Jackal - Jackal Jackal Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Canis Species: aureus, adustus, mesomelas Binomial name Canis aureus, Canis adustus, Canis mesomelas The jackal is one of a number of small-to-medium-sized members of the Canidae family found in Africa and Asia. Jackals fill a similar ecological niche as does the coyote in North America, that of scavenger and lesser predator. Jackals may occasionally assemble in small packs, but normally hunt alone. Species: golden jackal (Canis aureus) side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) The Ancient Egyptian God of death and dying, Anubis, was depicted as a man with a jackal's head..
The Day of the Jackal - The Day of the Jackal The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who, contracted by the Organisation de l'Armée Secrète, a French terrorist group of the early 1960's, attempts to kill Charles de Gaulle. The novel is widely regarded as one of the best "spy thrillers" ever written, widely praised for its convincing portrayal of France in 1962, and carefully thought-out plot. While the OAS did exist as described in the novel, and did actually try to assassinate de Gaulle, no plot of the type described in the novel ever really happened. The book is a work of complete fiction. The book was filmed in 1973, and a very loose adaptation was made in 1997 as The Jackal..
Jacques Verges - both left and right-wing terrorists. He has defended the nazi criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), Ilich Ramirez Sanchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994), the Kekal faction (1995), the Holocaust-denier Roger Gaurady (1996) and Slobodan Milosevic (2002). Born in Thailand and brought up on the Réunion island, he was the son of Raymond Vergès, a French diplomat, and a Vietnamese woman. He joined the Communist party on Reunion and in 1942 he became part of the Free French Forces under Charles de Gaulle. After the war, while his brother Paul was imprisoned for murdering a political rival to their father, Jacques went to the Sorbonne to study law. In 1949 he became president of the AEC (Association for Colonial Students), where he met and befriended Pol Pot. In 1950 at the request of.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - "professional revolutionary" and playboy better known by the nom de guerre Carlos the Jackal. Sánchez was born in Caracas, Venezuela. His father, a Marxist lawyer, gave him the forename Ilich, after Lenin. He was educated at a local school in Caracas and joined the youth movement of the national communist party in 1959. In 1966, after the divorce of his parents, his mother took him and his brother to London to continue their studies in Stafford House Tutorial College in Kensington. In 1968 his father tried to take him and his brother Lenin to Sorbonne University but eventually opted for Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. He was expelled from the university in 1970. Apparently he traveled from there to a training camp run by the PFLP in Amman, Jordan. It was.
Victoriano Huerta - the United States. He was discovered to be plotting to return to power in Mexico – in both Spain and Washington, he had been negotiating with German agents to secure the Kaiser's support for a coup d'état. He was arrested in Newman, New Mexico on 27 June, 1915 together with Pascual Orozco and charged with conspiracy to violate US neutrality laws. After some time in a US Army prison he was released on bail but remained under house arrest due to risk of flight to Mexico. While so confined he drank very heavily and died of alcohol poisoning in El Paso, Texas. Huerta's treachery is still villified by modern-day Mexicans, who generally refer to him by the epithet El Chacal – "The Jackal". Victoriano Huerta should not be confused with Adolfo.
Geography of Ethiopia - being broken by the Kokobi and other falls, and navigable only for a short distance above its mouth. The chief rivers of Somaliland (q.v.), the Webi Shebeli and the Juba (q.v.), have their rise on the south-eastenn slopes of the Ethiopian escarpment, and the greater part of their course is through territory belonging to Ethiopia. There are numerous hot springs in Ethiopia, and earthquakes, though of no great severity, are not uncommon. (4) Geology.----The East African tableland is continued into Ethiopia. Since the visit of W. T. Blanford in 1870 the geology has received little attention from travellers. The following formations are represented:-- Sedimentary and Metamorphic. Recent. Coral, alluvium, sand. Tertiary. (?) Limestones of Harrar. Jurassic. Antalo Limestones. Triassic (?). Adigrat Sandstones. Archaean. Gneisses, schists, slaty rocks. Igneous. Recent. Aden Volcanic.
Frederick Forsyth - is a British novelist of books such as The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, the Odessa File and The Fist of God. Born in Ashford, Kent, Forsyth was educated at Tonbridge. He later attended Granada University in Spain. At the age of 19, he became one of the youngest pilots ever in the Royal Air Force, where he served until 1958. He then became a reporter, and spent three and a half years working at a small newspaper before joining Reuters in 1961. In 1965, he joined the BBC and was assistant diplomatic correspondent. From July to September 1967, he covered the Biafran War between Biafra and Nigeria. In 1968, he left the BBC and returned to Biafra as a freelancer. In 1969, he wrote a book about.
