There is some evidence that about 600 million years ago all of Earth's continents were covered by thick glaciers.
Horses originated in North America. So did camels and llamas. Both went extinct in North America and members of the family did not reappear until Europeans imported them from their new homes.
One lake in Africa has several hundred distinct species of fish, found only there.
Many insects chirp or buzz at different speeds depending on temperature. Females selectively choose their species chirp or buzz, and their preferences change at the same rate as male's chirps do. If a small heater is put on a male, however, the females will be fooled into thinking the male is the wrong species from their chirping speed. Same with the females. It is the male's abdomen's temperature which determines chirping speed, but the female's head which determines her preference, at least in grashoppers of the Chorthippus genus.
Answer: Happy Birthday was written, words and tune, by two (sisters, I believe) in the late 19th century and published not long after (the firm may still hold the rights, I wonder what they get in royalties).
Wow, I would've expected the tune to be a bit older- maybe some old folk song or something. "Ring Around the Rosies" was a song about the plague. Makes my eye twitch a bit every time I hear kids sing it!
The syrinx (did you mean Sphynx by any chance? I'm not familiar with a syrinx... It's a lovely word, though...) plays Chinese Checkers! Quite well, actually! Though it's not as good at Monopoly.
Yes, so would I! - although since the information is from my Concise Oxford, which is wrong a bit of the time, I should check it. Hrm. Syrinx is - I think!! - an ancestor of the flute. I was remembering, too, Debussy's Syrinx, a flute solo possibly named for that reason... --Eric
Yay liquefication <3 Wow :D I feel so inferior~ Sniffle. Snifflesniffle. Arhar, all keyboards suck anyway- some day we should have computers that read the thoughts we want them to type out. ANY FACT HAVING TO DO WITH FF7 IS AUTOMATICALLY COOL.
The band Nightwish formed in 1997 and originally started out as an accoustic opera band, however Tarja's voice was considered too strong and bombastic to be a purely accoustic voice. The band rose to the challenge of putting together a metal sound and hence they found their answer. They've sold platinum in more than three European countries and have become even more successful with their latest album "Once". They've saved my life and been my inspirtation time after time. :)
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Horses originated in North America. So did camels and llamas. Both went extinct in North America and members of the family did not reappear until Europeans imported them from their new homes.
One lake in Africa has several hundred distinct species of fish, found only there.
Many insects chirp or buzz at different speeds depending on temperature. Females selectively choose their species chirp or buzz, and their preferences change at the same rate as male's chirps do. If a small heater is put on a male, however, the females will be fooled into thinking the male is the wrong species from their chirping speed. Same with the females. It is the male's abdomen's temperature which determines chirping speed, but the female's head which determines her preference, at least in grashoppers of the Chorthippus genus.
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Question, question-- how plays the syrinx?
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"Ring Around the Rosies" was a song about the plague. Makes my eye twitch a bit every time I hear kids sing it!
The syrinx (did you mean Sphynx by any chance? I'm not familiar with a syrinx... It's a lovely word, though...) plays Chinese Checkers! Quite well, actually! Though it's not as good at Monopoly.
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Syrinx is - I think!! - an ancestor of the flute. I was remembering, too, Debussy's Syrinx, a flute solo possibly named for that reason...
--Eric
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Wow :D I feel so inferior~ Sniffle. Snifflesniffle.
Arhar, all keyboards suck anyway- some day we should have computers that read the thoughts we want them to type out.
ANY FACT HAVING TO DO WITH FF7 IS AUTOMATICALLY COOL.
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Big hugs and squishes and heartlurve to youuuu!
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~Jackie (from writing club and gsa and etc.)
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