(Encyclopedia) waxbill, common name for small, brightly colored weaver finches of the Estrildini tribe of the family Estrildidae. Most are African with the exception of two S Asian species of…
actor; comedianBorn: 7/22/1965Birthplace: Birmingham, Michigan Spade began his career as a stand-up comic and was a regular cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995. His feature films…
(Encyclopedia) crossbill, bird of the genus Loxia, in the finch family. Its bill, crossed at the tips, is specialized for pulling apart pine cones and picking out the seeds. Crossbills are found in…
(Encyclopedia) Baker, Oliver Edwin, 1883–1949, American economic geographer, grad. Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. He studied forestry at Yale and agriculture and economics at the Univ. of…
Natural SelectionGenetic Variation and Natural SelectionIntroductionNatural SelectionPost-Mendelian Inheritance Factors As discussed in Specialized Cell Structure and Function, sexual reproduction…
aviatorBorn: 1902Birthplace: Leicester, England Beryl Markham’s parents moved to Kenya when she was three years old, and she spent most of her life in Africa. Her first love was horses and she…
Animals live only where they can survive. Koalas, for example, eat only the leaves of certain eucalyptus trees, so they must live in Australia, where these trees grow. All of the animals listed…
SCOBLICK, James Paul, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Archbald, Lackawanna County, Pa., May 10, 1909; attended the public school and St. Thomas High School, Scranton, Pa.; Fordham…
(Encyclopedia) Thomas, Martha Carey, 1857–1935, American educator and feminist, b. Baltimore, grad. Cornell, 1877, studied at Johns Hopkins and at Leipzig, the Sorbonne, and Zürich (Ph.D., 1882). In…
