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Robert Strange Country House, also known as Myrtle Hill, is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1825, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, gable roofed, Federal style frame dwelling. It has a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rear ell and features a gable portico supported by two Tuscan order columns.
However, recent genetic research has shown that the populations from northern Cameroon and southern Chad actually are the Kordofan giraffe (G. c. antiquorum). [5] Therefore, the giraffes that remain in Waza National Park (Cameroon) belong to the Kordofan giraffe, while the only remaining viable population of the West African giraffe is in Niger ...
The IUCN currently recognizes only one species of giraffe, with nine subspecies, one of which is the Nubian giraffe. [1] The Nubian giraffe, along with the whole species, were first known by the binomen Cervus camelopardalis described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the Systema Naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis ...
The giraffe's head and neck are held up by large muscles and a nuchal ligament, which are anchored by long thoracic vertebrae spines, giving them a hump. [17] [63] [36] Adult male reticulated giraffe feeding high on an acacia, in Kenya. The giraffe's neck vertebrae have ball and socket joints.
A kettle, sometimes called a tea kettle or teakettle, is a device specialized for boiling water, commonly with a lid, spout, and handle. There are two main types: the stovetop kettle , which uses heat from a hob , and the electric kettle , which is a small kitchen appliance with an internal heating element .
Picquot ware set including milk jug, sugar bowl with lid, kettle and coffee pot. Picquot ware is mid-century designed, [ 1 ] collectible [ 2 ] [ 3 ] tableware made of a magnesium-aluminium alloy that they named ' Magnalium ' [ 4 ] [ 5 ] in production in the same Northampton factory (Burrage & Boyde [ 6 ] ) from 1947 until 1980.
The northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), also known as three-horned giraffe, [2] is the type species of giraffe, G. camelopardalis, and is native to North Africa, although alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed the northern giraffe as a separate species.
Prosopocoilus giraffa, the giraffe stag beetle, is the world's largest stag beetle [1] and is a member of the family Lucanidae within the order Coleoptera. They have very long, toothed and notched mandibles that protrude about half the size of their body.