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As mentioned above, the characters in Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories speak in a Deep South Gullah dialect. Other books about or which feature Gullah characters and culture are listed below. Children's books on the Gullah. Branch, Muriel (1995). The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People. New York City, New York ...
The butterfly was sometimes depicted with the maw of a jaguar, and some species were considered to be the reincarnations of the souls of dead warriors. The close association of butterflies with fire and warfare persisted into the Aztec civilisation; evidence of similar jaguar-butterfly images has been found among the Zapotec and Maya civilisations.
Papilio ajax (Linnaeus) Protographium marcellus (Cramer, 1777) Eurytides marcellus, the zebra swallowtail (formerly listed under genera Protographium, Iphiclides, Graphium and Papilio by some authorities), is a swallowtail butterfly native to the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. It is the state butterfly of Tennessee.
Among Us is a 2018 online multiplayer social deduction game developed and published by American game studio Innersloth. The game allows for cross-platform play; it was released on iOS and Android devices in June 2018 and on Windows later that year in November. It was ported to the Nintendo Switch in December 2020 and on the PlayStation 4 ...
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs ( lit. 'Decorative Arts' ), [ 1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I ), [ 2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and ...
Attacus atlas. Attacus atlas, the Atlas moth, is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. The species was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . The Atlas moth is one of the largest lepidopterans, with a wingspan measuring up to 24 cm (9.4 in) [ 1] and a wing surface area of about 160 cm 2 (≈25 ...
Aporia crataegi. Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae . A. crataegi is widespread and common. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to Transcaucasia and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In the south, it is found in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. [ 2][ 3] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators.