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The Middle Toe of the Right Foot. " The Middle Toe of the Right Foot " is a ghost story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 17, 1890, and was reprinted the following year as part of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. [1]
1994. Discovered by. Ronald J. Clarke. " Little Foot " (Stw 573) is the nickname given to a nearly complete Australopithecus fossil skeleton found in 1994–1998 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa. [1][2] Originally nicknamed "little foot" in 1995 when four ankle bones in a museum collection were sufficient to ascertain that the ...
The Lost Children. Hansel and Gretel. Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop-on-My-Thumb), or Hop o' My Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet (French: Le Petit Poucet), is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned. [1][2] It is Aarne-Thompson type ...
The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski (/ ləˈbaʊski /) is a 1998 crime comedy film written, directed, produced and co-edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows the life of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity then learns that a millionaire, also named ...
Utthita Padangusthasana is a pose with the body standing straight, on one leg; the other leg is stretched out straight, and the foot of the raised leg is grasped by the hand on the same side of the body. It is entered from the standing pose Tadasana. [ 5 ] The pose has two forms: I, with the raised leg to the front, and the opposite hand to the ...
A woman's toes decorated with nail polish and henna, and wearing a metti (toe ring) on the second toe, for her wedding. There are normally five toes present on each human foot. Each toe consists of three phalanx bones, the proximal, middle, and distal, with the exception of the big toe (Latin: hallux). For a minority of people, the little toe ...
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1911.Timmy Tiptoes is a squirrel believed to be a nut-thief by his fellows, and imprisoned by them in a hollow tree with the expectation that he will confess under confinement.
The first metatarsal bone is the bone in the foot just behind the big toe. The first metatarsal bone is the shortest of the metatarsal bones and by far the thickest and strongest of them. [1] Like the four other metatarsals, it can be divided into three parts: base, body and head. The base is the part closest to the ankle and the head is ...