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The comic first appeared in the Marin Independent Journal, and was offered to them for free. [8] The earlier comic strips were then reprinted in three Science Stuff You Can Do [11] books, a Best of, and was the bases for two specialty books, Beakman & Jax's Bubble Book and Beakman & Jax's Microscope Book.
Slylock Fox and Cassandra Cat guest starred in a week of My Cage comic strips in October 2007. Stephan Pastis parodied the format of Slylock Fox in his comic strip Pearls Before Swine on January 13, 2008; [11] Weber reciprocated by having Rat and Pig, the two main characters from Pearls, appear in Slylock on February 3 of that year. [12]
A leitmotif or Leitmotiv [1] (/ ˌ l aɪ t m oʊ ˈ t iː f /) is a "short, recurring musical phrase" [2] associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical concepts of idée fixe or motto-theme . [ 2 ]
Goofus and Gallant was created by Garry Cleveland Myers and was first featured in the magazine Children's Activities in 1940. According to family legend, the grandchildren of Myers and his wife Caroline, Kent Brown and Garry Cleveland Myers III, inspired the characters Goofus and Gallant respectively. [1]
A test strip is a band/piece/strip of paper or other material used for biological testing. Specifically, test strip may refer to: Food testing strips; Glucose meter test strip; Lipolysis test strip; Urine test strip; Universal indicator pH test strips; It may also refer to: Teststrip, an art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand
Thematic transformation (also known as thematic metamorphosis or thematic development) is a musical technique in which a leitmotif, or theme, is developed by changing the theme by using permutation (transposition or modulation, inversion, and retrograde), augmentation, diminution, and fragmentation.
When her mother died two years ago, Celia Bashaw began dreaming about art, and not just any art. Her thoughts were fixed on an heirloom her great uncle, Chuck Perkins, had carved.
Arguably Beethoven achieved the highest elaboration of this technique; the famous "fate motif" —the pattern of three short notes followed by one long one—that opens his Fifth Symphony and reappears throughout the work in surprising and refreshing permutations is a classic example.