the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
On television, he appeared on the BBC series The Hollow Crown (2012), in the adaptations of Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "Henry V".
In theatre, he has been in the productions of "Cymbeline" (2007) and "Ivanov" (2008).
In December 2013, he starred as the title character in the Donmar Warehouse production of "Coriolanus" which played until February 2014.
He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in "Cymbeline" while also being nominated for the same award the same year for his role as Cassio in "Othello".
On 8 November 2018, it was announced that Hiddleston would be reprising his role as Loki in a new Marvel limited series centered on the character which will air on Disney's streaming service, Disney+.
Loki is Hiddleston's seventh time taking on the role, following three Avengers movies and all three Thor films.
Jonathan Douglas Lord (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) was a British rock musician.
He was born and raised in Leicester.
He moved to London in his late teens.
He was a member of rock bands Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
In 2011, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
He died of a pulmonary embolism at the London Clinic, Westminster, London.
Santa Barbara Machine Head
1968 Blues Anytime Vol.
3 ("Porcupine Juice", "Albert", "Rubber Monkey")
1969 An Anthology of British Blues Vol.
2002 Pre-Purple People ("Porcupine Juice", "Albert", "Rubber Monkey")
Solo and orchestral works with Deep Purple
1969 Concerto for Group and Orchestra (with Deep Purple)
1971 The Last Rebel (with Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) - motion picture soundtrack
1972 Gemini Suite
1974 First of the Big Bands (with Tony Ashton)
1974 Windows (with Eberhard Schoener)
1976 Sarabande
1982 Before I Forget
1984 Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (with Alfred Ralston) - television series soundtrack
1993 Gemini Suite Live (with Deep Purple)
1993 First of the Big Bands - BBC Live in Concert 1974 (with Tony Ashton)
1996 The Best (compilation)
1998 Pictured Within
2000 In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (with Deep Purple)
2003 Jon Lord With Pictures (DVD documentary)
2004 Beyond The Notes
2004 Beyond The Notes Live (DVD)
2008 Boom of the Tingling Strings
2008 Durham Concerto
2010 To Notice Such Things
2011 Jon Lord Blues Project Live
2011 Jon Lord Live (Bucharest 2009)
2012 Concerto for Group and Orchestra (new studio version)
With The Hoochie Coochie Men
2003 Live at the Basement
2007 Danger.
White Men Dancing
1964 Kinks (The Kinks, "You Really Got Me")
1967 Sound & Movement (The Leading Figures)
1968 I Shall Be Released/Down in the Flood (Boz Burrell, SP)
1968 Sundragon (Sundragon)
1968 Madena/Standing Still (Anan, SP)
1972 What a Bloody Long Day It's Been (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, "The Falling Song" - strings arr.)
1974 Rampant (Nazareth, "Glad When You're Gone", "Shanghai'd in Shanghai")
1976 Wizard's Convention (Eddie Hardin)
1978 More Than Meets the Eye (Joe Breen)
1979 Commercial Road (Richard Digance)
1979 And About Time Too (Bernie Marsden])
1980 Look at Me Now (Bernie Marsden)
1981 Line-Up (Graham Bonnett)
1982 Gone Troppo (George Harrison, "Circles")
1983 Octopuss (Cozy Powell)
1984 About Face (David Gilmour)
1985 Wind in the Willows (Eddie Hardin)
1986 Detroit Diesel (Alvin Lee, "Ordinary Man", "Let's Go")
1989 Super Drumming Folge 1 & 2 (Pete York)
1990 Rock Aid Armenia - The Earthquake Album ("Smoke on the Water '90")
1990 About Love and Life (Vicki Brown, "We Are One")
1990 April Moon (Sam Brown, "Contradictions")
1990 Pete York Presents Super Drumming Volume 3 ("I Got Rhythm", "Heavy Ravel", "Gemini - Voice", "Windows")
1992 Cherkazoo & Other Stories (Ian Gillan, archival recordings 1972-74)
1992 Wind in the Willows - A Rock Concert (Eddie Hardin, recorded live 1991, DVD 2003)
1992 The Drums Are Back (Cozy Powell, "The Rocket", "The Legend Of The Glass Mountain")
1992 Zoom (Alvin Lee, "Real Life Blues", "Wake Up Moma")
1994 Carnival of Light (Ride, "Moonlight Medicine")
1994 How Does It Feel to Feel (Ride, EP, "Journey to the End of Universe")
1995 Still a Few Pages Left (Hardin & York, "Stuck On You")
2002 Brainwashed (George Harrison, "Brainwashed")
2003 Bluesheart (Miller Anderson, "Help Me", "Runnin' Blues")
2005 Legends of Rock - 50 Jahre Rock (CD/DVD, live for ZDF 2004)
2005 Min Jul (Maria Arredondo, arrangements)
2006 Gillan's Inn (Ian Gillan, "When A Blind Man Cries", "Demon's Eye", "Smoke On The Water")
2008 Army of One (Espen Lind, "Sweet Love", "The Music Takes You There")
2009 Endangered Species - Live At Abbey Road 2000 (Tony Ashton & Friends, CD/DVD)
2009 Childline Rocks 2009 (Ltd. Ed., "
Pictured Within", "Child in Time", "You Keep On Moving")
2010 Stay Tuned (Bernhard Welz, "Child In Time")
2011 Dance (The Smith Quartet, writer of "Zarabanda Solitaria")
2011 Out of My Mind (WhoCares, charity CD single)
2011 The Odyssey, Live (David Bedford, archive performance from 1977)
Film & TV appearances
1991 Deep Purple - Heavy Metal Pioneers (Warner, interviewee)
1995 Rock Family Trees, ep. '
Deep Purple (BBC, interviewee)
2002 Classic Albums, ep. '
Deep Purple - Machine Head''' (ITV, interviewee)
2004 The South Bank Show, ep. '
Malcolm Arnold - Toward the Unknown Region (ITV, interviewee)
2007 Ian Gillan - Highway Star: A Journey in Rock (interviewee)
2009 John Mortimer - A Life in Words (BBC, interviewee)
2009 Soul To Song, ep. '
Smoke On The Water' (Japanese TV, interviewee)
2010 Heavy Metal Britannia (BBC, interviewee)
2010 I'm in a Rock n' Roll Band, ep. '
The Other One' (BBC, interviewee)
2011 Metal Evolution (SkyArts, interviewee)
2011 How the Brits Rocked America'' (BBC, interviewee)
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor.
