The lagerstätten formed in anoxic conditions in the fine carbonate muds that formed in the lakebeds. Lack of oxygen slowed bacterial decomposition and kept scavengers away. Leaves of palms, ferns and sycamores, some showing the insect damage got during their growth, were covered with fine-grained sediment and preserved. Insects were preserved whole, even delicate wing membranes and spider spinnerets.
The fauna included fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals
Peggy Lee
Norma Egstrom (May 26, 1920 - January 2002) was an American actress and jazz singer. She is better known as Peggy Lee. She acted in many movies. She also wrote the music for them. She sang and acted for six decades. Lee was born in Jamestown, North Dakota.
Hurricane Alex (2010)
Hurricane Alex was a rare June hurricane and the first tropical cyclone of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm first struck near Belize as a tropical storm. After entering the Gulf of Mexico, Alex became a hurricane and struck northeast Mexico; it was the first hurricane in June since Hurricane Allison in 1995. The storm killed 51 people (33 directly) and caused almost $1.9 billion in damage (2010 USD).
Optical gain medium
An optical gain medium (also called an "active laser medium") can make light stronger. In general, gain media must be powered by another energy source in order to have energy to provide as light. Some gain media can be powered using electricity, but many others need light energy from bright flash lamps or a laser. Optical gain media are used in lasers. The first lasers used artificial ruby as their optical gain medium.
Microvillus
Microvillus (plural microvilli) is a very tiny hair-like membrane in the body. The microvillus greatly increase the amount of surface area for a cell. In humans, the microvilli can give a cell 600 times more surface area. They are good for absorbing things and for secreting things. They are found in many places in a human body including the ear, the tongue, the nose and the intestines.
On a tongue, the microvilli are the tiny hairs on the taste buds that send signals to the brain. These signals are interpreted by the brain, and tells the brain what things taste like. Over time, as a person tastes more and more things, the brain stores the information the microvilli send in a databank of information. This databank is used to compare new tastes to old tastes, and help to classify them by comparing and contrasting their qualities.
In the intestines, the microvilli are able to absorb (take) nutrients from the digested food for the body to use.
Languages of the United States
English is the "de facto" national language of the United States, with 82% of the population claiming it as a mother tongue, and some 96% claiming to speak it "well" or "very well". However, no "official language" exists at the Federal level. There have been several proposals to make English the national language in amendments to immigration reform bills, but none of these bills have made a federal language. However, some states have adopted the English language as their official language. On the other hand, a lot of another languages, like Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Finnish, Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Hindi, Mandarin, Hebrew, Cantonese, Chinese, Ukrainian, Navajo, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Portuguese, etc. Are spoken in the United States as second languages.
Judith Miller (journalist)
Judith Miller is an American conservative journalist. She was born January 2, 1948. She worked for the New York Times until retiring from there around November 2005. She later became a contributor to Fox News and then a contributing writer for a conservative magazine called "Newsmax".
Her coverage of Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion generated much controversy. A number of stories she wrote while working for "The New York Times" later turned out to be inaccurate or simply false.<
Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner (born June 28, 1946 - May 20, 1989) was an American actress and comedian. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. She was one of the original cast members of NBC's comedy program "Saturday Night Live" (for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978). She died from ovarian cancer in Los Angeles, California.
She was married to actor Gene Wilder before her death.
September Affair
September Affair is a 1950 musical movie that was produced by Hal B. Wallis and was directed by William Dieterle. The movie was released on October 18, 1950 in North America. The movie received positive reviews and also won a Golden Globe Award in 1951 for Best Original Score.
How to Train Your Dragon (movie)
How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 computer animated fantasy-comedy movie based on the 2003 book of the same name and made by DreamWorks Animation. It was released on March 26, 2010. It received positive reviews with Rotten Tomatoes giving the movie a 98% and Metacritic gave it a 74 out of 100. The movie was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. A sequel, "How to Train Your Dragon 2", was released on June 13, 2014. A third film, "How to Train Your Dragon 3", was released in 2019.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse (born June 20, 1989 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) is an American Actor. He is famous for playing the character "Fogell/McLovin" in the movie, Superbad and "Chris D'Amico/Red Mist" in the movie, Kick-Ass.
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983 in Los Angeles, California) better known as, Jonah Hill is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and comedian. He is notable for playing the character "Seth" in the movie, Superbad. He started his acting career in his first philosophical comedy movie, I Heart Huckabees as Bret.
Cheryl Hines
Cheryl Hines is an American actress and television director. She is most noted for playing Cheryl in the HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm". She was born September 21, 1965, Miami Beach, Florida.
Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry (born 21 January 1947) is an American actress. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Her most well known role was playing Ann Kelsey in "L.A. Law" (1986-1994). She appeared in many television movies in the 1980s.
Kids Help Line
The Kids Helpline is a counselling service in Australia for people who are between 5 and 25 years old. Children & young people ring Kids Helpline to speak about problems in their lives. These problems range from fighting with friends and breaking up with a partner to suicidal thoughts and being hurt or abused.
The Kids Helpline employs about 110 people to work as counsellors. The call centres are based in Brisbane so all the calls that people make to the Kids Helpline go through to a call centre in Brisbane. These counsellors listen to nearly 6,000 calls from young people each week.
The Kids Helpline is run by yourtown. Most of the money needed for it to run is raised through lotteries held by yourtown. The Australian Government also helps by giving some money. Optus is their biggest sponsor.
Kids Helpline was opened for taking calls on the 25 March 1991. On the first day more than 3,200 young people rang up to ask for help. By the 17th day, 122,000 thousand calls had been made. Not many of these calls were able to be answered. After a year of been open for people to call the Kids Helpline had answered 75,000 calls.
Kids Helpline was added into different states one at a time. In 1993 it was open into the whole nation of Australia. In 1999 "Email Counselling" was offered for the first time and in May 2000 "Web Counselling" was offered for the first time.
Since the first call was taken in 1991, the Kids Helpline has been contacted more than 7.5 million (7,500,000) times.