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tarantula
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tarantula , name applied chiefly to several species...North and South America. The body of a tarantula may be as much as 3 in. (7.6 cm...4 cm) across. The North American tarantula, Dugesiella hentzi, has a leg spread...
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Wasps
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...provision them with paralyzed spiders. One of the better-known species is the tarantula wasp ( Pepsis mildei ) which is famous for its skills at hunting and subduing tarantula spiders which are KEY TERMS Biological control — The use of a...
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Actors Who Faced (or Became) Movie Monsters
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...a Florida aquarium. That same year, Eastwood was a jet pilot trying to kill a giant tarantula that had been created in a laboratory experiment in Tarantula . Peter Graves (1921 – ) became well known as Jim Phelps, the authoritative...
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tarantella
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Taranto, Italy, in the 17th cent. It had rapid 6-8 meter with an increasing tempo and was thought to cure the bite of the tarantula, which supposedly caused the disease tarantism. Chopin, Liszt, Weber, and others used the dance in the form of a perpetuum...
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Clint Eastwood
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...player in 1955. His salary was $75 a week, and his assignments included minuscule roles in forgettable movies, including Tarantula and Francis in the Navy ). After Universal dropped him in 1956, the roles briefly got bigger but not better: Eastwood has...
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wasp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the mud-dauber wasps ( Sceliphron ), consisting of long, narrow, adjacent cells of mud. Other solitary wasps are the tarantula hawks ( Pepsis ) and cicada killers ( Sphecus ) of the SW United States, which hunt prey much larger than themselves. Parasitic...
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Fort Worth: Recreation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...consists 32 miles of paved trails for walking, biking, or rollerblading, winding from Northside Drive to Foster Park. The Tarantula Steam excursion train takes passengers between Grapevine and the Stockyards. Stockyards Station also includes retail and...
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trap-door spider
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
trap-door spider spider of the same family as the native American tarantula . Trap-door spiders dig burrows, which they line with silk and protect by constructing one or two circular, hinged trap doors...
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Bob Dylan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...early autobiography, Bob Dylan, Self-Portrait (1970); a late one, Chronicles: Volume One (2004); and a novel, Tarantula (1971, repr. 2004). Bibliography: See his Lyrics: 1962-2001 (2004); J. W. Ellison, ed., Younger than That...
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Acker, Kathy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...pornographic film actor. Her style and subject matter were established in early novels like The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (1975). Influenced by W. Burroughs , the poetry of the Black Mountain poets, and the erotic writings of Georges Bataille...
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