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- Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette... - Apple (20408 bytes)
39: ... fresh (dessert apples), some are cultivated specifically for cooking ([[cooking apple]]s) or producin...
84: ...ed strains of the parent cultivar. Some differ sufficiently from the parent tree to be considered new ...
89: ...y [[Fruit tree propagation|grafting or budding]]. First, a [[rootstock]] is produced either as a seedl...
95: Some trees are produced with a dwarfing "interstem" between a standard rootstock and th...
107: ...ds, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators. - Bee (11175 bytes)
29: ...e apex of the female abdomens are modified into a stinger.
31: ...l]] colonies, found among the [[honeybee]]s and [[stingless bee]]s. Sociality is believed to have evolved...
41: ...survive individually in found hiding spots. Interestingly bumblebee queens sometimes seek winter safety i...
49: ...uality of the queens raised, good genetics and sufficient number of [[mating]]s also being factors. Du...
51: ...er, and have a vertical orientation. As the queen finishes her larval feeding, and pupates, she moves ... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made significant social and economic progress in the subsequen...
15: In the early [[first millennium BC]], several waves of [[Celts]] i...
17: ...success was only achieved by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. During this period...
31: ...n I]]), with the help of [[Nuno ?vares Pereira]], finally defeated the Castilians in Portugal's most h...
40: ...ces in geographic knowledge. The discoveries were financed by the wealth of the [[Order of Christ]], a... - Dragonfly (4578 bytes)
23: ...ymphs''') are aquatic. Dragonflies do not bite or sting humans.[1] In fact, they are valued as a predato...
26: ...atidia]], arranged to give them nearly a 360° field of vision.
37: ...earch suggests. These findings illustrate for the first time how dragonflies use complex [[camouflage|... - Isis (20790 bytes)
5: ...[mortal]], and she may simply have represented deified, real, [[Queen regnant|queen]]s.
7: ... dynasty of Egypt|5th dynasty]] which is when the first literary inscriptions are found, but her cult ...
16: ...s ''ee-set'' or the more correct ''ee-sa'' (''the final 't' in Her name was a feminine determinative w...
20: ...ithin their mother's womb. Temples dedicated specifically to Isis become wide-spread only in the Roman...
24: ...-Roman]] world, Isis becomes one of the most significant of the [[mystery religion]]s, and many classi... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] Only [[...
37: ISOCode = US-AZ ([[FIPS state code|FIPS Code]] 04) |
50: Fish = [[Trout|Arizona Trout]] |
61: Fossil = [[Petrified wood]] |
62: StateRock = [[Petrified wood]] | - North Carolina (18268 bytes)
14: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
42: ...], both ending in failure. [[Virginia Dare]], the first English child to be born stateside, was born i...
44: ...s later. In April [[1776]], the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental C...
46: On [[November 21]], [[1789]], North Carolina ratified the Constitution to become the twelfth state in...
48: ...obert E. Lee]]'s surrender at Appomattox, but the final surrender in North Carolina came at [[Waynesvi... - Spider (29039 bytes)
40: Filistatidae ([[crevice weaver]])<br />
88: ...n]]s for it to travel in. Rather their bodies are filled with [[haemolymph]], which is pumped through ...
90: ...tracheal system oxygen interchange is much more efficient, enabling [[cursorial hunting]] (hunting inv...
98: ...at lurk on flowers, [[spider web|web]]s and other fixed locations waiting for prey have very poor eyes...
106: ...es its larval form, a spider-looking, non self-sufficient animal feeding off its yolk supply (Foelix, ... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
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42: ...tion<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1958]] to [[1969]]. His [...
50: ...ssful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp. - Scorpion (12441 bytes)
20: ...he anus of the scorpion and bears the telson (the sting) which comprises of the vesicle which holds a pai...
25: '''Pedipalps:''' these are a pair of modified legs that have evolved into claws. The claws ar...
26: ...upper fixed finger (tibia) and the lower moveable finger (tarsus). The size of the pedipalps is highly...
28: ...e are a pair of feather like sensory organs, consisting of a row of pegs, and are unique in scorpions. Th...
30: ...ns, only able to detect regions of strongly contrasting light intensity, such as horizons. The eyes are h... - Allergy (18658 bytes)
4: ...as "allergies". A new four-class (now five) classification scheme was designed by P. G. H. Gell and R....
23: ...skin, often with a [[lancet]]. Common areas for testing include the inside forearm and back. If the patie...
