Chlaenius is a genus of beetles of the ground beetle family, Carabidae, represented by three species in Britain. Most of the species are green or black in colour and are more or less distinctly hairy. They live in wet localities where they rang from 8 to 11 mm in length. Research Chlaenius
In Efik mythology, Abassi was god and the father (together with his wife Atai) of all mankind. They had two children, and when the children were grown up they wanted to leave heaven and settle on earth. Abassi was hesitant, worried that they may breed a warrior people which might then attack him, but Atai persuaded him to let the children leave and live on earth providing that they never mated or worked and that they came back to heaven to eat when he rang the dinner-bell. This arrangement worked for a while, but then the children began experimenting with ploughing, sowing, harvesting and sex - and soon the earth was swarming with their descendants. Atai solved this potential problem by giving them two presents: argument and death. The primordial parents immediately died, and their offspring have been brawling and haunted by death ever since. As for Abassi and Atai, they were so disgusted with mankind that they lived aloof and alone in heaven taking no notice of mankind at all. Research Abassi
A Fire-alarm is an apparatus used for detecting fires, and for giving instantaneous notice of an outbreak. As early as 1900 detectors were often placed in the different apartments of a building, which rang an alarm when the temperature reached a certain height. During the Victorian period in Britain large towns had a series of signal-boxes distributed in different quarters from which an alarm could be immediately telegraphed to the fire-brigade station. Research Fire-Alarm
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