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His drawing books for children feature clear step-by-step instructions employing numbers, letters, and shapes graded to the early elementary school level. For example, the book Ed Emberley's A.B.C. uses this style of instruction, presenting a single letter-based drawing for each letter of the alphabet.
Drawing of an Assyrian intaglio depicting scorpion men. In the epic poem Enuma elish, a scorpion-man is listed among the monsters created by Tiamat in order to wage war against the gods for murdering her mate Apsu. In the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, they stand guard outside the gates of the sun god Shamash at the mountains of Mashu.
In his drawings, young men in their prime can be seen performing inverted kicks and challenging acrobatic moves. His engolo drawings show many of the foundational capoeira moves, including the chapa de costas , rabo de arraia , scorpion , and cartwheel kick .
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In capoeira, escorpião (scorpion), originally known as rabo de arraia (stingray tail), is a distinct inverted kick over the head, resembling the stingray's or scorpion strike. Rabo-de-arraia with both legs is one of the most dangerous capoeira technique , both for the person who executes it and for the one who receives it. [ 1 ]
The scorpio or scorpion was a type of Roman torsion siege engine and field artillery piece. It was described in detail by the early-imperial Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius [ 1 ] in the 1st century BC and by the 4th century AD officer and historian Ammianus Marcellinus .
Isometrus maculatus, commonly as the lesser brown scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae. [2] Its distribution is pantropical; ...
Centruroides gracilis is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae, the bark scorpions. Its common names include Florida bark scorpion , brown bark scorpion , and slender brown scorpion . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Cuba it is known as alacran prieto ("dusky scorpion") and alacran azul ("blue scorpion"). [ 1 ]