Impresario, The
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Impresario, The (Der Schauspieldirektor). Comedy with mus. in 1 act (K486) by Mozart to lib. by G. Stephanie. Comp. 1785–6. Prod. Vienna 1786, London 1857, NY 1870.
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Mastodons' big impact; Discoveries of their bones jump-started paleontology.(LIFE - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/22/2007; 700+ words
; ...ideal for grinding, mastodons used conelike teeth...Isotope analysis of mastodon fossils also tells researchers...the food they ate. Mastodons, which means "nipple...a battle. Studying mastodons and how they went extinct...resource specialist with Mastodon State Historic Site...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Mastodon returns (in pieces) to its old haunt
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/15/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Eighteen volunteer mastodon movers sweated and grunted...wasn't an easy job. Mastodons never had to worry about...learned the hard way. The mastodon's Bergen County homecoming...until Monday. The mastodon, like its cousin...ancestor of the elephant. Mastodons were about 6 to 10 feet...
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MASTODON WON'T BE LURED TO CLOSTER
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/17/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...to the Belskie Museum. The mastodon serves as the logo for the...Some of our members dug the mastodon out with their own hands...floppy ears and their tusks, mastodons were members of the elephant...Reservoir. Much of the Dwarskill Mastodon is sitting in bags wrapped...
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The wounded mastodon: what killed this Ice-Age creature.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of dozens of mastodons. When he studied the Cohoes mastodon, he noticed...from another mastodon's tusk had caused the wounds. Mastodons had sturdy skeletons...But why would mastodons attack one another...looked to the mastodon's relative...
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The Overmyer Mastodon (Mammut americanum) from Fulton County, Indiana
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...formal report on the Overmyer Mastodon was ever produced. Relevant...radiometric date associated with the mastodon, have not been generally available. Although remains of mastodons are relatively common late...only nine late Quaternary mastodon sites in Indiana. Hence...
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EMBATTLED LIVES: MASTODON TUSK 'SCARS' RECORD A HISTORY OF COMBAT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...knowledge of how mastodon tusks grew with...evidence for how mastodons fought, Fisher...picture of this mastodon's life, Fisher...tusks from other mastodons. The work also...priweb.org/mastodon/HP_mast/HP...Animation of fighting mastodons, visit http...
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 "News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)")
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Mastodon mania
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...from a snow-covered mastodon at the Lake County Discovery...near Wauconda. Mighty Mastodons of the Ice Age opens...tooth is dwarfed by a mastodon tooth in the exhibit...from Zion One of the mastodon bones in the exhibit...come away with is that mastodons and mammoths weren...
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 "Deerfield Review (IL)")
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Mastodon exhibit makes big impact
Newspaper article from: Deerfield Review (IL); 1/23/2003; 553 words
; ...museum Tuesday. The mastodon bones will be on...part of the Mighty Mastodons of the Ice Age exhibition...life was like for mastodons. They can discover...teeth the size of mastodon tusks and feet the...tidbits about the mastodon, she said. Exhibit...the giant beast. Mastodons are ...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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IN SEARCH OF ... THE COHOES MASTODON FRAGILE BONES ARE AT THE STATE MUSEUM, WAITING TO BE TREATED AND REASSEMBLED.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/23/1994; 700+ words
; ...description of the Cohoes Mastodon is tinged with affection...long considered the Cohoes Mastodon as sort of a mascot a very big mascot. (Mastodons, along with woolly mammoths...the desire to restore the mastodon's skeleton. ``People...
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Business is beastly at `mastodon factory'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/6/1987; ; 679 words
; ...expressed interest. Mastodon skeletons long have...But recently, mastodons and other large...cattails. The typical mastodon was about 15 feet...four or five tons. Mastodons suddenly became...made skeletons of mastodons, dinosaurs and...large animals. The mastodon factory at the ...
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mastodon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
mastodon , name for a number of prehistoric mammals...epoch in Africa. These were long-jawed mastodons about 4 1/2 ft (137 cm) high, with...Europe, Asia, and North America. The mastodons were forest dwellers; they obtained their...
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Mammutidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
...Mammutoidea ) An extinct, monospecific family ( Mammut or Mastodon ) of mastodons, comprising elephant-like animals that diverged...and heavier in build than elephants. Mammut (or Mastodon ) species had short, high skulls, longer jaws than...
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Gomphotheriidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...order Proboscidea ) Extinct family of mastodons , characterized by the development of...believed to be ancestral to the later mastodons, though not to modern elephants. These long-jawed mastodons or gomphotheres were one of three distinct...
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Quaternary
Book article from: Animal Sciences
...000 years ago, the "megafauna"—mammoths, mastodons, 2.5-metric-ton (3-ton) sloths, and Aepyornis...disappeared. Almost unnoticed among the giants (mammoths, mastodons, and sloths) of the time was a new evolutionary player...
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Charles Willson Peale
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...history. From a New York state farm he exhumed the skeleton of a mastodon, assembling and restoring the remains for his museum. Two...later years underscore his scientific interests, Exhuming the Mastodon (1806-8; Peale Museum, Baltimore) and The Artist in His...
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