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• Some spiders use their venom not to bite their prey, but to inject their silk with the poison, Kathy Wolfe
• Black-widow venom is 15 times more power ful than rattlesnake venom, but black widows carry only a tiny dose of it, so it's rarely fatal.
• In World War II so many soldiers were bitten by black widow spiders, who like to live in latrines, that the antidote became a standard part of their medical kits.
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• Nearly all types of spider have some kind of venom, but there are only 30 known species that have been responsible for killing a hu man.
• Spiders are not insects. They are arachnids. What’s the difference? All insects have six legs whereas spiders have eight. Most insects have wings and antennae but spiders do not. Insect bodies are divided into head, thorax, and ab domen, but spiders have only head and thorax. Spiders, insects, and crustaceans are all members of the Arthropod phylum, which includes all creatures that have segmented bodies and pairs of jointed legs. Spiders are members of the arachnid class, which also includes ticks, mites, and scorpions. There are over 45,000 kinds of spider in the world.
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• One type of spider is accurately named the warty bird-dropping spider because it is perfectly camouflaged as bird dung. It also gives off a realistic odor which repels predators but attracts flies.
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• One type of spider digs a burrow in the ground and then surrounds the hole with trip wires which radiate outward like spokes of a wheel. Each trip wire ends at the burrow where the spider sits with his legs on the strands, waiting for vibrations that indicate a bug is in the vicinity. It then rushes out and grabs the bug.
• The wolf spider can change its color from brown to gray depending upon what type of vegetation it's sitting on.
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• Ant spiders that live in the rain forest not only look just like ants but act like them too. Most predatory insects know that ants taste bad, they bite, and they attack in large numbers. So ant spi ders run in a zigzag patterns just like ants do; they wave their front legs around in the air as if they were antennae; and they hang out where ants live.
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• About half of the species of spiders build webs. Others use different hunting methods:
• One type of spider simply sits on a flower and waits for a bug to come in search of nectar. The spider is able to change color from white to yel low to pink to match the shade of the flower it’s sitting on.
• Another type of spider found in Uganda looks just like a wasp, and an Australian species of spider looks like a scorpion and even raises its abdomen over its head when threatened. One harmless type of spider looks exactly like the deadly black wid ow except that it lacks the red hourglass on the abdomen.
• Most spiders kill their prey by biting it, injecting venom. But the hackle orb spider has no fangs and no venom. Instead, it wraps its prey in layer after layer of spider silk, binding it so tightly that the insect is crushed.
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• A bolas is a rope with a ball attached at either end. When a cowboy throws a bolas at a running cow, the bolas wraps itself around the cow’s legs and trips the animal so it can be caught. The bolas spi der forms a similar weapon from its silk. Hanging from the underside of a leaf, the pea-sized spider will dangle a line of silk with a sticky ball at the end. In the early evening hours of dusk, it’s hunting for cutworm moths, which are active at sunset. The spider gives off the scent of a female cutworm moth that is ready to mate, hoping to attract a male cutworm moth. If a moth flies by, the spider swings the bolas at it, hoping to ensnare it. If the hunt is unsuccessful, the spider reels in the bolas and eats it, absorbing its protein. Later in the evening, it lets the bolas dangle once again, but this time the spider gives off the scent of a moth called smoky tetanolita which is active around midnight. Now the spider emits the mating scent of that spe cies of moth hoping for better luck.
• One type of spider found in Taiwan builds a lifesize model of itself in order to act as a decoy. Us ing pellets made from the remains of insects, old leaves, empty egg sacks, and silk, this spider con structs a replica of itself. When predatory wasps attack, the spider is safely hidden away while the wasp attacks the decoy.
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• The common zebra-striped jumping spider that's found in North American backyards can jump up to seven inches. It hangs out in high places and waits for an insect to fly past, whereupon the spi der launches itself into space, hopefully landing on the back of its airborne prey on the way down. If it should miss, it pays out a dragline, floats to the ground, then climbs back up to a high spot again.
