The golden toad of Monteverde, Costa Rica, was among the first casualties of amphibian declines.

The fire-bellied toad ( Bombina bombina ) has a slightly warty skin and prefers a watery habitat whereas the Panamanian golden frog ( Atelopus zeteki ) is in the toad family Bufonidae and has a smooth skin.

Phryne's real name was Mnēsarétē ( Μνησαρέτη, " commemorating virtue "), but owing to her yellowish, or " golden ", complexion she was called Phrýnē, " toad ", a name given to other courtesans as well.

Over 60 species of amphibians, including the extinct Monteverde-endemic golden toad, have been found in Monteverde.

No toad had ever sported those writhing sensory tendrils sprouting from the side of the head, like golden angleworm-sideburns, though, and when he opened his mouth, the factor displayed a most untoadlike triple array of slicing teeth and stranger, less comprehensible mouth parts .” And: “ He -- at least Jaime assumed it was a he, though he knew very little about Tolun biology — wore an ornately patterned robe or cloak, a jarring mix of reds, pinks, and aqua colors that, no doubt, was pleasing to Tolun visual senses but for humans was downright painful .” The Tolun are sharp traders and always desire to learn new technologies even though their own is estimated to be considerably more advanced than present human technologies.

The most valuable cards are: a golden acorn, a king toad, an eight pointed splat, and a mega bottom.

The following is a list of the Species Survival Plans ( SSP ) that the zoo is involved with: Addax, Chinese alligator, mandrill, bongo, kori bustard, fishing cat, cheetah, chimpanzee, Lake Victoria Cichlids, Andean condor, wattled crane, African elephant, Addra Gazelle, White-cheeked gibbon, gorilla, great hornbill, rhinoceros hornbill, spectacled langur, ring-tailed lemur, ruffed lemur, Mona monkey, swamp monkey, Bali mynah, ocelot, okapi, Arabian oryx, scimitar-horned oryx, Oriental small-clawed otter, thick-billed parrot, African penguin, Mauritius pink pigeon, Aruba Island rattlesnake, black rhinoceros, Louisiana pine snake, black-handed spider monkey, cottontop tamarin, golden lion tamarin, Indochinese tiger, Sumatran tiger, Puerto Rican crested toad, radiated tortoise, Swainson's toucan, and Grevy's zebra.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

Mrs. Eustis Reily's olive-green street length silk taffeta dress was embroidered on the bodice with gold threads and golden sequins and beads.

instead of a necktie he wore a leather bolo drawn through a golden ring in which was set a lump of pale pure jade.

He considered the war a blatant attempt to extend slavery and asked if the country was made up of " a people bent on conquest, on getting the golden treasures of Mexico into our hands, and of subjugating foreign peoples?

In 2007, the 50th anniversary was celebrated with special golden jubilee-activities.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

This was the start of a " golden decade " of peace and prosperity, during which time Athanasius assembled several documents relating to his exiles and returns from exile in the Apology Against the Arians.

Oreichalkos, the Ancient Greek translation of this term, was later adapted to the Latin aurichalcum meaning " golden copper " which became the standard term for brass.

16th century technical writers such as Biringuccio, Ercker and Agricola described a variety of cementation brass making techniques and came closer to understanding the true nature of the process noting that copper became heavier as it changed to brass and that it became more golden as additional calamine was added.

He was dressed in a costly suit made of Frankish cloth with golden threads, and he wore a belt with a costly buckle.

This was the golden era of Negro League baseball, a time when it produced some of its greatest stars.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

The 18th century was the golden age of Bordeaux.

Additionally, Brooks Robinson was named Most Valuable Player in 1964, just two years before the 1966 – 1983 golden era began.

Dio says that she was " possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women ", that she was tall, had hair described as reddish-brown or tawny hanging below her waist, a harsh voice and a piercing glare, and habitually wore a large golden necklace ( perhaps a torc ), a many-coloured tunic, and a thick cloak fastened by a brooch.

The 19th century was the golden age of bush ballads.

These results came at the beginning of the golden age of general relativity, which was marked by general relativity and black holes becoming mainstream subjects of research.

