Q&A Q. How come my cat's whiskers are striped, with bands of white and brown on each one?
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These glowing structures are like a cross between a cat's whiskers and a spider's web; they sense the waters around the anglerfish for predators and prey.
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Khanam, M. & Hassan, M.A. (2008). Lamiaceae. Flora of Bangladesh 58: 1-161. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka. It is known as ' in Indonesia and misai kucing in Malaysia, both of which translates to cat's whiskers.
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The head is sandy brown. The large, greenish-yellow eyes are ringed with white, and the nose is blackish. The cat's whiskers are white and up to long. The sand cat is a small cat, characterized by a flat, wide head, short legs, and a relatively long tail of .
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15: t. 1300. 1830. They are herbaceous shrubs which grow to a height of . Some Orthosiphon species are popular garden plants because of their flowers, which are white and bluish with filaments resembling a cat's whiskers. In the wild, the plants can be seen growing in forests and along roadsides.
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One of the Hermitage cats The Hermitage cats () are a group of cats residing in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The museum has a press secretary dedicated to the cats,Rodgers, James. "Hermitage palace is cat's whiskers" (Archive). BBC. Friday 5 October 2007. Retrieved on 2 July 2015.
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In the US it may be commonly known as cat's whiskers or Java tea. Orthosiphon aristatus is used in landscaping to attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to its nectar.Cat's Whiskers Plant Excellent For Attracting Bees, Butterflies and Hummingbirds To Home Landscape ;Varieties # Orthosiphon aristatus var. aristatus - most of species range # Orthosiphon aristatus var.
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The characters of The Cat's Whiskers were designed by Kuniharu Komiya. ; : :Naoakira is 34 years old and uses the rapper name . ; : :Yohei is 28 years old and uses the rapper name God Summer. ; : :Ryu claims to be 800 years old and uses the rapper name ; : :Shiki is 17 years old and uses the rapper name .
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Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants for their bold foliage and large flowers. The well-known T. chantrieri goes by the names of black batflower, bat-head lily, devil flower or cat's whiskers. Tacca integrifolia is known as the purple or white batflower. Other cultivated varieties include the arrowroot, T. leontopetaloides, and T. cristata aspera.
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Bill O'Reilly said that Woodfull's men "all held imperishable memories of his personal touch and his courage". Ray Robinson said that "nobody thought Bill Woodfull the cat's whiskers as a strokeplayer but his many qualities made him a pre-eminent leader of men".Robinson, p. 158. He added that "Woodfull's unrivalled selflessness won fidelity bordering on devotion".
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Cape Saint George Lighthouse in 1998 visibly inclined due to beach erosion. It toppled into the water on July 10, 2005. A new replica of the Cape St. George lighthouse was finished December 1, 2006 on nearby St. George Island. Pine trees on Cape St. George Island were "catfaced"The V-shaped cuts are called "catfaces" for their resemblance to a cat's whiskers.
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He hosted two series of BBC Radio 2's Mad About Musical', as well as his own hour-long TV special, Paul and Friends, for Thames Television. Nicholas fronted the Radio 4 children's series Cat's Whiskers during the 1980s.Radio Times listings - BBC Genome Project In 1997, he starred as the anti-hero of Karoline Leach's The Mysterious Mr. Love at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End.
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As a rectifying diode, > and forerunner to the triode valve and many related structures, it can also > be considered to be the device that gave birth to modern electronics. In the ensuing years, valves quickly superseded "cat's whiskers" and were the main device used to create the electronics industry of today. They remained dominant until the transistor took dominance in the early 1970s. Today, descendants of the original valve (or vacuum tube) still play an important role in a range of applications.
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The cat tries to eat the mouse with a violin, but ends up with the mouse playing the harp in his mouth using the cat's whiskers. The horse goes jazzy with the trumpet, and the two chicks do the jitterbug, and after the dance sequence, Old MacDonald asks the audience to sing along with the bouncing ball to "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". Each animal sung is sung in every verse, and the boys and girls alternate, then the animals form a conga line.
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An apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions such as one hour's respite, two weeks' holiday, a dollar's worth, five pounds' worth, one mile's drive from here. This is like an ordinary possessive use. For example, one hour's respite means a respite of one hour (exactly as the cat's whiskers means the whiskers of the cat). Exceptions are accounted for in the same way: three months pregnant (in modern usage, one says neither pregnant of three months, nor one month(')s pregnant).
