Mrs. Hall had a large Angora cat named Tommy. Mrs. Staubstaudt had a male cat and female cat “of the plain backyard variety.” The three cats fought often, with the plain male cat, Benny, taking most of the hits and scratches from the Angora. Tommy was a cat of remarkable beauty, ...
Courtship is a very active process as far as the male is concerned. Researchers still have a lot to learn about mudskipper reproduction, however. The behaviour of one species may not be the same as that of the other ones. The fish seem to have very specific requirements for mating and lay...
Despite the auspicious name, these eggs have a completely opposing look and smell. It goes by other similar names, such as thousand-year-old egg, millennium egg, preserved egg, and more. Arranged Century Egg: By irrationl_catvia Wikimedia Commons The Chinese take quail, duck, or chicken e...
Here’s a jellyfish fact that might come in handy: There are several names for a group of jellyfish. They include smack, bloom, and swarm. Choose the word you prefer depending on whether you think the jellyfish pack looks like a garden of blooming flowers or more like a frightening pack...
Because if novelist Walter Kirn is right (from his article “The Mother of Reinvention” in The Atlantic, May 2002), “It’s no accident that most self-help groups use ‘anonymous’ in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, ...
These quotations touch on the states of being to which occultists give various names, such as the subtle, etheric, and astral planes, or the imaginal world. Western occultism is full of efforts to classify the various levels, aethyrs, mansions, sub-planes, etc. The UR Group did not doubt...