Edward Fox (actor) - in This Sporting Life. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he began to establish himself with roles in classic British films such as The Go-Between and Battle of Britain. However, it was as the assassin in 1973's The Day of the Jackal that he made the biggest impression, and from then on he was much sought after. In 1980, he played King Edward VIII in the television drama series, Edward and Mrs Simpson..
Elizabeth Peters - of the Silent The Golden One Children of the Storm Non-fiction Amelia Peabody's Egypt Vicky Bliss Borrower of the Night Street of Five Moons Silhouette in Scarlet Trojan Gold Night Train to Memphis Jacqueline Kirby The Seventh Sinner Murders of Richard III Die for Love Naked Once More Other fiction The Jackal's Head The Camelot Caper The Dead Sea Cipher The Night of 400 Rabbits Legend in Green Velvet Devil-May-Care The Love Talker Summer of the Dragon Copenhagen Connection External Links Official Web Site.
Duamutef - a funerary god who protected the stomach of mummified corpses, kept in a canopic jar. He was associated with the jackal. Alternative: Tuamutef.
1971 in literature - Wallace Stegner The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines Being There - Jerzy Kosinski The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath The Betsy - Harold Robbins Bonecrack - Dick Francis The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow Books Do Furnish a Room - Anthony Powell Crow - Ted Hughes The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth Death of the Fox - George Garrett The Drifters - James A. Michener The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty Grendel - John Gardner Honor Thy Father - Gay Talese In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul The Last Spike - Pierre Berton Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro The Naive and Sentimental Lover - John le Carré The Other - Thomas Tyron The.
Abydos, Egypt - the 30th dynasty, and the cemetery was used continuously. In the 12th dynasty a gigantic tomb was cut in the rock by Senusret III. Seti I, in the 19th dynasty, founded a great new temple to the south of the town in honour of the ancestral kings of the early dynasties; this was finished by Rameses II, who also built a lesser temple of his own. Merneptah added a great Hypogeum of Osiris to the temple of Seti. The latest building was a new temple of Nekhtnebf in the 30th dynasty. From the Ptolemaic times the place continued to decay and no later works are known (Petrie, Abydos, i. and ii.). The worship here was of the jackal god Upuaut (Ophols, Wepwoi), who "opened the way" to the realm of the.
Academy Award for Film Editing - West Side Story - Thomas Stanford Fanny - William H. Reynolds The Guns of Navarone - Alan Osbiston Judgment at Nuremberg - Frederic Knudtson The Parent Trap - Philip W. Anderson 1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Anne Coates The Longest Day - Samuel E. Beetley The Manchurian Candidate - Ferris Webster The Music Man - William Ziegler Mutiny on the Bounty - John McSweeney, Jr 1963 How the West Was Won - Harold F. Kress The Cardinal - Louis R. Loeffler Cleopatra - Dorothy Spencer The Great Escape - Ferris Webster It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - Frederic Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr 1964 Mary Poppins - Cotton Warburton Becket - Anne Coates Father Goose - Ted J. Kent Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte -.
Accipitridae - Buteogallus subtilis Great Black-hawk, Buteogallus urubitinga Rufous crab-hawk, Buteogallus aequinoctialis Savanna Hawk, Buteogallus meridionalis Black-collared Hawk, Busarellus nigricollis Plumbeous Hawk, Leucopternis plumbea Slate-coloured Hawk, Leucopternis schistacea Barred Hawk, Leucopternis princeps Black-faced Hawk, Leucopternis melanops White-browed Hawk, Leucopternis kuhli White-necked Hawk, Leucopternis lacernulata Semiplumbeous Hawk, Leucopternis semiplumbea White Hawk, Leucopternis albicollis Grey-backed Hawk, Leucopternis occidentalis Mantled Hawk, Leucopternis polionota Lizard Buzzard, Kaupifalco monogrammicus Grasshopper Buzzard, Butastur rufipennis White-eyed Buzzard, Butastur teesa Rufous-winged Buzzard, Butastur liventer Grey-faced Buzzard, Butastur indicus Crowned Eagle, Harpyhaliaetus coronatus Solitary Eagle, Harpyhaliaetus solitarius Crested Eagle, Morphnus guianensis Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja Philippine Eagle, Pithecophaga jefferyi New Guinea Eagle, Harpyopsis novaeguineae Black-and-chestnut Eagle, Oroaetus isidori Black-and-white Hawk-eagle, Spizastur melanoleucus Cassin's Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus africanus Changeable Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus cirrhatus Mountain Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus nipalensis Blyth's Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus alboniger Javan Hawk-eagle, Spizaetus bartelsi.
Adolfo de la Huerta - la Huerta (1882 – 1955) was briefly President of Mexico in 1920. He had been governor of Sonora. He should not be confused with Victoriano Huerta, "The Jackal", who was President of Mexico in 1913 to 1914. This is a stub article; you can help Wikipedia by improving it..
