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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 26 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2551

Central American Squirrel Monkey


that in 2008, the IUCN revised the conservation status of the Central American Squirrel Monkey (pictured) from endangered to the lesser risk status of vulnerable?
... that the current Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa, Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia, is the younger brother of the late Governor Tauese Sunia?
... that Gwen Stefani's 2005 song "Hollaback Girl" received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, and won the award for Best Choreography?
... that PK Dwyer is credited with forming the first-ever street band to busk at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington?
... that the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?
... that Moshe Smoira, the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel, was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire?
... that the Higginbotham's, based in Chennai, is India's oldest bookstore in existence?
... that Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?

วันเสาร์ที่ 25 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2551

Rose chafer beetle


The rose chafer (Cetonia aurata) is a reasonably large beetle (length about 20 mm or ¾ in) that has metallic green coloration with a distinct V shaped scutellum, the small triangular area between the wing cases just below the thorax. Rose chafers are found over southern and central Europe and the southern part of the UK.