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![]() Now that the April of your youth adorns Lord Herbert of Cherbury
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![]() We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. Vincent Canby on the Academy Awards
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![]() APRIL FOOL, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.. Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911 |
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![]() So sweet love seemed that April morn, Aristide Brian, So sweet love seemed |
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison
ef·ful·gence
noun. A brilliant radiance.
Begotten Son, Divine Similitude,
In whose conspicuous count'nance, without cloud
Made visible, th' Almighty Father shines,
Whom else no Creature can behold; on thee
Impresst the effulgence of his Glorie
abides,
Transfus'd on thee his ample Spirit rests.
PARADISE LOST
John Milton
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary
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The Porcupine Porcupines are herbivores. Their diet consists of tree bark and foliage. This diet is supplemented with fruits and grasses. As with most plant eating animals their diet is insufficient in salt. This causes the porcupine to have a ravenous appetite for salt. Natural salt licks, animal bones left by carnivores, yellow pond lilies, and other items of high salt content are attractive to porcupines. Some human products such as paints, plywood adhesives and the sweated on clothing of humans have a strong appeal for porcupines. Porcupines are slow-footed, and stocky animals. They spend much of their life in trees. They are equipped by their Creator with very sharp and formidable incisors. These teeth are used for stripping bark and foliage from tree. |
Though the porcupine is slow moving it is not helpless in defending itself. The well known defensive weapon of the porcupine is its specialized hairs or quills. The average porcupine has 30,000 quills. These quills are comparable in hardness and flexibility to celluloid. The quills are so sharp that they can penetrate the hide of any animal. The short quill that stud the muscular tail of the porcupine are the most formidable and do the most damage to the unwise attacker. With a few lashes of the tail, the porcupine can send a rain of quills that pierce tiny scale-like barbs into the skin of its adversary. The quills will work their way inward because of the quills and the involuntary muscular action of the victim. Sometimes the quills will work their way out of the victum, but many times the quils will continue to work their way inward and penetrate vital organs bringing death to the victim. Source: The Handy Science Answer Book = Visible Ink
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Joseph Addison |
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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack at once. |
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Have A Great Day Phillip Bower |
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