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mamba
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
mamba name for African snakes...except in the deserts, mambas have extremely toxic...most feared of the mambas. It lives mostly in...and birds. The green mamba ( D. angusticeps...Saharan Africa. Mambas are classified in the...
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Elapid Snakes
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Elapid snakes are extremely venomous snakes such as cobras, mambas, kraits, tiger snakes, and coral snakes in the family Elapidae...Hydrophiinae. The Elapinae includes coral snakes, cobras, mambas, and terrestrial kraits, while the Hydrophiinae includes the...
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Lee, Canada
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Project , appearing in its all-Negro production of Macbeth in 1936. In 1939 he played with Ethel Waters in Dorothy Heyward's Mamba's Daughters , and he made a major impact as the chauffeur in Paul Green's outstanding tragedy of Negro life, Native Son...
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cobra
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
cobra Any of several highly poisonous snakes in the family Elapidae, including the mamba , coral snake , kraits, and true cobras. It can expand its neck ribs to form a characteristic hood. Found primarily in Africa...
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Porgy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...wife, the former Dorothy Hartzell Kuhns (1890–1961), dramatized two of his novels of black life: Porgy and Mamba's Daughters (1939). Heyward wrote an unsuccessful original drama, Brass Ankle (1931), and collaborated on the musical...
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McClintic, Guthrie
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Winterset (1935), Ethan Frome (1936), John Gielgud 's Hamlet (1936), High Tor (1937), The Star Wagon (1937), Mamba's Daughters (1939), and Key Largo (1939). However, he is most often associated in playgoers' minds with the work he...
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Ferrer, José (Vicente)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...assignments followed as Jesse James associate Billy Gashade in Missouri Legend (1938), the white St. Julien in the black drama Mamba's Daughters (1939), and the poet Victor d'Alcala in Key Largo (1939). Ferrer triumphed as Lord Fancourt Babberley...
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Johnson, J(ohn) Rosamond
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...these shows rarely had long runs, he was also forced to serve as musical director for his own and other shows and to act in others' musicals, including, Porgy and Bess (1935), Mamba's Daughters (1939), and Cabin in the Sky (1940).
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Snakes
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...species of snakes fall into four superfamilies: Boidae (boas, anacondas, and pythons), Elapidae (cobras, coral snakes, mambas, and kraits), Colubridae (king snakes, water snakes, garter snakes, black snakes, and adders, to name only a few...
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Côte D'ivoire
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...and many other mammals are widely distributed. Crocodiles and chameleons, as well as venomous serpents (horned vipers, mambas, and many others) and pythons, are numerous. Among indigenous birds are vultures, cranes, pigeons, turtle doves, parrots...
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