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How do you get spiders to act? In the movie "Arachnophobia", a trainer got the spiders to perform on cue using a variety of methods, including invisible vibrating wires that they would not cross; patches of spray wax Lemon Pledge, which they wouldn't walk through; heat to make them move; and blow dryers to coax them into a run.
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• Athena wove a tapestry that depicted all the gods in all their glory, but the peasant girl produced a tapestry that depicted all of the gods in their be hind-the-scenes trysts and deceits. Athena saw that the work was superior, but was so angered by the choice of subject matter that she destroyed the tapestry and the loom. The peasant girl was so shamed that she ran off and hanged herself.
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• The bird-eating spider of the Amazon has a leg spread of 10 inches. It usually preys on bugs and hummingbirds, but will attack anything. It doesn't build webs, but stalks prey, seizing it and injecting paralyzing poison. It can live two years between meals and has a lifespan of 20 to 30 years. The poison is not fatal to humans, but it can make a person ill. When a naturalist first described a spi der that ate birds in the year 1705, scientists of the day refused to believe her.
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• Chagrined, Athena cut the girl down and brought her back to life transformed as a spider, and the rope she hanged herself with was turned into the spider’s silk. Ever since then, the peasant girl’s descendants have been wandering the world, weav ing with skill.
• According to myth, a Greek peasant had a daugh ter who grew up to be a talented weaver. She was so skilled that she became boastful and claimed to be a better weaver than Athena, the Greek god dess of craftsmanship. Athena disguised herself as an old woman and warned the girl against anger ing the gods, but the girl scoffed, and demanded a weaving contest with Athena so she could prove her skill. At this, Athena dropped her disguise and the contest was on.
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• Today the taxonomical word for the class of ar thropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks springs from the peasant girl’s name: Arachne, which gives us Arachnid.
• Use mosquito-repellant products containing DEET.
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• Time spent outdoors not wearing protective clothing and mosquito repellent – If you work or spend a lot of time outdoors (golfing, gardening, hunting, etc.), you’re at a higher risk of being bitten by mosquitoes.
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• If you have a weakened immune system.
• Proximity – If you live in an area where WNV has already been identified or near mosquito larval habitat.
• Eliminate any standing water from your property, such as trash bins, plant saucers, rain gutters, buckets, etc.
The mosquito most common for transmitting this disease generally stays close to the site it hatched from. Don’t let it be a container or rain gutter from your own property.
• Time of year – The majority of WNV cases occur in August.
• Geographic region – The Dakotas have reported some of the highest cases per capita in the United States.
• Wear long sleeves and pants.
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• Ketchup leaves the bottle at a rate of 25 miles per year.
• The name icoconuti comes from 16th-century Por tuguese sailors. It is believed that the three holes on the fruit resembled a face, so it was honored with the word icoco,i meaning igrini or igrinning face.i The inuti part was added later.
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• Charmin once hosted a contest for toilet paper wedding dresses. The winner received a cash prize of $2,000.
• As a child, Mark Twain nearly drowned nine times before he learned to swim.
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• Possums don't actually play dead. They merely pass out from fear of their predators.
• In Tokyo, you can buy a toupee for your dog.
• Looking to speed up your decision-making capac ity? Try an action video game! Players tend to de velop a heightened sensitivity to their surround ings, which in turn aids them with multitasking and activities such as driving, navigating around town and even keeping track of friends in a crowd.
• In 1992, the president of Sri Lanka changed the spelling of the first English syllable of his countryis name from iSrii to iShrii in the belief that it would improve the nationis fortunes. Unfortunate ly, he failed to reap any possible benefit, as he was assassinated the following year (and the spelling was reverted).
• When a U.K. autoshop mechanic saw the Google Street View car heading in his direction, he thought it would be fun to stage a murder scene. Police paid his shop a visit a year later after the image finally appeared on Street View.
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• The Argentine Football Association published a cultural manual ahead of the 2018 World Cup that included a section on how to seduce Russian women.
