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Donald Caspar 
 He is an emeritus professor of biological science at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, and an emeritus professor of biology at the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University.
Roscoe Bartlett 
 At the end of his tenure in Congress, Bartlett was the second-oldest serving member of the House of Representatives, behind only fellow Republican Ralph Hall of Texas.
Pack hunter 
 A pack hunter or social predator is a predator belonging to the animal kingdom, which has evolved to hunt its prey by working together with other members of its species.
Pack hunter 
 Except where only males normally hunt (humans and chimpanzees), all individuals in a family group will contribute to hunting.
Pack hunter 
 These include the Harris's hawk, butcherbirds, three of four kookaburra species and many helmetshrikes.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The Abu Simbel temples are two very large rock temples built by the ancient Egyptians, at Abu Simbel.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The temples were cut into solid rock in side of a cliff during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC.
Abu Simbel temples 
 It was a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari, to remember his victory at the Battle of Kadesh.
Abu Simbel temples 
 They would have been flooded by water from Lake Nasser which was formed by the building of a dam on the Nile River.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The temple was forgotten until 1813, when Jean-Louis Burckhardt saw the top frieze of the main temple.
Abu Simbel temples 
 He told Italian explorer Giovanni Belzoni, who went to the site, but was unable to dig out an entry to the temple.
Abu Simbel temples 
 Details of the temples, with drawings, are in Edward William Lane's Description of Egypt (1825-1828).
Abu Simbel temples 
 Tour guides at the temples tell a story that "Abu Simbel" was a young local boy who took Burckhardt and Belzoni to see the buried temple.
Abu Simbel temples 
 In 1959 an international campaign was started to raise money to save the temples from being flooded by water from the new Aswan High Dam.
Abu Simbel temples 
 One plan put forward was to build a dam around the temples to keep the water at the same level as the river.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The moving of the temple began in 1964, with archaeologists, engineers and workers coming from all over the world as a UNESCO project.
Abu Simbel temples 
 These blocks were lifted and put back together on a new site 65 meters higher, and 200 meters further back from the river.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The smaller temple was built for the goddess Hathor, who is shown as Nefertari, Ramesses's favourite of his many wives.
Abu Simbel temples 
 It was built for the gods Amun, Ra-Horakhty, and Ptah, as well as for Rameses himself, who was treated as a god.
Abu Simbel temples 
 It is one the grandest and most beautiful temples from the time of Rameses II, and one of the most beautiful in Egypt.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The facade of the temple has four 20 meter tall statues of the pharaoh with the double Atef crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Abu Simbel temples 
 All statues show Ramesses II, seated on a throne and wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Abu Simbel temples 
 These show Nefertari, Ramesses's chief wife, and queen mother Mut-Tuy, his first two sons Amun-her-khepeshef, Ramesses, and his first six daughters Bintanath, Baketmut, Nefertari, Meritamen, Nebettawy and Isetnofret.
Abu Simbel temples 
 Above the entrance is a bas-relief with two images of the king praising the falcon-headed Ra Harakhti.
Abu Simbel temples 
 This god is holding the hieroglyph meaning user and a feather in his right hand, with Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice, in his left.
Abu Simbel temples 
 A stele  on the facade records the marriage of Ramesses with a daughter of king Hattusili III, which sealed the peace between Egypt and the Hittites.
Abu Simbel temples 
 These show Ramesses as a god, with Osiris (Orion), the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life and vegetation, to indicate the everlasting nature of the pharaoh.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The big statues along the left-hand wall have the white crown of Upper Egypt, while those on the opposite side are wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt (pschent).
Abu Simbel temples 
 They show the Battle of Kadesh, on the Orontes river, in present-day Syria, where Ramesses fought against the Hittites.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The most famous image shows the king on his chariot shooting arrows against his enemies, who are being taken prisoner.
Abu Simbel temples 
 On a back wall are rock cut sculptures of four seated figures: Ra-Horakhty, Ramesses (as a god), and the gods Amun Ra and Ptah.
Abu Simbel temples 
 Ra-Horakhty, Amun Ra and Ptah were the main gods during this time and their cult centers were at Heliopolis, Thebes and Memphis respectively.
Abu Simbel temples 
 It is believed that the temple was positioned so that on October 22 and February 22, light from the sun would reach the sanctuary.
