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The Xbox 360 version was given an "ok" review.
Much of the positive reviews were about the game's humorous (funny) cut scenes.
The Nintendo DS version was given negative reviews because of its dull and bad gameplay.
Crash: Mind over Mutant official website
Crash Tag Team Racing is a racing video game published by Sierra Entertainment.
It was developed by Radical Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and PlayStation Portable.
A Nintendo DS version was cancelled.
The reason for this is unknown.
The game was released in North America on October 19, 2005 and in Europe on November 4, 2005.
The official Crash Tag Team Racing website
is a party game developed by Dimps.
It was published by Sierra Entertainment (Vivendi Universal Games for Japan) for the Nintendo DS.
It was released in Japan on July 20, 2006, in North America on October 10, 2006, in Europe on October 27, 2006, and in Australia on November 2, 2006.
It is the first and onlu game in the Crash Bandicoot series to be developed by a Japanese company.
This was the last Crash Bandicoot game to be released in Japan.
The Official Crash Boom Bang!
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, released in Europe as Crash Bandicoot XS and in Japan as Crash Bandicoot Advance, is a video game published by Universal Interactive Studios (Konami in Japan).
It was developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance.
It was released in North America on February 25, 2002, in Europe on March 15, 2002 and in Japan on July 18, 2002.
Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure at GameFAQs
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, released in Japan as  is a video game published by Universal Interactive Studios (Konami for Japan).
It was released in North America on January 7, 2003, in Europe on March 14, 2003 and in Japan on December 4, 2003.
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced at GameFAQs
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy are two video games published by Vivendi Universal Games.
They were developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance.
They were released in North America on June 3, 2004, in Europe on June 25, 2004 (under the names Crash Fusion and Spyro Fusion) and in Japan on December 9, 2004 (under the names: Crash Bandicoot Advance Wakuwaku Tomodachi Daisakusen!
and Spyro Advance Wakuwaku Tomodachi Daisakusen!).
This was the last Spyro game to be released in Japan.
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage is the tenth Crash Bandicoot video game.
Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy is the eighth Spyro video game.
Spyro the Dragon is a series of video games.
The first title was released for Sony's PlayStation.
The Spyro series has become very popular since the first release and several sequels and spin offs.
The Spyro series has sold more than 20 million units worldwide.
The original Spyro series was restarted in 2006 with the release of the Legend of Spyro series.
The series was rebooted again in 2011 when Skylanders was released.
The first three games got a remake called Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018).
The Original Series
Console Games
Spyro the Dragon was released on the Playstation in 1998.
It features Spyro, a small, purple dragon; his dragonfly companion, Sparx; and a multitude of fellow dragons.
It takes place in the Dragon Realms, an imaginary fantasy world, which is itself divided in six worlds: Artisans, Peace Keepers, Magic Crafters, Beast Makers, Dream Weavers, and Gnasty's World.
At the beginning of the game the main antagonist, Gnasty Gnorc (a half gnome, half orc hybrid), seeks revenge against the dragons for banishing him and traps them in stone.
Spyro was out playing hooky and was spared from a crystal prison.
The point of the game is to charge, fly, and flame your way through each world, defeating enemies, saving dragons, and eventually facing and taking down Gnasty.
is the sequel to Spyro the Dragon.
It was released on the Playstation in 1999.
Spyro and Sparx accidentally stumble upon the realm of Avalar, where the antagonist, Ripto (a tiny, mean dinosaur with a magic staff), is taking over the once-peaceful lands.
Spyro was looking forward to having some rest but instead is dragged into a new adventure.
In this episode of the series, the small dragon also meets a number of new allies, including the Professor, Hunter the cheetah, Elora the fawn, and Zoe the fairy, and must face Ripto and his henchmen, Crush and Gulp, two other dinosaurs who are not very smart.
The game introduces some new movements which Spyro can do to advance in his quest, including swimming, climbing, and head-butting.
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (2000) is the last game developed by Insomniac Games before the series got a different developer.
The dragons are celebrating the coming of dragon eggs.
This event takes place every twelve years.
A mysterious girl steals all the eggs.
Spyro, Sparx, and Hunter must follow her down a rabbit hole to the Forgotten Realms on the other side of the world.
There they meet many new allies, which are also playable characters - Sheila the kangaroo, Sgt.
Byrd the flying penguin, Bentley the yeti, and Agent 9 the monkey.
The third game of the Spyro series also feature levels in which the player controls Sparx in a bird's eye view shooting game.
Spyro and his new friends must find out why the Sorceress stole the eggs, what she plans to do with them, and how to stop her.
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (2002) was released for both the Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube consoles.
In this game, Ripto steals the dragonflies from the dragons, and Spyro has to find them all and defeat Ripto.
Spyro: A Hero's Tail (2004) is available for Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube.
In this game, a dragon named Red uses evil Dark Gems to poison the Dragon Worlds.
GameBoy Advance Games
The following Spyro games are available for the Nintendo GameBoy Advance portable console:
Spyro: Season of Ice (2001)  is the first Spyro game on the GameBoy Advance.
Spyro must use his fire breath to rescue the fairies who have been frozen by a monster named Grendor.
Spyro 2: Season of Flame (2002) is the sequel to Season of Ice.
In this game, Spyro must get back the stolen fireflies.
Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs (2003) tasks Spyro with collecting the "Heart" of each land to stop Ripto's latest evil plan.
Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy (2004) are two crossover games that were released at the same time.
Spyro Orange features Spyro in Crash Bandicoot's world, and Crash Bandicoot Purple features Crash Bandicoot in Spyro's world.
Nintendo DS Games
Spyro: Shadow Legacy (2005) is the first and only Nintendo DS Spyro game.
It is also the last Spyro game in the original series before the Legend of Spyro reboot.
Spyro has to save everyone who lives in The Dragon Realms, Avalar, The Forgotten Worlds from a place called the Shadow Realm.
Original Series Characters
Spyro, the main protagonist, a purple dragon.
Sparx is Spyro's companion.
In the game, Sparx acts as a "living" health bar: his color indicates how many hit points Spyro has.
Sparx can get more hit points if Spyro kills several animals (sheep, frogs, etc.)
Hunter was Introduced in Ripto's Rage.
Helps the player learn different abilities and occasionally challenges Spyro to various races.
Moneybags, a wealthy bear who sells Spyro the ability to climb, swim, etc.
as well as unlock bridges and passageways.
The Professor, the creator of the Super-portal in Avalar.
Elora, a fawn and one of Spyro's friends.
The Legend of Spyro Series
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (2006) is the first game in the Legend of Spyro series.
Spyro was raised by a family of dragonflies, including Sparx.
One day he realizes he is not a dragonfly, but a dragon.
Spyro meets a dragon Guardian named Ignitus, who tells Spyro that because he is purple, he is a special dragon who can breathe all four elements: fire, electricity, ice, and earth.
This kicks off the start of his journey to save the remaining Guardian dragons in the world, Volteer, the Guardian of electricity; Cyril, the Guardian of ice, and Terrador, the Guardian of earth.
They teach Spyro to master their elements after he rescues them.
Spyro also has to defeat Cynder, a mysterious, evil dragon, who is working for the main antagonist of the series, the Dark Master.
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (2007) is the sequel to "A New Beginning."
Cynder leaves the Dragon Temple because she feels guilty for what she did before she became good.
Spyro goes after her.
The Temple is then attacked apes, and Spyro has to defeat them.
Spyro is eventually captured by pirates and has to escape.
He also has to save Cynder, who has also been captured.
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (2008) is the last game in the Legend of Spyro series.
The characters and graphics are very different than the other two games.
This is the first Spyro game that allows a player to fly at any time (free-fly mode).
The game also has a co-op mode with Cynder.
The story of game starts three years after the end of "The Eternal Night."
Spyro and Cynder escape from the crystals that trapped them and are then bonded together with mysterious green energy chains created by the Dark Master.
They have to work together to defeat the Dark Master, Malefor, once and for all.
Skylanders is a multi-platform spin-off series of games that replaced the Spyro series.
The game is played with real toys that can be used in the game.
Skylanders Games
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011) – Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, OS X, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Wii U
Skylanders: Giants  (2012) – Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360
Skylanders: Swap Force (2013) – Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Skylanders: Trap Team (2014) – Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Spyro the Dragon universe on MobyGames
Amanda Katherine Anka-Bateman (born December 10, 1968 in New York City, USA) is an American movie, television, and voice actress.
Amanda Katherine Anka was born on December 10, 1968 in New York City.
She was born to musician and actor Paul Anka and model Anne de Zogheb, who were married from 1963 until their divorce in 2000.
Amanda is the second of five daughters.
Her sisters are Alicia Anka (b.1970), Amelia Anka (b.1977), Anthea Anka (b.1971) and Alexandra Anka (b.1966).
She also has a younger half-
Amanda married her boyfriend of two years, actor Jason Bateman (b.1969), on July 3, 2001.
They have two daughters together - Francesca Nora Bateman (b.October 28, 2006) and Maple Sylvie Bateman (b.February 10, 2012).
National Party of South Africa was an Afrikaner dominated white South African nationalist political party that controlled the South African government from 1948 to 1994.
It was founded in 1914 by J.B.M. Hertzog as a result of disagreements between him and the leaders of the South African Party, which he then was a member of.
In 1948 its leader Daniel Francois Malan became Prime Minister of South Africa, and the party began instituting apartheid in South Africa.
However, apartheid was only one among a variety of issues that helped bring the National Party to power.
Most people who voted for the National Party in 1948 were voting more against the previous United Party led by Jan Smuts than for Malan's National Party.
This was because of Smuts's support of the United Kingdom in the Second World War, and other issues that irritated Afrikaner voters such as the poverty of Afrikaners, the competition from native Africans for jobs, the urbanization of Afrikaner towns, and the threat of communism, which the Afrikaner voters generally felt Smuts had wrongly handled and felt that the problems were partially his fault.
South African President FW de Klerk, the last South African government leader to belong to the party, disbanded apartheid in the 1990s and allowed all adults of all races to vote for the first time in 1994, which resulted in the National Party being voted out of office.
Universal Orlando Resort is a resort in Orlando, Florida.
It is in a partnership between NBC Universal and The Blackstone Group.
The resort consists of two theme parks (Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure), CityWalk (a nighttime entertainment destination), and three Loews hotels.
CityWalk includes the 20 screen Loews Universal Cineplex, a lot of restaurants, shops, and clubs.
