Stories
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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When contemporary dance meets dyspraxia
Discover why a rare neurological condition meant an enthusiastic club-night dancer struggled with formal dance classes. And how persisting with those classes paid off.
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My rainforest upbringing
In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.
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The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo
Darling of 19th-century American freak shows, Evatima Tardo remained serene as she withstood crucifixion and the bites of poisonous snakes. But she took the secret behind her abilities to her grave.
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Reptiles, amphibia, fishes and lower chordata / by Richard Lydekker [and others].
Date: 1912- Books
Reptiles and amphibians, their habits and adaptations / by Thomas Barbour ... illustrated in part by George Nelson.
Barbour, Thomas, 1884-1946.Date: [1926]- Books
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Reptiles et poissons de l'Afrique occidentale. Étude précédée de considérations générales sur leur distribution géographique / par ... Aug. Duméril.
Duméril, Auguste Henri André, 1812-1870.Date: [1860]- Books
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Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting / from the French of Louis Figuier.
Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894.Date: 1892- Books
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Reptiles of the world : tortoises and turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes of the eastern and western hemispheres / by Raymond L. Ditmars ; with a frontispiece in color, and nearly 200 illustrations, from photographs taken by the author.
Ditmars, Raymond Lee, 1876-1942Date: 1910