What about the “Poplar Front of Shoreham”?
TIL that House Sparrows are vicious little buggers that will attack and kill other birds and take their nests.
I totally agree! I love to listen to French being spoken. When I leave a movie in French, my brain feels a little fizzy … like it’s dancing.
I only remember him as Renfield in Lugosi’s Dracula.
Splitters!
Every time I tap on the link it brings me right back here.
So, basically a splinter group…
That is so doggone British and I absolutely love it.
More of a local branch…
That’s better. Thanks!
TIL that the IRS blasts incoming mail with so much radiation that it can make ink disappear:
Tony Shalhoub has a sister, Susan, who is also an actor. She’s usually based in Atlanta, but did appear on Broadway in 1969 in Red White and Maddox.
Tony appeared on Broadway many times. Including in Lend Me a Tenor in 2010.
I saw both plays.
The European fallow deer goes by the name dama dama. But there’s a subspecies dama dama dama. (Cite)
Childish, I know, but does any animal have a fourfold repetition? Or are there other threefolds?
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Just heard about this in a “weird news” radio feature: Kellogg’s has partnered with the company featured in Discovery’s “Moonshiners” to make Eggo eggnog.
There is Gorilla gorilla gorilla, the Western Lowland (you guessed it) Gorilla.
ETA: Pica pica pica, according to Wikipedia (see taxomomy and systematic section), is a subspecies of magpie:
P. p. pica – (Linnaeus, 1758): British Isles and southern Scandinavia east to Russia, south to Mediterranean, including most islands
Don’t forget Bison bison bison.
I will think about other threefolds, but fourfold should be difficult, as the third repetition is already the subspecies level, and I know of no sub-subspecies that have a distinct Latin name. I’ll think about it, it may take a while.
Anhinga anhinga anhinga
Now I’m wondering if in C. S. Lewis’s “That Hideous Strength”, the thrice repeated word “Ouroborindra”- from context apparently a demon’s name- can be deconstructed from its roots to have a translation.
Well, both Ouroboros and Indra are figures in Hindu cosmology. Lewis probably just liked the sound of it, because literally it would mean “an eternity of rain” or something like that. Water demon?
Today I learned Pelee Island in Lake Erie is the southernmost inhabited place in Canada.