(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 .
Narwhal
Definition:
(n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.
Example Sentences:
(1) Documents seen by the Guardian show that Mittal's company, the world's biggest steel-making group, ArcelorMittal , admits the operations will be undertaken in an area inhabited by unique wildlife including polar bear, narwhal and walrus.
(2) The evolution of the component was studied after sequencing the component in different odontocetes representing the Delphinidae (delphinids), Monodontidae (narwhals), and Ziphiidae (beaked whales).
(3) As sea ice melts, the bowhead whale and the narwhal will lose protective cover, while other species such as the ringed seal will struggle to breed.
(4) "Ned was stalking me, baiting me, hunting me, much as he was the demon narwhal, albeit with more subtlety than force.
(5) Values for Young's modulus of elasticity, ultimate and yield stresses, ultimate and yield strains, work under the stress-strain curve and work of fracture were obtained from tensile and bending tests on specimens of narwhal tusk dentine and cement, femoral bone from young and mature cattle, and reindeer antler.
(6) In general, the mechanical properties of the narwhal tusk tissues were as would be expected from their mineral content, except that the stiffness of the cementum was low.
(7) The statement outlines how marine mammals are also found in abundance in the region including polar bears, narwhals, beluga whales and blowhead whales while migratory birds include snow geese, rough-legged hawks and gyro-falcons.
(8) Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) liver and kidney cytosol were fractionated by gel chromatography, anion-exchange chromatography and electrophoresis.
(9) The narwhal dentine was considerably softer and less mineralized than human and cattle dentine.
(10) Remarkably high cadmium levels are found in kidney and liver of narwhal (Monodons monoceros) from western Baffin Bay (mean of 63.5 micrograms g-1) and western Greenland waters (median of 39.5 micrograms g-1).
(11) It is likely that narwhal dentine is not very similar to human and cattle dentine in its mechanical properties.
(12) Compared with the cattle bone the narwhal tissues had low Young's moduli, low yield stresses, rather low ultimate stresses and high ultimate strains.
(13) Human cementum was softer and less mineralized than cattle cementum, and was like narwhal cementum.
(14) The calcium content and hardness of the narwhal tissues were compared with those of human and cattle dental tissues.