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Tortoiseshell. A tortoiseshell ornament from Micronesia. Cabinet with tortoiseshell veneers. French singing bird box with a case made out of tortoiseshell. Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle, which is a critically endangered species ...
Tortoise The Grapes of Wrath [Chapter 3] John Steinbeck: A tortoise crosses the road to get to the sea. Its struggle to do so (even being hit by a car and land on its back) can be read allegorically for the struggles the Joad family has to endure. 'The tortoise(s)' The Tortoises [org. title: Die Schildkröten] Veza Canetti
The testudo was a common formation in the Middle Ages, being used by Muhammad 's forces during the Siege of Ta'if in 630, [4] also by the Carolingian Frankish soldiers of Louis the Pious to advance on the walls of Barcelona during the siege of 800–801, by Vikings during the siege of Paris in 885–886, by East Frankish soldiers under king ...
Linnaeus, 1758. Tortoises ( / ˈtɔːr.təs.ɪz /) are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines ( Latin for "tortoise"). Like other turtles, tortoises have a shell to protect from predation and other threats. The shell in tortoises is generally hard, and like other members of the suborder Cryptodira, they retract their necks ...
The turtle shellis a shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of turtles(the orderTestudines), completely enclosing all the vital organs of the turtle and in some cases even the head.[1] It is constructed of modified bony elements such as the ribs, parts of the pelvis and other bones found in most reptiles. The bone of the shell consists of both ...
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
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Tortoiseshell is a material produced from the shells of species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle. Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell may also refer to: Turtle shell, the shell of a turtle or tortoise. Tortoiseshell cat, a cat coat coloring. Tortoiseshell butterflies, brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae) in the genera ...