Toxicodendron is a genus of in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae. It contains woody , and , including poison ivy, poison oak, and the lacquer tree. All members of the genus produce the skin-irritating oil urushiol, which can cause a severe allergic reaction. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ( toxikos), meaning "poison," and ( dendron), meaning "tree". ξ1 The best known members of the genus in North America are poison ivy (T. radicans), practically ubiquitous throughout most of eastern..
Aloe , also Aloë, is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent .The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed July 2013) The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe", so called because, though probably extinct in the wild, it is cultivated as the standard source of so-called "aloe vera" for assorted pharmaceutical purposes. Other species, such as Aloe ferox, also are cultivated or harvested from the wild for similar ap..
A family entertainment center (or centre), often abbreviated FEC in the entertainment industry, is a small amusement park marketed towards families with small children to teenagers, and often entirely indoors or associated with a larger operation such as a theme park. They usually cater to "sub-regional markets of larger metropolitan areas." FECs are generally small compared to full-scale amusement parks, with fewer attractions, a lower per-person per-hour cost to consumers than a traditional amusement p..
Designed as a companion volume to 2008s Inside the Ring, which focused on the four operas comprising Richard Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen, this new volume features more than a dozen original essays focusing on all of Wagner''s non-Ring operas. Part One ..
To many in Israel, Richard Wagner is a symbol of the concentration camps, or at least of a fierce sociopolitical controversy. Although the cancellation of a performance of the prelude to Wagner's Mestersinger von Nuremberg in 1938 was simply an impetu..
This book also analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Nietzsche, demonstrating that the values on the basis of which he breaks with Wagner and repudiates their common mentor, Schopenhauer, are those fundamental to modernity. Brayton Polka..
It shows in most successful form Wagner's unsurpassed gift for using the instruments of the orchestra, and generations of students have worked with it to learn its technique.Tristan und Isolde also has a remarkable historical position. It was the opera tha..
Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche may have seen and heard more than he realized. In Mimomania she takes his accusation as an invitation to listen to Wagner's music—and that of several of his near-contemporaries—for the way it serves to intensify t..
Master illustrator P. Craig Russell's classic opera adaptations series continues with the Wagner's Parsifal, Ariane & Bluebeard, I Pagliacci, and two Mahler songs.From the Publisher:In this volume, Russell's classic adaptations of Richard Wagner's Parsifal..
After first working in films as a child, Wood became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and at age eight was given a co-starring..
The NF300RWH Indoor Remote Station Retrofit Frame is used in retrofit intercom installations when replacing older indoor remote stations with NRS103 NRS104 or NRS200 Indoor R
SONY $20 PSNÂ Card Type: Miscellaneous Specifications: Allows you to download up to $20 of content on the PlayStation Network Choose from among more than 80 PlayStation Network-exclusive downloadable games Indulge your nostalgia by purchasing any o..
Touch amiibo figures to the Wii U GamePad controller and watch them come to life and affect different games in surprising ways.In the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U game, customize your amiibo by adjusting their offensive and defensive capabilities. Battle ag..
Touch amiibo figures to the Wii U
GamePad controller and watch them come to life and affect different
games in surprising ways.In the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
game, customize your amiibo by adjusting their offensive and defensive
capabilities. Battl..
Aloe , also Aloë, is a genus containing over 500 species of flowering succulent .The Plant List (2010). Version 1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed July 2013) The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe",
Alder is the common name of a genus of ( Alnus) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae. The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious and , a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone.
