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walking stick

(Encyclopedia) walking stick or stick insect, names applied to extremely longbodied, slow-moving, herbivorous insects, forming a single family in the order Phasmatodea. Walking sticks have green,…

cane, walking stick

(Encyclopedia) cane, walking stick. Probably used first as a weapon, it gradually took on the symbolism of strength and power and eventually authority and social prestige. Ancient Egyptian rulers…

walking fish

(Encyclopedia) walking fish: see climbing perch.

A Walk on the Moon

Director: Tony Goldwyn Writer: Pamela Gray Miramax Films; R Release: 3/99 Cast: Diane Lane, Liev Schreiber, Viggo Mortenson, Anna Paquin and Tovah Feldshuh In the eighties…

Love Walked In

Director:Juan J. CampanellaWritersJuan J. Campanella, Lynn Geller and Larry GolinDirector of Photography:Daniel ShulmanEditor:Darren KloomokMusic:Wendy BlackstoneProduction Designer:Michael…

Brewer's: Walk

(in Hudibras) is Colonel Hewson, so called from Gayton's tract. To walk. This is a remarkable word. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon wealcan (to…

Moon Walks

Twelve astronauts have walked on the moon, the last in 1972. Here are the names of those astronauts listed chronologically by the date of their walk. July 20, 1969—Apollo 11Neil Armstrong…

devil's-club

(Encyclopedia) devil's-club or devil's-walking-stick: see ginseng.

Amy Lowell: Walk

WalkOver the street the white clouds meet, and sheer away without touching.On the sidewalks, boys are playing marbles. Glass marbles, with amber and blue hearts, roll together and part with…