There are eight restaurants, five entertainment areas and 11 shopping stores.
Universal Studios Florida is one of the themes parks in Universal Orlando Resort.
It includes rides and many shows.
Fear Factor Live!
E.T. Adventure
Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast
A Day in the Park with Barney
Fievel's Playground
Earthquake: The Big One
Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time
Twister...Ride it Out
Animal Planet Live
BeetleJuice's Rock 'n' Roll Graveyard Revue
Curious George Goes to Town
Universal's Horror Make-Up Show
Former Attractions
King Kong (Replaced by Revenge of the Mummy)
Murder, She Wrote Television Experience (Replaced by Hercules and Xena)
Ghostbusters (Replaced by Twister)
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (Replaced by Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast)
Nickelodeon Studios Tour (space currently derelict; queues used by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling for its events in Soundstage 21)
Animal Actors Stage (Replaced by Animal Planet Live)
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Experience (Replaced by Shrek 4-D)
The Wild, Wild, Wild West Stunt Show (Replaced by Fear Factor Live)
Stage 54 (Replaced by an interactive experience with Donkey, connected to Shrek 4-D)
Hercules and Xena Television Experience (space currently derelict)
Islands of Adventure is a theme park in Orlando, Florida.
It opened in 1999 as an expansion to the Universal Orlando Resort and CityWalk areas.
The park has six "islands", each having its own theme.
The Port of Entry is the area north of the entrance, positioned at the southernmost point of the park.
It is primarily a shopping center, and has the feel of an Arabian bazaar.
Its main feature is the Confisco Grille, a restaurant.
Located next to the Port of Entry, Marvel Super Hero Island has rides similar to Marvel comic books.
Its four rides are the Incredible Hulk Coaster, the only launched Bolliger and Mabillard roller coaster, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, a simulator ride set in New York, Doctor Doom's Fearfall, a vertically launched ride similar to Power Tower at Cedar Point in Ohio, and Storm Force Accelatron which is a faster version of the traditional Teacup ride.
Toon Lagoon contains mostly water rides and is themed after the cartoons found in the Sunday newspaper.
These rides include Popeye & Bluto's Bilge Rat Barges, a whitewater rapids ride, and Dudley Do-Right's Rip Saw Falls, a log flume with a 50 foot drop.
Also here is Me Ship, The Olive, a kids play area.
The Comic Strip Cafe and Wimpy's provide food here.
Set in the time of Jurassic Park the movie, the only ride is Jurassic Park River Adventure.
The Lost Continent has a theme of a lost medieval city.
Dueling Dragons is an inverted roller coaster with two different tracks, Fire and Ice.
Poseidon's Fury is a special effects show where you can explore Poseidon's underground tomb.
Close by is The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad, a live action stunt show.
Outside the entrance to this show is the mystical Talking Fountain which talks to, and soaks people who goes by it.
Also in the Lost Continent is the Flying Unicorn, a roller coaster for children and The Enchanted Oak Tavern.
Mythos is a casual sit-down restaurant at the entrance to the Continent.
Seuss Landing is the only zone at Islands of Adventure for small children.
It is based on the works of the author Dr. Seuss.
It has several Seuss-themed rides including the Caro-Seuss-el, The Cat in the Hat Ride, and If I Ran the Zoo.
It also features One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and the Green Eggs and Ham Cafe.
When the park opened, a boat ride, Island Skipper Tours, took park guests around the central lagoon of Islands of Adventure.
It had stops in Port of Entry across from the Confisco Grille restaurant, and in Jurassic Park next to the Discovery Center.
The ride was closed in 2002.
Originally Toon Lagoon featured a live show with cartoon characters.
It was replaced in 2002 by a Dave Mirra-themed BMX stunt show.
There used to be a Triceratops Encounter in Jurassic Park that featured a lifelike animatronic dinosaur.
A ride that was supposed to open with the park in Seuss Landing was Sylvester McMonkey McBean's Incredible Driving Machines.
This was similar to Pteranodon Flyers in Jurassic Park in that parents and children could ride together in cars that ran on an elevated track that toured Seuss Landing.
They were never able to get the ride to work, and the supplier that made most of the components went bankrupt in 1999.
The ride never opened, but the tracks are still at the park.
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born November 1, 1964 near Manhattan, New York) is an American singer-songwriter and recording artist.
She has had many hit records and songs.
In particular, she is well known for the single "Damn I Wish I was Your Lover".
Kristen Wiig (; born August 22, 1973) is an American actress and comedian.
She is best known for acting on the NBC television comedy Saturday Night Live.
She also acted in many movies, including Bridesmaids, Adventureland, Paul, and in the Despicable Me franchise.
In 2018, Wiig was cast as the villain Cheetah in the 2019 DC Extended Universe movie Wonder Woman 1984.
An arena is a circular or oval shaped public space.
It is similar to a theater, a concert or sporting events.
It is made up of a large open space surrounded on all sides by seats or benches for people to sit.
The main feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point.
This allows everyone to see what's going on.
Sometimes, an arena is created to have a very large number of people, such as New York City's Madison Square Garden or Pasadena's Rose Bowl.
In the United States, the term 'arena', sometimes means an indoor stadium.
