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Jonah Cast Up Jonah Cast Up Jonah Whale
724 wordsA collection of marble sculptures called the "Jonah Group" is now on display at the Cleveland Art Museum. "Jonah Swallowed, Jonah Cast Up, Jonah Praying, Jonah Under the Gourd Vine, and The Good Shepherd, " are the separate titles for each of the different statues depicting events in the Bible story. They are part of the John L. Severance Fund; numbered 1965. 237, . 238, . 239, . 240, . 241 respectively. The "Jonah Group" was created in Asia minor, approximately 270 to 280 AD. These statues most...
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One Of The Most Common North America
1,848 wordsThere are many different species of animals roaming the earth these days. Some live on land and some live in bodies of water such a oceans or seas. They all look different and behave in different and unusual ways. Some use legs to move and other use fins however there are also species which nature didn't give the gift of these body parts. These animals are called snakes and today we will be looking at these extraordinary animals, especially the ones located near our homes right here in North Ame...
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Polygamous Spawning Fathering 'female Mimicry ' Whereby Males Salmon
1,898 wordsWhat species would travel over 2000 miles just to have young and then die? It has been said that anyone who has not seen a wild salmon has not seen what a fish should be. Salmon was the common name applied to fish characterized by an elongated body covered with small, rounded scales and a fleshy fin between the dorsal fin and tail. In this paper I will be discussing history of studying salmon, the life cycle, spawning and mating behaviors; which has much to do with the total reproduction of salm...
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Tail Of A Meerkat Member Of The Mob Meerkats
1,080 wordsMeerkat, or their scientific name, Suricate, are small mammals that live in the desert where the food is scarce. In the desert, there are animals such as hawks, coyotes, snakes, and scorpions which all can either kill or harm a Meerkat really bad. With all the danger, the only defensive weapons that a Meerkat has are his own claws, which are only 2 centimeters long. Due to the extreme changes in temperature of the day and night of desert, there are few vegetation's or insects that can survive, a...
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Yellow Throated Toucan Tail Is Nearly Square Bill
936 wordsToucan is the Brazilian name for a bird of the family, Ramphastidae, with approximately 42 different species of the bird. These peculiar birds belong to the order Piciformes, whose members have feet with the first and fourth toes reversed and are all cavity nester's. The toucan is an unusual looking bird, characterized by an enormous but light-weight bill, that has many useful qualities. Most species, posts a brilliant solid or multi-colored bill. They live in the tropical and subtropical forest...
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The Evolution Of Primate Locomotion
2,242 wordsThe evolution of primate locomotion There are many points of view connected to the appearance of men on this planet. However, the majority of scientists state that men have developed though the evolution of primate. According to John Stewarts work The evolution of primates, pp 16 - 24, primates possess well advanced five-fingered, the finiteness adapted to a climbing on branches in the trees. Full division of beam and elbow bones provides mobility and a variety of movements of forward finiteness...
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65 Million Years South America
1,685 wordsMegatherium Geology is the study of Earth. It examines Earths substances, forms, processes and history. Geology also gives start to all other sciences making them work. The farther we take a geological question, the more other sciences come into action. If one brings up the question of geology, the first thought appears is rocks. But rocks are found to be not just stones. These rocks are stories. To figure out the Earth, rocks are where to start. If one takes a closer look at them, she or he may...
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Millions Of Years Sperm Whale
1,110 wordsWhales, dolphins and porpoises make up the classification order Cetacea, which contains two suborders, Mysticeti and Odontoceti. The baleen whales are members of the Mysticeti suborder, while the toothed whales, dolphins and porpoises make up the suborder Odontoceti. Altogether, the two suborders contain eighty-one known species, separated into thirteen different families. In each family are a number of species, each classified further into sub-families, or genera, of which there are 40. What Ar...
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Kilometers In Diameter Solar System
1,940 wordsHave you Comet Comets Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen a little ball creeping by? If so, did you wonder what it was? That little ball is called a comet. Comets are small, fragile, and irregularly shaped. Most are composed of frozen gas. However, some are composed of frozen gas and non-volatile grains. They usually follow very strict paths around the sun. Comets become most visible when they cross the sun. This also applies to people who view comets with telescopes. When a comet gets n...
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Rest Of The World Surgical Procedure
1,271 wordsThrow around words such as boxer and ear cropping and people will probably figure you re referring to the sport know as boxing. Specifically to a notorious world championship bout in which one boxer did indeed crop the ear of another. Our discussion is here, though, it focuses on an entirely different species of boxers, and an entirely different style of ear cropping. The boxer, of course is the boxer dog. A breed that by custom and by standards typically undergoes a surgical procedure designed ...
