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unusual facts about Brush-tailed Phascogale



Adam Emory Albright

Themes portrayed by the man called the James Whitcomb Riley of the brush include country children at quiet play, at rest, and walking.

Aert van der Neer

In England paintings from his brush are to be found at the National Gallery and Wallace Collection, and, amongst others, in the collections of the Marquess of Bute and Colonel Holford, and several at Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens (Barnsley, Yorkshire).

Alex B. Mahood

He designed the Women's Dormitory at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, United States Steel Building in Gary, Skyway Drive-In Theater in Brush Fork, the Deco-Style Mercer County Courthouse (1930-1931) in Princeton and the Guyan Theater in Logan.

Angela Bloomfield

Bloomfield has also performed in a number of feature films including Bonjour Timothy and The Frighteners, also a short film, "A Brush With Death", for the 48HOURS 2008.

Anjouan Brush Warbler

The Anjouan Brush Warbler (Nesillas longicaudata) is a species of Old World warbler in the Acrocephalidae family.

Battle of Westport

Two other Confederate divisions, under Shelby and James Fagan, were poised to assault Blunt along Brush Creek the next day, hoping to defeat him before Pleasanton could arrive on the field in force.

Bidens

Several Bidens species are used as food by the caterpillars of certain Lepidoptera, such as the noctuid moth Hypercompe hambletoni and the brush-footed butterfly Vanessa cardui, the Painted Lady.

Boulton Carbon Company

In 1886, former Brush Electric Company Superintendent/General Manager Washington H. Lawrence led a group of investors (including Myron T. Herrick, James Parmelee and Webb Hayes) in buying a controlling interest in the Boulton Carbon Company.

Broom filefish

It is also called brush-sided leatherjacket (Australia) or broom leatherjacket (Christmas Island).

C. rotundifolium

Combretum rotundifolium, the monkey brush, a plant species found in South America

Cataract bog

Other plants found in cataract bogs are limeseep grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia grandifolia), Indian paint brush (Castilleja coccinea), stiff cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior), Appalachian bluet (Houstonia serpyllifolia) and northern sundrops (Oenothera tetragona).

Charles F. Brush

In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a hydroelectric power plant at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, among the first to generate electricity from water power in the United States.

Chua Ek Kay

Chua continued to practise Han calligraphy and ink-brush painting, as he believed that while a contemporary painting had to keep up with the times and embody an artist's temperament and the ideals he stands for, in creating art he should be rooted to certain basic rules and formats.

Clone tool

In other image editing software, its equivalent is sometimes called a rubber stamp tool or a clone brush.

Daily American Times

were Charles G. Baylor, a vocal proponent of direct trade for the Southern states; Roswell S. Ripley (later a Confederate Brigadier General); and Charles W. Brush.

Diamond in the Dunes

On the train, the novice players brush up on the strike zone and force out rule.

Dundas Valley, New South Wales

Gregory Blaxland purchased Brush Farm in 1806.
Lieutenant William Cox would refer the south eastern corner near Brush farm now bordering Deninstone West and Eastwood as Dundas Heights; Lieutenant William Cox would survey his land from the vantage point of Dundas Heights.

Edward Rainey

After this accident he took stock of his life, rediscovered his faith in God and decided to try his first love, painting, using a brush held in his mouth.

Eulabee Dix

They also hold an archive of letters, journals and other manuscripts relating to Dix's life, as will as her palette and brush, her awards, and a pencil sketch by John Butler Yeats.

Evgeniy Chuikov

His landscapes became more assertive with colour and brush strokes and developed a historic melancholy characteristic of such 19th-century Russian realists as Arkady Rylov and Isaac Levitan.

Jake Shields

Their activities included mountain biking, wild caving, snowboarding, clearing brush, bucking firewood, climbing mountains, exploring the high country, and wrestling.

John T. Brush

Brush also devised a salary scale system which was designed to curtail player salaries, a move which helped contribute to the breakaway Players' League in 1890.

Johnny Dolan

On the morning of August 22, 1875, Noe, the owner of a Greenwich Street brush factory, went to check on his business.

Kanō school

It is a National Treasure of Japan in the Tokyo National Museum, and described by Paine as "typical for hurried sweep of composition, for pure nature design, and for strength of individual brush stroke. ... Golden cloud-like areas representing mist are placed arbitrarily in the background, and emphasize the decorative magnitude of what is otherwise the powerful drawing of giant tree forms".

Katharine Brush

Brush, however, is probably best known today for her subsequent novel Red-Headed Woman, which was made into a film in 1932 starring Jean Harlow which remains a pre-code classic for its racy humor.

