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Dan is persuaded to resume writing a piano concerto. Cathy sponsors a $5,000 prize for a contest without telling him, confident that Dan's music will win. After the music wins the contest, it is to be performed at Carnegie Hall by the famed pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Dan uses the money to undergo an operation in New York that restores his vision.
Thus, centipedes are most commonly found in high-humidity environments to avoid dehydration, [38] and are mostly nocturnal. [39] Centipedes live in many different habitats including in soil and leaf litter; they are found in environments as varied as tropical rain forests, [25] deserts, [40] and caves. [41]
Geophilus claremontus is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae found in Claremont, California, after which it was named. [1] It was incorrectly placed in the genus Brachygeophilus in 1929 by Attems, [ 2 ] most likely based on the lack of sternal pores.
House centipedes typically have 15 legs and can travel 1.3 feet-per-second, which explains why catching one of these centipedes in house is nearly impossible. The typical response to a house ...
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The 12-inch single includes an extended mix and an instrumental version. On the back of the single, Michael Jackson dedicated the song "to my mannequin friends". The song was later re-released on The Rebbie Jackson Collection and the original 12-inch version was included on her 1998 comeback album Yours Faithfully.
Two European species in this family include centipedes with only 29 pairs of legs: Geophilus persephones (29 in the only specimen, a male), and G. richardi (29 or 31 in males and 33 in females). [12] [13] In the order Geophilomorpha, only two species include centipedes with fewer leg pairs, both of them in the family Schendylidae. [12]
S. polymorpha is indigenous to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, north to the Pacific coast. [3] [4] It inhabits dry grasslands, forest, and desert; in these habitats, the centipedes generally take up residence under rocks, though they have been observed creating burrows in suitable environments and inside rotting logs.