The three were also sometimes visited by a tortoise called Slowcoach, and in one particular episode, the trio meet a slightly mysterious character made out of potatoes called Dan the potato man.

This structure moved so slowly, however, that he called it the testudo ( the Latin word for " tortoise ").

During this period, Asian women were still wearing traditional hairstyles held up with combs, pins and sticks crafted from tortoise, metal, wood and other materials, but in the middle 1880s, upper-class Japanese women began pushing back their hair in the Western style ( known as sokuhatsu ), or adopting Westernized versions of traditional Japanese hairstyles ( these were called yakaimaki, or literally, soirée chignon ).

This confirms Hannah's belief that the hermit, who owned a tortoise called Plautus, is Septimus ; after the death of Thomasina, and faced with her challenge to the laws of the universe as propounded by Newton, he indeed becomes the hermit obsessed with applying " honest English algebra " to the question of the future of the universe.

He has a friend called Jasmine the tortoise.

Pinta Island was home to the last remaining Pinta tortoise, called Lonesome George.

They are anchored onto the bridge of the nose via two small spring-loaded clips terminating in special nose-pads made from bone or tortoise shell on metal called plaquettes, which are tweezered apart for placement on the face through applying pressure to two small lever-like finger-pieces located on the front of the bridge.

Another Roman siege engine sometimes used resembled the Greek ditch-filling tortoise, called a musculus (" muscle ").

comes the very last port of trade on the coast of Azania, called Rhapta, a name derived from the aforementioned sewn boats, where there are great quantities of ivory and tortoise shell.

He loves soup ( much to his sister's chagrin ), has a pathological dependence on his pacifier, and he and Mafalda have a pet tortoise called Burocracia ( Bureaucracy ).

The six sat around Cope's coffin among the fossils and Cope's pets, a tortoise and a gila monster, for what Osborn called " a perfect Quaker silence ... an interminable length of time.

Huntingford has identified a group of islands near Adulis called " Alalaiou " in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, which were a source of tortoise shell, with the Dahlak archipelago.

Later, Mildred finds that the creature inside her cat basket, a tortoise called Speedy whom she had used her spell on, can still speak.

He says teacher was an old Sea Turtle called Tortoise and when Alice asks him why he was called Tortoise if he was a Turtle the Mock Turtle answers " We called him tortoise because he taught us!

Usually, such mining or digging machinery was protected by a tortoise ( also called a cat, sow, or owl ): a covered shed on wheels, which protected the miners from missile attack.

During the Red Scare, Blacksad is employed as a bodyguard for a rich old tortoise called Hewitt Mandeline, who goes on a gambling trip to Las Vegas.

The Bolson tortoise ( Gopherus flavomarginatus ), also called the Mexican giant tortoise or Yellow-margined tortoise, is a species of tortoise from North America.

For protection, a battering ram was suspended in a mobile shelter called a tortoise, or testudo.

Timothy, a spur-thighed tortoise, lived to be approximately 165 years old.

Timothy ( – 3 April 2004 ) was a Mediterranean Spur-thighed tortoise who was thought to be approximately 165 years old at the time of her death.

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The symbol of Ringmer is a tortoise named Timothy, after the female tortoise that the naturalist Gilbert White carried back to Selborne in Hampshire in 1780.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

It is claimed that he was killed by a tortoise that fell out of the sky when dropped by an eagle ; however, this story is very likely apocryphal.

The Japanese name means " tortoise shell ," and is commonly written as べっ甲.

A quill or shaped piece of tortoise shell is used as a plectrum.

For example, in the episode " The Valley of Fear ", a dead cat is found in the Meldrews ' freezer ; in another, a tortoise is roasted in a brazier.

Jonathan, claimed to be the world ’ s oldest tortoise, is thought to have arrived on the island in 1882.

In the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise.

Expressed this way, the dichotomy paradox is very much analogous to that of Achilles and the tortoise.

The smallest turtle is the speckled padloper tortoise of South Africa.

One of the few exceptions is the African pancake tortoise, which has a flat, flexible shell that allows it to hide in rock crevices.

Australia is the only continent without any living species of land tortoise.

He resembles a tortoise and has a mystery concerning his neck, which is never seen: whenever he takes off his jumper, all we see is a vest as high up as his jumper.

As an example of an explicit maxim, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise wins a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is " slow and steady wins the race ".

Researched and devised by Dr. Oliphant Jackson, the Jackson ratio is a method of determining whether a member of the tortoise species Testudo graeca or Testudo hermanni is maintaining its optimum bodyweight, which is necessary for a successful hibernation.

The Jackson Ratio is calculated by taking the weight of the tortoise in grams and dividing it by the cube of the length of the tortoise's carapace in centimeters.

This is essentially a value of the density of the tortoise in g / cm ^ 3.

She is often depicted black in colour, riding her vahana, a tortoise.

The National Park is home to the Macleay River tortoise, a recently discovered species, and the rare mammal, the Hastings River Mouse ( Pseudomys oralis ), considered to be in imminent danger of extinction.

Project Angonoka is one of the successful breeding programmes that has seen the rarest tortoise in the world, the Angonoka, brought back from the brink of extinction.

In 1876 Commander William Cookson brought three male specimens ( along with other subspecies of Galápagos tortoise ) to London aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Peterel.

With others, he later brought to light a sub-tropical fossil fauna of unexampled extent and richness, including remains of Mastodon, the colossal ruminant Sivatherium, and the enormous extinct tortoise Colossochelys Atlas.

It brought presents of rhinoceros horns, ivory, and tortoise shell which had probably been acquired in Southern Asia.

These tortoises, known as the Appleton tortoises in commemoration of Ariel Appleton, a champion of Bolson tortoise conservation, were originally brought to Arizona from Durango, Mexico by Dr. David Morafka in 1973.

It brought presents of rhinoceros horns, ivory, and tortoise shell, probably acquired in Southern Asia.