28: ...p to 24 hours. This can also cause serious long-lasting tissue damage to the affected area. Fortunately, ...
32: ... are not always able to pinpoint a patient's specific allergies if the patient has an allergy but does...
36: ...oassay]]s. Even the levels the amount of IgE specific to certain allergens can be measured through use... - Tarantula (17481 bytes)
129: ... been an entirely different kind of spider in the fields around Taranto that caused fairly severe bite...
133: ...ety of living animals (insects, small mice, small fish in the water bowl, and reptiles are on their me...
152: ...of tarantulas, some also have a dense covering of stinging hairs, called [[urticating hair]]s, on the abd...
154: These fine hairs are barbed and contain a mild [[venom]]. ...
188: ...y species are reported to be no worse than a wasp sting, other accounts say these bites are some of the m... - Swimming (22854 bytes)
1: ...so a competitive sport. There are many health benefits of swimming, yet basic swimming skills and safe...
17: ...rs simply grab water with their hand flat, or the fingers slightly spread, and then draw it smoothly d...
26: ...nguage|German]] professor of languages, wrote the first swimming [[book]] "Colymbetes". Competitive sw...
28: ...e Natation (FINA)]] was formed. [[Butterfly]] was first a variant of [[Breaststroke]], until it was ac...
31: ...s Masters Swimming]] (USMS) in the United States. FINA regulates four swimming disciplines, swum over ... - Sea nettle (4594 bytes)
15: ...om moderate to severe but do not cause death. The sting is used to kill or stun both [[prey]] and [[preda...
17: The Stinging Nettle is [[symmetry|symmetrical]], marine, an...
21: ...e required in order for a jellyfish to reproduce. First, the reproductive organs in the male (the [[go...
23: ...dusa, completing its complex life cycle. The jellyfish will live for three to six months if nothing ha...
30: ...also eat [[crustacean]]s. Nettles obtain food by stinging it with their tentacles. After that, the prey ... - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ...[[2004]] US Census estimation, Phoenix is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Penns...
13: ...anguage spoken in Arizona & [[New Mexico]]) and ''Fiinigis'' in [[Western Apache]] (a language spoken ...
46: ...ho lived there as early as 300 BC. They were the first to farm there, building an elaborate canal sys...
55: ...d an election precinct there. The Phoenix post office was established [[June 15]], [[1868]], with Jac...
59: ...held in [[1871]], when Tom Barnum was elected the first sheriff of Maricopa County. - Anteater (6362 bytes)
6: ... nests of terrestrial insects. To avoid the jaws, sting, and other defences of the invertebrates, anteate...
8: ...ue is covered with thousands of tiny hooks called filiform papillae which are used to hold the insects...
10: ...environment, but the more opportunistic tamanduas find their food both on the ground and in trees, typ...
16: The two tamandua anteaters, as typified by ''Tamandua'' (or ''Uroleptes'') ''tetradacty... - Leather (7695 bytes)
14: ...[drum]] heads where it does not need to flex significantly; it is also cut up into cords for use in la...
22: ...a" and grow more beautiful each passing year. The finest furniture, and footwear are made from Full Gr...
24: ...e all of the natural grain sanded off, and an artificial grain applied. Top grain leather must be heav...
28: ...]]''' is leather that has been given a high gloss finish. The original process was developed by Newark...
33: ...terial makes ensuring a precise thickness very difficult. Other leather manufacturers state the thickn... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ...d the messenger from the gods to humans. A lucky find was a ''hermaion''. An interpreter who bridges ...
13: Hermēs or Mercury was commonly identified by Roman observers with the Germanic god Wotan/...
15: The modern post office in [[Greece]] uses Hermēs as its symbol.
23: Hermes as an inventor of fire is a parallel of the titan [[Prometheus]]. In a...
36: ...cattle of [[Apollo]]. For the first Olympian sacrifice, the taboos surrounding the sacred kine of Apol... - Nettle (5285 bytes)
2: ...mage:Bluehende brennessel.jpg|200px]] | caption = Stinging nettle (''Urtica dioica'')}}
15: .... The most prominent member of the genus is the [[Stinging nettle]] ''Urtica dioica'', native to [[Europe...
17: ...imilar medicinal uses to the stinging nettle. The sting of ''Urtica ferox'', the Onga Onga or Tree nettle...
22: *''Urtica dioica'' ([[Stinging nettle]] or Bull nettle). [[Europe]], [[Asia]]...
33: ...]. As its name implies, the false nettle does not sting.
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