His most famous roles include Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock (2010), Peter Guillam in the spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Stephen Hawking in Hawking (2004), William Pitt in Amazing Grace (2006), and his Academy Award-nominated role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
He was nominated for another Academy Award for his role as Phil Burbank in The Power of the Dog in 2022.
He also played Stephen Ezard in The Last Enemy (2008), Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007), Bernard in Small Island (2009), as Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness,
He voiced the character Smaug, and the Necromancer in The Hobbit (2012).
Cumberbatch played Julian Assange in the 2013 movie The Fifth Estate.
He ranked #1 in Empire Magazine's "100 Sexiest Movie Stars" in 2013.
He was named one of the most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2014.
In 2000 Cumberbatch acted on TV for the first time in an episode of Heartbeat, and was on the show again in 2004.
He began acting in theatre in 2001.
He played Ford in 12 Years a Slave.
In 2013 Cumberbatch was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television at the Golden Globes.
Benedict Cumberbatch was born to a family that was already wealthy.
His parents were both actors, and his ancestor Abraham Cumberbatch started a sugar plantation in the British colony of Barbados which was worked by slaves.
As an adult, he dated actress Olivia Poulet.
On 5 November 2014, Cumberbatch announced his engagement to Sophie Hunter.
On 14 February 2015, Cumberbatch married Hunter.
They have three sons, Christopher Carlton (born 1 June 2015), Hal Auden (born 3 March 2017) and Finn (born 11 January 2019).
, also known as Wang Chenchih (), is a Japanese-Taiwanese professional athlete.
He is best known as a baseball player and manager.
Oh was born in Tokyo.
He is the son of a Chinese father and a Japanese mother.
Although Oh has always lived in Japan, he has never allowed a loss of his Chinese citizenship.
Oh played for the Yomiuri Giants.
In 1977, he set the world record for home runs.
Stanley "Tookie" Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American murderer and co-founder of a street gang, the Crips.
In 1959, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where in 1970 he stole a car, for which he was convicted and sent to juvenile hall.
He and Raymond Washington (1953–1979) founded street gang the Crips in 1971 in Los Angeles.
Williams shot four people dead in Los Angeles in 1979 during robberies he committed.
The events were caught on film by surveillance cameras.
Later that year he was convicted of four counts of first degree murder and two counts of robbery.
He was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison, California.
Ballet flats are derived from soft ballet slippers, having very thin heels or the appearances of no heel at all.
The style often features a ribbon-style binding around these flats' low top areas.
Some ballet flats are open toed.
The essence of the ballet flat has been on since at least the 15th or 16th century.
They're worn primarily by women, although men may wear them too.
They went out of fashion during the 18th and 19th century, but took off again after Audrey Hepburn wore the shoes in 1957's Funny Face.
A host is an organism which provides shelter for parasites.
Parasites will live on the animal and may lay their eggs on them.
George Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.
Shaw published one of the first English descriptions of several common Australian animals.
His book was called Zoology of New Holland which was released in 1794.
He was the first scientist to examine a platypus.
He released a description about the animal on his book The Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799.
He became the first to do so.
In herpetology he described a lot of new species of reptiles and amphibians.
Mullens and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917)
William T. Stearn - The Natural History Museum at South Kensington
Shaw, George
People from Buckinghamshire
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A common name of a taxon or organism is a name that is generally given by people.
A common name is not the organism's scientific name.
Common names are used by people to describe something.
Some common names are not always used by some people.
A common name are also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, trivial name, trivial epithet, country name, popular name, or farmer's name.
Sometimes common names are created by authorities.
They do this so the general public would not have to remember or pronounce the Latin name of an animal.
Stearn, William T. 1959. "
The Background of Linnaeus's Contributions to the Nomenclature and Methods of Systematic Biology".
Systematic Zoology 8: 4–22.
Plant names
Multilingual, Multiscript Plant Name Database
The use of common names
Chemical Names of Common Substances
Plantas medicinales / Medicinal plants (database)
Mark Catesby (24 March 1682/83 - 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist.
Between 1729 and 1747 Catesby published his book Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.
The book was the first publication to describe flora and fauna of North America.
The book described 220 birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.
Catesby studied natural history in London.
Catesby collected seeds in Virginia from 1714 to 1719.
Gallery of Catesby's images
Jackson, Christine E., (1985) Bird Etchings: the illustrators and their books, 1655-1855.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Walters, Michael (2003) A Concise History of Ornithology.