Abu Simbel temples 
 This would light up the sculptures on the back wall, except for the statue of Ptah, the god linked with the Underworld, who always remained in the dark.
Abu Simbel temples 
 It makea sense that these dates had some relation to a great event, such as the 30th anniversary of the pharaoh's rule.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The image of the king would get energy from the sun, and Ramesses the Great could take his place next to Amun Ra and Ra-Horakhty.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The dates have changed by one day because of the movement of the Tropic of Cancer in the last 3280 years.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The facade is cut into solid rock, with two groups of very large statues on either side of the large gateway.
Abu Simbel temples 
 On the sides of the entrance are two statues of the king, one wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt and the other with double crown.
Abu Simbel temples 
 Usually the statues of the queens stand next to those of the pharaoh, but were never taller than his knees.
Abu Simbel temples 
 On the south side they are (facing them from left to right), princes Meryatum and Meryre, princesses Meritamen and Henuttawy, and princes Rahirwenemef and Amun-her-khepeshef.
Abu Simbel temples 
 They show scenes with the queen playing the sinistrum (an instrument sacred to the goddess Hathor), together with the gods Horus, Khnum, Khonsu, and Thoth, and the goddesses Hathor, Isis, Maat, Mut of Asher, Satis and Taweret.
Abu Simbel temples 
 On the south and the north walls of this room there are scenes of the king and his wife giving papyrus plants to Hathor.
Abu Simbel temples 
 On the west wall, Ramesses II and Nefertari are shown making offerings to god Horus and the gods of the Cataracts — Satis, Anubis and Khnum.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The sanctuary has bas-reliefs on the side walls with scenes of offerings to various gods made either by the pharaoh or the queen.
Abu Simbel temples 
 On the back wall, there is a niche in which Hathor, as a divine cow, seems to be coming out of the mountain.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The Pharaoh should be the only celebrant in daily religious ceremonies performed in different temples throughout Egypt.
Abu Simbel temples 
 Reading, writing, engineering, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, space measurement, time calculations, were all part of this learning.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The priests of Heliopolis, for example, became guardians of sacred knowledge and were seen as wise men.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The main temple was used in Shusei Nagaoka's cover illustration for Earth, Wind & Fire's 1977 album All 'N All.
Abu Simbel temples 
 Team America mistakenly blows up the temple when they miss fleeing terrorists in Team America: World Police (2004).
Abu Simbel temples 
 The temple can be seen in the background of the city-planet of Coruscant when Queen Amidala's ship first arrives in Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace.
Abu Simbel temples 
 In Anne Michaels' second novel The Winter Vault the relocation of Abu Simbel is one of the main themes.
Abu Simbel temples 
 In the video game TimeSplitters, the entrance to the tomb in the first level – "1935 Tomb" – looks like Abu Simbel.
Abu Simbel temples 
 The 1985 computer game Abu Simbel Profanation written by Dinamic Software and released by Gremlin Graphics in the UK, has gameplay based around the temples and Egyptian setting.
Abu Simbel temples 
 In the book by Matthew Reilly - The Six Sacred Stones, the lead character - Captain Jack West Jr., leads an expedition to the temple to find the First Vertex, and to place a "Piller" in said Vertex.
Abu Simbel temples 
 - Highly detailed article describing the process of saving and creating a new location for the temples.
Arch bridge 
 Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust held by the abutments at either side.
Arch bridge 
 A number were also segmental arch bridges (such as Alconétar Bridge), meaning it has a curved arch that is less than a semicircle.
Arch bridge 
 Generally, Roman bridges had wedge-shaped primary arch stones (called voussoirs) of the same in size and shape.
Arch bridge 
 In the first compression arch bridges, a keystone in the middle of the bridge bore the weight of the rest of the bridge.
Arch bridge 
 Masonry arch bridges use fill material (typically compacted rubble) above the arch in order to increase this dead-weight on the bridge.
Arch bridge 
 From these, the foundation piers are erected or raised to the height of the intended base of the arches.
Arch bridge 
 For that reason it is necessary either that all arches of the bridge be raised at the same time, or that very wide piers be used.
Arch bridge 
 The thrust from the end arches is taken into the earth by substantial (vertical) footings at the canyon walls.
