To understand the extent and nature of English bird name changes, an analysis was done of all southern African bird names through the eight editions of Roberts Birds of South/Southern Africa field guides published from 1940 to 2016. Of 813 species listed in both the first and the latest of ...
The foreign minister presented China's suggestions for the future objectives of G20 cooperation. "First, we need to strengthen the foundation of G20 cooperation through solidarity," Wang said. "We should seek common ground while shelving differences, refrain from division and confrontation, and oppo...
Rap first came to national prominence in the United States with the release of the Sugarhill Gang’s song “Rapper’s Delight” (1979) on the independent African American-owned label Sugar Hill. Within weeks of its release, it had become a chart-topping phenomenon and given its name to a...
Species names were checked for orthography and standardized (synonyms identified from the reference databases corrected to their accepted names) using the African Flowering Plants Database (https://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa), Taxonomic Name Resolution Service65, and Asian Plant Synonym ...
A Brief History of Last Names First of all, what is a last name? That’s not as simple a question as it might seem on the surface.Not all countries have a tradition of even using surnames, and most of those who do--looking at you, Europe--only adopted them in the late Middle Age...
You probably won't want to choose your fish based on the first letter of their name, but it's fun and instructive to see what's out there. All fish have bothcommonand scientific names, and the fish names listed here include both. Many fish have multiple common names but only one scien...
Most of these names have been handed down from antiquity via Arab astronomers but a few have been coined as recently as the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The names vary from culture to culture, the spellings are often inconsistent and sometimes the meanings are obscure. Please note ...
Clinical signs:B. motasican cause an acute or chronic Babesiosis in goats, generally runs a course of 1 week or less. In acute infection, the first clinical signs are anorexia, lethargy, depression, and fever (frequently ≥41°C]), which persist throughout, and these are accompanied later ...
South Dakotans for parental control. Colin Kaepernick Receives NEA’s Highest Award With the announcement that Nike was renewing Colin Kaepernick’s contract making him the face of the 30th anniversary of “Just Do It”, many were surprised that Nike would make such a controversial choice for the...
Ireland was one of the first countries to adopt hereditary surnames. Many of these names were devised during the reign of Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland who fell defending Ireland from the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 BCE. 50 Most Common Irish Surnames Many of these ...