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• Cape Canaveral was chosen as a test site for missiles when President Harry Truman signed legislation autho rizing the construction of a missile proving ground in 1949. The location was picked for a number of reasons. First, it was adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean where misfires could land in the water without killing people, and where splashdowns of returning rockets could be recovered from the sea. Second, it was chosen to take advantage of the Earth’s rotation because the linear velocity of the Earth's surface is greatest towards the equator and being close to the equator reduces the energy required to launch rockets by 0.3%. Finally, the climate made it possible to launch rockets year-round. The average temperatures at Cape Canaveral vary between 91.1 F during the day and 75.1 F at night. The average annual rainfall of Cape Ca naveral is 53 inches, however.
• Cape Canaveral is the name of a city in Florida located on the Atlantic Coast. It’s the location of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is adjacent to John F. Ken nedy Space Center. The entire area is collectively known as the “Space Coast.”
• The word “Canaveral” is Spanish, meaning “reed bed” or “sugarcane plantation.” The place name of Cape Canav eral is one of the oldest surviving European place names in the U.S. The name appeared on maps as early as the year 1564. Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León visited Cape Canaveral in 1513. Until after World War II the cape was a stretch of barren, sandy scrubland.
• After President Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to President Lyndon Johnson that re naming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial. It was Kennedy who had set the goal of landing on the Moon. Johnson rec ommended the renaming of the entire cape, an nounced in a televised address six days after the as sassination, on Thanksgiving evening. Kennedy's last visit to the space facility was on November 16, 1963, six days before his death. Accordingly, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was officially renamed Cape Kennedy Air Force Station. At the same time, the city of Cape Canaveral changed its name to Cape Kennedy.
• Although the name change was approved, it was not popular in Florida from the outset. The area had been known as Cape Canaveral for centu ries and the locals were unhappy about the name change. In 1973, the Florida State Legislature passed a law restoring the former 400-year-old name. John Kennedy’s brother, Senator Ted Ken nedy, had stated that it was a matter to be decided by the citizens of Florida, and the Kennedy family issued a letter stating they “understood the decision.” In 1974, Florida governor Reubin Askew signed legislation restoring the name of Cape Ca naveral. Meanwhile, the Air Force issued a general order renaming the facilities on an adjacent island the Kennedy Space Center.
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• The first rocket launched from Cape Canaveral was a V-2 rocket that went up on July 24, 1950. NASA was estab lished in 1958. By 1959, the first Titan intercontinental ballistic missile went up. That was followed by the Mer cury and Gemini space programs, and then the Apollo flights.
• Therefore, Kennedy Space Center is a NASA complex on Merritt Island, which is just north west of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Both Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center function as spaceports, launching spacecraft and supporting spaceflight, but they are distinctively different entities. Cape Canaveral also refers to the name of the nearby town, as well as the beach.
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And yet there were other facilities I checked across the country where there were no health protection levels what soever, typically at VA in-network community partners like civilian optometrists. You'll need to call them individually to find out their protection levels. Oddly enough, in some locations across the country, facilities within mere miles of each other can range from low to medium to high.
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Starting in May the Veterans Health Administration CO VID-19 Health Protection Levels program, aligning with the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention’s health care setting data, will determine on a weekly basis just what needs to be done before you can access care at a VA medi calAtfacility.mine, for example, it's at Level High. That means the full menu of options comes into play: masks, social dis tancing (stay 6 feet from others), probable screening at the door, approved visitors only and video options encouraged for appointments instead of needing to go in.
At a Level Medium, it means masks, your care partner can come in but no other visitors, self-screen for COVID symptoms before you go and social distancing not required.
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• On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Arm strong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: "Tha tis one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind." Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
• On July 24, 1567, during her imprisonment at Loch leven Castle in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate in favor of her 1-year-old son, later crowned King James VI of Scotland. In 1542, while just 6 days old, Mary had ascended to the Scottish throne upon the death of her father, King James V.
