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Detail of pleated gown made of gossamer. Still from the film The Queen of Sheba (1921) with actress Betty Blythe in a gossamer top. Gossamer fabric is a thin, sheer woven fabric. The structure of the fabric is similar to a gauze. It is usually made of silk, cotton, or wool. The fabric may be coated with rubber to make it waterproof. [1] [2] [3]
Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift ...
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House on August 21, 1975. [1] [2] The book is about the many amazing 'thinks' one can think and the endless possibilities and dreams that imagination can create. The book's front cover depicts forty ...
When analyzing the wording of several Dr. Seuss books, communications professor Lois Einhorn determined that 72% of its words in I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! have positive connotations and 28% have negative connotations. This was a higher proportion of positive words than most of the other Dr. Seuss books she analyzed.
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, was one of the world's most beloved children's book authors. Born in 1904, Seuss wrote and illustrated more than 60 children's books during his ...
The protagonist discovers that Solla Sollew is surrounded by a wall with only one door. The doorman apologizes that he cannot open it, because a Key-Slapping Slippard recently nested in the key hole, meaning that the single trouble with the trouble-free city is that you cannot get in. Since the city no longer needs a doorman, he has decided to ...
It was one of the bestselling paperback books of World War II, with 1.34 million copies in print by 1945. [2] "The Pocket Book of ___" was the proprietary title cliché of the publisher. [3] The Pocket Book of Boners contains 22 illustrations of boners (howlers, blunders), drawn by Dr. Seuss. The rest of the volume consists of short jokes and ...
Children's literature portal; Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! is a children's book credited to Dr. Seuss "with some help from Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith".The book is based on verses and sketches created by Seuss before his death in 1991, and was expanded to book length and completed by poet Prelutsky and illustrator Smith for publication in 1998.