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Special-Occasion Dress
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Caecilians are legless tropical amphibians that live mostly underground. Yet some of them sport bright stripes or solids in shades of yellow, pink, or blue-surprising, since visual signals aren't much use in their dark tunnels.
The reason for such gaudy attire seems to lie in the recent observation that caecilians are not entirely subterranean, say Katharina C. Wollenberg of the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany and G. John Measey of the South African National Biodiversity Institute. Many species occasionally crawl on the surface during the day, an easier- though much riskier- ...
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MICHAEL TYZACK ; Painter and jazz trumpeter who exchanged Sheffield and London for Charleston, South Carolina
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Greenberg. Tyzack's prize picture, Alesso B, was a seductively coloured...title to the Renaissance painter Alesso Baldovinetti's Portrait of a Lady in Yellow...Gallery, Liverpool, acquired Alesso B. Asked how he would like viewers...
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Portrait of the artists
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...true' portraiture. To her left is that marvellous early Renaissance profile on blue, 'Portrait of a Lady' by Alesso Baldovinetti, a brilliant high-wire act between pattern-making and description. Behind, there is another mesmering picture...
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