London: Christopher Helm
Wiatt, Alex L. (1992) The Descendants of Stephen Field of King and Queen County, Virginia, 1721, Fredericksburg VA: BookCrafters
Myers, Amy R. W. & Pritchard, M. B. (1998) "Empire's nature.
Mark Catesby's New World vision," Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press
Catesby Commemoration Trust
Mark Catesby (1731).
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and (v1).
Online scanned edition from Rare Book Room.
Mark Catesby (1743).
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and (v2).
Mark Catesby, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas Electronic edition: high quality images and user-friendly text from the American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia
View works by Mark Catesby online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Webbed toes is the common name for syndactyly.
Webbed feet happens when two or more toes grow together instead of separately.
This is common in many birds such as ducks.
It is also common in amphibians such as frogs and mammals such as kangaroos.
In humans, it is not normal.
It only happens to 3-10 in 10,000 live births.
Famous people with webbed feet
Dan Aykroyd – Canada, actor
Jacqui Hurley - Ireland, sports broadcaster
Ashton Kutcher - United States, actor
Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
An outbreak is an event that sometimes cannot be controlled for several months or years.
The word "outbreak" is a term used in epidemiology.
It describes what happens when a disease becomes widespread that first thought.
An outbreak can affect a small group or affect thousands of people across the world.
An outbreak can be epidemic.
Common source - all victims got the disease from the same source (such as water pollution)
Continuous source - when the disease continues to spread for a longer time.
Point source - when the disease continues to spread for a short time.
Propagated - disease is spread from person to person.
Behavioral risk related - disease is spread by a person's behavior such as sexually transmitted diseases and malnutrition.
Zoonotic - disease is spread from animal to animal.
Patterns of an outbreak
Endemic - a common disease such as influenza, measles, mumps, pneumonia, colds and smallpox.
This is characterized by a place, group or activity.
Epidemic - when the disease affect a large group of people.
Pandemic - when the disease affects people worldwide.
Water beetles are beetles who live in water.
Water beetles are black, brown, or greenish.
They are 0.08 to 1.57 inches long.
There are 2,000 species of water beetles.
These include whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae), Haliplidae, Noteridae, Amphizoidae, Dytiscidae, and Hydroscaphidae.
Epler, J. H. 1996.
Identification manual for the water beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Dryopidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hydraenidae, Hydrophilidae, Noteridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae, Scirtidae). (
PDF, 9.0 MB)
Santa Cruz, California is a city north of Monterey Bay.
Santa Cruz is about 100 miles (60 km) south of San Francisco.
Santa Cruz was first settled by Ohlone Indians, Native American hunter-gatherers.
Santa Cruz was colonized in the mid-1700s by the Spanish.
They created a mission, (Mission Santa Cruz).
The Spanish forced the Ohlones in the mission.
Their populations began to decline because of diseases and overworking.
Americans first arrived in Santa Cruz in the 19th century.
They were immigrants from Italy, China and Portugal.
Around the same time, forestry and commercial fishing were the first industries.
There were also diary farming and leather production.
Santa Cruz is most famous for their university.
The University of California, Santa Cruz was built in the 1960s.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake had a major effect in Santa Cruz.
It killed five people.
The industries that are present in Santa Cruz are agriculture, tourism and high technology.
The climate in Santa Cruz is Mediterranean.
This means that they have mild summers because of fog.
Winters are usually rainy; however, the city has dealt with many droughts.
Santa Cruz City official site
Santa Cruz Wiki – The People's Guide to Santa Cruz, California
Via Riva Trigoso Sister City street
Pogonip Open Space Preserve
Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce
The California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) is a semi-aquatic frog.
It is part of the Ranidae frogs or "true frogs".
The California red-legged frog are endemic to California and Baja California, Mexico.
The frog is a near threatened species.
It is protected by law.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(2): 299–314.
PMID 15619443 PDF fulltext .
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 331–338.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,  http://www.fws.gov/endangered/features/rl_frog/rlfrog.html
"Calif. Frog at Center of Protection Debate" Washington Post
Cope's gray treefrog, Cope's chameleon tree frog, the western common tree frog, southern gray tree frog, or central Texas tree frog (Dryophytes chrysoselis) is a species of tree frogs.
Scientists think Cope's grey tree frog evolved after the last major ice age.
Cope's grey tree frog can live in temperatures as low as -8 °C.
Females can lay up to 10–40 eggs.
The eggs hatch in four days.
When the eggs hatch, they are called tadpoles.
Tadpoles become small frogs in 45–65 days.
The species name chrysoscelis is from the Greek word chrysos, which means "gold."
The Greek word scelis means "leg."
This frog is gray or green in color with bright orange spots on its legs.
This frog stays in the trees.
Its color helps it blend in with the gray or brown tree bark.
Human beings only see this frog on the ground when it is time for the frogs to mate and lay eggs.
This frog lives in Ontario, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Maryland south to Florida.
Bernard S. Martof et al. (
Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. .
Sargent (1969).
A suggestion regarding hindwing diversity among moths of the genus Catocala OF (Noctuidae).
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 23: 261-264. (
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Thomas F. Tyning (1990).
A Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. .