Jeffrey Marshall "Jeff" Foxworthy (born September 6, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, radio and television personality, author, voice artist and comedian.
He is known for having "Southern humor" and unusual styles of entertainment.
He acted in The Jeff Foxworthy Show during the mid 1990s.
He has also hosted game shows, hosting Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
and The American Bible Challenge.
He was born in Hapeville, Georgia.
He is the first child of Jimmy Abstance Foxworthy, an IBM executive, and Carole Linda (Camp) Foxworthy.
His parents are of English ancestry.
His grandfather, James Marvin Camp, was a fireman in Hapeville for more than 30 years.
Gary William Barlow  (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer.
He is frontman, lead singer and main songwriter of the boy band Take That.
In 1990, Gary Barlow became a member of the new founded boy band Take That.
He is the main songwriter of the band.
After the band broke up in 1996, Barlow started a solo career.
He released two solo albums, Open Road and Twelve Months, Eleven Days.
He also wrote songs for other singers.
Take That reformed in 2005.
Barlow was voted as the best British songwriter of all time in 2009.
He was a judge at the TV show The X Factor from 2011 until 2013.
Barlow organized the concert for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2012.
In May 2012, he released the album Sing with the Commonwealth Band.
The solo album Since I Saw You Last was released in November 2013.
Barlow and his wife Dawn Andrews have three children Daniel, Emily and Daisy.
Their fourth child was stillborn in August 2012.
Príncipe is the northern and smaller of the two major islands of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe.
It is in the sea to the west of Africa.
Close to 5,000 people live there.
The island is a heavily eroded volcano over three million years old.
It is surrounded by other smaller islands including Ilheu Bom Bom, Ilhéu Caroço, Tinhosa Grande and Tinhosa Pequena.
Príncipe rises in the south to  at Pico de Príncipe, in a part of the Obo National Park that is covered with trees.
The north and centre of the island were formerly plantations, most of them formed by Portuguese colonialists using slave labor.
These concentrated initially on producing sugar and later on cocoa, becoming the world's greatest cocoa producer.
Since independence these plantations have since largely gone back to being forest.
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer from the state of Wisconsin.
He was a member of the Democratic Party of the United States Senate (1993 to 2011) and a Wisconsin State Senator (1983-1993).
Lawyers from Wisconsin
Chiriku Hachiman-gū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Hizen Province.
It is a chief shrine of Saga Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture.
In 1940, the shrine was recognized in the system of State Shinto.
It was ranked among the most significant shrines or  which included 50 sanctuaries.
千栗八幡宮 at Miyaki Sanpo website
Judith Ellen Light (February 9 1949 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American stage and television actress who has been featured in multiple soap operas and sitcoms.
She acted in sitcoms such as Who's the Boss?,
Ugly Betty and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
The X Factor (UK), British TV show
The X Factor (U.S.), American TV show
The X Factor (album), album by Iron Maiden
Samantha Morton (born 13 May 1977) is an English actress.
She was born in Nottingham.
She has been nominated for many major awards for her acting.
She began acting in 1991, although it was 2000 when she received recognition from worldwide.
In particular she has been in movies, including Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Minority Report (2002).
Entertainers from Nottingham
Zootaxa is a scientific journal that publishes papers of zoology.
It is edited by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand).
The magazine was created by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and the magazine is issued every week.
BioStor: Zootaxa.
is a national park of Japan in Kumamoto Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture.
In part, the park's name comes from Mount Aso, which is the largest active volcano in Japan.
The park is also named for Mount Kujū and the Kujū mountains.
Aso National Park was established in 1934.
When the area of the park was made larger in 1986, the park's name became Aso Kujū National Park.
http://www.env.go.jp/en/nature/nps/park/parks/aso.html ;
The Truman Show delusion is a delusion some people have.
It is named after The Truman Show, a movie from 1998.
In the movie, the main character discovers that he is living in a constructed reality that is shown on television.
All people except the main character of the movie are paid actors.
People with this disorder have delusions about being followed.
The may also think that they are famous.
As of 2012, there were over forty reported cases of this delusion, in the U.S and the United Kingdom.
Truman Syndrome
In the U.K., psychiatrists Paolo Fusar-Poli, Oliver Howes, Lucia Valmaggia and Philip McGuire of the Institute of Psychiatry in London described in the British Journal of Psychiatry what they referred to as the "Truman Syndrome":
[A] preoccupying belief that the world had changed in some way that other people were aware of, which he interpreted as indicating he was the subject of a film and living in a film set (a ‘fabricated world’).
This cluster of symptoms ... is a common presenting complaint in individuals ... who may be in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia.
MobyGames is an online gaming website for computer and video games.
It is also a review site which allows their critics to give their opinion's on any video game.
The site has a lot of video game information.
Their goal is to be a huge game database.
As of July 17, 2012, the site includes 131 gaming platforms (video game consoles, computers and handheld devices including mobile phones.)
They also have more than 67,000 game entries, in 40 years of gaming.
GameFly bought the site in 2010.
Jean Swanson, Dean James, The Dick Francis Companion, Berkley Trade; Berkley Pr edition (July 29, 2003),
Sheri Graner Ray, Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding The Market (Advances in Computer Graphics and Game Development Series), Charles River Media; 1 edition (September 2003),
Giant tortoises have evolved on a number of tropical islands.
