Description: Kangaroo is the generic name given to a marsupial mammal belonging to five species of the genus Macropus of the family Macropodidae, which also includes wallabies. Characteristics include highly developed hind legs and the presence of a pouch (the baby carrier) present only in females, the offspring in which it completes its development. The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia, known for its jumps and the pouch that the female has for gestation.
Description: Snakes' vision is not particularly conspicuous (generally being better in the arboreal species and worse in the terrestrial species), which does not prevent movement detection. In addition to their eyes, some snakes (crotalineans - or dimple snakes - and pythons) have sensitive infrared receptors in deep grooves called pits that allow them to feel the heat emitted by their bodies. This is extremely useful in low light places. As snakes do not have external ears, hearing can only detect vibrations, but this sense is extremely well developed. Most snakes use their forked tongue to pick up scent particles in the air and send them to the so-called Jacobson's organ, located in their mouth, to examine them. The fork in the tongue gives the snake
Description: An elephant's skeleton constitutes about 13% of its body mass. Larger animals exchange energy with the environment more slowly than smaller species, due to the difference in the surface-to-volume ratio of the individual. Thus, elephants can easily overheat when in activity, as they cannot quickly lose heat to the environment. In view of this, they divert large volumes of blood to the ears and fan them, thus releasing heat to the environment and promoting its cooling.
Description: In seventeenth-century Europe, doctors who cared for plague victims wore clothing that took on sinister implications: they covered themselves from head to toe and wore a mask with a beak like a bird. These plague masks grew out of a misconception about the dangerous nature of the disease.
Description: Ouroboros is usually represented by the circle, which seems to indicate, in addition to the eternal return, the spiral of evolution, the sacred dance of death and reconstruction.According to the Dictionnaire des symboles, the Ouroboros symbolizes the cycle of evolution turned in on itself. The symbol contains the ideas of movement, continuity, self-fertilization and, consequently, eternal return.For Hyperborean Gnosticism, "the serpents, represented on the Caduceus of Mercury (entwined in a staff) and on the Ouroboros (devouring its own tail), symbolize the elevated soul, ecstatic in nirvana, luminously entelequiated". the interpretation that the serpent represents the infernal world, while the celestial world .
Description: Artemis, like other women (goddess Aphrodite, for example) was a Greek goddess. ... Daughter of Zeus and Leto, Artemis was the goddess of hunting, wild life and soft light. She was the twin sister of the god Apollo. The brothers were always at their mother's disposal. Artemis is the goddess of hunting, the moon, chastity, childbirth and wild animals. She is one of the most revered deities in Greek mythology and in Roman mythology she is called Diana. Considered a fantastic hunter, Artemis was worshiped for alleviating female illnesses, protecting children and young people.
Description: From Greek mythology, from the waist up man, from the waist down goat. They lived in the woods, were cheerful and mischievous, as well as escorting Dionysus. In Rome he was called Faun and Silvanus.The Satyrs, Egipans and Silenes were ardently worshiped by Greek shepherds and farmers, who made offerings of animals and products of the land. ... With a new image, the Satyrs started to be represented with pointed ears, small horns and goat feet.
Description: From Greek mythology, from the waist up man, from the waist down goat. They lived in the woods, were cheerful and mischievous, as well as escorting Dionysus. In Rome he was called Faun and Silvanus.The Satyrs, Egipans and Silenes were ardently worshiped by Greek shepherds and farmers, who made offerings of animals and products of the land. ... With a new image, the Satyrs started to be represented with pointed ears, small horns and goat feet.
Description: Mr @ hits the Delete button. Elegant young man from the beginning of the 20th century is indecisive. He wants to hit the keyboard button but he doesn't know the best choice. Will the elegant Mr @ put an end to all his doubts and use Delete to put an end to everything he dislikes? What's your choice? Do you also delete something you don't like? Do you use @ to reinvent yourself?
Description: Bauhaus was the most important and well-known school of design, architecture and fine arts in the world. Created in 1919 by the famous architect Walter Gropius, in Germany, the Bauhaus School revolutionized modern design by creating the Bauhaus movement. It was persecuted by the Nazi government and was eventually deactivated in 1933.
Description: Teresa was declared a saint five years and a day after Saint Joan of Arc, but she had far more impact than that of the legendary French heroine. At the time, Pius XI revived the ancient custom of decorating St. Peter's Basilica with torches and tallow lamps. According to one account, "Tallow ropes and lamps were recovered from the dusty warehouses where they had been stored for over fifty-five years. A few older workers who still remembered how the decoration was last done - in 1870 - guided the 300 men work for two weeks as they climbed to tie the lamps in St. Peter's dome." The New York Times devoted its front page to a story about the occasion, entitled "All Rome Admires St. Peter Shining for the New Saint", According to the Times, more
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