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The word taxidermy describes the process of preserving the animal, but the word is also used to describe the end product, which are called taxidermy mounts or referred to simply as "taxidermy". [1] The word taxidermy is derived from the Ancient Greek words τάξις taxis (order, arrangement) and δέρμα derma (skin). [2]
While it may not be necessary to conserve mounts or skins of commonly occurring animals beyond educational use, [4] some taxidermy mounts represent extinct or critically endangered species. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History houses Martha, the last passenger pigeon and some collections still have Great Auk specimens, a bird ...
As documented in Frederick H. Hitchcock's 19th-century manual entitled Practical Taxidermy, the earliest known taxidermists were the ancient Egyptians and despite the fact that they never removed skins from animals as a whole, it was the Egyptians who developed one of the world's earliest forms of animal preservation through the use of injections, spices, oils, and other embalming tools. [3]
During the three years after the release of their first album, their only output was an EP, Taxi for These Animal Men. They released their second album, Accident & Emergency , on 14 April 1997. [ 1 ]
The band played the first rock concert held in Red Square, Moscow, as part of a benefit concert for the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. [28] The band then morphed into Animals and Friends, with Peter Barton on vocals, Rodford, and John E. Williamson on guitar.
The band's name was taken from the film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodovar and was a reference to the taxi used by the film's heroine. [4] Ella Guru , in an interview with NME's Sam Stallard in 1992, described it as "tacky" but "with all sorts of different things in it that sort of clash, but everything’s useful as ...
Animals is the debut album by Oxford-based math rock band This Town Needs Guns. It had its UK release on 13 October 2008, under BSM Records, and on 10 March 2009 in the US, via Sargent House Records. It was recorded over the periods of March through May on a four weekend basis due to financial and personal demands.
Taxi remained unsigned although they recorded several self-released albums. They split in 2005, [1] after which time Woosey went solo and toured throughout the UK. [2] After leaving university Woosey returned to his family home in Malvern, Worcestershire and formed The Strange Rain, [3] another three-piece band in which he played acoustic ...