They can weigh as much as 3 or 400 kg (660880 lbs) and can grow to be 1.3 to 1.9 m (45.9 ft) long (accounts vary).
They live, or lived (some species are recently extinct), in the Seychelles, the Mascarenes and the Galapagos.
Today, the world's largest population lives on Aldabra Atoll in Seychelles, where there are about 150,000 individuals.
Although looking similar, the tortoises represent separate branches of evolution.
The Seychelles and Mascarenes tortoises came originally from nearby Madagascar, while the Galapagos tortoises came from nearby Ecuador.
Their similarity is an example of convergent evolution.
These tortoises are capable of living over 100 years in the wild.
This makes them the longest-living vertebrates.
The longest living survivor is 182 years old (probably).
The Madagascar  tortoise "Tu'i Malila" was 188 at death in Tonga in 1965. "
Harriet" was reported by the Australia Zoo to be 176 years old when she died in 2006.
Also, on 23 March 2006, an Aldabra giant tortoise named "Adwaita" died at Alipore Zoological Gardens in Kolkata.
He was brought to the zoo in the 1870s from the estate of Lord Robert Clive.
He was around 255 years old when he died.
Around the time of its discovery, they were caught and killed for food in such large quantities that they became virtually extinct by 1900.
Giant tortoises are now under strict conservation laws and are categorised as threatened species.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Galápagos were frequented by buccaneers preying on Spanish treasure ships.
Filling a ship's hold with tortoises was an easy way to stock up on food, a tradition that was continued by whalers in the centuries that followed. "
whaling skippers were almost lyrical in their praise of tortoise meat, terming it far more delicious than chicken, pork or beef".
They said the meat of the giant tortoise was "succulent meat and the oil from their bodies as pure as butter, but best of all, the giants could hibernate in a ship’s damp for a year or more".
At least five species of the genus Cylindraspis have gone extinct in historic times.
They lived in the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) in the Indian Ocean.
Galapagos tortoise
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the biggest living species of tortoise and the 10th-heaviest living reptile.
The tortoise lives in seven of the Galápagos Islands.
The island is a volcanic archipelago about 1,000 km (620 mi) west of the Ecuadorian mainland.
Spanish explorers, who discovered the islands in the 16th century, named them after the Spanish galápago, meaning tortoise.
Their shell size and shape are different between populations.
On islands with humid highlands, the tortoises are larger, with domed shells and short necks.
On islands with dry lowlands, the tortoises are smaller, with "saddleback" shells and long necks.
Charles Darwin's observations of these differences on the second voyage of the Beagle in 1835, helped him to develop his theory of evolution.
The population of the Galápagos tortoise is getting smaller.
There were over 250,000 individuals in the 16th century.
In the 1970s, that number got smaller to around 3,000.
The decline is believed to be caused by over-exploitation, habitat loss and introduced species to the islands such as rats, goats and pigs.
Ten subspecies of the original fifteen survive in the wild.
An eleventh subspecies (C. n. abingdoni) had only a single known living individual.
It was kept in captivity. "
Lonesome George" died in June 2012.
There have been many conservation efforts.
Because of this, thousands of captive-bred juveniles were released onto their home islands.
As a result, the population grew to 19,000 at the start of the 21st century.
However, the species is still classified as "vulnerable" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The main population of the Aldabra giant tortoise lives on the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.
The atoll has been protected from human influence and is home to some 100,000 giant tortoises, the world's largest population of the animal.
Another isolated population of the species lives on the island of Changuu, near Zanzibar and other captive populations are in conservation parks in Mauritius and Rodrigues.
The tortoises exploit many different kinds of habitat, including grasslands, low scrub, mangrove swamps, and coastal dunes.
The species is called Aldabrachelys gigantea or Dipsochelys dussumieri.
The names refer to the same tortoise.
ARKive – images and movies of the Galápagos giant tortoise (Geochelone spp.)
American Museum of Natural History, Galápagos Giant Tortoise webpage
'Extinct' Galapagos tortoise may still exist
John Carter is a 2012 science fiction and action drama movie.
It stars Samantha Morton and Willem Dafoe.
The director of John Carter is Andrew Stanton.
This action drama received negative reviews and performed poorly at the US box office, though it did well on international terms.
2012 drama movies
Amphiuma is a genus of aquatic salamanders.
They are the only genus still living in the family Amphiumidae.
They are sometimes called "conger eels" or "congo snakes", which is not correct.
Amphiumas have one of the largest amounts of DNA in the living world, around 25 times more than a human.
Amphiumas have a long body.
They are generally grey-black in color.
They do have legs but they are very small.
Amphiumas can be up to  long, their legs are only up to about .
It is because of this that they are often mistaken for eels or snakes.
They also do not have eyelids or a tongue.
Female amphiumas lay their eggs in wet mud.
They then stay coiled around them for about five months, until they hatch.
After about four months these external gills disappear and the lungs begin to work.
In the past they have lived in more areas.
Fossils from the Pleistocene time show that they once lived in Europe.
During the day amphiumas hide in plants.
At night they become active and go hunting.
Their prey include frogs, snakes, fish, crustaceans, insects and even other amphiumas.
Hunting and eating habits are similar to that of the Axolotl.
They suck food into their stomachs with vacuum force.
They can become aggressive.
There are three amphiuma species.
They are different because of the number of toes:
Three-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum)
Two-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means)
One-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma pholeter)
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Leiopelmatidae, or New Zealand and North American primitive frogs, is a family belonging to the suborder Archaeobatrachia.
There are only four Leiopelma and two Ascaphus species alive now.
Leiopelma are only found in New Zealand.
Ascaphus are only found in North America.
Leiopelmatidae have an extra vertebrae.
They have the remains of the tail muscles.
When Leiopelmatid jump, they land in a "belly flop".
After landing, Ascaphus skids to a halt before recovering.
They are very small frogs, only  in length.
Most species lay their eggs in moist ground, typically under rocks or plants.
After hatching the tadpoles nest in the male's back.
They do not need standing or flowing water.
Life span may be long at more than 30 years.
Genus Leiopelma
Archey's Frog, Leiopelma archeyi Turbott, 1942
Hamilton's Frog, Leiopelma hamiltoni McCulloch, 1919
Hochstetter's Frog, Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger, 1861
Maud Island Frog, Leiopelma pakeka Bell, Daugherty & Hay, 1998
Genus Ascaphus
Tailed Frog, Ascaphus truei
Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog, Ascaphus montanus
Three extinct species are known by subfossil remains, also from New Zealand.
They became extinct during the past 1,000 years.
†Leiopelma auroraensis
†Leiopelma markhami
†Leiopelma waitomoensis
Much older fossils, dating back to the Jurassic, have been found in Argentina, such as Notobatrachus.
New Zealand Frog Conservation Biology - research on New Zealand frog biology
Megophryidae are a large family of frogs.
They live in the warm southeast of Asia, from the Himalaya foothills  eastwards, south to Indonesia and the Greater Sunda Islands in Maritime Southeast Asia, and going to the Philippines.
There are 70-100 species of frog divided between 12 genera.
They are commonly called megophryids.
The megophryids are known for their camouflage, especially those that live in forests.
They often look like dead leaves.
They even have some skin folds that look like leaf veins.
Megophryids range in size from  to  in length.
The adults' tongue is noticeably paddle-shaped.
Their tadpoles can be found in a variety of waters, but especially ponds and streams.
The tadpoles are very diverse in form because of the variety of habitats they live in.
Atympanophrys
Borneophrys - Rough horned frogs Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean & Ohler, 2006 (formerly in Megophrys)
Brachytarsophrys – Karin Hills frogs
Leptobrachella - Borneo frogs
Leptobrachium – Eastern spadefoot toads
Leptolalax - Asian toads
Megophrys - Asian horned toads
Ophryophryne - Mountain toads
Oreolalax
Scutiger - Cat-eyed toads
Vibrissaphora  - Spiny toads (sometimes included in Leptobrachium)
Xenophrys
(2003): Animal Diversity Web – Megophryidae.
Retrieved 2006-MAY-08.
Parsley frogs or Pelodytidae, is a family of order Anura.
The family has just one genus, Pelodytes.
These frogs live in southwestern Europe and the Caucasus.
Parsley frogs are typical looking frogs.
They are closely related to Spadefoot toads and Megophyrids.
The parsley frogs are small, smooth skinned frogs.
They reach a length of .
They are one of the few families of frogs which have more known extinct species and genera (two or three) than living species.
Family Pelodytidae
Genus Pelodytes
Pelodytes caucasicus – Caucasian parsley frog
Pelodytes ibericus – Iberian parsley frog
Pelodytes punctatus – Common parsley frog
Spadefoot  is the name of the following toads:
Scaphiopodidae - American spadefoot toads
Pelobates - European spadefoot toads
Notaden - genus that includes Australian spadefoot
An American spadefood toad is one of a family of toads known as Scaphiopodidae.
They live in North America, in southern Canada and USA south to southern Mexico.
Scaphiopodidae is a small family with only seven species.
The American spadefoot toads are of typical shape to most digging frogs.
They are round, with short legs and eyes that stick out.
This frog has a hard growth on their feet which helps them to dig.
They dig backwards into the ground.
The American spadefoot toads live on land when not under ground.
They are dully coloured, usually a grey or dull green or brown.
This is to help in camouflage.
Scaphiopodidae at Tree of Life
Notaden is a genus of frogs.
They live in central and northern Australia.
They are a digging frog.
Its body is very round in shape with a short neck.
Its pupils are horizontal slits.
It has long arms and short, stubby legs.
Its fingers do not have webbing and its toes may have little to no webbing.
The skin is slightly warty.
Because it looks like some species of toads it is often incorrectly called a toad.
It lets out a poisonous sticky fluid from its skin when picked up.
It lays eggs in chains like some toad species.
The Mexican burrowing toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis) is a frog.
They are the only species in the genus Rhinophrynus and the family Rhinophrynidae.
These frogs live from the southern Texas through Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador to Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
They used to live in more places.
There were species going as far north as Canada, but these died out in the Oligocene.
The Mexican Burrowing Toad grows to  in length.
They usually have red spots on its bloated body with a red stripe along the center of its back.
It has short legs, and a small, pointed head.
Its feet have horny, shovel-like growths that help it in digging.
Its eyes are small.
The Mexican Burrowing Toad's tongue comes directly out the front of the mouth.
In all other frogs it is flipped out.