Amphibiaweb — accessed 1 June 2006
Animal Diversity Web: Hyla versicolor & Hyla chrysoscelis
Atlanta's Backyard Herps — accessed 8 May 2006
Maine Wetland Connections  — accessed 11 May 2006
Frogs and Toads of Ohio — accessed 11 May 2006
Exploratorium: Amazing Adaptable Frog — accessed 11 May 2006
IUCN  — Global Amphibian Assessment, accessed 1 June 2006
NatureServe  — conservation status, accessed 1 June 2006
Reptiles is a monthly magazine.
It is published in Irvine, California.
Reptiles magazine is a reptile and amphibian magazine.
It talks about keeping and breeding many of their species.
The magazine's publisher is BowTie Inc. The first issue of the magazine was in October 1993.Spadafori, Gina (23 October 1993).
Reptiles slither into the animal magazine kingdom, The Baltimore Sun It was a bimonthly magazine for one year.
It became a monthly magazine starting with its December 1994 issue.
The columns such as "Herptological Queries" and "Veterinarian Q&A" have been in the magazine since it was first released.
Many reptiles and amphibian species have been talked about in the magazine.
Popular pets such as the bearded dragon, red-eared slider, leopard geckos, and ball pythons often appear in the magazine.
They consider themselves "The World's Leading Reptile Magazine".
Their June 2012 issue celebrated their 20th anniversary.
Some songs used by the Nazis are very old, and so these songs are often thought of as to be a Nazi song.
An example would be Deutschlandlied, which was written in 1841.
The Nazis used the Deutschlandlied with the Horst-Wessel-Lied.
Same with the song Die Wacht am Rhein, which at that time was almost 100 years old.
The Horst-Wessel-Lied, also known as Die Fahne Hoch (The flag on high), was the anthem of the Nazi Party.
The song was made by Horst Wessel, a SA leader, who was killed by a member of the Communist Party of Germany.
The song, as with many Nazi songs, is banned in Germany.
Es zittern die morschen Knochen
Es zittern die morschen Knochen was made by Hans Baumann, was a very popular Nazi song.
The song was the official song of the Hitler Youth: which is why there are some attacks on the old people in the song.
Many Germans know some of the song, but a lot don't know the full song.
The Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) is a crested penguin.
They have white stripes on their belly and cheeks, and they have a black back.
They have bright yellow eyebrows and when they get older they turn darker.
They also have an orange beak; big feet and they have small black tails.
They weigh 8 pounds and are 17-24 inches tall.
They eat fish, squid and krill (small shrimps) and they like to drink extra cold water.
The Fiordland penguin’s main predator (animal which hunts animals) is seals.
Most Fiordland penguins live in the woodland on the coast of south New Zealand but some also live in Tasmania.
They live up to 15 to 20 years in the wild.
They swim very fast in the water near New Zealand.
http://www.mrsbauer.com/fiordland.htm
http://tellurian.net/teach/penguins/facts.html
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/poi/penguins/fiord.html
http://www.theanimalfiles.com/birds/penguins/fiordland_penguin.html
http://www.penguinworld.com/types/fiordland.htm
The Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) has a plain white belly.
It can have a few pure black spots on its belly and have orange with an hint of green.
There are less than 10,000 Humboldt penguins in the wild.
They are found in Chile and Peru.
They drink sea water and their favourite food is small fish.
A female Humboldt penguin can weigh up to 4.5kg and the male can weigh up to 6kg.
Their bodies are adapted to life in water and most Humboldt penguins can live up to 20 years.
They get their name from a famous Prussian explorer, Alexander von Humboldt.
They have well dug burrows underground.
In the past 100 years their droppings have been used as garden fertiliser.
This dung is called “guano”.
Penguin World.
The magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) is the most numerous of the Spheniscus family.
There are about 3,600,000 magellanic penguins in the world.
They breed once a year and lay two eggs of a similar size.
They are 70 centimetres tall and weigh 9 pounds or 4 kilograms.
They are found in the Falkland Islands, South America, Chile and Argentina and migrate Brazil.
They are warm weathered penguins and during the warm weather they lose feathers around their eyes.
When it gets colder they grow these feathers back around their eyes.
They were first seen in 1519 on a voyage (trip) to South America.
They hunt for food on their own when they are 60-70 days old.
The yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), also known as the hoiho or tarakara, is an endangered species of penguin, and the third largest penguin in the world.
The penguin gets its name from the yellow stripes on its head.
They live and breed on the sea shore of New Zealand and some also in the Antarctic islands in the south.
They have a high pitched call which can be heard very clearly.
They make their nests out of twigs, grass and leaves, carefully formed into a bowl shape.
The chicks take 39 to 51 days to hatch and both parents share keeping the eggs warm.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/proj/penguins/yellow.html
http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/sea-and-shore-birds/penguins/yellow-eyed-penguin-hoiho/facts/
A mononymous person is a person who is known and addressed by a single name.
Such names are called mononyms.
In some cases, the person was known by a composed name (polynym) before, and selected a single name.
Today, this is often the case with artists, who select a stage name.
In many cultures, people only had one name.
This is the case of Ancient Greece.
Composed names were only used to avoid confusion.
Both Zeno of Elea and Zeno of Citium were called Zeno, but the origin was added to avoid confusing the two.
In Ancient Rome, people had a composed name which included a clan name and a family name, which did not change.
While we refer to Cicero as Cicero, his real name was Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Sometimes he is called Tully in English.
Other people called Tullius include Manius Tullius Longus, a Roman consul, about 500 BC, and Quintus Tullius Cicero, one of Caesars generals.
Nero was known as Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
After the Romans, composed names started to be more commonplace in the Middle Ages.
