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E. Phillips Phillips The Yellow Crayon

Business und Wirtschaft
Englisch
76741 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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It Was Late Summer-Time, And The Perfume Of Flowers Stole Into The Darkened room Through The Half-Opened window. The Sunlight Forced Its Way Through A Chink In the Blind, And Stretched across The Floor In Strange Zigzag Fashion. From Without Came The Pleasant Murmur Of Bees And Many Lazier Insects Floating over The Gorgeous Flower Beds, Resting for A While On The Clematis Which Had Made The Piazza A Blaze Of Purple Splendour. And Inside, In a High-Backed chair, There Sat A Man, His Arms Folded, His Eyes Fixed steadily Upon Vacancy. [mehr]

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Margaret Wade Campbell Deland The Vehement Flame Part 1

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Englisch
62164 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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There Is Nothing In The World Nobler, And Lovelier, And More Absurd, Than A Boy'S Lovemaking. And The Joyousness Of It!... The Boy Of Nineteen, Maurice Curtis, Who On A Certain June Day Lay In The Blossoming Grass At His Wife'S Feet And Looked Up Into Her Dark Eyes, Was Embodied Joy! The Joy Of The Warm Earth, Of The Sunshine Glinting On The Slipping Ripples Of The River And Sifting Through The Cream-White Blossoms Of The Locust Which Reared Its Sheltering Branches Over Their Heads; The Joy Of Mating Insects And Birds, Of The Whole Exulting, [mehr]

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Dr. Parul Bhatnagar Wetlands and Role in Water Conservation

Bildung
Englisch
6 Wörter
Ab 16 Jahren
442
1

A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps , marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater , freshwater , or brackish . The world's largest wetland is the Pantanal which straddles Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguayin South America. Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. Plant life found in wetlands includes mangrove, water lilies, cattails, sedges, tamarack, black spruce, cypress, gum tree, and many others. Animal life includes many different amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects, and mammals. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Water conservation, wetlands

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Alfred russel Wallace Darwinism (1889) (fiscle part-XII) Part 2

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
86893 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Sex Colours In the Mollusca And Crustacea--In Insects--In Butterflies And Moths--Probable Causes Of These Colours--Sexual Selection As A Supposed cause--Sexual Coloration Of Birds--Cause Of Dull Colours Of Female Birds--Relation Of Sex Colour To Nesting habits--Sexual Colours Of Other Vertebrates--Sexual Selection By The Struggles Of Males--Sexual Characters Due To Natural Selection--Decorative Plumage Of Males And Its Effect On The Females--Display Of Decorative Plumage By The Males--A Theory Of Animal Coloration--The Origin Of Accessory Plumes--Development Of Accessory Plumes And Their Display--The Effect Of Female Preference Will Be Neutralised by Natural Selection--General Laws Of Animal Coloration--Concluding Remarks. [mehr]

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Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist On The River Amazons

Belletristik
Englisch
172124 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS, FGS (Leicester. Born 8 February 1825 – London, 16 February 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species (mostly of insects) of which 8,000 were new to science.[1] Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, The Naturalist on the River Amazons. [mehr]

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J. Ewing Ritchie Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3]

or Fifty Years Ago

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Englisch
43045 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Upon my word, I don’t know a more desirable residence from the pauper’s point of view than Parker’s Piece, an awful spot in the very heart of the rising town of Sloville. I can’t say, as regards myself, that the place has many attractions. It is too crowded, too dirty, too evil-smelling, too much inhabited by living creatures, including insects which delicacy forbids mentioning. I like living in the country, where I can hear the birds sing their morning anthem. [mehr]

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William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johanssen Handbook of Medical Entomology

Belletristik
Englisch
103717 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Until very recent years insects and their allies have been considered as of economic importance merely in so far as they are an annoyance or direct menace to man, or his flocks and herds, or are injurious to his crops. It is only within the past fifteen years that there has sprung into prominence the knowledge that in another and much more insiduous manner, they may be the enemy of mankind, that they may be among the most important of the disseminators of disease. [mehr]

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J H Fabre The Wonders Of Instinct

Wissenschaft
Englisch
87168 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Fabre went on to accomplish many scholarly achievements. He was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring popularity is due to his marvelous teaching ability and his manner of writing about the lives of insects in biographical form, which he preferred to a clinically detached, journalistic mode of recording. In doing so he combined what he called "my passion for scientific truth" with keen observations and an engaging, colloquial style of writing. Fabre noted: Others again have reproached me with my style, which has not the solemnity, nay, better, the dryness of the schools. They fear lest a page that is read without fatigue should not always be the expression of the truth. Were I to take their word for it, we are profound only on condition of being obscure. Over the years he wrote a series of texts on insects and arachnids that are collectively known as the Souvenirs Entomologiques. Fabre's influence is felt in the later works of fellow naturalist Charles Darwin, who called Fabre "an inimitable observer". Fabre, however,was a Christian who remained sceptical about Darwin's theory of evolution, as he always held back from all theories and systems. His special force was exact and detailed observation, field research as we would call it today, always avoiding premature general conclusions from his observations. In one of Fabre's most famous experiments, he arranged Pine Processionary caterpillars to form a continuous loop around the edge of a pot. As each caterpillar instinctively followed the silken trail of the caterpillars in front of it, the group moved around in a circle for seven days.[2] Jean-Henri Fabre's last home and office, the Harmas de Fabre in Provence, stands today as a museum devoted to his life and works. The site of his birth, at St Léons, near Millau is now the site of Micropolis, a tourist attraction dedicated to popularising entomology and a museum on his life. [mehr]

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Phillips Oppenheim The Yellow Crayon

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Englisch
76928 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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It Was Late Summer-Time, And The Perfume Of Flowers Stole Into The Darkened room Through The Half-Opened window. The Sunlight Forced Its Way Through A Chink In the Blind, And Stretched across The Floor In Strange Zigzag Fashion. From Without Came The Pleasant Murmur Of Bees And Many Lazier Insects Floating over The Gorgeous Flower Beds, Resting for A While On The Clematis Which Had Made The Piazza A Blaze Of Purple Splendour. And Inside, In a High-Backed chair, There Sat A Man, His Arms Folded, His Eyes Fixed steadily Upon Vacancy. As He Sat Then, So Had He Sat For A Whole Day And A Whole Night. The Faint Sweet Chorus Of Glad Living things, Which Alone Broke The Deep Silence Of The House, Seemed neither To Disturb Nor Interest Him. [mehr]

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Christopher Pastrana Legacy

The Last Stand

Fantasy
Englisch
32062 Wörter
Ab 16 Jahren
1611
42

"What does a name matter anymore? Everything I had was taken from me. Everybody is gone, dead. Even death couldn't end my suffering. The only thing I have left is this draw, a need to find the sea, and whatever lies within its waters." "What will it take to get there?" Briccio asked fighting the strange tired feeling in his head. "The masters themselves will not keep me from where I am headed. I will leave the bodies of anyone who stands in my way behind me." Life and Death fight endlessly, tirelessly, for control over each and every person. A lonely man loses everything but gains an ally in death, setting into motion a chain of events that will forever change two worlds and the destiny of every form of life; from the tiny insects of the earth to the ageless dragons that soar the skies. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Fantasy, Elements, Death, Life, Magic, War, Dragons, Fire, Wind, Water, Earth, Ice, Lightning

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