97 résultats pour "gia"
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Giant Panda - biology.
In 2007 conservationists announced that a parasitic roundworm was responsible for a significant number of the panda deaths reported in the wild since 1990. Theparasite Baylisascaris schroederi causes the disease visceral larval migrans, which results in bleeding in the lungs, the liver, and the intestines, and can also affect the brain. It is not known if other recent pandas deaths were caused by the same parasite or by a different contagious disease. Loss of habitat from deforestation is forc...
- Giant Panda.
- Gier Markus
- Gier Michael
- Gigantes (Giants) Greek The offspring of Gaia and the blood of the wounded Uranus.
- Airbus, consortium européen fondé en 1970 et constitué en groupement d'intérêt économique (GIE) pour la construction d'avions de ligne.
- Laestrygonians Greek A race of giant cannibals who devoured many of the crewmen of the ships of Odysseus when the hero anchored near their island.
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Hercules (mythology)
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INTRODUCTION
Pollaiuolo's Hercules et Antaeus
In a wrestling match, Hercules triumphed over the mighty giant Antaeus, who received his strength from his mother, the
Earth goddess Gaia.
Pollaiuolo’s Hercules and the HydraAmong his 12 labors, the mythological hero Hercules had to kill the nine-headed Hydra. Each time Hercules cut off onehead, two more grew in its place. Hercules solved the problem by, as soon as he cut off one head, burning with a torchthe spot where it had been to stop its regrowth. Hercules and the Hydra (about 1460, Uffizi, Florence, Italy) was paintedby Italian artist Antonio Pollaiuolo. Hercules is shown wearing the skin of the Nemean lion, which he had kil...
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Extrasolar Planets - astronomy.
When a planet passes in a front of the star it orbits—an event called a transit—it causes a small dip in the brightness of the star. Measuring the slight change in thebrightness can be used not only to directly detect a planet, but to determine its size and orbit. However, the planet needs to orbit in a plane that lies in a telescope’sline of sight on the star. Despite long odds, Earth-based telescopes have detected and studied a few exoplanets using this method. The first space telescope design...
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Planetary Science - astronomy.
III ORIGINS AND COMPOSITIONS OF PLANETS Astronomers believe that planetary systems are formed of elemental materials that were created in the interiors of giant stars. Some of this material comes from giantstars that shed material into space as they age. Most of the matter to form planets, however, comes from stars that explode as supernovas and spread debris enrichedwith the heavier chemical elements into space. According to the currently accepted views, the most likely first stage in the evo...
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Major League Baseball: Most Valuable Player by Season.
1990 Rickey Henderson (of) Oakland Athletics 1991 Cal Ripken, Jr. (ss) Baltimore Orioles 1992 Dennis Eckersley (p) Oakland Athletics 1993 Frank Thomas (1b) Chicago White Sox 1994 Frank Thomas (1b) Chicago White Sox 1995 Mo Vaughn (1b) Boston Red Sox 1996 Juan Gonzalez (of) Texas Rangers 1997 Ken Griffey, Jr. (of) Seattle Mariners 1998 Juan Gonzalez (of) Texas Rangers 1999 Ivan Rodriguez (c) Texas Rangers 2000 Jason Giambi (1b) Oakland Athletics 2001 Ichiro Suzuki (of) Seattle Mariners 2002 Migue...
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Major League Baseball: Most Valuable Player by Season
Most Valuable Player (American League).
1990 Rickey Henderson (of) Oakland Athletics 1991 Cal Ripken, Jr. (ss) Baltimore Orioles 1992 Dennis Eckersley (p) Oakland Athletics 1993 Frank Thomas (1b) Chicago White Sox 1994 Frank Thomas (1b) Chicago White Sox 1995 Mo Vaughn (1b) Boston Red Sox 1996 Juan Gonzalez (of) Texas Rangers 1997 Ken Griffey, Jr. (of) Seattle Mariners 1998 Juan Gonzalez (of) Texas Rangers 1999 Ivan Rodriguez (c) Texas Rangers 2000 Jason Giambi (1b) Oakland Athletics 2001 Ichiro Suzuki (of) Seattle Mariners 2002 Migue...
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Jupiter (planet) - astronomy.