In the Americas, mononyms survived until the early 20th century.
Examples include Pocahontas (1595-1617) and Geronimo (1829-1909).
Pocahontas married and English settler, and took the name Rebecca Rolfe after her marriage.
Royals usually adopt a single name.
Sometimes, a numeral is added.
That way, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and Elizabeth II (born 1926) both have a surname, but it is not used.
Similarly, popes select a single name, when they are elected.
The current pope is called Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but since his becoming pope, everyone has called him Pope Francis.
Sweet Grass (also Sweetgrass) is an unincorporated community in Toole County, Montana, United States.
It is on the Canada-United States border.
It is the northern end of Interstate 15.
Interstate 15 is an important route connecting western Canada, the western United States, and Mexico.
In 2004, a joint border facility opened at the Sweetgrass port of entry and Coutts, Alberta.
It has both Canadian and American federal authorities.
Earl W. Bascom (1906-1995), "Father of Modern Rodeo" cowboyed in the 1920's on a ranch on Kicking Horse Creek
Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), cowboy artist and sculptor ranched on Kicking Horse Creek near the Sweetgrass Hills
Unincorporated communities in Montana
Crotalus viridis (commonly known as the prairie rattlesnake) is a species of venomous Pit vipers.
There is currently only one subspecies recognized, not including the nominate subspecies.
The Prairie Rattlesnake usually grows up to the length of around 100 centimeters (3.3 ft).
Prairie Rattlesnakes in Montana can sometimes grow up to the length of 120 centimeters (3.9 ft), but the longest ever found was 151.5 centimeters (4.97 ft) long.
They are usually light brown in color with some patches of dark brown.
Prairie Rattlesnakes eat mainly small mammals like ground squirrels, mice, rats, small rabbits, and prairie dogs.
Young Prairie Rattlesnakes eat amphibians, and small reptiles.
Prairie Rattlesnakes are viviparous, and can give birth to around 3-25 young at a time.
The young are born around between August and October.
Prairie Rattlesnake are diurnal in cool weathers, and nocturnal in hot weathers.
They have a very powerful venom which they only use if attacked.
Like other rattlesnakes they shake their tail to make a rasping sound which warns enemies.
It is also found in southwestern Canada, south to the United States of America, and northern Mexico.
In Canada it is found in Alberta, and Saskatchewan, in the United States of America it is found in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, southern Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and eastern Arizona, in Mexico it is found in northern Coahuila, and northwestern Chihuahua.
Not including the nominate subspecies, Crotalus Viridis Viridis, the Prairie Rattlesnake only has one subspecies: the "Hopi Rattlesnake" (Crotalus Viridis Nuntius) which is found in northeastern and north-central Arizona, and New Mexico.
Anput is the goddess of the seventeenth Nome (or district) of Upper Egypt.
She is the goddess of the desert and protection.
She was the mother of Kebechet.
Harry Judd  (born 23 December 1985, Chelmsford, Essex) is an English pop/rock musician.
He is best known as being the drummer in the band McFly.
Judd has made a guest appearance in the Busted video for "Crashed the Wedding" as the drummer.
In 2011, he won Strictly Come Dancing.
In 2012, he got engaged to his long term girlfriend Izzy Johnston.
and is now married to her.
DeJuan Lamont Blair (born April 22, 1989) is an American basketball player.
He plays for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He graduated from Pittsburgh University.
He also played for the San Antonio Spurs from 2009 to 2013 and the Dallas Mavericks from 2013 to 2014.
Trade creation is an economic term related to international economics in which trade flows are redirected due to the formation of a free trade area or a customs union.
The issue was firstly brought into discussion by Jacob Viner (1950), together with the trade diversion effect.
The common coquí or coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) is a species of frog.
They live in Puerto Rico.
The coquí is an important symbol of Puerto Rico.
They are known for their loud calls they make at night.
They belong to the genus Eleutherodactylus.
Control of Coqui Frog in Hawaii
Eleutherodactylus coqui information from HEAR
Children Story About Coqui; El Coqui De Madagascar
A mudpuppy or waterdog is an aquatic salamander.
They belong to the family Proteidae.
Mudpuppies make a dog-like barking sound, which is why they are called mudpuppies.
Mudpuppies belong to the genus Necturus.
They live in Canada and Midwestern United States.
Tree of Life: Proteidae
Tyler Posey (born October 18, 1991) is an actor.
He is most famous for his lead role on MTV's Teen Wolf series.
Posey plays Scott McCall, a teenager whose life was changed by a bite he received in the woods.
Bufo apolobambicus is a species of toad.
They belong to the family Bufonidae.
They live in Bolivia and Peru.
Their habitat is subtropical or tropical forest.
Their population is dying because of habitat loss.
De La Riva, I. 2006.
Bufo apolobambicus .
The Herveo plump toad (Orsornophryne percrassa) is a species of toad.
They live in Colombia.
Their habitat is subtropical or tropical forests.
They like to live on high-altitude grasslands.
Bolívar, W. & Lynch, J. 2004.
Osornophryne percrassa.
The Amargosa toad (Bufo nelsoni) is a species of toad.
They were once considered a subspecies of the Western toad.
(2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo).
Evolution 58: 2517–2535.
Nevada Fish & Wildlife Office: Amargosa Toad - website of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Nevada Office
The Western toad (Anaxyrus boreas) is a species of toads.
They are among the largest toads.
They can grow up to 5.6 and 13 cm long.
