The olive water-holding frog, spotted collared frog or Daly Waters frog ("Ranoidea maculosa") is a frog from Australia. Scientists have only seen it in one place in the Northern Territory, with a few on the other side of the border in Queensland. This place is called Daly Waters.
This frog is 5.0 cm long. Most of the skin on its back is pale but it has very dark black marks.
Eastern racer
The eastern racer ("Coluber constrictor") is a type of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. It only lives in North America and Central America.
Eastern racers usually grow up to 50 to 152 cm (20 to 60 in) in length. They usually weigh around 556 g (1.226 lb). Its color can range from black, bluish, gray, to olive brown.
It is found throughout the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. It is also found north into Canada and south into Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize.
It is usually found near water, but it can also be found in bushes, trash piles, roadsides, and swamps. It spends most of its time on the ground. But, it is a good climber. It may be found in shrubs and trees where there are bird nests.
Most of the eastern racers like open, grassland habitats where their eyesight and speed can be used. They are usually not far from a place to hide.
They mainly eat small rodents, frogs, toads, lizards, and other snakes. Some subspecies are known to climb trees to eat eggs and young birds. Young eastern racers usually insects with soft bodies, such as crickets and moths. They overcome moving prey by wrapping into one or two coils pressing its prey to hold it so that it can swallow it alive.
The eastern racers are fast, very active, diurnal snakes. Eastern racers are curious snakes. They have very good vision. They are sometimes seen raising their heads above the grass where they are crawling to see what is around them. They usually run away from a predator. They are hard to hold and will poop, and release a bad smelling liquid from their cloacae.
It mates in the spring from April until early June. The female lays three to 30 eggs in a hidden nest, such as a hollow log, an abandoned rodent burrow, or under a rock. The young ones hatch in the early fall. They reach maturity when they are around 2 years old.
Sheykh Jabrail
Sheykh Jabrail (, also Romanized as Sheykh Jabra’īl and Sheykh Jabr’īl; also known as Chekān-e Mansūrī, Shaikh Jarwāil, and Sheykh Jarvā’īl) is a village in Gowavar Rural District, Govar District, Gilan-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 106, in 24 families.
Structural functionalism
Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is a way of making a theory that sees society as a complex system. The parts of this system work together to keep society stable and its people happy.
Lorenz cipher
The Lorenz cipher was the German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. This machine and its messages were eventually worked out by the team at Bletchley Park during World War II.
British cryptanalysts (codebreakers) worked out its logical structure three years before they saw the machine.
Ignatius Sancho
Ignatius Sancho was an African born around 1729 on a slave ship. Towards the end of his extraordinary life, he became a British citizen and was eligible to vote in the parliamentary election of 1774, and then again in 1780.
The details of his early life are not certain. He was born on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic. The ship went to the Spanish colonies in Central America. His parents did not survive long, and he became orphaned. His owner took him to London, and he eventually came to live with John Montague, 2nd Duke of Montagu and Mary, Duchess of Montagu. Sancho worked as her butler until her death in 1751.
While living at Montague House in Blackheath, he educated himself. He enjoyed music, poetry, reading, and writing.
During the 1760s Sancho married a West Indian woman, Anne Osborne. He became a devoted husband and father. They had seven children. Around the time their third child was born, Sancho became a valet to George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (of the second creation), the son-in-law of his earlier patron. He remained there until 1773.
In 1768 Thomas Gainsborough painted a portrait of Sancho at the same time as the Duchess of Montagu sat for her portrait by the artist.
In 1774, with Montague's help, he became a shopkeeper in Mayfair. He sold tobacco, sugar and tea, all of which were connected with the slave trade. As a male householder living in Mayfair, he was eligible to vote. He also wrote letters in newspapers, under his own name and under the pseudonym "Africanus". He supported the monarchy and British forces in the American Revolutionary War.
Sancho had many well-known visitors at his shop, including statesman and abolitionist Charles James Fox PC (1749–1806). Fox steered a resolution through Parliament pledging it to abolish the slave trade. A Foreign Slave Trade Bill in Spring 1806 prohibited British subjects from contributing to the trading of slaves with the colonies of Britain's wartime enemies. This cut out two-thirds of the slave trade passing through British ports.
Richard David Precht
Richard David Precht (born December 8, 1964) is a German philosopher and author. "Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele?" ("Who am I – and if so, how many?") is a famous book that was written by him. He has a son. He is for a basic income. He does not like the school system in Germany.
Functionalism
Functionalism may refer to:
Roadkill
Roadkill is any animal that has died on a road because it was hit by a vehicle, for example a deer hit by a car. Vehicles pulled by animals, for example mule carts, did make roadkill, but there was much more roadkill after the invention of the automobile.
In the United States alone, one to two million large animals are killed as roadkill every year and many more small animals.
Most roadkill is caused by cars or trucks.
If the car hits a large animal, for example a deer or elk, it is likely to be damaged. In the United States alone, crashes with deer cause $3.6 billion in damage to cars and other vehicles, 200 deaths each year and many injuries.
Some roadkilled animals are sent to landfills with other garbage, but other bodies are used for scientific experiments, turned into makeup or turned into food for other animals. Some people cook and eat roadkill. Other people make the fur into clothes or other useful things. Some scientists have studied roadkill to see where invasive species have come.
In Alaska, all roadkill belongs to the state. Officers collect the roadkill, bring it to butchers, and bring the meat to charities. In other parts of the United States and in other countries, individual people can get permission to collect roadkill in different ways.
Many governments put up road signs such as "deer crossing" or "panther crossing" signs to tell drivers that there may be animals nearby. Some build fences around roads where cars drive at high speeds. However, then the animals try to cross at the ends of the fences, and they are hit by cars in those places.
Planning new roads so that wild animals can go over or under them from the start is another very good way to prevent roadkill.
Some governments have built wildlife bridges over or underpasses under roads that were already there. In 2009, the local Department of Transportation built fences leading to four culverts on U.S. highway 27, and there were suddenly no roadkilled turtles.
Wakko's Wish
Wakko's Wish or "Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish" is a 1999 animated comedy-fantasy musical adventure family film based on the "Animaniacs". This film was directed by Liz Holzman, Rusty Mills and Tom Ruegger. It was released on July 16, 1999. It was not shown in theaters but instead sold on VHS. This movie about three human-like, dog-like characters, Yakko, Wakko and Dot, wishing on a star. As of 2020, "Wakko's Wish" is streaming on Hulu.