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A large number of mantis shrimp species were first scientifically described by one carcinologist, Raymond B. Manning; the collection of stomatopods he amassed is the largest in the world, covering 90% of the known species whilst 10% are still unknown. [55]
Dandy (short for Dandelion) is an upper-class Englishwoman whose career as a private detective fills the void in her comfortable but unfulfilled life within a world of landownership and child-rearing for which she is temperamentally unsuited. [4]
The Ugliest Pig in the World Originally a prose story that ran from 1939 to 1940. Returned in picture strip form under the title 'Rip Snorter – The Ugliest Pig in the World' from 1956 to 1957. Toby Baines Eric Roberts 1939 1957 Prose Jak the Dragon Killer Jack Glass 1939 1941 Prose The Man who owns an Ali Baba Cave Toby Baines 1939 1940 Prose
The World of Skin was a music project springing out of the American group Swans, which was a collaboration between the core Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe. The project was initially called Skin , [ 1 ] with the first two albums being released under that name, the last one being released under the name the World of Skin.
Korky the Cat; Blinky; Ways of the Historical Meerkats; Bananaman; Bully Beef and Chips; Corporal Clott; Desperate Dan in the USA; Fiddle O Diddle; Beryl the Peril; George Vs Dragon
The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. [3] The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after Il Giornalino (cover dated 1 October 1924) and Detective Comics (cover dated March 1937).
"Dandy" was only released in Britain and America on the Face to Face album. However, it was released as a single in continental Europe, where it charted, reaching #1 in Germany, #2 in Belgium #3 in the Netherlands and #6 in Austria. In some countries, (such as Norway) "Dandy" was flipped with "Party Line" (also from Face to Face) as the A-side.
The dandy creates his own unity by aesthetic means. But it is an aesthetic of negation. To live and die before a mirror: that, according to Baudelaire, was the dandy's slogan. It is indeed a coherent slogan. The dandy is, by occupation, always in opposition [to society]. He can only exist by defiance …