Odonata
Odonata An order of
exopterygote insects containing the dragonflies and damselflies, most of which occur in tropical regions. Adult dragonflies have a pair of prominent
compound eyes, a compact thorax bearing two pairs of delicate membranous wings, and a long slender abdomen. They are strong fliers and prey on other insects, either in flight or at rest. The eggs are laid near or in water, and the newly hatched nymphs (naiads) are aquatic and resemble the adults, with rudimentary wings. They breathe through gills and feed on small aquatic animals. The nymph leaves the water for its final moult into the terrestrial adult.
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Robert Kroetsch. The Hornbooks of Rita K.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...each other, just as Rita's hornbooks and Raymond's meditations...never traditional. In The Hornbooks of Rita K his story develops...for wry commentary. In "[hornbook#[]]" (sic), for example...the poet's silence, The Hornbooks of Rita K marks a welcome...
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From Hornbook to Hamster-Box: Stasis in the Reading Industry.(gift to Bodleian Library of most school readers published in U.S.)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; A few months ago I was in the Bodleian Library in Oxford appraising a large barrow-load of books. I was not doing this on the Library's behalf but on that of the donor, an American professor of education, and the books were almost all "school readers" published in the U.S. during the first thirty
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A quick guide to the Illinois Dead Man's Act: according to the hornbook definition, the Act is an evidentiary rule barring testimony by someone with an interest in litigation about any conversation with or event occurring in the presence of a decedent. But what does that mean? This article offers some answers.
Magazine article from: Illinois Bar Journal; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the latter part of the 20th century, various Illinois legal scholars championed the abolishment, abrogation (1) and/or repeal (2) of an alleged "outdated evidentiary rule" (3) known as the dead man's act ("the act As is discussed in detail below, and subject to exceptions,
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GOT MILK? DID YOU KNOW IT'S THE STATE BEVERAGE?(CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...have thumbed through a little volume called The Hornbook of Virginia History. A hornbook was an old-timey thing shaped like a paddle...covered with translucent animal horn, thus "hornbook." From the Virginia Hornbook I have also learned...
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The one and only.(Albany Law School professor David D. Siegel)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Albany Law Review; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...shaping the law. Popular hornbooks get cited in legal briefs...commentaries. The more popular hornbooks get cited more often. Professor Siegel's hornbooks and commentaries have been...Typically, a commentary or hornbook is cited as support for...
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ABECEDARIANS Unite for SPELLING BOARDS!
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...printed alphabet charts called hornbooks. A hornbook was essentially a hand-held...processed cow horn. The use of hornbooks was so prevalent in colonial America...the dry repetition involved with hornbook learning was certainly not child...
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OFFBEAT SUBURBIA // Primer a small wonder
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/17/1996; ; 459 words
; ...They studied from one-page hornbooks pasted onto wooden paddles and...earliest known school primers, hornbooks. The hornbook was printed on a scant piece...ruining the paper. The simple hornbooks, containing only the alphabet...
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FOCUS ON HISTORY; TAKING CHILDREN TO NEW HEIGHTS; Program spurs learning at Myles Standish Monument; Myles Standish Monument
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 7/8/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...white and blue string through a handmade hornbook, 7-year-old Jack Bernier rattles off...instruction on how to assemble a replica hornbook and make a board game called Snail. A hornbook, as Jack Bernier explained, is "something...
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VitalSource and Thomson West Meet Growing Demand for Digital Law Study Guides.
PR Newswire; 11/2/2005; 700+ words
; Concise Hornbook Series Offered in Digital...are offering the Concise Hornbook(R) Series study guides...The digital Concise Hornbook Series enables law students...access expire. West's Hornbooks will be a compelling showcase...
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Jim Gilchrist on Rabbie and the Reaper
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 1/25/2001; 684 words
; ...lassies and sundry slaps and stiles, consider Hornbook. Death and Doctor Hornbook is one of Burns's less-recited but most rambunctiously...skeletal backside next to the poet and bemoans that Hornbook's (or Wilson's) extra-curricular pill...
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hornbook
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hornbook primer of a kind in use from...perforated so that the hornbook might be attached to a girdle...material, varying in different hornbooks, such as numerals and the...W. Tuer, History of the Hornbook (2 vol., 1896, repr...
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Hornbook
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
HORNBOOK HORNBOOK, the primer or first reading book used...brought it with themto America. The hornbook was not really a book at all but simply...be attached to the child's belt. Hornbooks contained the alphabet in capital and...
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‘Death and Dr Hornbook’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
‘Death and Dr Hornbook’, a satirical poem by Burns , published 1786.
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Chalkboard
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...legions of students. The hornbook was a strip of wood with a...in small print. A typical hornbook would carry both the Lord...horn covered the paper. The hornbooks were small objects, sometimes...the neck. Eventually the hornbook evolved into the reading board...
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Textbooks, Early
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...in most colonial homes. Children used hornbooks to learn to read short phrases and proverbs. A hornbook consisted of a wooden paddle holding a...1990. Laurie Winn Carlson See also Hornbook ; McGuffey's Readers ; New England Primer...
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