Ants
There are 11,000 species of ants. The oldest ant fossil is more than 90 million years old. Ants are closely related to bees and wasps. They are so numerous that in some habitats - the Amazon forest, for instance - their combined weight is four times the combined weight of all other animals in the area. Ants have brains. The main nerve - similar to our spine - runs along the bottom of the ant's body. Ants smell, taste and touch with their antennas. Their cylinder-like heart pumps colorless blood throughout their body.
Ants digest only liquid food or food rendered liquid with their digestive juices. Ants share digested food with each other. They can carry 15-20 times their body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. The queen also lives much longer - up to 10 years, compared to worker ants which survive on average 50-150 days and up to 2 years in the tropics.
Some ant varieties create no nests. Instead, worker ants link their legs to form a living fabric on which the queen resides and performs her functions.
http://www.lingolex.com/ants.htm
Barbie
Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modeled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli”. Barbie was the nickname of Ruth's daughter, Barbara. Ruth proceeded to found Mattel with her husband, Elliott. It is now one of the world's largest toy manufacturers (Revenues - c. $5 billion annually, a third of which in Barbie sales). More than 1 billion Barbie’s were sold by 1996.
Mattel commemorated this event by manufacturing a "Dream Barbie".
http://www.barbiecollector.com/ http://www.barbie.com/?utm_source=mattel.com&utm_medium=global%20header&utm_campaign=2011%20new%20header
There are 11,000 species of ants. The oldest ant fossil is more than 90 million years old. Ants are closely related to bees and wasps. They are so numerous that in some habitats - the Amazon forest, for instance - their combined weight is four times the combined weight of all other animals in the area. Ants have brains. The main nerve - similar to our spine - runs along the bottom of the ant's body. Ants smell, taste and touch with their antennas. Their cylinder-like heart pumps colorless blood throughout their body.
Ants digest only liquid food or food rendered liquid with their digestive juices. Ants share digested food with each other. They can carry 15-20 times their body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. The queen also lives much longer - up to 10 years, compared to worker ants which survive on average 50-150 days and up to 2 years in the tropics.
Some ant varieties create no nests. Instead, worker ants link their legs to form a living fabric on which the queen resides and performs her functions.
http://www.lingolex.com/ants.htm
Barbie
Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modeled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli”. Barbie was the nickname of Ruth's daughter, Barbara. Ruth proceeded to found Mattel with her husband, Elliott. It is now one of the world's largest toy manufacturers (Revenues - c. $5 billion annually, a third of which in Barbie sales). More than 1 billion Barbie’s were sold by 1996.
Mattel commemorated this event by manufacturing a "Dream Barbie".
http://www.barbiecollector.com/ http://www.barbie.com/?utm_source=mattel.com&utm_medium=global%20header&utm_campaign=2011%20new%20header
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