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Name: Jack
Species: Virginia Opossum
Sex: Male
Location from: Ohio
Other: An adult male that dropped dead in my barn when I lived in a rural area in Ohio. He was found in the morning, already beginning to decay, likely died early in the night before. He has evidence of a severe infection in his lower left jaw, and a broken right top canine with sign of beginning infection in the bone of the root canal of the same tooth. His incisors are missing post mortem.
Species Info: Opossums are known for their playing-dead characteristic, which helps preserve them when faced with a threat. They have an unusually short lifespan of up to 2 years (4 in captivity) and are omnivorous, preferring fruit, grain, insects, worms, and small animals like birds and snakes.
Opossum are native to Central and East North America and most of Mexico. They are not native to West US, but a small percentage have been introduced. Opossums do not do well in cold environments and thus are not found in the majority of Canada or North-West states.
The print reference collection, numbering over 30,000 volumes, includes general and specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes, bibliogra-phies, and directories for student, staff and faculty research
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
The first chronicle references to the word "Voronezh" are dated 1177, when the Ryazan prince Yaropolk, having lost the battle, fled "to Voronozh" and there was moving "from town to town". Modern data of archeology and history interpret Voronezh as a geographical region, which included the Voronezh river (tributary of the Don) and a number of settlements. In the lower reaches of the river, a unique Slavic town-planning complex of the 8th – early 11th century was discovered, which covered the territory of the present city of Voronezh and its environs (about 42 km long, about 13 forts and many unfortified villages). By the 12th – 13th centuries, most of the old towns were desolate, but new settlements appeared upstream, closer to Ryazan.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
One of my friend's Italian Greyhounds called Tracy. Tracy is the quietest of them all and my favourite.
Unfortunately Tracy has been diagnosed with inoperable skin cancer, hence the strange lump and bumps. So sad.
We love you Tracy.
Remembering how parts fit might be important later.
I removed the aperture diaphragm and shutter blades before spraying the innards with CRC electrical cleaner to flush out dirt, grime, fungus, muck, bacteria, and whatever the hell else was in there.
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Colourful rolls of paper stacked together, ready to be packaged.
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The final days of Plymouth's Central Library in the layout it's had for the past few years.
The Lending Library is much as it was when it opened in 1956.
The Reference Library has already been transformed into the History Room, but the banks of PCs will move.
The Scott Room, former Scott Lecture Theatre, will become the Scott Computer Room with most computers located there.
The former Local and Naval Studies Library will complete its transformation into the Quiet Room - a haven of peace in a busy city centre and already much appreciated by users.
The Music and Drama Library, in its present location for the past ten years, will move into the main body of the ground floor and its place will be taken by the Fiction collection.
Even the Children's Library will see some changes with a new entrance door.
At the same time, the library converts to self-service and the obsolete 3M security system is replaced by something that actually works.
This panorama was taken looking to the south, west and north. Just for a point of reference, the 20th Maine were behind me to my left off camera and their charge went down towards the area leading to that road on the left. Also, off camera to the left is Big Round Top.
The fight for Little Round Top was as harrowing as it gets for the Union. A Union general, Brig. Gen. Governeur K. Warren, came up Little Round Top to get a look at the battlefield and from a position down to the right of my point here, he saw a large force of Longstreet's men moving across from the woods off to the left and center, known as Warfield Ridge. Those trees hid the southerners from view. Realizing that the Union line was about to be outflanked, he sent an urgent message down the line and, literally just in time, men were rushed to this point where the timing was so tight, that many of them actually did not have time to load their weapons and they immediately charged southerners coming up the hill. If that repulse had not occurred, the whole Union army would have been outflanked and likely routed. We're talking seconds and the actions of company-sized units. Colonel Strong Vincent, upon hearing about the absence of men on Little Round Top immediately turned his men towards the top and they ran up. Vincent led from the front, and while there, he positioned Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine on the far left flank. Colonel Vincent was killed along with several other officers, including the artillery commander, Hazlett. The fighting on this hill was ferocious and often hand to hand. Ultimately, out of ammunition, undermanned and facing another attack, Colonel Chamberlain led the surviving men of his 20th Maine in a bayonet charge down the mountain and the southern attack was finally broken.
Here are some other notes. The Devil's Den is visible to the left (I placed a note) just past where the road meets those trees on the left. To the left of the Devil's Den is the Slaughter Pen, which was photographed by Brady after the battle. The woods beyond the Devil's Den is the area where a Union general ordered a cavalry charge on July 3rd. The area is all rocky hills and their commander thought the attack was suicidal. When the order was confirmed, he said to the General, "these men are too good to kill." The cavalry unit was shot to pieces and the disbelieving commander was killed. Off to the right of center is the Peach Orchard and off to the right is where Pickett's Charge occurred, way in the distance
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Name: Albert
Species: American Beaver
Age: Adult
Sex: ? (assuming male)
Location from: US
Other: N/A