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mask from the museum of medieval torture instruments in prague,czeska. can't remember exactly what crime this was supposed to fit, but it no doubt brought pain and shame to the wearer. compared to some of the other stuff on display this would have been a walk in the park...
Not all streaky brown birds are impossible to identify: Take a closer look at this one and you’ll see an understated but distinctive sparrow with a short tail, small head, and telltale yellow spot before the eye. Savannah Sparrows are one of the most numerous songbirds in North America, and while sometimes overlooked, are likely visitors across the continent. In summer, they don’t hesitate to advertise their location, belting out a loud, insect-like song from farm fields and grasslands.
Size & Shape
Savannah Sparrows are medium-sized sparrows with short, notched tails. The head appears small for the plump body, and the crown feathers often flare up to give the bird’s head a small peak. The thick-based, seed-eating bill is small for a sparrow.
Color Pattern
Savannah Sparrows are brown above and white below, with crisp streaks throughout. Their upperparts are brown with black streaks, and the underparts are white with thin brown or black streaks on the breast and flanks. Look for a small yellow patch on the face in front of the eye.
Behavior
Savannah Sparrows eat seeds on or near the ground, alone or in small flocks. When flushed, they usually fly up, flare their short tails, and circle around to land some yards away. In spring and summer, males sing their dry, insect-like melodies from exposed, low perches such as fenceposts. Also, listen for a thin, high-pitched tsss call.
Habitat
Savannah Sparrows breed in open areas with low vegetation, including most of northern North America from tundra to grassland, marsh, and farmland. Even in winter, you’ll find Savannah Sparrows on the ground or in low vegetation in open areas; look for them along the edges of roads adjacent to farms.
Cool Facts
•The Savannah Sparrow’s name sounds like a nod to its fondness for grassy areas, but this species was actually named by famed nineteenth century ornithologist Alexander Wilson for a specimen collected in Savannah, Georgia.
•Raising young is hard work: a female Savannah Sparrow must gather 10 times her weight in food to feed herself and her young during the 8 days they are in the nest.
•The "Ipswich Savannah Sparrow," a subspecies that breeds on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, is nearly 50 percent heavier than most other Savannah Sparrow subspecies. It is the palest race, and is found in winter in sand dunes along the Atlantic Coast. It was formerly considered a separate species.
•In many parts of the species' range, especially in coastal areas and islands, Savannah Sparrows tend very strongly to return each year to the area where they hatched. This tendency, called natal philopatry, is the driving force for differentiation of numerous Savannah Sparrow subspecies.
•The oldest known wild Savannah Sparrow was at least 6 years, 10 months old.
Measurements
Both Sexes
Length
4.3–5.9 in
11–15 cm
Wingspan
7.9–8.7 in
20–22 cm
Weight
0.5–1 oz
15–28 g
Relative Size
About the size of a Song Sparrow.
Other Names
•Bruant des prés (French)
•Gorrión zanjero, Sabanero (Spanish)
Food
During the breeding season, Savannah Sparrows eat nutritionally rich insects and spiders. They stalk through grassy areas or along beaches in search of beetles, grasshoppers, and other bugs, as well as spiders, millipedes, and pillbugs, snapping them up in their bill and swallowing them whole. When white frothy spittle masses appear on goldenrod plants, Savannah Sparrows hop up on the plant and devour the spittlebug nymphs inside the foam. On their winter range, Savannah Sparrows switch to a diet of mostly small seeds from grasses and forbs. Along coastal areas, they may eat tiny crustaceans.
Nest Description
The female builds the nest in one to three days. The nest is about 3 inches across and composed of two parts: an exterior of coarse grasses and in the middle, a finely woven tiny cup of thin grass. This inner cup is about 2 inches across and 1 inch deep.
Nest Placement
Savannah Sparrows hide their nests amid a thick thatch of the prior season’s dead grasses in densely vegetated areas. The nest is usually on the ground or low in grasses, goldenrod, saltmarsh vegetation, or low shrubs such as blueberry, blackberry, rose, and bayberry. The female selects the nest site, often choosing a spot on the edge of her mate’s territory, thus forcing him to defend new areas and causing conflict with a neighboring male.
Nesting Facts
Clutch Size
2–6 eggs
Number of Broods
1-4 broods
Egg Length
0.6–0.9 in
1.5–2.2 cm
Egg Width
0.6–0.6 in
1.4–1.6 cm
Incubation Period
12–13 days
Nestling Period
8–13 days
Egg Description
Pale greenish, bluish, tan, or white, with speckles and streaks. Colors vary greatly, sometimes even within clutches.
Condition at HatchingNaked with yellow-orange skin; the eyes open in four or five days.
Food Network was here filming an episode of "Dinner: Impossible". I don't know when this particular episode is supposed to air.
Update: The episode is called Medieval Mayhem and will air on March 1, 2008.
This is taken from the front seat of the Lugano-St. Moritz post bus. Our driver is the man in the yellow shirt directing traffic. He has priority over all other traffic (except ambulances and public services and the army, I guess), so was able to "convince" the driver of the other coach to reverse and break the log jam. But it took a while and calm nerves all round!
An impossible volume of water tumbles down with an unimaginable ferocity but one that is consistent, convincing, timeless - and ultimately peaceful.
It's a mystery below. It's a permanent, enveloping state of white, pure, milky white. The rock formations below must be so kooky and fiendishly jagged, the plunge so precipitious, but with the alchmey of the ever capricious winds, the violent backlash and
overpowering roars transform, in the space of a few seconds, into an ethereal, softly billowing veil of vapour. Sublime.
Food Network was here filming an episode of "Dinner: Impossible". I don't know when this particular episode is supposed to air.
Update: The episode is called Medieval Mayhem and will air on March 1, 2008.
Maria Martins, 1946
Bronze
The spiky tentacles reaching toward each other in this bronze sculpture are locked in an embrace that suggests both opposition and attraction. "It is nearly impossible to make people understand each other," Martins said, a feeling that may be the source of the interaction depicted here. Between 1944 and 1949, Martins made several versions of this sculpture in different sizes and materials, parts of a larger body of work characterized by writhing, plantlike forms.
L'achitrave è retto da 3 colonne o da 2 pilastri?
Scopritelo coprendo con la mano la parte bassa o la parte alta del monumento.
Institut für Augenoptik - Aalen
Soirée Babel spéciale Saint-Valentin consacrée aux amours impossibles à l’Atelier média, avec la Compagnie T.O.P.
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