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refers Patrick Blair's work relating to the dissection an elephant that died on 27 April 1706 in Scotland. The elephant was touring the UK at the time of its death.
The elephant first appears in historical records in October 1688, in the accounts for the annual Michaelmas Fair at Leipzig in Saxony.
Here are entered works on the process of construction. General works on structures or edifices are entered under [Buildings.] Works on the design and style of structures are entered under [Architecture.]
art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered; both are conceptual and auditory, and these factors have been present in music of all styles and in all periods of history, throughout the world.
any device for producing a musical sound. The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.
Here are entered works on the design and style of structures are entered under [Architecture.] Works on the process of construction. General works on structures or edifices are entered under [Buildings.]
Scientific study of atmospheric phenomena, particularly of the troposphere and lower stratosphere. Meteorology entails the systematic study of weather and its causes, and provides the basis for weather forecasting.
state of the atmosphere at a particular place during a short period of time. It involves such atmospheric phenomena as temperature, humidity, precipitation (type and amount), air pressure, wind, and cloud cover.
Weather differs from climate in that the latter includes the synthesis of weather conditions that have prevailed over a given area during a long time period—generally 30 years.
