South Africa has a rich spider fauna with 66 families represented by more than 5 000 species. In the past two decades both specialists and laymen have shown considerable interest in spiders. Although scientific names of the different species are available, these are usually known only to ...
By 1975 youths in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn were stealing into train yards under cover of darkness to spray-paint colorful mural-size renderings of their names, imagery from underground comics and television, and even Andy Warhol-like Campbell’s soup cans onto the sides of subway cars....
We collected usernames and passwords in the East African countries Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya to facilitate our study. This data was collected through a web application for users to create accounts using authentic usernames and passwords, surveys and online through hacked databases resources. The ...
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 ...
African surnames reflect a history of colonialism. For instance, you’ll see European surnames along the western coast, Arabic surnames in the north, and indigenous names in the less-accessible interior. The influence of Islam is notable, asall ofAfrica’s most common last namesare Islamic in ...
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Stars have many names. Throughout the ages, people have devised numbering or lettering systems to identify stars within a constellation. A given star may have a different designation in every catalogue in which it appears. However, in addition to all of these identifiers, some of the brighter ...
The most common of all Irish names, the Murphy surname can be found in all four provinces. Murphys are primarily from Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cork, Kerry, Roscommon, Sligo, Tyrone, and Wexford, however. Murray The Murray surname is especially prolific in Donegal. Nolan Nolan families ...
English names can be translated into Chinese in the same way, however, characters in Chinese are often chosen based on meaning—not just pronunciation—as some characters put together form negative combinations. Additionally,genderintroduces a variety of characters that include a description of the nam...
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 ...