Beneath the supercritical fluid zone, the pressure reaches 3 million Earth atmospheres. At this depth, the atoms collide so frequently and violently that the hydrogenatoms are ionized—that is, the negatively charged electrons are stripped away from the positively charged protons of the hydrogen nuclei. This ionization results in asea of electrically charged particles that resembles a liquid metal and gives rise to Jupiter’s magnetic field. This liquid metallic hydrogen zone is 30,000 to 40,000 k...
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Coral Reef.
sensitive to particles of mud or sediment settling on them, which means that corals rarely grow close to rivers or other sources of sediment. In the sea, light is filteredout by depth, so reef-building corals can only grow in relatively shallow water. Even in the clearest oceans few reef-building corals grow below a depth of 80 to 100 m(260 to 328 ft). Although corals need nutrients, they cannot thrive in areas where there are large amounts of nutrients. Typically, microscopic organisms in the p...
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Moon - astronomy.
B Volcanic Features Maria, domes, rilles, and a few craters display indisputable characteristics of volcanic origin. Maria are plains of dark-colored rock that cover approximately 40 percent ofthe Moon's visible hemisphere. The maria formed when molten rock erupted onto the surface and solidified between 3.16 billion and 3.96 billion years ago. This rockresembles terrestrial basalt, a volcanic rock type widely distributed on Earth, but the rock that formed the maria has a higher iron content an...
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Dinosaur - biology.
The behavior of dinosaurs was governed by their metabolism and by their central nervous system. The dinosaurs’ metabolism—the internal activities that supply thebody’s energy needs—affected their activity level. It is unclear whether dinosaurs were purely endothermic (warm-blooded), like modern mammals, or ectothermic (cold-blooded), like modern reptiles. Endotherms regulate their body temperature internally by means of their metabolism, rather than by using the temperature oftheir surroundin...
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Sun - astronomy.
A The Sun’s Place in the Milky Way The Milky Way Galaxy contains about 400 billion stars. All of these stars, and the gas and dust between them, are rotating about a galactic center. Stars that arefarther away from the center move at slower speeds and take longer to go around it. The Sun is located in the outer part of the galaxy, at a distance of 2.6 × 10 17 km (1.6 × 10 17 mi) from the center. The Sun, which is moving around the center at a velocity of 220 km/s (140 mi/s), takes 250 million y...
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Comet - astronomy.
may exceed the planet Jupiter in size, however. Observations from telescopes on Earth and in space indicate that most of the gases in the coma and tail of a comet are fragmentary molecules, or radicals, of the mostcommon elements in space: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The radicals, for example, of CH, NH, and OH may be broken away from the stable molecules CH 4 (methane), NH 3 (ammonia), and H 2O (water), which may exist as ices or more complex, very cold compounds in the nucleus. Al...
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Antarctica - Geography.
The maximum area of sea ice surrounding Antarctica each winter varies from year to year. A marked decline during the 1970s appears to have reversed in more recentdecades, except in the Antarctic Peninsula area. This area has lost almost 40 percent of its sea ice since the start of the 1980s. Sea ice is important to marine life. Krillfeed on algae that live under the sea ice and are released when the ice melts in spring and summer. In turn, many marine animals feed on krill. Emperor penguinsbreed...
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Natural Satellite - astronomy.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, also has few impact craters. Although icy volcanism from water and ammonia may occur along with some tectonic activity, Titan’s youngsurface is most likely the result of weather processes. Titan’s dense, cold atmosphere precipitates particles of complex organic molecules that accumulate as dunes andmountains. Methane rain erodes the surface and creates lakes at the moon’s poles. Triton’s young surface also may result from processes in its atmosphere, as well aserupt...
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World Series Winners.
1974 Oakland Athletics Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 1975 Cincinnati Reds Boston Red Sox 4-3 1976 Cincinnati Reds New York Yankees 4-0 1977 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1978 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Baltimore Orioles 4-3 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Kansas City Royals 4-2 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers New York Yankees 4-2 1982 St. Louis Cardinals Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 1983 Baltimore Orioles Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 1984 Detroit Tigers San Diego Padres 4-1...
