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unusual facts about Dufour’s gland


Dufour’s gland

The diversification of Hymenoptera took place in the Cretaceous and the gland may have developed at about this time (200 million years ago) as it is present in all three groups of Apocrita, the wasps, bees and ants.


Antoine Dufour

Dufour shares many compositional traits with other fingerstyle guitarists such as Phil Keaggy, Kaki King, Don Alder, Andy McKee, Craig D'Andrea, and Don Ross, especially in terms of his music's technical complexity.

Dufour works on the side as a guitar instructor, offering lessons through Skype as well.

Bartholin's gland

Bartholin's glands were first described in the 17th century by the Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738).

Duvernoy

Duvernoy's gland, a gland found in some snakes named for French zoologist Georges Louis Duvernoy

Hôtel de Castries

The hôtel was originally built around the end of the 17th century by Jean Dufour, seigneur de Nogent.

Marjolain Dufour

Dufour worked from 1977 to 1998 at Alcoa in Baie-Comeau and was the regional president of the trade union group the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) for six years and the vice-president of the aluminum union group of Baie-Comeau.

Polyergus rufescens

She emits a secretion from the Dufour's gland on her abdomen, named after its discoverer, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, which includes a pheromone which subdues the attacked ants and makes them less aggressive.

Skene's gland

While the glands were first described by the French surgeon Alphonse Guérin (1816-1895), they were named after the Scottish gynaecologist Alexander Skene, who wrote about it in Western medical literature.

Victoire de Castellane

De Castellane was brought up by her maternal grandmother and her uncle, Gilles Dufour, one of Karl Lagerfeld’s principal assistants, first at Fendi then Chanel.

Victorine Meurent

By 1906, Meurent had left Paris for the suburb of Colombes, where she lived with a woman named Marie Dufour for the remainder of her life.

Von Ebner's gland

Von Ebner's glands (also called gustatory glands) are named after Anton Gilbert Victor von Ebner, Ritter von Rosenstein, who was an Austrian histologist.

Wafah Dufour

Wafah Dufour spent the early part of her life in Los Angeles, then Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but later moved to Geneva, Switzerland, with her parents and two sisters Nadjia (1979) and Noor (1987).


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