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Pectoral Fins Fibrous Tissue
1,093 wordsDolphins are sleek Dolphins Dolphins Dolphins are sleek and powerful swimmers found in all seas. Dolphins are distinguished from porpoises by well-defined, beak-like snouts and conical teeth. There are at least 32 species of dolphins. Typical examples are the bottle-nosed dolphin, a popular performer in sea aquariums, and the common dolphin, which inspired many Mediterranean folk legends. Both often appear in open waters. Several freshwater species inhabit river estuaries in Asia and South Ameri...
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White Tailed Deer Deer Hunting
1,270 wordsThe white-tailed deer is faced with many obstacles such as: finding food in every situation, confrontation with fellow deer, and battling the changing seasons. The adaptive senses that the deer possesses makes escaping hunters and other predators easier as well as keeping alive. I. Introduction II. Foods and feeding of the white-tailed deer A. Acorns are the primary food for the white-tailed deer 1. Whitetails feed heavily on white and red oak acorns 2. Acorns low in protein and high in carbohyd...
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White Tailed Deer National Park
1,823 wordsAs the deer fed at the marsh's edge, its tail flickering as it nibbled tender and ripe green growth. Then the nervous animal pauses in its feeding and lifted its head to listen. Whatever hint of danger the deer had sensed was ignored once the threat could not be located. It stamped a forefoot, lowered its head and began to eat once more, this deer had failed to detect a Florida panther that was downwind (going into the wind) crouched low in the underbrush. Amber eyes however, estimated the dista...
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Male Florida Panther Feet Long From The Tip Panthers
474 wordsThe Florida panther s scientific name is Felis con color copy. The Florida panther is in the family of the feline. The Florida panther has been an endangered species since March 11 th, 1967. With an estimate the population of the Florida panther is only 30 to 40. The panther is one of the most rare to the everglades region. The Florida panther is large, with a lengthy tail. The coloration of the Florida panther is a rusty color on the upper part of the body and a dingy white color on the lower p...
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Body Size June 25
1,956 wordsAs promised, here are the derived characters with which Gauthier (in his 1986 paper) unites Archaeopteryx with modern birds, outside of all other theropods (with Gauthiers original clarifier's in parens) [and with my editorial comments in brackets]: Premaxilla e elongate, narrow, and more pointed anteriorly, with longer nasal processes [similar condition in bullatosaurs, and in the non dinosaurian Megalancosaurus, but unique to Archie and later birds in Maniraptora]. Maxillary process of premaxi...
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Gas Stations Space Race
1,242 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 s was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 s were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From this p...
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Body Language Skin Care
1,245 wordsHow To Groom A Horse Proper grooming of a horse minimizes potential problems and maintains a tidy appearance. While working at a horse barn in Orlando, Florida, I quickly learned the advantages of a complete grooming session. Horses are high maintenance animals that require much time and devotion. Three major areas must be tended to on a daily basis. The first is foot care. Cleaning out the hooves can prevent diseases, monitors the state of the horses shoes, and removes any foreign objects that ...
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Jose Arcadio Buendia Oedipus Rex
2,931 wordsThe innate tendency to commit incest is one of the main ongoing themes in One Hundred Years of Solitude. There seems to be no way of avoiding it from generation to generation of the Buendia family. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran flee their native town and found the Utopian town of Macondo in hopes of escaping from their incestuous destiny and the karma of having murdered someone. Like the Greek myth of Oedipus Rex, their actions to prevent a tragedy are actually the means that aid in th...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Quot Quot
9,055 wordsPamela White Hadas A poem that deserves special attention as an expression of style and being is " The Pangolin. " The pangolin is " the night miniature artist engineer, " " Leonardo Da Vinci's replica. " The invocation of Leonardo is important in terms of Marianne Moores work in general. Toward the end of her career she devoted two poems to Leonardo one a description of his picture of St. Jerome and the lion, which asserts the necessity of communion between beast a...
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Doesn T Play Too Important Play Too Important Board
4,597 wordsSnowboarding is the world? s fastest growing winter sport and is set to become even more popular than skiing. It is still a young sport and there are many people eager to learn more about the enjoyment the sport has to offer. Without going to a mountain and taking a few lessons it is hard to fully appreciate what the sport really is, and the sensation that riding a snowboard gives. Hopefully, my report will tell everything a person would need to know about equipment, so that they can go try the ...
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