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unusual facts about Habits



Adetomyrma

Members of the Amblyoponinae (especially Amblypone silvestrii) are called Dracula ants, after Count Dracula, the fictional vampire, referring to their unusual feeding habits; queens and workers practice a form of "non-destructive cannibalism", chewing holes into and feeding on the haemolymph (insect "blood") of the colony's own larvae.

Afder Zone

In April 2006, in partnership with Al-Nejah Relief, CHF International began a program to restore shallow wells and improve sanitation habits in the Afder and Gode Zones of the Somali Region.

Age progression

The BBC television series "Honey, We're Killing the Kids" focused on showing parents the consequences of poor parenting using the Age progression technique to estimate how their children may look like as adults if they continue with their present life-style, dietary and exercise habits.

American green kingfisher

These water kingfishers are descended from a common ancestor which seems to have been closely related to a progenitor of the Pied Kingfisher (which at that stage had not yet lost the metallic plumage tone), and are similar in plumage and habits (Moyle, 2006).

Anita: Dances of Vice

The film follows an elderly delusional woman who thinks she is Anita Berber (1899-1928), a German dancer who, with her partner, Sebastian Droste, came to represent the decadence of 1920's Berlin with their nude dancing, their cocaine habits and their uninhibited sex lives.

Caustic Casanova

The band self-released their first album, entitled Old Habits Die Hard, in May 2005, after playing one show at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the three members attended college.

Chuck Billy 'n' Folks

He also speaks correct Portuguese, and lives in a typical Japanese house, adopting some habits from Japan, like Bonsai, Ofuro, etc.

Countershading

Similarly in the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus, the reverse countershading is associated with inverted habits.

Cuisine of Rome

Roman cuisine, the food, traditional dishes and eating habits in the modern city of Rome

Dames in de Dop

In the first season they were sent to Huis 't Velde, an International Butler Academy situated in Warnsveld, Gelderland. In the second season they were sent to Nieuw Rande, situated in Diepenveen, Overijssel. Nieuw Rande was specially re-opened in order to try to change the ladettes' habits.

David Boston

Despite his sterling on-field performance, Chargers GM A.J. Smith traded Boston to the Miami Dolphins for a sixth round draft choice, citing his moody personality and lackadaisical practice habits.

Demonstration effect

Some heterodox economists such as James Duesenberry and Robert H. Frank, following the original insights of Thorstein Veblen (1899), have argued that awareness of the consumption habits of others tends to inspire emulation in of these practices.

Ecology of sponges

Such contributions to their habits' resources are significant along Australia 's Great Barrier Reef but relatively minor in the Caribbean.

Edwin Hatch

Hatch attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied under James Prince Lee, who later became the Bishop of Manchester; it was during this period of his life that he was first noted for his strong mental independence and extreme study habits, as well as when he joined the Church of England (having been raised a nonconformist).

Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values that Build Strong Communities

Eight Habits of the Heart: Embracing the Values That Build Strong Communities is a memoir by Clifton Taulbert, first published in 1997.

Étienne Brûlé

Champlain made the arrangement to do so and in return, the chief Iroquet (an Algonquin leader of the Petite nation who wintered his people near Huronia), requested that Champlain take Savignon, a young Huron, with him to teach him the customs and habits of the French.

Felicia Stoler

Dr. Felicia Stoler is an American registered dietitian and exercise physiologist who has hosted Honey, We're Killing the Kids, a television series originally developed by the BBC that shows parents the consequences of poor parenting, using computer-generated images of what their children may look like as adults if they continue with their present life-style, dietary and exercise habits.

Freud, Biologist of the Mind

Literary critic Frederick Crews writes that Sulloway "revolutionized our idea of Freud's scientific affinities and habits", and helped pave the way for subsequent works such as Adolf Grünbaum's The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (1984), and Malcolm Macmillan's Freud Evaluated (1991).

Johannes Lucius

In his book Lucius pointed out the difference between the Romance and Slavic Dalmatia, the habits of the people and the cultural borderlines.

John Skelton

In Anthony Munday's Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, Skelton acts the part of Friar Tuck, and Ben Jonson in his masque, The Fortunate Isles, introduced Skogan and Skelton in like habits as they lived.