As the name suggests, the Mexican Burrowing Toad is a burrowing animal.
It spends a large part of its life underground.
After a large time of rain, it will come out from the soil and lay eggs in water.
They will travel up to  to find a good water source.
Because of the unpredictability of rain, the frog will call and mate during any time of the year.
It will dig into soft soil with its short legs once the land has dried up.
The egg and tadpole stages of the life cycle are short.
The eggs take only a few days to hatch.
The tadpoles develop over one to three months.
The call is a loud, low pitched "wh-o-o-o-a".
When it is calling or scared, the body becomes inflated.
The Mexican Burrowing Toad eats insects, mostly ants and termites.
The Tukeit Hill Frog (Allophryne ruthveni) is one of the two described species in the genus Allophryne.
The other one is Allophryne resplendens.
It is the only member of the subfamily Allophryninae, a clade recently placed under the family Centrolenidae These frogs live in Guyana, Venezuela, Surinam, Brazil and Bolivia.
The holotype was discovered at Tukeit Hill, below Kaieteur Falls, Guyana.
This is the reason for the common English name.
The Tukeit Hill Frog is a small frog.
It can have different colors.
They are either black, with stripes and spots which can be golden or dull yellow, or a dull yellow or golden stomach surface, with black strips and spots.
It has a flat body, and small flat head.
The toe pads are large, wider than the fingers.
The Tukeit Hill Frog spends some time low in the trees, 1–3 metres, and some of the time on the ground.
This frog lives in sparse forest, avoiding cleared land.
Austin, J. D.; Lougheed, S. C.; Tanner, K; Chek, A. A.; Bogart, J. P. & Boag, P. T. (2002): A molecular perspective on the evolutionary affinities of an enigmatic neotropical frog, Allophryne ruthveni.
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The Aromobatidae are a family of poison dart frogs.
By late 2019, 126 species in three subfamilies and five genera had been described.
The Arthroleptidae is a family of frogs found in sub-Saharan Africa.
They are known as squeakers because of their high-pitched call.
They are small, less than  in length.
They live on land mostly in leaf litter on the forest floor.
They do not have tadpoles.
They lay their eggs on the ground.
Arthroleptidae is separated into two sub-families: Arthroleptinae and Leptopelinae.
Some think these are separate families.
The saddleback toads are the family Brachycephalidae in the order Anura.
The family has just one genus, Brachycephalus.
It has 28 species.
These tiny, often yellow frogs live in  the cool cloud Atlantic forests of south-eastern Brazil.
These mountainous areas have even more species (per square km) than the Amazon basin.
Each small mountain has its own species.
"For animals like the Bracycephalus frogs that are particularly sensitive to their environment, even the temperature change from mountain to valley forms a barrier.
That leaves the population on each mountain top to slowly develop into a separate species".
The saddleback toads are very small frogs.
They are mostly about  in length.
They include the smallest frog in the southern hemisphere, the Brazilian golden frog (Brachycephalus didactylus).
This is different than the usual five toes and four fingers of most frogs.
The saddleback toads are active during the day.
They live in the leaf litter on forest floors.
The eggs hatch into miniature frogs.
There is no tadpole stage.
They are covered in soil to protect from the heat and predators.
Rhonda Fleming (August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020) was an American television and movie actress.
She starred in many television programs and lots of movies in the 1940s and 1950s.
She was known as one of the most beautiful actors of her time.
Fleming was born in Hollywood, California.
In machine learning, supervised learning is the task of inferring a function from labelled training data.
The results of the training are known beforehand, the system simply learns how to get to these results correctly.
Usually, such systems work with vectors.
They get the training data and the result of the training as two vectors and produce a classifier.
Usually, the system uses inductive reasoning to generalize the training data.
Hasan ibn Zayd, known as Great Dai, (born early 8th century, died 6 January 884) was king of the Tabaristan's Alids.
He rebelled in Tabaristan (in 864) and fought with Abbasides, Taherian and the Saffarids dynasty.
He created an Alavids dynasty.
ʿALIDS: Ecyclopedia Iranica
Don Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American movie and television actor.
He has been featured in many television programs and movies.
In particular, he starred in the police shows Miami Vice and Nash Bridges.
He was born in Flat Creek, Missouri.
Johnson was married to Melanie Griffith in 1976 and from 1989 until 1996.
His five children include actor Jesse Johnson and actress Dakota Johnson.
Tokyo, a metropolitan area with traditional city at its center and including parts of the surrounding prefectures and islands in the Pacific Ocan
Prefecture of Tokyo or Tokyo Prefecture, established in 1943
City and Prefecture
1457-present: Tokyo
1457-1869: historical Edo or , see
1869-1943: historical Tokyo Prefecture or , also known as Tōkei-fu
1889-1943: historical Tokyo, Tokyo or , also known as "Tokyo City"
1943-present: Tokyo Metropolis or
Traditional Tokyo or the Special wards of Tokyo are 23 cities occupying the place that was formerly the city of Tokyo
List of articles that begin with "Tokyo"
F.C. Tokyo, a professional association football team in Tokyo
The corps de ballet are a group of dancers in a ballet company who are not soloists.