Arch bridge 
 They may form two outer walls, known as the spandrels, which are then infilled with appropriate loose material and rubble.
Arch bridge 
 They were originally built of stone or brick but these days are built of reinforced concrete or steel.
Arch bridge 
 Instead of pushing straight down, the load of an arch bridge is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the supports at each end.
Arch bridge 
 These supports, called the abutments, carry the load and keep the ends of the bridge from spreading out.
Striped hyaena 
 It is native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Striped hyaena 
 It is listed by the IUCN as near threatened, and the global population may be under 10,000 mature individuals.
Striped hyaena 
 It is the smallest of its genus and has many primitive viverrid characteristics which are lost in the larger species.
Striped hyaena 
 It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, where it is referred to as tzebua or zevoa, though the species is absent in some English translations.
Béziers 
 It is a subprefecture of the department and also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.
Béziers 
 The Romans refounded the city as a new place for veterans in 36–35 BC and called it Colonia Julia Baeterrae Septimanorum.
Béziers 
 Béziers was a Languedoc stronghold of Catharism, which the Catholic Church condemned as heretical and which Catholic forces exterminated in the Albigensian Crusade.
Béziers 
 The city is in the southeastern of the department, in the plain of Hérault (the plaine héraultoise).
Béziers 
 The commune has an area of , the largest commune in the department, and is at an altitude of about  above sea level.
Béziers 
 The commune of Béziers is surrounded by the communes Boujan-sur-Libron, Maraussan, Lignan-sur-Orb, Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, Corneilhan, Sauvian, Colombiers, Cers, Montady, Maureilhan, Bassan and Vendres.
Béziers 
 The climate of Béziers, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csa - Mediterranean climate with hot summers.
Béziers 
 The inhabitants of Béziers are known, in French, as Biterrois (women: Biterroises), from Baeterrae, the Latin name of the city.
Béziers 
 Béziers forms with other four communes the urban area of Béziers with a population of 89,243 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
Béziers 
 This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Béziers, formed by 40 communes with a population of 168,960 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .
Béziers 
 Béziers is a subprefecture of the Hérault department, the capital of the arrondissement of Béziers and the administrative centre () of three cantons: Béziers-1, Béziers-2 and Béziers-3.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 The two listed historical monuments are the Saint-Thomas-de-Canterbury collegiate church and the Porte de Paris.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 The first one goes back to its oldest elements in the 12th century, when the city prospered under the guidance of the Dukes of Valois.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 During 10th century, the first lords of Crépy fortified the area, this rocky promontory overlooking the streams of Taillandiers and Sainte- Agathe.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 The castrum didn't stop developing since then: firstly under the impetus of the Counts of Amiens Valois, who founded the Abbey Saint Arnoul in 1008, then with the Counts of Vermandois, particularly Philip d'Alsace and his wife Elizabeth who founded in 1182 in the suburbs a collegiate dedicated to Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, who was assassinated in his cathedral.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 Prosperity settled thanks to the pilgrimages and grew even after 1213, the date of the reattachment of Valois to the French crown.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 Thereafter, it became an administrative center of the canton, arrondissement of Senlis, department of Oise.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 The arrival of the railroad facilitated the establishment of prosperous industries and therefore the installation of a workforce.
Crépy-en-Valois 
 The wars of 1914 and 1939 wounded city by multiple bombings; but the successive mayors knew how to look after and maintain the city's dignity and dynamism.
Fossa 
 It is a member of the Eupleridae, a family of carnivorans closely related to the mongoose family (Herpestidae).
Fossa 
 However, other traits suggest a close relationship with viverrids (most civets and their relatives).
Fossa 
 Its classification influenced thought about how many times mammalian carnivores had colonized Madagascar.
Fossa 
 Genetic studies now show that the fossa and all other Malagasy carnivores are closely related to each other: they are a clade, the family Eupleridae.
Fossa 
 The fossa is the largest mammalian carnivore on the island of Madagascar and has been compared to a small cougar.
Fossa 
 It has semiretractable claws and flexible ankles that allow it to climb up and down trees head-first, and they can jump from tree to tree.
Fossa 
 Sexual maturity occurs around three to four years of age, and life expectancy in captivity is 20 years.
