(1) Harold Ramis, who helped catch phantoms in Ghostbusters and directed Bill Murray to glory in Groundhog Day , has died at the age of 69.
(2) Powassan virus was isolated from seven pools of Ixodes cookei ticks removed from groundhogs (Marmota monax) collected near North Bay, Ontario, between May and August 1965, including five pools obtained during spring.
(3) As well as making its impact on cinema and language, Groundhog Day has exerted a strong influence on religious thinking.
(4) Gatwick, which still harbours slim hopes of getting the nod over Heathrow, has warned that its option is its own second runway plan or “Groundhog Day”, pointing to two recent instances – in 2003 and 2009 – when the government has approved a third runway at the west London hub without it being built.
(5) One MP said the meeting felt like “Groundhog Day” and they were not convinced by Corbyn’s call for unity.
(6) The Welsh Conservative leader, Andrew RT Davies, said it was “groundhog day” and Plaid, which has worked in coalition with Labour in the past, had fallen in line with Labour.
(7) Since 1993, the festival has also included a free screening of Groundhog Day, which introduced to the world this obscure occasion, previously regarded as the preserve of hicks and oddballs.
(8) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
(9) Whichever way you look at it, Groundhog Day could be on course to replicate the longevity of the festival from which it takes its name.
(10) Although the programme included work by masters such as Bergman and Rossellini, Groundhog Day was shown on the opening night.
(11) If Phil the groundhog sees his shadow when he is lifted from his burrow at 7.25am, there will be six more weeks of winter.
(12) After a prolonged chuckle, Russell drops his impersonation of Groundhog Day's irksome insurance salesman, a minor but intensely memorable character, and explains excitedly that he recently met Andie MacDowell, one of the film's stars.
(13) But Groundhog Day was invoked on each of these occasions.
(14) "There have been a lot of messing-with-time movies where you can't help but see the influence of Groundhog Day," Rubin tells me.
(15) The question is whether feminism is trapped in its own Groundhog Day ( RIP Harold Ramis ) and undoing itself again in its fourth wave.
(16) His performances since then, from his collaborations with Wes Anderson (including last year's Moonrise Kingdom ) to his Oscar-nominated turn in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation , each have as their springboard Groundhog Day.
(17) • Hadley Freeman: Harold Ramis was the GrandDude of comedy • Harold Ramis: a career in clips • 20 years of Groundhog Day • Hadley Freeman: Why Ghostbusters is my favourite film • This article was amended on Monday 24 February 2014.
(18) Phil is dispatched to the folksy town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual 2 February celebrations, which revolve around a groundhog supposedly foreseeing the exact date of the arrival of spring.
(19) If the impact of Groundhog Day is still felt on Murray's career, its influence on cinema in general is ever more prevalent.
(20) Except that with Groundhog Day he became responsible for one of the most ingenious and affecting films ever made, a movie that can hold its own alongside the work of Luis Buñuel or Billy Wilder .
Hedgehog
Definition:
(n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.
(n.) The Canadian porcupine.
(n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
(n.) A form of dredging machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two principal classes of striatum long axonal neurons (sparsely ramified reticular cells and densely ramified dendritic cells) were analyzed quantitatively in four animal species: hedgehog, rabbit, dog and monkey.
(2) The effect of methallibure (ICI 33828) on spermatogenesis was studied in the gerbil, hedgehog, and mouse.
(3) Mesenteric lymph nodes were examined from five hedgehogs captured on the Berkshire Downs.
(4) We suggest that the contralateral projection nuclei to the MOB of the hedgehog, unusual in other mammals, and the large number of cells with axonal collaterals projecting to both hemispheres, may be a strategy in these animals to bilaterally integrate brain functions at the expense of its reduced corpus callosum.
(5) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(6) Upper (Tf) and lower (Ts) temperature limits of order-disorder transitions in blood cell lipids of hedgehogs, Erinaceus europaeus, were determined over an annual cycle.
(7) In contrast, segmentation is essentially normal in l(1)armadillo, l(2)gooseberry, l(3)hedgehog, and l(1)fused embryos.
(8) However, the prolongation of the MAP at lower repolarization levels was much less in the hedgehog.
(9) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(10) Forservices to the Rescue and Rehabilitation of Hedgehogs.
(11) Unlike any other animal in this country - except, perhaps, the mole, whose condition is, if anything, even more opaque, and just as likely to be following its own chute to oblivion - the hedgehog has always been a symbol and embodiment of something subtle and tender in the landscape.
(12) In a study of the elementary focus at Jarok, it was found that the frequency of antibodies was considerably higher in hedgehogs than in small rodents; this may be due to the longer life-cycle of the former, which makes the probability of reinfection greater.
(13) Only 11% of the 2,348 people who took part in the survey said they saw hedgehogs regularly in their gardens and 48% had never seen one.
(14) The histological structure of the testes and caput epididymidis of the hedgehog remains normal after 21 days of CdCl2 injection.
(15) The healing of the full-thickness skin wounds on the abdomen and the back of hedgehogs was investigated.
(16) We describe a study of the seasonal variations of hedgehog plasma lipids and lipoproteins and their correlation with changes in the activities of the thyroid and testis.
(17) Stories of hedgehog decline have been around for years, but only now is Bright completing the first statistically robust report on the drop in numbers.
(18) The granule cell islands in the olfactory tubercle (islands of Calleja) and the insula magna of Calleja are present in all species examined in this study: cat, rat, mouse, rabbit, hedgehog, monkey, man, and dolphin, displaying the same basic morphology.
(19) In animal homes and private care hibernating hedgehogs excreted larvae of Crenosoma striatum (23.5% and 21.0%, respectively), eggs of Capillaria species of the intestine (47.1% and 37.1%), and eggs of Capillaria aerophila (7.1% and 19.4%), but oocysts of Isospora rastegaievae were found to be predominant (44.7% and 32.3%).
(20) It is presumed that leptospires of the serogroups Javanica, Australis, Icterohaemorrhagiae, transmitted by the shrew-mice, hedgehogs and rats by the sexual route, are by their origin "ancient" serogroups of leptospires while the serogroups of leptospires isolated from domestic animals, showing predominantly the alimentary route of transmission of infection in the focus, are representatives of the "younger" forms of the evolutional development of leptospires.