They perform as a group (the Flowers in the "Waltz of the Flowers" from The Nutcracker, for example) and at other times as a backdrop for the soloists (the peasants in the mad scene from Giselle).
it:Glossario della danza classica#Corps de ballet
This article is about Tokyo Prefecture.
For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation).
is a former Japanese government entity starting in 1869 and ending in 1943
In 1943, the prefecture's municipalities, including the traditional city of Tokyo, became part of the newly formed  or "greater Tokyo metropolian area".
1943 disestablishments
Soul Asylum is an American alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Soul Asylum has four members in the band; the current band members are David Pirner, Dan Murphy, Michael Bland and Tommy Stinson.
The band was formed in 1981 and were originally known as Loud Fast Rules.
The band was renamed Soul Asylum in 1983.
They released their debut album Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck on August 24, 1984.
The song "Runaway Train" from their sixth studio album, "Grave Dancers Union" won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1994.
The bands original bassist Karl Mueller died on June 17, 2005 from a long battle with throat cancer.
They released their tenth studio album "Delayed Reaction" on July 17, 2012.
David Pirner - lead vocals, guitar (1983–present)
Michael Bland - drums, backing vocals (1983-1985, 2005-present)
Tommy Stinson - bass guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
Dan Murphy - guitar (1983-2012)
Pat Morley – drums (1983)
Grant Young – drums (1985–1995)
Sterling Campbell – drums (1995-2000)
Chuck Biscuits – drums (2000-2005)
Karl Mueller - bass guitar (1983–2005)
Joey Huffman - keyboards (1993–1997, 2003–2006)
Say What You Will, Clarence... Karl Sold the Truck (1984)
Made to Be Broken (1986)
While You Were Out (1986)
Hang Time (1988)
And the Horse They Rode In On (1990)
Grave Dancers Union (1992)
Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995)
Candy from a Stranger (1998)
The Silver Lining (2006)
Delayed Reaction (2012)
After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom, June 28, 1997 (2004)
Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois (3 May 18709 February 1960) was an artist, art critic, and historian.
He was born in St. Petersburg and died in Paris.
He designed several productions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes including Petrushka.
This article is about Tokyo City in Tokyo Prefecture.
was a Japanese city in Tokyo Prefecture in 1889 through 1943.
In 1869, the city of Edo was renamed Tokyo, which means "Eastern Capital".
The offices of Tokyo Prefecture were also opened.
In 1943, the city was abolished.
All of the 23 Special wards of Tokyo merged with Tokyo Prefecture to form the Tokyo Metropolis.
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The glass frog (or glassfrog) is the common name for the frogs of the amphibian family Centrolenidae.
Most glass frogs are a lime green color.
For some glass frogs the skin on the stomach area is transparent.
The insides, including the heart, liver, and gastrointestinal tract can be seen through the skin.
This is the reason for the common name.
Glass frogs are generally small, ranging from  in length.
The frog is known to eat its own young.
They are green in color over most of their bodies.
The skin along the lower surface of the body is translucent.
Glass frogs are similar in appearance to some green frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus and to some tree frogs of the family Hylidae.
Hylid tree frogs have eyes that face to the side, whilst those of glass frogs face forward.
These frogs live from southern Mexico to Panama.
They are through the Andes from Venezuela and the island of Tobago to Bolivia.
Some species are in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins, the Guiana Shield region, southeastern Brazil, and northern Argentina.
They live along rivers and streams during the breeding season.
Many live in montane cloud forests of Central and South America.
Some species also live in Amazon and Chocóan rainforest and semi-deciduous forests.
The eggs are usually put on the leaves of trees or shrubs.
The leaves hang over the running water of mountain streams, creeks, and small rivers.
One species leaves its eggs over stones close to waterfalls.
After they hatch, the tadpoles fall into the waters below.
The tadpoles are long, with powerful tails and low fins, suited for fast flowing water.
Outside of the breeding season some species live in the canopy.
Subfamily Centroleninae
Genus Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872
Genus Chimerella Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Genus Cochranella Taylor, 1951
Genus Espadarana Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Genus Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid, 2007
Genus Rulyrana Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Genus Sachatamia Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Genus Teratohyla Taylor, 1951
Genus Vitreorana Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Subfamily Hyalinobatrachinae
Genus Celsiella Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Genus Hyalinobatrachium Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991 - "True" Glass Frogs
Subfamily Allophryninae
Incertae sedis Ikakogi Guayasamin, Castroviejo, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, Vilá, 2009
Guayasamin, J. M., S. Castroviejo-Fisher, L. Trueb, J. Ayarzagüena, M. Rada, C. Vilá.
Phylogenetic systematics of Glassfrogs (Amphibia: Centrolenidae) and their sister taxon Allophryne ruthveni.
Zootaxa 2100:1-97.
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In Spanish and English. .
The Ceratophryinae, known as common horned frogs, are a subfamily of the leptodactylid frogs.
All species live in South America.
Fossils of the giant Beelzebufo from Cretaceous Madagascar suggest that the subfamily may have once ranged throughout the prehistoric supercontinent of Gondwana.
Not all species in the subfamily have the horn-like growth at the eyes.
All are carnivorous, terrestrial or semi-aquatic.
They have large heads and mouths.
†Beelzebufo, Evans, Jones, & Krause, 2008.
Ceratophrys, Wied-Neuwied, 1824.
Chacophrys, Reig & Limeses, 1963.