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World Series Winners
Year
Winning Team
Losing Team
Score
1903
Boston Americans
Pittsburgh Pirates
5-3*
1904
No Series
1 905
New York
1974 Oakland Athletics Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 1975 Cincinnati Reds Boston Red Sox 4-3 1976 Cincinnati Reds New York Yankees 4-0 1977 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1978 New York Yankees Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Baltimore Orioles 4-3 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Kansas City Royals 4-2 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers New York Yankees 4-2 1982 St. Louis Cardinals Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 1983 Baltimore Orioles Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 1984 Detroit Tigers San Diego Padres 4-1...
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National League: Gold Glove Award Winners.
1957 no award 1958 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1959 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1960 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1961 John Roseboro Los Angeles Dodgers 1962 Del Crandall Milwaukee Braves 1963 Johnny Edwards Cincinnati Reds 1964 Johnny Edwards Cincinnati Reds 1965 Joe Torre Milwaukee Braves 1966 Johnny Roseboro Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Randy Hundley Chicago Cubs 1968 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1969 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1970 Johnny Bench Cincinnati Reds 1971 Johnny Bench Cincinna...
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Bear - biology.
programs sponsored by zoos or other breeding centers have attempted to breed giant pandas in captivity, although most of these programs have proved unsuccessful.Among the difficulties faced by captive breeders has been the problem of encouraging a female giant panda to mate with a selected male during the two to three daysof the year when she is most fertile, a period known as estrus. B Spectacled Bear Creamy-white rings surrounding the eyes give the spectacled bear its name. Its shaggy coat of...
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Astronomy - astronomy.
Telescopes may use either lenses or mirrors to gather visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects. Those that use lenses arecalled refracting telescopes, since they use the property of refraction, or bending, of light ( see Optics: Reflection and Refraction ). The largest refracting telescope is the 40-in (1-m) telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, founded in the late 19th century. Lenses bend different colors of light by d...
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Cours de Culture générale sur la famille
La dépendance aujourd’hui des ascendants envers leurs descendants est moins prégnante même si elle reste une obligation juridique. On peut revenir un peu plus en détail sur l’émancipation de la femme en France au sein de la famille. Le code civil de 1804 (Napoléon Premier) consacre l’incapacité de la femme mariée ; cela veut dire qu’une femme mariée n’a pas à contester, elle ne peut pas divorcer, elle ne peut pas porter plainte contre son mari (j...
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Skiing.
Safety is very important to all skiers, and all Alpine resorts have a ski patrol. The ski patrol’s responsibility is to take care of injured skiers, to mark hazardous spots ontrails, to make sure that trails are in good condition before opening them, and, at times, to act as traffic police in congested areas. Skiers are also responsible for takingtheir own safety into consideration, as well as that of others. Anyone who participates in the sport should be aware of the Skier’s Responsibility Code...
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Mays Makes "The Catch".
Game one was held at the Polo Grounds in New York. In the eighth inning, with the score tied, 2-2, the Indians put two men on base, Doby and Al Rosen. Durocherbrought in left-hander Don Liddle to face Cleveland first baseman Vic Wertz, who already had three hits in the game, including a two-run triple in the first. Wertzknocked a long drive to center field, the deepest part of the longest outfield in the league. A double or triple would score both runners, giving the Indians a two-runlead and a...
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Uranus (planet) - astronomy.
V COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE A Interior of Uranus Uranus contains mostly rock and water, with hydrogen and helium (and trace amounts of methane) in its dense atmosphere. Astronomers believe that Uranus, likeNeptune, formed from the same material—principally frozen water and rock—that composes most of the planet’s moons. As the planet grew, pressures andtemperatures in the planet’s interior increased, heating the planet’s frozen water into a hot liquid. Uranus probably has a relatively small roc...
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Hercules - anthology.
'…amidst the gardens fairOf Hesperus and his daughters three,That sing about the golden tree.' The poets, led by the analogy of the lovely appearance of the western sky at sunset, viewed the west as a region of brightness and glory. Hence they placed in it theIsles of the Blest, the ruddy Isle Erytheia, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the Isle of the Hesperides. The apples are supposed by some to bethe oranges of Spain, of which the Greeks had heard some obscure account...
- Berlier (Jean-Baptiste) Ingénieur français (Rive-de-Gier, Loire, 1843 - Deauville, 1911).
- Polyphemus Greek The savage, one-eyed giant of Homer's Odyssey.
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- Hecatoncheires (Hecato nchires) Greek The hundred-handed giants, offspring of Gaia and Uranus.
