วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 6 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2551

Elimia virginica


... that the snail Elimia virginica (pictured) newly colonized the Oswego River but was out-competed from there by another non-indigenous snail?
... that during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project?"
... that Sunday Island in Victoria, Australia is a private game reserve surrounded by the Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park?
... that the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Massaro House has an 18-foot-high living area illuminated by 26 triangular skylights?
... that Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty established the Crescent, the first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras Presidency in the year 1844?
... that Father Nelson Baker, founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, New York, is buried in a grottohewn from Vesuvian black lava in the basilica'stransept?
... that the fishing industry in New Zealand works an exclusive economic zone fourteen times larger than the land area of New Zealand itself?
... that the Black-throated Finch has a black-rumped and a white-rumped subspecies?
... that Larry McCall was released by the Baltimore Orioles and was signed with the New York Yankees as a free agent both on the same day?

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