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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.]

Utilisé pour : Magnola

• A plant genus of trees and shrubs of the family Magnoliaceae native to North and South America, the Himalayas, and East Asia. They are valued for their large and fragrant white, yellow, pink, or purple flowers and frequently handsome leaves and unusual fruits. Some are important garden ornamentals; others are local timber sources.

Utilisé pour : Coniferae

• any member of the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, order Pinales, made up of living and fossil gymnospermous plants that usually have needle-shaped evergreen leaves and seeds attached to the scales of a woody bracted cone.

• 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.

• any of a class (Gymnospermae) of vascular plants that produce seeds not enclosed in an ovary, possess separate male and female reproductive strobili, and include the conifers, cycadophytes, gnetophytes, and gingko

• 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.]

• a family of shrubs and trees (order Ranales), having bisexual flowers, stamens arranged spirally, and numerous simple pistils spirally arranged on an elongated axis

• class of nonflowering, herbaceous vascular plants that possess true roots, stems, and complex leaves and that reproduce by spores.