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Rain Forest.
dropped into the heart of the forest by helicopters. Suspended from the crane’s long, movable arm is a large gondola that functions as a mobile treetop laboratory.Moving from tree to tree, forest researchers collect specimens, conduct experiments, and observe life in the canopy frontier. The highest stratum of the rain forest is made up of the emergent trees, those individuals that stick up above the forest canopy. Emergents, which do not form acontinuous layer, are usually the giants of the for...
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Mars (planet) - astronomy.
The Martian core is probably much like Earth’s, consisting mostly of iron, with a small amount of nickel. If other light elements, particularly sulfur, exist there as well, thecore may be larger than presently thought. From studying Earth’s magnetic field and core, scientists theorize that the motions of the liquid rock in Earth’s core generateits magnetic field. Mars does not have a significant magnetic field, so scientists believe that Mars’s core is probably solid. However, spacecraft data in...
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Marguerite Duras
par Alan Chatham de Bolivar
Marguerite Donnadieu naît le 4 avril 1914 à Gia-Dinh près de Saïgon.
par Alan Chatham de Bolivar
- Bear. Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Ursidae Genus/Species: Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda) Tremarctos oratus (spectacled
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DURAS, Marguerite Donnadieu, dite
(4 avril 1914-3 mars 1996)
Ecrivain, cinéaste
Née à Gia-Dinh, près de Saïgon, elle est en France en 1932 pour passer
le baccalauréat de philosophie, entreprend des études de mathématiques,
droit et sciences politiques.
obsessionnelle, faite de sensations ; il y est question de l’amour et de sa perte. Une petite musique lancinante est reprise de récits en romans, de pièces de théâtre en films. Ecrivain des instants et de la mémoire, Duras est l’architecte d’un archipel unique en son genre dans les lettres françaises. De même, elle occupe une place singulière dans le cinéma français. Avec L’Amant (prix Goncourt en 1984), qui a un succès considérable et qui sera adapté au cinéma, Duras devient un auteur populair...
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DURAS, Marguerite Donnadieu, dite
(4 avril 1914-3 mars 1996)
Ecrivain, cinéaste
Née à Gia-Dinh, près de Saïgon, elle est en France en 1932 pour passer
le baccalauréat de philosophie, entreprend des études de mathématiques,
droit et sciences politiques.
obsessionnelle, faite de sensations ; il y est question de l’amour et de sa perte. Une petite musique lancinante est reprise de récits en romans, de pièces de théâtre en films. Ecrivain des instants et de la mémoire, Duras est l’architecte d’un archipel unique en son genre dans les lettres françaises. De même, elle occupe une place singulière dans le cinéma français. Avec L’Amant (prix Goncourt en 1984), qui a un succès considérable et qui sera adapté au cinéma, Duras devient un auteur populair...
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Cyclopes (1) (Singular: Cyclops; Round-eyed)
Greek Three sons of Uranus and Gaia, large
and strong, each with one eye in the middle of his
forehead; siblings of the Hecatoncheires, hundredhanded
giants, and the younger Titans.
These Cyclopes served King Proetus of the city Tiryns. For him, they built the great walls of the city. They built similar walls around the city of Mycenae and the famous Lion Gate there. The stones they used were so massive that the term “cyclopean” has come to mean gigantic. They were also called “belly-hands” for they worked for their livings.
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Scandinavian Mythology
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INTRODUCTION
Scandinavian Mythology, pre-Christian religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people.
Werner Forman/Corbis Many ancient mythological heroes, some of whom may have been derived from real persons, were believed to be descendants of the gods; among them were Sigurdthe Dragon-slayer; Helgi Thrice-Born, Harald Wartooth, Hadding, Starkad, and the Valkyries. The Valkyries, a band of warrior-maidens that included Svava andBrunhild, served Odin as choosers of slain warriors, who were taken to reside in Valhalla. There the warriors would spend their days fighting and nights feasting untilR...