The battle was a defining moment for the young Athenian democracy, showing what might be achieved through unity and self-belief ; indeed, the battle effectively marks the start of a " golden age " for Athens.

The golden age of Khmer civilization, however, was the period from the 9th to the 13th centuries, when Khmer Empire, which gave Kampuchea, or Cambodia, its name, ruled large territories from its capital in the region of Angkor in western Cambodia.

It was a golden age of Chinese civilization with significant developments in art, literature, particularly poetry, and technology.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Colorful, bright Eastman Chromspun fabrics, with the magenta, pink and white tones predominating as well as golden shades are used with Composite.

To bring warmth to the dining area, golden orange tones are used in the fabrics.

Afterwards, the earth rises again from the sea, is fairer than before, and where Asgard used to be a remnant of the Æsir gather, some coming up from Hel, and talk and play chess all day with the golden chessmen of the ancient Æsir, which they find in the grass ( Section 58 ).

* Low brass is a copper-zinc alloy containing 20 % zinc with a light golden color and excellent ductility ; it is used for flexible metal hoses and metal bellows.

* Manganese brass is a brass most notably used in making golden dollar coins in the United States.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

GMOs are used in biological, Anal lube, and medical research, production of pharmaceutical drugs, experimental medicine ( e. g. gene therapy ), and agriculture ( e. g. golden rice ).

Although the word jackal has been historically used to refer to many small-to medium-sized species of the wolf genus of mammals, Canis, today it most properly and commonly refers to three species: the black-backed jackal and the side-striped jackal of sub-Saharan Africa, and the golden jackal of northern Africa and south-central Eurasia.

The golden rule is used when use of the literal rule would obviously create an absurd result.

But it is also used nostalgically, and modern space opera may be an attempt to recapture the sense of wonder of the golden age of science fiction.

This property has been used to check the-frequency dependence of the spontaneous emission rate as described by Fermi's golden rule.

In South Africa, turmeric is traditionally used to give boiled white rice a golden color.

She is credited with introducing the fork to Western Europe-chronographers mention the astonishment she caused when she " used a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth " instead of using her hands as was the norm.

In the trilogy it is used as the symbol of the Legion of Dynamic Discord, a Discordian group ; the golden apple makes a number of appearances, for example, on the cover, on a black flag, and as an emblem on a uniform.

By contrast, Peter Hall's production at the Shakespeare Memorial presented nearly the entire play, including the long-neglected dream scene ( although a golden eagle designed for Jupiter turned out too heavy for the stage machinery and was not used ).

Archimedes may have used his principle of buoyancy to determine whether the golden crown was less density | dense than solid gold.

Further design modifications were made by Kreisel over the next ten years, and in the 1970s and 1980s by engineer John P. D ' Arcy ; record producer Daniel Levitin served as a consultant and " golden ears " for the design of the crossover network ( used to partition the frequency spectrum so that the subwoofer would not attempt to reproduce frequencies too high for its effective range, and so that the main speakers would not need to handle frequencies too low for their effective range ).

Hals was fond of daylight and silvery sheen, while Rembrandt used golden glow effects based upon artificial contrasts of low light in immeasurable gloom.

A golden reliquary which originally housed his skull and another one used for processions through Amalfi on holy days can also be seen.

As the royal crown had recently been lost in The Wash, along with the rest of King John's treasure, she supplied her own golden circlet to be used in lieu of a crown.

The aim in " Scoop and Run " treatment is generally to transport the patient within ten minutes of arrival, hence the birth of the phrase, " the platinum ten minutes " ( in addition to the " golden hour "), now commonly used in EMT training programs.

The golden goal or golden point is a method used in association football, field hockey, ice hockey and korfball to decide the winner of games in elimination matches which end in a draw after the end of regulation time.

The golden goal is still used at the Beach Soccer World Cup, in NCAA matches and by FIH sanctioned field hockey games.

A similar golden goal rule is also used in all National Hockey League ( NHL ) overtime games ( followed by a shootout if needed, in the regular season and preseason ), however the term ' golden goal ' is not used.