Péronne, Somme 
 The Museum of the Great War (known in French as the Historial de la Grande Guerre) is located in the château.
Ottoman architecture 
 It was also influenced by Islamic Mamluk traditions after the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans.
Ottoman architecture 
 For almost 400 years Byzantine architectural artifacts such as the church of Hagia Sophia served as models for many of the Ottoman mosques.
Ottoman architecture 
 Overall, Ottoman architecture has been described as Ottoman architecture synthesized with architectural traditions of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Ottoman architecture 
 They mastered the technique of building vast inner spaces confined by seemingly weightless yet massive domes.
Ottoman architecture 
 Islamic religious building, which until then was simple but with extensive decoration, was transformed by the Ottomans.
Ottoman architecture 
 The mosque was changed from being a cramped and dark chamber with arabesque-covered walls into a beautiful sanctuary.
Dole, Jura 
 It was the capital of the Free County until Louis XIV conquered the region, which from then on became Besançon.
Roanne 
 Two of its tributaries: Renaison and Rhins, also flow through the city and join the Loire in Roanne.
Roanne 
 The climate of Roanne, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
Roanne 
 With a population of 35,200, Roanne has a population density of  inhabitants/km2, the highest density in the department.
Roanne 
 Roanne forms, with other 14 communes, the urban area of Roanne with a population of 80,098 inhabitants (2014) and an area of .
Roanne 
 This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Roanne, formed by 50 communes with a population of 107,348 inhabitants (2014) and an area of .
Roanne 
 Roanne is a subprefecture of the Loire department, the capital of the arrondissement of Roanne and the administrative centre () of two cantons:
Cuba men's national volleyball team 
 NORCECA Championship: Gold medal (969, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2009, 2011) - Silver medal (1973, 1985, 1999, 2005)
Seljuk architecture 
 Seljuk architecture is the name given to architecture built during the time when the Seljuks ruled most of the Middle East and Anatolia.
Seljuk architecture 
 After the 11th century the Seljuks of Rum emerged from the Great Seljuk Empire developing their own architecture.
Seljuk architecture 
 Another mosque-type introduced at this time was the kiosk mosque, consisting of a domed space with three open sides and wall containing a mihrab on the qibla side.
Seljuk architecture 
 It is a massive building measuring  square with a huge double dome resting on squinches and muqarnas pendentives.
Serbia men's national volleyball team 
 The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball considers Serbia the inheritor of the records of SFR Yugoslavia (1948–1991), FR Yugoslavia (1992–2002) and Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006).
Serbia men's national volleyball team 
 European Championship: Gold medal (2001, 2011) - Silver medal (1997) - Bronze medal (1975, 1979, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2013)
Australia men's national volleyball team 
 Australia Men's national volleyball team also known as Volleyball Team Australia Men (VTAM) is the national volleyball team of Australia.
Palermo Stone 
 The Palermo Stone is one of seven pieces left of a much bigger stele known as the Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
Palermo Stone 
 The stele has a list of the kings of Egypt from the First Dynasty through to the early part of the Fifth Dynasty.
Palermo Stone 
 The Palermo Stone is in the Antonio Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in the city of Palermo, Italy, from which it gets its name.
Palermo Stone 
 The name "Palermo Stone" is sometimes used for all seven pieces of the Royal Annals, including those in museums in Cairo and London.
Palermo Stone 
 The Royal Annals stele, of which the Palermo Stone is one part part, was probably about 60 cm high and 2.1m wide.
Palermo Stone 
 The first line lists the names of the Early Dynastic Period kings of Lower Egypt, wearing the Red Crown ).
Palermo Stone 
 The second and other lines has parts of the royal annals for pharaohs of the First to Fourth Dynasties.
Palermo Stone 
 These annals are lists of the key events in each year of the rule of each king, arranged in date order.
Palermo Stone 
 This lists events during the rule of pharaohs down to Neferirkare Kakai, third ruler of the Fifth Dynasty.
Palermo Stone 
 From the pieces that are left it is unclear if the Royal Annals continued beyond this point in time.
Palermo Stone 
 Where a king is named, the name of his mother is also recorded, such as Betrest mother of the First Dynasty king Semerkhet and Meresankh I mother of the Fourth Dynasty king Seneferu.