Longwing

Heliconiinae, a subfamily of brush-footed butterflies commonly called the longwings

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

Powers were also sought at this time for the operation of motorbuses, and, in November, the Brush Traction Electric Engineering Company of Loughborough was approached to see if it were willing to operate two of its motorbuses in Nottingham for a trial period of three months.

The second batch, numbered 146 to 155, had similar bodies built by the Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited of Loughborough, mounted on Brush-built P.22 trucks and with identical equipment to the U.E.C. cars, except for 146, which had a B.T.H electromagnetic brake instead of the air slipper type.

Oregon Coast Range

Other mammals here are Mountain beaver, beavers, coyote, mink, river otter, mountain lion, porcupines, skunks, and brush rabbit.

Os Trapalhões

Though he played numerous secondary characters, the most memorable of them was the Sargento Pincel (Sergeant Brush).

Peter Brush

Educated at Clifton College and RMA Sandhurst, Brush spent his early teenage years at his father's citrus plantation in Canada, later returning to Drumnabreeze House, Magheralin, County Down.

Brush was also known by the nickname Basil, as a joke based on the television puppet Basil Brush.

Sara Leighton

Her ambition was to become a painter since she was old enough to hold a brush, and this she pursued under the tutelage of Pietro Annigoni.

Scaly leg

The loose crusty scales may also be removed by soaking the afflicted bird's legs in soapy water mixed with diluted ammonia, and the encrusted areas scrubbed gently with a soft brush.

Serif

The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book The Origin of the Serif is now broadly but not universally accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first painted onto stone, and the stone carvers followed the brush marks which flared at stroke ends and corners, creating serifs.

Solomon Scheu

He was in office from January 7, 1878, to January 1880, but was defeated for re-election in 1879 by Alexander Brush (vote: Brush 13,721; Scheu 12,189).

Srpenica

The name is probably derived from a Romance reflex of the Latin word stirps 'tree, bush, root', which is preserved in Italian sterpo 'bushes, roots that have died off' and in Ladin šterp 'brambles, brush litter'.

Swap Shop

Basil's Swap Shop, a 2008 relaunch of the BBC show, starring puppet character Basil Brush

The Art of Cross-Examination

The cross-examination of Ada and Phoebe Brush by George W. Whiteside - in their suit against two prominent Huntington, Long Island physicians, to recover damages for their ten-year incarceration in Kings Park State Hospital as insane patients.

The Thing from Another World

Anyway, if you're taking painting lessons from Rembrandt, you don't take the brush out of the master's hands.

Thomas Lobb

Aerides rosea (1850), a fox-brush orchid from India, Vietnam and China;

Trần Quốc Ẩn

He is notable for projects of large books, such as a 54 kg brush written and illustrated edition of 143 poems of Hoàng Quang Thuận.

Tristan Thrush

The thrush is thought to have evolved from an ancestor in the genus Turdus from South America, and resembles an immature Austral Thrush, but its adaptations to life on a small island group, including an unusual brush-tipped tongue modified for extracting the contents of eggs, have been used as reasons to warrant its separation into the monotypic genus Nesocichla.

Warrington Corporation Tramways

Nine Leyland TD1s with Brush bodywork were purchased, and it was not long before the service was extended to the suburbs of Walton and Grappenhall, illustrating the flexibility of the motor bus over the fixed infrastructure required for trams.

West Ryde, New South Wales

While they were in England, the land was rented by the explorer Gregory Blaxland, who owned nearby Brush Farm.

Woodmohr, Wisconsin

Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 29 and 30, and parts of sections 7, 8, 16, 21 & 28 are covered with Aspen thickets and Oak Brush with a soil similar to the East side of the Township The remainder of the lands lying along the Streams in the center and South West part are mostly Bur Oak & Pitch(?) Pine Openings having a more sandy soil than(?) the more thickly timbered portions.

Xyris tennesseensis

Proper land management includes the clearing of brush and the removal of exotic plant species such as Nepal grass (Microstegium vimineum).

Yariguies Brush-finch

The vernacular name "Yariguies Brush-finch" was selected because the Yellow-breasted Brush Finch, as a subspecies of which it is currently classified, is to be split into several species, and it is not clear at the moment to which of these the newly-described bird would belong (Donegan & Huertas, 2006).

Yarra Bend Park

The park is home to many species of birds, bats and other mammals, reptiles (tiger snakes and blue tongued lizards are common) insects and fish (esp. carp and eels) also regularly found are Rainbow Lorikeets, Red-rumped Parrots and Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, Water Rats and Brush-tail and Ringtail Possums.


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