• On July 22, 2005, "March of the Penguins," a French-made documentary about emperor penguins in Antarctica, opens in theaters across the U.S. The film went on to win numerous awards, including an Oscar, and became one of the highest-grossing docu mentaries in movie history.
• On July 18, 1925, Volume One of Adolf Hitleris phil osophical autobiography "Mein Kampf" is published. It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that would envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945.
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On July 21, 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway, author of such novels as "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea," is born in Oak Park, Illinois. The in fluential American literary icon became known for his straightforward prose and use of understatement.
On July 19, 1956, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces that the United States is withdraw ing its offer of financial aid to Egypt to help with the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River. The Soviets rushed to Egypt's aid, and the Aswan Dam was officially opened in 1964.
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• Either Medusa and Poseidon fell in love and wanted to get married, which threw Athena into a jealous rage; or Medusa resisted Poseidon but was overcome by him, which made Athena want to protect Medusa from any future assaults. At any rate, Athena cast a curse over Medusa, causing her skin to turn to scales and her hair to turn to snakes.
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Anyone who looked into her eyes would be turned to stone. Medusa, transformed into a Gorgon, left Greece to wander Africa, forlorn and alone.
• Greek mythology began with Gaea (the Earth) and Uranus (the Sky) who were the parents of twelve Titans, who were the first gods and goddesses. Lat er, these Titans gave rise to, and were subsequently overthrown by, all the rest of the Greek gods.
• Medusa was a very beautiful woman with alabas ter skin and long golden hair. When she grew up, she went to the temple of Athena, goddess of wis dom and war, and pledged to serve Athena for the rest of her life, taking a vow of celibacy. One day Poseidon showed up at Athena’s temple and was infatuated by Medusa. There are two schools of thought concerning how things went from there.
• The Roman poet Ovid told Medusa’s tragic tale in his collection of myths called “Metamorphoses” written around 8 A.D.
• One of the Titans was named Pontus, who ruled over the sea. When Gaea got disgusted with Ura nus because he threw some of their ugliest chil dren into the underworld, she ditched him and married her son Pontus. They became parents of a son named Phorcys and his sister Ceto. Phorcys and Ceto ruled the oceans together. They ended up having three daughters, two of whom were im mortal, and one of which was mortal. The mortal daughter was named Medusa.
• When he approached Medusa, he tricked her into looking at herself in the mirrored shield, turning her to stone. He lopped off her head with the golden sword, not knowing that she was pregnant by Poseidon. Two infants escaped from her dying body, Pegasus (a winged horse) and Chrysaor (a winged boar).
• Meanwhile, Acrisius, King of Argos, went to the Oracle of Delphi to ask if he would have any sons, since all he had was a daughter named Danae. The Oracle said he would have a grandson, who would kill him. To prevent this, Acrisius locked Danae away so she could not get pregnant. But Zeus desired her and used his mag ic to impregnate her. She gave birth to Perseus. Acrisius locked Danae and Perseus in a chest and heaved it into the ocean. The chest washed up on the shore of Seriphos where Danae and Perseus were rescued by Dictys. Dictys raised Perseus to adulthood. Dictys’ brother, King Polydectes, wanted to marry Danae but she objected. He decreed that if Perseus brought him the head of Medusa, he would cancel the wedding.
• The other gods heaped Perseus with magical gifts. A polished mirror from Athena; Hermes’ winged boots; Hades’ helmet of invisibility; Hephaestus’ golden sword.
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• Medusa’s two sisters went after Perseus, but he used his winged shoes and helmet of invis ibility to escape. He took Medusa’s head with him, which could still turn people to stone. As soon as he returned to Seriphos, he pulled Me dusa’s head out of the sack and showed it to King Polydectes, who turned to stone. Danae was free. Perseus gave Medusa’s head to Athe na who turned it into a shield.
• Perseus wanted to go to Argos, but was told about the Oracle’s prophecy. Instead, he travelled to Larissa, where athletic contests were being held. He threw the discus and it accident ly hit an old man who was watching: Acrisius, King of Argos, killing him instantly.
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