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Parchment. Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of young animals such as lambs and young calves.
Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom (A is for alligator and armadillo, B is for butterfly, etc.) along with a short poem utilizing the letter of the page for many of the words.
Grey-headed kingfisher, by Giles Laurent. Red-chested cuckoo, by Giles Laurent. Slaty-crowned antpitta, by Charlesjsharp. Graceful pitta, by JJ Harrison. Sword-billed hummingbird, by Charlesjsharp. Chestnut-naped antpitta, by Charlesjsharp. Gibson's albatross, by JJ Harrison. Little ringed plover, by Stephan Sprinz.
A pika ( / ˈpaɪkə / PEYE-kə[ 3]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative, the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears. [ 4] The large-eared pika of the Himalayas and nearby mountains lives at ...
India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. [1] All Indian states and some of the union territories have their own elected government and the union territories come under the jurisdiction of the Central Government.
The Lone Star Flag [ 1] June 30, 1839. National seal. Seal of the Republic of Texas. January 25, 1839. State seal. Seal of Texas. December 29, 1845. Reverse of the seal.
"The Disobedient Kids" is a Czecho-Slovak variant. [9] A variant has been reported to be present in Moroccan folktale collections. [10] Hasan El-Shamy located an Egyptian version from Ajhūr al Kubrá, named The Nanny Goat with the Iron Horns. [11] Russian folklorist Alexander Afanasyev listed The Wolf and the Kids as another variant. [12]
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described, of which around 1.05 million are insects, over 85,000 are molluscs, and around 65,000 are vertebrates. It has been estimated there are as many as 7.77 million animal species on Earth. Animal body lengths range from 8.5 μm (0.00033 in) to 33.6 m (110 ft).