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His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and " just a pinch " of cyanide ; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home ( which then serve as graves for the aunts ' victims ); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein ( a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran ) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff ( a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff ).
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The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.
The family Salamandridae includes the true salamanders and the name " newt " is given to members of its subfamily Pleurodelinae.
The family includes some 150 species with a worldwide distribution, excluding Europe and northern Asia.
The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.
Asterales ( AST-er-ALE '- eez ) is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the large family Asteraceae ( or Compositae ) known for composite flowers made of florets, and ten families related to the Asteraceae.
Altaic is a proposed language family that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Japonic language families and the Korean language.
Another view accepts Altaic as a valid family but includes in it only Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic.
Alligatoridae is a family of crocodylians that includes alligators and caimans.
This family includes extant manuscripts dating from the 5th century or later ; however, papyrus fragments may be used to show that this text-type dates as early as the Alexandrian or Western text-types.
The language belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and includes three dialect groupings: Eastern Aleut, spoken on the Eastern Aleutian, Shumagin, Fox and Pribilof islands ; Atkan, spoken on Atka and Bering islands ; and the now extinct Attuan dialect.
; Viral hemorrhagic fevers: This includes hemorrhagic fevers caused by members of the family Filoviridae ( Marburg virus and Ebola virus ), and by the family Arenaviridae ( for example Lassa virus and Machupo virus ).
This video includes interviews with Keith Richards, Phil and Don Everly, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, Holly's family, and McCartney himself, among others.
The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass balalaika, and contrabass balalaika.
Blue whales are rorquals ( family Balaenopteridae ), a family that includes the humpback whale, the fin whale, Bryde's whale, the sei whale, and the minke whale.
This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn ( also called the French horn ), euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flügelhorn, tenor horn ( alto horn ), baritone horn, sousaphone, mellophone, and the old saxhorn.
Austro-Asiatic, which also includes Mon, Vietnamese and Munda, has been studied since 1856 and was first proposed as a language family in 1907.
The family includes several genera, including the marmosets, tamarins, and lion tamarins.
It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass.
Cross-country skiing is part of the Nordic skiing sport family, which includes ski jumping, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing and ski jumping ), Biathlon ( skiing and rifle marksmanship ) and ski-orienteering ( which included map navigation along snow trails and tracks ).
is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and many other lesser known extant and extinct dog-like mammals.
While not musically related, instruments of the Zink family ( which includes serpents ) are named " cornetto-" with a tonal or pitch related Latin word following the hyphen to describe the particular variant.
The first collisional family — a group of objects thought to be remnants from the breakup of a single body — is the Haumea family It includes Haumea, its moons, and seven smaller bodies .< sup >†</ sup > The objects not only follow similar orbits but also share similar physical characteristics.
family and two
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.
This family of Luxemburg immigrants, in fact, produced two exceptional children.
What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.
Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.
the two youngest in our family always had to be brought in and put through tricks for his entertainment.
If you are not well acquainted with the area in which you wish to locate, or if you are not sure that you and your family will like and make a success of farming, usually you would do better to rent a place for a year or two before you buy.
These, he said, are `` two of the principal underlying causes for family breakups leading to ADC ''.
Student Council officers announced today the Kowalski family would be given the combined proceeds from a school dance held two weeks ago, and another dance for Fuhrmann's 770 students this Friday night.
The other possibility is to make arrangements for her to let out one or two of the rooms to some teacher of good family or one of those solitary old ladies that Tuxapoka is populated with -- Miss Edna Whittaker, for example.
The orchid family is one of the two largest families of angiosperms ( the other is Asteraceae ).
The Asteliaceae is a family of two to four genera of plants found in the Southern Hemisphere.
The two species of Doryanthes, the only genus of the family, are huge rosette-forming herbs that are a conspicuous element of the flora in the vicinity of Sydney, Australia, being hard not to notice when in flower.
The family consists of a single genus Xeronema with two species, one found only on the Poor Knights islands in New Zealand and the other in New Caledonia.
The family Araceae alone accounts for about a hundred genera, totaling over two thousand species.
An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".
Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.
( Which of the two families is actually larger is unclear, owing to uncertainty about exactly how many species exist in each family ).
Each family would then have two or three small pieces of land scattered about the village, which they used to grow crops.
The family of logic gates ranged from inverters to two and three input gates.
In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.
As proof of devotion to his family, Caligula arranged the most distinguished soldiers available to carry the urns of his mother and two brothers in two biers at noon in Rome, when the streets were at their busiest, to the Mausoleum of Augustus.
Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.
In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.
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