|
Don't mess with a mongoose. (includes related article)
Ranger Rick
|
January 1, 1998|
|
COPYRIGHT 1998 National Wildlife Federation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
(Hide copyright information)
Copyright
|
When you hear the word "mongoose," you might think of a bird. But mongooses can't fly--they're really fierce little bundles of fur!
"What's happenin'?" That's what these banded mongooses seem to be asking as they look around (see photo at left). They're perched on a tall termite mound, looking across the African plain. What a great lookout! There are no enemies in sight--so they're off to hunt up some grub (below).
Like most mongooses, they have slim bodies with tough, bristly hair, long tails, and short, fast legs. Those long claws are handy for digging and ...
 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
|
Wheat Ridge Fire Chief James Payne a 'fireman's fireman'.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: John Lehndorff, Rocky Mountain News Jim Payne was Wheat Ridge...pneumonia Tuesday at Collier Hospice Center at...He was 53. Mr. Payne began work with the...he said. Mr. Payne was born Jan. 3...brothers Ben Payne and John Payne. INFOBOX Services...
|
|
At Folger, Shakespeare Fakers Worthy Of the Bard
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...19th-century fakes by the troubled English scholar John Payne Collier and a small orgy of other guilty pleasures -- paintings...feels a bit like a schoolboy's lark, the case of John Payne Collier is darker and more troubling. Collier was...
|
|
'The Pride of Mankind': Puff Verses for Warren's Blacking with Contributions Attributed to Charles Dickens.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Dickens Quarterly
; ...important, for Dickens scholars, as John M. L. Drew points out in his informative...was first attributed to Dickens by John Payne Collier in his An Old Man's Diary (1871...application, Collier questioned John Barrow, Dickens uncle, about Dickens...
|
|
Inigo abroad: John Harris praises the rich scholarship brought to bear on a sketchbook by Inigo Jones reproduced in a facsimile for the Roxburghe Club.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...According to an anecdote by J. Payne Collier, Librarian to the 6th Duke...drawings, which passed first to John Webb, then to William and John Talman. It is possible that...the sketchbook at a sale of John Talman's possessions after...
|
|
|
Is Newly Discovered Poem Shakespeare's?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Ashby." The work is by dramatist John Marston, a contemporary of Shakespeare...poem in question was published in John Payne Collier's 1836 "New Particulars Regarding the Works of Shakespeare." Collier, Taylor said, is cautious when...
|
|
Shakespeare, Coleridge, intellecturition.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism
; ...particular editorial crux actually says; but implicitly or explicitly, he most wants to know "[h]ow is it done?" (John Payne Collier's notes). (5) Here is another instance: not much farther along in the play, reading in 3.3, Coleridge...
|
|
|
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Portrait of Mr. W.H."), the Victorian forgers like J. Payne Collier, and even Bard-inspired fiction, such as Anthony Burgess...particularly those of an environmental bent - Thoreau, John Muir, Edward Abbey - but also of Charles G. Finney...
|
|
NEW CASES FOR THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record
; ...Indemnity Corporation; alleged fraud, etc; Robert S. Payne, Collier H. Pate, L. Michael Guard, attys for pltf. C-88...Geraldine Lum and Alvis Lum, husband and wife vs. John D. Keelin and Marjorie Fox, individuals, and Allstate...
|
|
The Trick of Singularity: 'Twelfth Night' and the Performance Editions.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...chapter deals with 'double dating': Twelfth Night was regarded as a very late play by Tyrwhitt and Malone, but John Payne Collier found evidence that it could not have been written after about 1600-01. Laurie Osborne claims that 'this history...
|
|
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...William Thomas Brande, chemist, 1788; John Payne Collier, Shakespearean critic, 1789; Ezra Cornell...of Cornell University, New York, 1807; John Lodge Ellerton, composer, 1807; Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first prime minister...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Don't mess with a mongoose. (includes related ..."