They live in western North America.
http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/animals/amphibian/bubo/all.html
This article is based on a description from A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California, Robert N. Fisher and Ted J. Case, USGS.
The Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea) is a species of toads.
They belong to the family Microhylidae.
They live in south central United States.
They can be found in Nebraska, Texas and northern Mexico.
They are not "true toads".
They are territorial.
Herps of Texas: Gastrophryne olivacea
Amphibian Species of the World: Gastrophryne olivacea
The first written use of blush as a color name in English was in 1590.
Meaning of blush
The color blush represents live theatre because it is a color often used for theatre makeup.
Tones of blush color comparison chart
The plains spadefoot toad (Spea bombifrons) is a species of spadefoot toad.
They live in southwestern Canada, the Great Plains of the United States and northern Mexico.
Like many spadefood toads, they get their name for having spade-like legs.
This allows them to dig into sand and soil.
Herps of Texas: Spea bombifrons
Canada's Amphibians: Spea bombifrons
The American toad (Bufo americanus) is a species of toad.
They live in eastern United States and Canada.
There are three subspecies: the eastern American toad, the dwarf American toad, and the rare Hudson Bay toad.
Eastern American toad
The eastern American toad (A. a. americanus) is a medium-sized toad.
Most of the time, its size is .
The biggest one measured was .
Dwarf American toad
The dwarf American toad (A. a. charlesmithi) is smaller than the eastern American toad.
Hudson Bay toad
The Hudson Bay toad (A. a. copei) is a rare toad.
Small groups of them are found in north Ontario.
B. americanus at the United States Geological Survey site
B. americanus  at the USDA's Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Animal Diversity Web: Bufo americanus
Photograph and audio recording of male American toad
Gymnopis syntrema is a species of Caecilians.
They belong to the family Caeciliidae.
They live in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.
Their populations are dying because of habitat loss.
Acevedo, M., Lee, J. & Wilkinson, M. 2004.
Gymnopis syntrema.
Amphibian Web
Caecilians
Dermophis gracilior is a species of Caecilians.
They are found in Costa Rica and Panama.
Their habitat are subtropical or tropical forests.
They like to live in lowland forests and rural places.
Solís, F., Ibáñez, R., Chaves, G., Savage, J., Jaramillo, C., Fuenmayor, Q. & Wilkinson, M. 2004.
Dermophis gracilior .
The Microcaecilia supernumeraria is a species of Caecilians.
They live in Brazil.
Their habitats are subtropical or tropical forests.
Silvano, D., Narvaes, P. & Wilkinson, M. 2004.
Microcaecilia supernumeraria.
Siphonops leucoderus, also known as the Salvador caecilian, is a species of Caecilians.
They like to live in lowland forests and rural areas.
Silvano, D.& Pimenta, B. 2004.
Siphonops leucoderus.
Boulengerula taitana (also known as the Taita African caecilian, Taita Hills caecilian or Taita Mountains caecilian) is a species of caecilians.
They live in Africa in countries like Kenya.
Many people mistake them for worms.
They lay their eggs in foam nest in water.
Loader, S. & Measey, J. 2004.
Boulengerula taitana.
In: IUCN 2006.
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. .
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A BBC documentary
BBC footage of young caecilians
Sylvacaecilia grandisonae (commonly known as the Aleku caecilian or Ethiopian caecilian) is a species of caecilians.
They belong to the family Indotyphlidae.
They live in Ethiopia.
Their habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests.
They also live near rivers and springs.
Largen, M., Loader, S. & Wilkinson, M. 2004.
Sylvacaecilia grandisonae.
The California newt (Taricha torosa) is a species of newts.
They are also called the orange bellied newt.
They can grow to 8 inches (20 cm) in length.
They have toxic skin.
Because of this, the only predator of the California newt are garter snakes.
California newts lives in California.
San Diego Natural History Museum
California Newt facts
California Newt mating
The Sierra newt is a subspecies of the California newt.
They live in the Sierra Nevada.
The Coastal Range newt (Taricha torosa torosa) is a subspecies of the California newt.
They live in California Coast Ranges and San Diego, California.
The Atelopus ignescens is a species of toad.
It is often known as the Jambato toad or the Quito stubfoot toad.
They live in Ecuador.
They were thought to be extinct until some were discovered in 2016.
Their habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude.
It was believed to be the closest relative of the Carrikeri Harlequin Frog.
Ron, S., Coloma, L.A., Lötters, S., Duellman, W., Bustamante, M.R., Bolívar, W. & La Marca, E. 2004.
Atelopus ignescens .
The Yunnan lake newt (Cynops wolterstorffi) was a species of newts.
It was part of the family Salamandridae.
It was also known as Wolterstorff's newt.
It used to live in China.
Datong, Y. & Lau, M.W.N. 2004.
Cynops wolterstorffi .
William Shakespeare (bapt.
26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor.
He wrote 39 plays (with about half of them considered comedies) and two long poems in his lifetime.
He lived in Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, England.
His plays are still performed today.
He is often quoted in modern writing.
Shakespeare wrote his works between about 1590 and 1613.
His plays are among the best known in English literature and are studied in schools around the world.
Along with writing, Shakespeare also acted in The Chamberlain's Men acting company, starting in 1594.
Shakespeare wrote plays of different kinds, or genres.
There are histories, tragedies and comedies.