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Gottfried von Straßburg: Tristan (Sprache & Litteratur).
nu gienc ouch Tristan zehantbegrüezen unde beschouwendie liehten sîne vrouwen.und alse er zuo z’ir nider gesazund redeten diz unde dazvon ir beider dingen,er bat im trinken bringen.Nune was dâ nieman inneâne die küniginnewan cleiniu juncvrouwelîn.der einez sprach: „seht, hie stât wînin disem vezzelîne.”nein, ezn was niht mit wîne,doch ez ime gelîch waere.ez was diu wernde swaere,diu endelôse herzenôt,von der si beide lâgen tôt.nu was aber ir daz unrekant.si stuont ûf und gie hin zehant,dâ daz tr...
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Nibelungenlied (Sprache & Litteratur).
983 Der herre tobelîchen von dem brunnen spranc.im ragete von dem herzen ein gêrstange lanc.der fürste wânde vinden bogen oder swert:sô müese wesen Hagene nâch sînem díensté gewert. 984 Dô der sêre wunde des swertes niht envant,done hét et er niht mêre wan des schildes rant.er zuhten von dem brunnen, dô lief er Hagenen an.done kúnde im niht entrinnen des künic Guntheres man. 985 Swie wunt er was zem tôde, sô krefteclîch er sluoc,dáz úz dem schilde dræté genuocdes edelen gesteines; der schilt vil...
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Nova - astronomy.
When first discovered, the spectrum of a nova shows that the expanding layers of gas that cause the brightening have temperatures of 40,000° to 50,000° C (70,000°to 90,000° F)—about eight times as hot as the surface of the Sun. By the time a nova reaches maximum brightness, the temperature of the material has fallen to about10,000° C (about 20,000° F), or lower. Just after maximum brightness, the escaping cloud of gas cools and expands enough to become transparent. This transparency allows astro...
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Camel - biology.
of water in the stomach or hump as was once commonly believed. Unlike other mammals, however, the camel can survive as long as three weeks without drinking,depending on the water content of its food. It can survive a water loss of about 40 percent of its normal body weight. In comparison, a loss of 15 percent is usually fatalfor humans. Camels can go without water due to several unique adaptations to their environment. The camel conserves more water in its body than any other mammal. It excretes...
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Star (astronomy) - astronomy.
absorbing the missing colors of light. For example, the set of dark lines made by hydrogen includes a dark red line, the set of dark lines made by sodium includes a pairof dark yellow lines, and the set of dark lines made by iron includes lines of nearly every color. Each element in the gaseous outer layer of a star produces its ownparticular pattern of dark spectrum lines, depending on the temperature and pressure of the gas. Astronomers have observed spectrum lines, or spectra, for hundredsof...
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Odyssey Greek The epic poem by Homer that
describes the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward
voyage to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
turn his men back into their human forms. Under her spell, he dallied for a year on the island of the sorceress, who gave him warnings about the perils he would encounter on his way home. Odysseus in the Underworld - Mythology. After suffering under the spell of the witch-goddess Circe for a year, Odysseus and his crew grew restless and wanted to leave. On the advice of Circe, Odysseus and his crew visited the Underworld (1) to consult the ghost of the blind seer Tiresias. Tiresias had many wa...
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Supernova - astronomy.
The term hypernova has been proposed for an extremely massive core-collapse supernova—possibly more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. A hypernova is thought to form a black hole. Just before it explodes, a hypernova may release a huge burst of gamma rays in a jet from the rotating black hole at its center. These jets mayexplain the so-called long gamma-ray bursts detected by astronomers. According to some researchers, massive stars with over 40 solar masses may sometimescollapse directly int...
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Python (snake) - biology.
pythons are prey for monitor lizards, crocodiles, storks, eagles, and predatory mammals ranging from hyenas to leopards and other cats depending on the region. V PYTHONS AND HUMANS Modern humans have lived alongside pythons for thousands of years. The giant species have been treated with both reverence and fear. Pythons have been widelyassociated with fertility, water, and the Earth. Some African tribes have worshiped pythons as protective spirits. Among Aboriginal Australians the Rainbow Serpe...
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Asteroid - astronomy.
Asteroids of the S type, related to the stony iron meteorites, make up about 15 percent of the total population of asteroids that can be seen from Earth. Much rarer arethe M-type objects, corresponding in composition to the meteorites known as “irons.” These objects are made up of an iron-nickel alloy and may represent the cores ofbodies that were large enough to differentiate into layers and to melt deep inside. Their rocky outer layers may have been removed by impacts with other asteroids . A...