concerts around the world to promote it.
On August 23, 2011, Pierce the Veil joined the label. They wrote a new album in 2011 and recorded it in early 2012. The new album was announced on April 20, 2012 and it was called "Collide with the Sky". It was released on July 17, 2012. The first single from the album was called "King for a Day" featuring Kellin Quinn and it was released on June 5, 2012.
In September 2013, the band announced their first film, "This Is a Wasteland", which is a documentary about their 2012 and 2013 concerts. It was released on November 25, 2013.
On July 23, 2013, Pierce the Veil and Sleeping with Sirens announced a world tour together. It began in 2014 and ended in 2015.
On June 18, 2015, the band released a song called "The Divine Zero", from their upcoming fourth album.
On March 18, 2016, it was announced the band's fourth album would be called "Misadventures" and it would be released on May 13. The album was produced by Dan Korneff. The band released another song called "Texas Is Forever" on March 24, 2016.
In November 2017, a young woman claimed that the band's drummer, Mike Fuentes, had asked her for nude photos over Myspace and had sex with her multiple times after their concerts. Fuentes was 24 years old and the woman was 16, so she was not old enough to legally consent to sex in the United States. She said their sexual relationship continued until she was 18.
A month later, another anonymous woman came out against him. She said they met at a concert when she was 14 and he had asked for nude photos of her when she was 15.
Mike Fuentes left the band after this and the band took a break.
In July 2018, Vic Fuentes said the band was working on a new album.
In April 2020, the band posted a rehearsal session including Mike Fuentes, who had left the band before. In August 2020, the band said again that Mike Fuentes was not part of the group.
On September 1, 2022, the band released a song called "Pass the Nirvana". On November 11, 2022, the band released another song called "Emergency Contact" and said they would come out with a new album on February 10, 2023 called "The Jaws of Life."
Gangster Squad is a 2013 movie about the Mafia. It stars Emma Stone and Nick Nolte. This crime picture was to have been released in September, 2012. After the 2012 Aurora shooting certain scenes had to be removed and this caused a delay. The movie has been released January 11, 2013 by Warner Bros.
Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux; October 28, 1987), known professionally as Frank Ocean, is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. He was born in Long Beach, California and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana when he was five. Ocean made an early career as a ghostwriter for artists such as Brandy, Justin Bieber, Beyonce, and John Legend. In 2010, he became a member of Odd Future. His first mixtape, "Nostalgia, Ultra", was released in 2011.
In August 2016, Ocean released his second studio album, "Blonde".
The fish is thought to have lived at the same time as dinosaurs. It may have lived as long as 140 million years ago. Because of that, it is sometimes called a living fossil. It is an animal carefully protected by the Chinese government. It is named a "national treasure" much like the Giant Panda.
Luca Signorelli (probably born in 1441 or 1445, died 16 October 1523 in Corona, Italy) was an Italian painter. He was also called Luca d'Egidio di Ventura and Luca da Cortona. He is one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in Italy. He was good at painting perspective. One of the techniques he used is called "foreshortening" - with it a distance appears shorter than it actually is, because the object painted is shown at an angle. From 1499 to 1503, he painted a series of frescoes in Orvieto Cathedral, called "the Last Judgement". This is what he is remembered for most.
CGI is an abbreviation, that can stand for:
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is using computer graphics, especially in movies. These images are used for special effects, simulation, and commercials, amongst others. Sometimes the technology is used to produce a static background, which is then merged into the image; at other times it is used to produce animations in 2D or 3D. In its broadest sense, a computer- generated image (CGI) can be defined as any image that is created with the use of a computer- based processor or program. Because computers are widely used, both in image generating and in image processing, these images are pervasive- from billboard advertisements to film productions and photography.
Donna Lewis (born August 6th 1973) is a Welsh singer who is best known for her hit single "I Love You Always Forever". She released her first two albums under Atlantic Records although she now has an independent label. Lewis was born in Wales.
Brain Stew, A.K.A. Jaded is a song by the punk rock band Green Day. The song was on their fourth studio album "Insomniac" in the year 1995.
Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968) is an American singer and songwriter. Her songs include "Where Have all the Cowboys Gone?". Cole was born in the Boston area. She received a Grammy Award for "Best New Artist" in 1998 and released more albums over the years.
Atropoides is a genus of venomous Pit vipers found in Mexico and Central America. There are currently three species found. Atropoides are also known as the ""Jumping Pit vipers"" or the ""Jumping Vipers"".
Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is a singer-songwriter and a musician. She began her career in the 1980s, though it was not until 1997 that she became mainstream: her song "Sunny Came Home" (from her album "A Few Small Repairs") was number one on the "Billboard" Adult Pop Songs chart in August 1997. Colvin released more records during the late 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor, July 12, 1951 in Huron, South Dakota) is an American actress. Ladd is known for many television series and many movies. She is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in "Charlie's Angels". She was with the show until 1981.
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Chicago Board of Trade Building is currently the 37th tallest building in Chicago. It stands , and has 44 floors. The building has a faceless statue of Ceres (goddess of agriculture) as a reference to the exchange's heritage as a commodity market.
The wood frog ("Rana sylvatica") is a species of frog. It is part of the family Ranidae. It lives in North America and is the state amphibian of New York. The wood frog hibernates during winter.
The desert froglet ("Crinia deserticola") is a species of frog. They are part of the Myobatrachidae family. They live in Australia. They live in savannas and deserts.
The Moor Frog, Wolterstorff's Frog, Swedish swamp frog, Siberian frog, or Altai swamp frog ("Rana arvalis") is a species of frog. It is part of the family Ranidae. It lives in many parts of Europe and Asia, as far north as Siberia. It is skinny, reddish-brown and semi-aquatic amphibians.
The California tree frog ("Pseudacris cadaverina") is a species of tree frogs is a frog that live in California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. They often look like stones because of their skin which helps them to camouflage. They have webbed feet and their skin is rough and looks like warts. They can reach up to 2.9 to 5 cm long.
The Foothill yellow-legged frog ("Rana boylii") is a species of frogs. They are part of the "Rana" genus in the Ranidae family. They are small frogs only reaching 3.72-8.2 cm long. They are found in northern Oregon, California and Baja California in Mexico.
Dendrobatoidea is a superfamily of frogs. There are two family of frogs.
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Williams syndrome is a rare development problem. It is characterized by a distinct "elfin" facial appearance, strong language skills and cardiovascular troubles. There is a degree of low intelligence tied to Williams syndrome. There are also language and motor skills delays.
Winkler is Jewish and has dyslexia.
Judd was married to Michael Ciminella from 1964 to 1972. She married Larry Strickland in 1989.
Naomi was the mother of Christina Ciminella (aka Wynonna Judd) and Ashley. Ashley is an American movie and stage actress. Naomi and daughter Wynonna formed a successful country singing duo called The Judds. That group ended after Naomi was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1990. Judd was also a writer.
After her last tour, Judd had depression, anxiety, panic attacks, edema, baldness, tremors and suicidal thoughts.
Judd shot herself on April 30, 2022 in Franklin, Tennessee at the age of 76. She had mental health issues such as depression. The day after her death, The Judds were honored into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Farnaz Ghazizadeh (; born December 3, 1974 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian journalist, blogger, and BBC Persian Television presenter. She has been involved in BBC Persian Television.
A spear thrower is a wooden tool used for throwing spears. It gives the human arm more leverage to build up the spear's velocity. This gives the spear more force and makes it go faster. Spear throwers were used in many civilisations. It was used by the Aztecs, who called it an "atlatl". It is also used by Aboriginals in Australia, where it has become most widely known as a "woomera" (the Dharuk name for it).