Shakespeare was the first person ever to write a tragicomedy. (
A tragicomedy is a play that mixes comedy and tragedy, with a happy ending.)
Shakespeare's plays are written in poetic language.
Many of the plays are set in strange, distant places and times.
The stories are often exciting, very funny (in the comedies), or very sad (in the tragedies).
These stories make people want to know what will happen to the characters.
The plays talk about things that are still important today, like love, sadness, hope, pride, hatred, jealousy, and foolishness.
Shakespeare added new words and phrases to the English language.
He created over 1,700 English words.
He also made some words more popular.
Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
His date of birth is usually given as 23 April, though the exact date is unknown.
Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford.
Latin was popular in in grammar schools during the Elizabethan era, so Shakespeare learned Latin very intensively.
When Shakespeare was 18, he married Anne Hathaway, a 26-year-old woman.
Their wedding was rushed because Anne was already pregnant.
They had three children: Susanna (who married John Hall); Hamnet (who died at the age of 11 from unknown causes); and Judith (who married Thomas Quiney).
By 1592, Shakespeare had become an actor and was becoming well known as a writer of plays.
At the time of his death in 1616, only some of Shakespeare’s plays had been published in single editions.
His plays were collected and published in 1623, seven years after he died.
There is proof that people in Shakespeare's time thought highly of him.
After his death, even his rival Ben Jonson said:
"Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show,
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time!"
Shakespeare was involved in the building of the Globe Theatre in 1599. (
It burned down a few years later.)
His plays are still performed at a new Globe Theatre, built in 1997 near the original.
Marriage and sexuality
Although Shakespeare was married to a woman and fathered three children, people have debated his sexuality.
Some people, such as Peter Holland of the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham University, have pointed out that Shakespeare directed some of his sonnets towards young men.
They say this is evidence that he may have been bisexual.
Who wrote "Shakespeare"?
About 150 years after his death, some writers suggested that Shakespeare did not actually write all of the works that are called his.
They had various reasons for saying this.
For example, the person who wrote "Shakespeare’s works" knew a lot about other countries (especially Italy and France), but William Shakespeare never left England.
Several other writers of "Shakespeare" have been suggested, such as Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford have all been suggested as possible authors of “Shakespeare’s works.”
However, most scholars believe that William Shakespeare did write the works that bear his name.
List of Shakespeare's plays
Shakespeare's tragedies
Shakespeare's comedies
Pericles Prince of Tyre
Shakespeare's histories
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Other plays
Shakespeare's tragicomedies
Shakespeare  Open Literature
Open Source Shakespeare
Modern English Shakespeare Resources: Facts, Plays, Sonnets
Shakespeare - SparkNotes
A palaestra was a building in ancient Greece.
It is the place where wrestling was taught and practiced.
It consisted of a large square or rectangular courtyard.
This courtyard was open to the sky.
It was surrounded by colonnades.
Off these colonnades were dressing rooms, lecture rooms, bath rooms, and rooms for storing equipment.
Wrestlers practiced under the colonnades in all weathers.
Palaestras were often near gymnasiums.
They were sometimes a part of gymnasium complexes.
Most cities in the Greek world had a palaestra.
Large cities may have had several.
Some palaestras were privately owned.
Most were built with taxes.
The palaestra was very much a part of the everyday lives of Greek men and boys.
Some men felt as much affection for the palaestra they grew up in as modern men feel for their alma mater.
Some men were buried in their favorite palaestra.
What was a palaestra?
A palaestra was a building in ancient Greece where wrestling was taught and practiced.
The word palaestra is based on the Greek word pale, which means wrestling.
From the sixth century BC through the end of the Roman Imperial age, palaestras were built throughout Greece.
The earliest ones were privately owned, but by the fifth century BC public ones were being built.
Almost every Greek city had at least one palaestra and some large cities had several.
Palaestras were often located near or were attached to gymnasiums.
The gymnasium probably first appeared in the sixth century BC.
Both were often referred to simply as "the gymnasium".
Greek historian, biographer, and essayist Plutarch writes that a palaestra was used solely for wrestling and the pankration, a sport similar to but much rougher than wrestling.
Boxing was taught and practiced in the gymnasium.
Retired athletes owned and operated small palaestras.
Greek males of all ages joined palaestras.
Elderly (old) men sometimes had their own palaestras.
Design of the palaestra
Vitruvius was a Roman architect who lived in the age of Augustus.
He made a plan for the perfect palaestra in his book On Architecture.
This palaestra is similar to the one at Olympia, Greece, the site of the ancient Olympic Games.
Vitruvius' palaestra has a large courtyard open to the sky.
This courtyard is surrounded by roofed colonnades.
The yard would have been filled with skammatapits where wrestlers and pankratiasts would have practiced.
A skamma ("dug-up part") was an area where the soil had been turned over and covered with a thick layer of sand to provide a firm foundation for the wrestlers.
Because wrestlers may have had to compete in rainy weather, there were two skamma in the palaestra: a dry one and a wet one.
Wrestlers called the mud in the wet skamma "beeswax".
The wrestlers themselves turned over the soil and sand with a pick axe.
This was considered a meaningful exercise and the pick axe became a symbol for wrestling in Greek art.
It is likely the wet skamma was located under the colonnades to prevent evaporation.
Greek physicians thought a mixture of mud and oil had curative powers and a mixture of mud and oil was often used in the pits.
Vitruvius describes single colonnades on three sides of the yard and a double colonnade on the north side.
This double colonnade would protect the room behind it from sun and rain.
