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Brook, Alexander
(Encyclopedia) Brook, Alexander, 1898–1980, American painter, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Brook's paintings, which are consistently realistic, include portraits, still-life subjects, landscapes, and figures.…Black Forest
(Encyclopedia) Black Forest, Ger. Schwarzwald, mountain range, SW Germany, extending 90 mi (145 km) between the Rhine and Neckar rivers. Feldberg is the highest (4,898 ft/1,493 m) peak. The range is…Baron Munchausen: Pays a visit during the sie...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe Adventures in Turkey, and u... An interesting account of t... Pays a visit during the sie... Pays a visit during the siege of Gibraltar to his old friend…What is an “exotic” fish?
Source: National Marine Fisheries Services' Northeast Fisheries Science Center The most often quoted estimate is 20,000. There may be as many as 20,000 more. Which is the oldest type of…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Woodnotes II
Woodnotes IIAs sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.'Whether is better, the…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Revolt of Islam, Canto 3
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Canto 2 Canto 4 Canto 3 What thoughts had sway o'er Cythna's lonely slumber That night, I know not; but my own did seem As if they might ten thousand years outnumber…rabies
(Encyclopedia) rabiesrabiesrāˈbēz, răˈ– [key] or hydrophobiarabieshīˌdrəfōˈbēə [key], acute viral infection of the central nervous system in dogs, bats, foxes, raccoons, skunks, and other animals,…hummingbird
(Encyclopedia) hummingbird, common name for members of the family Trochilidae, small, strictly New World birds, related to the swifts, and found chiefly in the mountains of South America.…moose, in zoology
(Encyclopedia) moose, largest member of the deer family, genus Alces, found in the northern parts of Eurasia and North America. The Eurasian species, A. alces, is known in Europe as the elk, a name…Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
(Encyclopedia) Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, acute, sometimes fatal disease endemic in many parts of Eurasia and Africa, caused by a tick-borne virus. The virus, an RNA virus (Nairovirus) of the…Trending
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