The pouch is a distinguishing feature of female marsupials, monotremes and possibly most extinct non-placental mammals including eutherians like Zalambdalestes (and rarely in the males as in the water opossum and the extinct thylacine); the name marsupial is derived from the Latin marsupium, meaning "pouch". Marsupials give birth to a live but relatively undeveloped fetus called a joey. When the joey is born it crawls from inside the mother to the pouch. The pouch is a fold of skin with a single opening that covers the teats. Inside the pouch, the blind offspring attaches itself to one of the mother...

Der schönste erste Satz war ein im Jahr 2007 veranstalteter Wettbewerb der Initiative Deutsche Sprache und der Stiftung Lesen. Gesucht wurde der schönste erste Satz in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Die Gewinner des Wettbewerbs wurden am 6. November 2007 in der Alten Oper in Frankfurt am Main gekürt. Den Hauptpreis gewann der Anfang des Romans Der Butt von Günter Grass: „Ilsebill salzte nach.“ == Wettbewerb == Für den Wettbewerb kamen alle in deutscher Sprache verfassten Romane und Erzählungen sowie Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in Frage. Besonderes Gewicht wurde bei diesem Wettbewerb auf...

Grass is a 1989 science fiction novel by Sheri S. Tepper, and the first book from her Marjorie Westriding series, known as the Arbai trilogy. Styled as an ecological mystery, it presents one of Tepper's earliest and perhaps most radical statements on themes that would come to dominate her fiction, in which despoliation of the planet is explicitly linked to gender and social inequalities. Considered to be among her best work, as well as being a definitive work of science fiction literature, Grass was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus award in 1990. It was included in the SF Masterworks classic...

Beyond the Fields We Know is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, and edited by Lin Carter. The title is derived from a description of the location of the border of Elfland used over one hundred times in Lord Dunsany's best-known novel, The King of Elfland's Daughter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the forty-seventh volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in May, 1972. It was the series' fourth Dunsany volume, and the second collection of his shorter fantasies assembled by Carter. Dunsany is considered a major influence on the works...

Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). == Early life == Tenniel was born in Bayswater, West London, to John Baptist Tenniel, a fencing and dancing...

A monopteros (Ancient Greek:ὁ μονόπτερος from the Polytonic: μόνος, only, single, alone, and τὸ πτερόν, wing) is a circular colonnade supporting a roof but without any walls. Unlike a tholos (in its wider sense as a circular building), it does not have walls making a cella or room inside. In Greek and especially Roman antiquity the term could also be used for a tholos. In ancient times monopteroi (Ancient Greek: οἱ μονόπτεροι) served inter alia as a form of baldachin for a cult image. An example of this is the Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, albeit the spaces between the columns were walled...

In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. Paired or multiple pairs of columns are normally employed in a colonnade which can be straight or curved. The space enclosed may be covered or open. In St. Peter's Square in Rome, Bernini's great colonnade encloses a vast open elliptical space. When in front of a building, screening the door (Latin porta), it is called a portico, when enclosing an open court, a peristyle. A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as at the Pantheon in Rome or...