The palaestra was a place for training the body and the mind.
This room was the ephebeion.
It was here that young men (ephebes) would receive instruction on Greek culture.
Stone benches would have been set into the walls.
To the right of the ephebeion Vitruvius would have had three rooms: the punching bag room, the dust and powder room, and a room for bathing.
To the left of the ephebeion would be a room for storing oil, and a group of rooms for a furnace and hot baths.
Hot baths were a Roman necessity and were not found at Olympia however.
This may have been because of the scarcity of water at Olympia.
The baths at Olympia were simple but those at Delphi were large and elaborate.
Vitruvius does not mention the undressing room (apodyterion) but there certainly would have been at least one in every palaestra.
Pale and pankration were both practiced in the nude.
Vitruvius does not mention a ball room (sphairisterion) either, which some palaestra had.
It is not known if this room was used for ball games, storage, or exercise.
On rainy days, wrestling was taught and practiced beneath the two to four roofed colonnades that lined the yard.
Just off these colonnades were dressing rooms, rooms for bathing, storage rooms, and rooms for lectures and meeting friends.
These rooms were often used for homosexual or pederastic trysts.
Hermes Enagonios ("Hermes of the Contest") presided over the palaestra.
He was depicted on a rectangular piece of marble as a head and an erect penis.
Hermes was the god of wrestling and sometimes said to be the father of Palaestra, the goddess of wrestling.
In Greek art, a herm often indicates the scene is a palaestra.
Statues of Apollo and Herakles also stood in a palaestra.
Life in the palaestra
Wrestling was a highly esteemed sport in ancient Greece.
It was less rough than boxing or the pankration, required less space than other sports, and, as a result, was the most popular sport among athletes.
References to the sport are frequent in the literature of ancient Greece, especially poetry.
Males of all ages joined palaestras, just as modern men and boys join the YMCA, gyms, or health clubs.
Greek men developed an affection for the gymnasiums and the palaestras where they grew up, and some were buried in their favorite gymnasium or palaestra.
These buildings could be a center for politics: the plot to free Thebes from Sparta was formed in a palaestra and a revolt against Macedon found its supporters in the gymnasiums and palaestras of Argos.
Some people were not allowed in the palaestra.
These included the paidogogosolder slaves or grandfathers who led young boys to the palaestra and waited for them near the front door.
Others not allowed in the palaestra included girls and women, cripples, alcoholics, craftsmen, vendors (salesmen), slaves or freed slaves, the insane, and openly lewd homosexuals.
Death was not unknown in the palaestra.
One wrestler fell on a hard surface and died ten days later from chest injuries.
Every palaestra had a number of handsome young men called prosgymnastes.
They waited around offering to wrestle others for a fee.
These young men were known casually as "statues".
Wrestling one was known as "hugging a statue".
These young men were not held in high esteem.
In a place where men, young men, and boys were nude, homosexual interaction was common.
The authorities tried unsuccessfully to curb it.
Greek vase paintings of males in the palaestra show teens goosing each other or older males offering love gifts such as hares to teens.
In Lysis, the Athenian philosopher Sokrates is pulled into a palaestra by a group of teenagers.
They tell him that one of their number is in love with another.
Most Greek males considered a homosexual relationship a positive palaestra experience.
Archaeologist Stephen Miller writes that Eros was worshipped as much as Hermes and Herakles in the palaestra.
The Black-tailed rattlesnake (Crotalus Molossus) is a species of venomous Pit vipers, found in southwestern United States of America and Mexico.
There are currently three subspecies recognized.
Most Black-tailed rattlesnakes grow to the length of .
They can be as long as .
Females are said to be larger than males.
The Black-tailed rattlesnake is olive green, yellow, brown, or black in color.
They are called the "Black-tailed rattlesnake" because of their tail which is the color of black.
Like other rattlesnakes the Black-tailed rattlesnake has a rattle on the end of its tail, but its rattle is weak and can be broken.
They can shed their skin several times a year.
The Black-tailed rattlesnake is found in southwestern United States of America and Mexico.
In the U.S.A it is found in Arizona, New Mexico, and west and central Texas, in Mexico it is found in Oaxaca.
It is also found on islands of the Gulf of California, like San Estèban Island and Tiburòn Island.
In the spring and fall the Black-tailed rattlesnake are diurnal, in the summer they are nocturnal so they can avoid the heat, and in the winter they hibernate in other animals dens.
Even though they are okay climbers and good swimmers they are terrestrial.
They live in grasslands, deserts, mountain areas, and forests.
The Black-tailed rattlesnakes mate in the spring, once they have mated the male stays with the female to stop other males from mating with her.
It is in the summer that the female gives birth to her young, the young stay with their mother for around a day or two before leaving by their selves.
A female usually mates every year and has 10-12 young at a time.
San Esteban Island Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus Molossus Estebanensis
Mexican Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus Molossus Nigrescens
Oaxacan Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus Molossus Oaxacus
Young Men's Christian Association (or the YMCA or the Y) is an organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
It was originally meant to put Christian principles into practice.
It was founded in 1844 in London, England, United Kingdom.
At first, the organization provided beds and shelter to young men leaving the countryside for work in the cities.
It promotes Muscular Christianity.
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a personality disorder.
A person with ASPD fails to conform with socially accepted behavior.
People with this disorder often disregard social norms or the rights of other people.
The ASPD pattern begin in childhood or adolescence and continues into adulthood.