You will find this dragonfly from the Bahamas to and throughout North America. Did you know these dragonflies are carnivorous, and are capable of eating hundreds of insects every day, including mosquito and mayfly larvae. The adult dragonfly will eat nearly any flying insect, such as a moth or fly. One of the facets of […]
The Tougaloo Nine were a group of African-American students at Tougaloo College who participated in civil disobedience by staging sit-ins of segregated public institutions in Mississippi in 1961.[1]Mississippi was considered by civil rights organizer Medgar Evers to be “too racist and violent” for lunch counter sit-ins so the public library was chosen because it was supported by both Black and White […]
This phrase alludes to the state of agitation one would be in when finding a bee inside one’s bonnet. It comes from the earlier expression ‘to have bees in one’s head’, which had much the same meaning. Definition: Preoccupied or obsessed with an idea. One citation of ‘bee in his bonnet’ is found in the […]
A light echo is the reflection of light from a primary source, such as a bright star, off another object such as a dust cloud or planet in its vicinity. Light from the initial flash arrives at the viewer first, while light reflected from dust or other objects between the source and the viewer begins to […]
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