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The word dormouse comes from Middle English dormous, of uncertain origin, possibly from a dialectal element *dor-, from Old Norse dár ' benumbed ' and Middle English mous ' mouse '. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of dormir ' to sleep ' , with the second element mistaken for mouse , but no such Anglo ...
Rhabdomys is a largely Southern African genus of muroid rodents slightly larger than house mice.They are known variously as striped or four-striped mice or rats.Traditionally the genus has been seen as a single species, Rhabdomys pumilio, though modern evidence on the basis of karyotype and mtDNA analysis suggests that it comprises two or more species and subspecies. [1]
The Kalambo structure is a Lower Palaeolithic wooden structure, of which two pieces have been uncovered along with other wooden tools. Discovered at the site of Kalambo Falls, Zambia, it is currently the oldest known wooden structure, [1] determined through luminescence dating to be at least 476,000 years old [1] and predating Homo sapiens.
Zambian Business Times (ZBT) Zambia Daily Mail (daily, state-owned) [2] Zambian Watchdog (online; in print from 2007 to 2009) [2] News Diggers (daily) [2] The Mast (daily) [2] Daily Nation (daily) [2] Daily Revelation Newspaper; New Vision (daily) [3] The Post (daily, closed in 2016) [2] Kachepa; The Globe Newspaper Zambia; Mwebantu; Zambia ...
A print showing cats and mice from a 1501 German edition of Aesop's Fables. This list of fictional rodents is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents, including beavers, mice, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines and squirrels, as well as extinct or prehistoric species.
Photos collected by Hots&Cots and provided exclusively to NBC News reveal what the group considers evidence of unsanitary or dangerous living conditions for U.S. military personnel at bases in the ...
After the winners were announced earlier this week, one of the competition's sponsors, Nat Friedman, wrote on the social media platform X that they had been able to read “new text from the ...
Internationally, Zambia was an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), and hosted a summit in Lusaka in 1970. Kenneth Kaunda served as the movements chairman 1970–1973. Among the NAM countries Zambia was especially close to Yugoslavia. Outside the NAM Zambia also had close relations with the People's Republic of China. [46]