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The World's Most Dangerous Magic was the title of two American television specials showcasing illusion and escapology acts, which were made for the NBC network. The first was originally broadcast on 27 April 1998 [ 1 ] and the second, titled The World's Most Dangerous Magic 2 , was initially aired on 2 May 1999.
Examples include a trick in which Melinda Saxe escaped from a tank filled with snakes during the 1998 television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic and a performance in the sequel show the following year in which the magician Margo was shackled in a coffin filled with rats and escaped to re-appear from behind the audience.
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The English name is derived from the large and distinctive mandibles found on the males of most species, which resemble the antlers of stags.. A well-known species in much of Europe is Lucanus cervus, referred to in some European countries (including the United Kingdom) as the stag beetle; it is the largest terrestrial insect in Europe.
Based on five species, the median lethal dose (LD 50) is 0.18–0.35 mg/kg, making it among the most toxic venoms in the insect world. [252] The toxicity of the venom may have evolved due to the intense predation by animals and birds during the day, since Myrmecia is primarily diurnal. [ 253 ]
The social anthropologist Marika Moisseeff argues that Hollywood science fiction favours insects as villain characters because of their parasitism and their swarming behaviour. Such films, she continues, depict a ceaseless war of culture and nature as involving extraterrestrial species somewhat resembling insects, with humans as their hosts." [4]
Phryganistria is a genus of stick insects belonging to the subfamily Clitumninae, native to northeastern South Asia, northern Mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. [1] The species in this genus range in size from fairly large to very large.
The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) is a species of insect that lives in the Sahara Desert.It is the fastest of the world’s 12,000 known ant species, clocking a velocity of 855 millimetres per second (over 1.9 miles per hour or 3.1 kilometres per hour).