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Pirate Radio Four was a magazine show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985–6. Part of the station's drive to attract younger listeners, it was broadcast during the mornings in the school summer holidays and was aimed at children of about 8–14 years old. It also had a sister programme, Cat's Whiskers, aimed at younger listeners. The show was noted for featuring a new Doctor Who serial, Slipback, during its first run, and also featured regular appearances by Sue Townsend's character Adrian Mole.
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The upper two rows of whiskers are able to be moved independently from the lower two rows for greater precision during measurement. A cat's whiskers are more than twice as thick as ordinary cat hairs, and their roots are three times deeper in a cat's tissue than other hairs. They have numerous nerve endings at their base, which give cats extraordinarily detailed information about nearby air movements and objects with which they make physical contact. They enable a cat to know that it is near obstacles without it needing to see them.
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An order for 57 GG1s was placed in November 1934 and the first locomotives were delivered in April 1935. Raymond Loewy was hired by the Pennsylvania to "enhance the GG1's aesthetics." Loewy had the production locomotives' bodies be welded together, instead of riveted the way 4800 was, to give the GG1 a more streamlined appearance. Loewy also formulated the Brunswick green paint scheme and the gold pinstripes, nicknamed "cat's whiskers", which was eventually applied by the Pennsylvania to all of its locomotives for the next 20 years.
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An order for 57 GG1s was placed in November 1934 and the first locomotives were delivered in April 1935\. Raymond Loewy was hired by the Pennsylvania to "enhance the GG1's aesthetics." Loewy had the production locomotives' bodies be welded together, instead of riveted the way 4800 was, to give the GG1 a more streamlined appearance. Loewy also formulated the Brunswick green paint scheme and the gold pinstripes, nicknamed "cat's whiskers", which was eventually applied by the Pennsylvania to all of its locomotives for the next 20 years.
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Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraíba of South America, to detritivores (species that eat dead material on the bottom), and even to a tiny parasitic species commonly called the candiru, Vandellia cirrhosa. Neither the armour-plated types nor the naked types have scales. Despite their name, not all catfish have prominent barbels or "whiskers".
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Larry at the door of 10 Downing Street, his official residence and workplace Larry is a rescued stray cat from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home who was chosen by Downing Street staff.Glen Oglaza "The Cat's Whiskers" , Sky News, 15 February 2011. Larry was intended to be a pet for the children of David and Samantha Cameron, and was described by Downing Street sources as a "good ratter" and as having "a high chase-drive and hunting instinct". In 2012, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home revealed that Larry's popularity had resulted in a surge of 15% more people adopting cats.
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Digital images are usually stored in a gamma-compressed format, but most optical anti-aliasing filters are linear. So to down-sample an image in a way that would match optical blurring, one should first convert it to a linear format, then apply the anti-aliasing filter, and finally convert it back to a gamma compressed format. Using linear arithmetic on a gamma-compressed image results in values which are slightly different from the ideal filter. This error is larger when dealing with high contrast areas, causing high contrast areas to become dimmer: bright details (such as a cat's whiskers) become visually thinner, and dark details (such as tree branches) become thicker, relative to the optically anti-aliased image.
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Sarah Hadland was born in London and trained in dance from the age of three. During her schooling at Wilmslow High School in Cheshire, she became involved in amateur dramatics with Tempo formed by Paul Walsh a now major cabaret producer(formerly known as Scamps) youth group in Wilmslow.From cat litter to the cat's whiskers Swindon Advertiser – 14 November 2003 Following training at the Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom, Surrey, she began her theatre career at the age of 19, appearing in musicals such as Cats and Grease in London's West End.Sarah's big break as star of Confetti Wilmslow Express – 24 May 2006 After six years, she transferred to touring theatre, including performances in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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As a result of her abuse, Barsi began gaining weight and exhibited disturbing behavior, such as plucking out her eyelashes and pulling out her cat's whiskers (see trichotillomania). In May 1988, after breaking down in front of her agent, Ruth Hansen, Barsi was taken by Maria to a child psychologist, who identified severe physical and emotional abuse and reported her findings to Child Protective Services. The investigation was dropped after Maria assured the case worker that she intended to begin divorce proceedings against József and that she and Judith were going to move into a Panorama City apartment she had recently rented as a daytime haven from him. Maria's friends urged her to follow through with the plan, but she hesitated due to her fear of losing the family home and belongings.
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