Killer ape theory

Concerning the eating habits from then until now, Dart argues that there has always been an ambition to eating meat: grubs and insects, bigger mammals and even human flesh (i.e. distinctive cannibalism) are the results.

Kvass

William Tooke, describing Russian drinking habits in 1799, stated that

Leopard shark

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed this species as of Least Concern, while noting that local stocks may easily become overfished because of the shark's slow growth and limited migratory habits.

Libertarian Marxism

Whereas the central Maoist leaders encouraged the masses to criticize reactionary "ideas" and "habits" among the alleged 5% of bad cadres, giving them a chance to "turn over a new leaf" after they had undergone "thought reform," the ultra-left argued that cultural revolution had to give way to political revolution "in which one class overthrows another class".

Microtargeting

The databases contain specific information about a particular voter (party affiliation, frequency of voting, contributions, volunteerism, etc.) with other activities and habits available from commercial marketing vendors such as Acxiom, Dun & Bradstreet, Experian Americas, and InfoUSA.

Modern Swedish

Bellman was a Stockholm poet of the late 18th century whose poetry represented the drinking habits of the time.

MSN Video Player

Ashley Highfield, Microsoft’s UK consumer and online managing director, suggested that in the future the service will offer users who have a Windows Live ID and are signed in, programme recommendations – based on their previous viewing habits and that a tie-up with Microsoft’s gaming console, the Xbox 360, would be on the cards.

Neuranethes spodopterodes

Its very voracity combined with its monophagous feeding habits have however suggested that it might prove to be a valuable biological control of invasive Agapanthus in countries such as New Zealand.

Pacey Witter

In season two, Pacey goes through a radical change, first when he frosted his tips in his hair, and later when he starts dating Andie McPhee, an academic overachiever who tries to help Pacey reform his study habits.

Plaque Attack

Steve Cartwright, who designed the game, said that game was meant to help people develop good dental habits.

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork (ISBN 978-0446578066), subtitled "A 12-Step Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle", is a book by former Arkansas governor and 2008 United States Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

Red Pencil Protest

The suspension of The Heat is widely believed in media circles by the Malaysian Home Ministry due to their reporting on the spending habits of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

Richard Chenevix Trench

George W. E. Russell described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and recounted the following anecdote of his old age:He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket.

SB Nation

ComScore, the Reston-based tracker of consumer Internet habits, tallied 5.8 million unique visitors to SB Nation Web sites during the month of November 2010.

Sean Covey

Stacy Curtis illustrated Covey's The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, a children's book which became a New York Times Best Seller.

Southern Boubou

It superficially resembles the Southern Fiscal, Lanius collaris, but is shorter tailed, has more white in the wing, and is much less conspicuous in its habits.

Stacy Curtis

Curtis then began a new career as a children's book illustrator, eventually illustrating more than 25 children's books, including a New York Times Best Seller, Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, a version of Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People simplified for children.

The Alphas

One of Allie A's nervous habits is her excessive use of Purell.

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Strauss mentions his experiments with sleeping habits, personal grooming tips, and encounters with celebrities such as Scott Baio, Tom Cruise, Andy Dick, Paris Hilton, Courtney Love, Dennis Rodman, and Britney Spears.

The Tenant

Gradually he changes his breakfast habits to those of Simone, and shifts from Gauloises to Marlboro cigarettes.

Toshisada Nishida

One major advance in the study of chimpanzee habits came when Nishida discovered that wild chimpanzees consume Aspilia leaves.

UK Music Charts

The UK Music Charts are a collection of charts that reflect the music buying habits of people within the United Kingdom.

Virginia Academy

Founded in 1997 as a branch of Community Church, it uses an A Beka curriculum and focuses on accelerated academics, physical and emotional development, music, art, Christian habits and attitudes, and American patriotism.

Web-footed tenrec

The web-footed tenrec, otter shrew, or aquatic tenrec (Limnogale mergulus) is the only known semiaquatic Malagasy tenrec (the African otter shrews have similar habits), and is found in eastern Madagascar, especially in and around Ranomafana National Park.

Wood Quail

For most wood quail, information has mainly come from specimens, and breeding behaviour and habits are little known.

Your Surrender

"Your Surrender" is the third single from American rock band Neon Trees' debut album Habits.

Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness

He takes the form of a boy and ventures to Earth to report the habits of humans to his home planet.


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