Anubis - or Osiris. His daughters are Qeb-hwt and Kebechet. In later times, Anubis was combined with the Greek god Hermes to form Hermanubis. The center of his cult was in Cynopolis. He has the head of a jackal or some other kind of dog, and the jackal is his symbol. The jackal imagery is related to Anubis' role among the Deities of Egypt, as the jackal is a scavenger and is strongly associated with death and dying. In art, he is depicted as a man with a canine head and alert ears, often wearing a ribbon and wielding a whip. Anubis is always associated with the dead, but his role varies sometimes from one story to another. According to some stories, he leads the dead into Amenti (the Underworld) and to Osiris..
Anu - and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. He was the father of the Anunnaku (also spelled Anunnaki).In art he was sometimes depicted as a jackal. His attribute was the royal tiara, most times decorated with two pairs of bull horns. Zecharia Sitchin, author of a series of books beginning with the 12th Planet in 1977, claims that Anu was a fertility goddess and the mother of the gods; her cult was centered in Munster. However, Anu was one of the Anunnaki who came from the planet Nibiru (Marduk). Nibiru circles our sun but in a very elongated orbit which brings us to the vicinity of Earth only once in 3600 years. According to Sumerian legend and lore, the Anunnaki arrived first on Earth probably 400,000 years ago, looking for.
Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands - and Iraq. It is one of the continuous bodies of sand in the world. Gazelles, oryx, sand cats, and spiny-tailed lizards are just some of the desert-adapted species survive in this extreme environment, which features everything from red dunes to deadly quicksand. The climate is extremely dry, and temperatures oscillate between extreme heat and seasonal nighttime freezes. This ecoregion holds little biodiversity, although a few endemic plants grow here. Many species, such as the striped hyaena, jackal and honey badger have become extinct in this area due to hunting, human encroachment and habitat destruction. Other species have been successfully re-introduced, such as the endangered white oryx and the sand gazelle, and are protected at a number of reserves. Overgrazing by livestock, off-road driving, human destruction of habitat are the main threats.
Buzzard - Hawk, (Buteo solitarius) Rufous-tailed Hawk, (Buteo ventralis) Mountain Buzzard, (Buteo oreophilus) Madagascar Buzzard, (Buteo brachypterus) Upland Buzzard, (Buteo hemilasius) Red-necked Buzzard, (Buteo auguralis) Augur Buzzard, (Buteo augur) Archer's Buzzard, (Buteo archeri) Jackal Buzzard, (Buteo rufofuscus) Species known as "buzzard": Long-tailed Honey-buzzard , (Hernicopernis longicauda) Black Honey-buzzard, (Hernicopernis infuscatus) The honey-buzzards, genus Pernis, superficially resemble Buteo buzzards, hence the name, but are specialist feeders on wasp nests and larvae. European or Eurasian Honey Buzzard, (Pernis apivorus) Oriental Honey-buzzard, (Pernis ptilorhynchus) Barred Honey-buzzard, (Pernis celebensis) Black-breasted Buzzard, (Hamirostra melanosternon) Black-chested Buzzard-eagle, (Geranoaetus melanoleucus) Common Buzzard, (Buteo buteo) Long-legged Buzzard, (Buteo rufinus) Rough-legged Buzzard, (Buteo lagopus) Mountain Buzzard, (Buteo oreophilus) Madagascar Buzzard, (Buteo brachypterus) Upland Buzzard, (Buteo hemilasius) Red-necked Buzzard, (Buteo auguralis) Augur Buzzard, (Buteo augur) Archer's Buzzard, (Buteo archeri) Jackal Buzzard, (Buteo rufofuscus).
Canidae - full species; and the Dingo which is variously classified as Canis lupus dingo, Canis dingo and Canis familiaris dingo. True dogs (Canini) Genus Canis Wolf, Canis lupus Domestic Dog, Canis lupus familiaris Dingo, Canis lupus dingo many other proposed subspecies Red Wolf, Canis rufus Coyote, Canis latrans Golden Jackal, Canis aureus Side-striped Jackal, Canis adustus Black-backed Jackal, Canis mesomelas Simian Jackal, Canis simensis Genus Lycaon African Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus (also called African Wild Dog) Genus Cuon Dhole, Cuon alpinus Genus Nyctereutes Raccoon Dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides Genus Atelocynus Short-eared Dog, Atelocynus microtis Genus Speothos Bush Dog, Speothos venaticus Genus Chrysocyon Maned Wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus Genus Dusicyon Falkland Island Fox, Dusicyon australis Genus Pseudalopex Culpeo, Pseudalopex culpaeus Argentine Grey Fox, Pseudalopex griseus Pampas Fox, Pseudalopex gymnocercus Sechura Fox, Pseudalopex sechurae Hoary Fox,.