Palermo Stone 
 Details recorded in the Royal Annals includes the height of the annual Nile flood (see Nilometer), the Inundation, details of festivals (such as Sed festivals), taxation, sculpture, buildings, and warfare.
Palermo Stone 
 One small piece is in the Petrie Museum of University College London, forming part of the collection of the archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie.
Palermo Stone 
 There is no agreement about the date of the writing; was it written about the times it describes, or was it written much later?
Palermo Stone 
 It has been argued that the stele was made much later, perhaps in the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty (747-656 BCE).
Palermo Stone 
 It seems clear from the details that, even if the Royal Annals, on the Palermo Stone and other pieces, were not written soon after the time they describe, they are based on an Old Kingdom original.
Palermo Stone 
 There are also arguments about if all the pieces are part of the same stele or come from different copies.
Palermo Stone 
 If the writing is a later copy, not from the Fifth Dynasty, there is also the chance that errors were made in the copying process.
Palermo Stone 
 The Palermo Stone and the other pieces of the Royal Annals are a very important for the history of the Old Kingdom.
Palermo Stone 
 For example, they list the names of members of the royal families during the first five dynasties which are not listed anywhere else.
Palermo Stone 
 New Kingdom Egyptian king lists, such as the Turin Canon (13th century BCE) and the Abydos king list (reign of Seti I, 1294–1279 BCE), say that Menes (probably Narmer) (c. 3100 or 3000 BCE) was the first king of the first dynasty.
Palermo Stone 
 The ancient historian Manetho must have used something like the Royal Annals stele to write his history of the early dynasties of Egypt.
Ennio Porrino 
 Ennio Porrino (born Cagliari, 20 January, 1910 – died Rome, 25 September, 1959) was an Italian composer and teacher.
Ennio Porrino 
 His best known work is the symphonic poem "Sardegna," a tribute to his native Sardinia, which premiered in Florence in 1933.
Ennio Porrino 
 In the course of his career, Porrino taught at the conservatories of Rome, Venice, and Naples, and in 1956 became the director of the Cagliari Conservatory.
Ennio Porrino 
 She designed the production of Porrino's last work, the opera I Shardana, which premiered on 21 March 1959, six months before his death.
Genet 
 These longs tails are a counterweight which helps them keep their balance as they leap from tree limb to tree limb.
Genet 
 Genets have semi-retractable claws, which they use for climbing and holding prey, but not for fighting.
Genet 
 Genets are highly agile creatures, with quick reflexes and exceptional climbing skills, and are the only viverrids that are able to stand bipedally.
Genet 
 Small rodents are captured by the back and killed with a bite at the head, then eaten starting with the head.
Genet 
 They also eat birds, bird eggs, centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, and various fruits, including figs and olives.
Winnowing 
 Threshing, which is the loosening of grain or seeds from the husks and straw, comes before winnowing.
Winnowing 
 In its simplest form it involves throwing the mixture into the air so that the wind blows away the lighter chaff.
Winnowing 
 Winnowing can also describe the natural removal of fine material from a coarser sediment by wind or flowing water.
Winter's Tale 
 Shooting took place at locations across New York City, including Grand Central Terminal, Red Hook, Brooklyn, East Village, Manhattan and Central Park.
Linsang 
 the Asiatic linsangs (Prionodon) are not, and may be the closest living relatives of the Felidae family.
Linsang 
 All species have yellowish bodies with black markings (stripes, blotches and spots), though the distribution and nature of the markings varies between species.
African linsang 
 DNA analysis showed that these African linsangs (Poiana) are true viverrids closely related to the genets.
I Shardana 
 1960: Ferruccio Mazzoli (Gonnario), Oralia Dominguez (Nibatta), Gastone Limarilli (Torbeno), Marta Pender (Bèrbera Jonia), Piero Guelfi (Norace), Antonio Galiè (Perdu), Vinicio Cocchieri (Orzocco); Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI, Armando La Rosa Parodi - (Decca)
I Shardana 
 2013: Manrico Signorini (Gonnario), Alessandra Palomba (Nibatta), Angelo Villari (Torbeno), Paoletta Marrocu (Bèrbera Jonia), Domenico Balzani (Norace), Gabriele Mangione (Perdu), Gianpiero Ruggeri (Orzocco); Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Anthony Bramall - (Dynamic)