Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Coraciiform, Similarities to birds of other orders

The size of the birds of this order and their propensity to take rather large prey bring them into competition with many other species of other groups. It is perhaps instructive to compare certain Old World groups with representatives of different orders in the New World tropics (see above Natural history). The most striking parallel is seen between the toucans

Friday, March 11, 2005

Morandi, Giorgio

Morandi cannot be closely identified with a particular school of painting. He first exhibited in 1914 in Bologna with the Futurist painters, and in 1918 - 19 he was associated

Friday, March 04, 2005

Kamensk-uralsky

Also spelled �Kamensk-ural'skij, � city, Sverdlovsk oblast (province), western Russia, at the confluence of the Kamenka and Iset rivers. The first state iron foundry in the Urals, Kamensky Zavod, was established there in 1700 - 01. The modern city specializes in the production of aluminum and aluminum castings and sheets, using bauxite from Severouralsk. Steel tubes and a range of electrical machinery also are

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Flamininus, Titus Quinctius

Flamininus was a military tribune during the Second Punic War (218 - 201) and had a distinguished military career. Elected quaestor in 205, he exercised the authority (imperium) of a praetor at Tarentum in southern Italy, and he twice (202, 200) was involved in the distribution of lands to victorious troops. These veterans

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Ijoid Languages

The smallest branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It consists of a language cluster, Ijo (Ijaw), comprising seven other language clusters with a total of approximately two million speakers, and Defaka (Afakani), a solitary language spoken by very few. All these languages are found in the relatively narrow coastal Niger River delta region of Nigeria. The Ijo language

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Siraj-ud-dawlah

Siraj-ud-Dawlah became nawab of Bengal on the death