Halloween Bat

Test Your Batting Average, What do you know about bats? Bats are shy creatures and want to avoid you as much as you might want to avoid them. Did you know? Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Bats are NOT flying mice. Bats belong to a separate order of mammals called Chiroptera.

Bats come in all different colors, shapes and varieties. Some are red, have huge ears, or have very unusual faces. Many of these attributes are related to their navigational system.

One quarter of all mammal species are bats. Worldwide there are almost a thousand species of bats! In the US alone there are 39 species of bats.

In some parts of the world, bats take the place of bees in pollinating plants. Little brown bats have life spans that may exceed 32 years.

A bat will eat half it weight in insects in a single night.

In the 1930s scientists discovered that bats use a kind of natural sonar that allows them to "see" with their ears. This amazing system is called echolocation. Most sounds that a bat uses can not be heard by humans. A bat knows where an insect is because the sounds bounce off of it and return to the bat's ears. A bat can hear the footsteps of a walking insect! Most bats send signals through their mouths, others use their noses. Not all bats use echolocation. Fruit bats use sight and smell to locate their food.

All bats can see. Bats can use echolocation even when there are distracting noises. Hundreds of bats can fly out of a cave within range of one another's sound.

The Chinese view bats as symbols of good luck and happiness. They symbolize health, long life, prosperity, love of virtue and natural death.

A colony of big brown bats can eat 18 million cucumber beetles. Plants such as bananas, mangoes, cashews, dates and figs rely on bats for pollination and seed dispersal. Tequila is produced from agave plants. Seed production drops to 1/3000 of normal without bat pollinators. Nectar-feeding bats are primary pollinators of giant cacti such as the organ pipe and saguaro. Bat droppings (guano) support entire ecosystems of unique organisms, including bacteria useful in detoxifying wastes, improving detergents and producing gasohol and antibiotics.

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Halloween Funeral Procession

TITLE: The repeal, or the funeral procession of Miss Americ-Stamp Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington

SUMMARY: Illustration shows a group of men in a funeral procession on the banks of the Thames River with a row of warehouses in the background, one of which is labeled "The Sheffield and Birmingham Warehouse Goods now ship'd for America." At the head of the procession, Dr. W. Scott stands at the open doors to the tomb, he holds the text to his sermon, a dog relieves himself on his leg.

Two flag bearers follow, behind them stands George Grenville carrying a child-sized coffin, next in line are five men, in various states of distress, followed by two bishops who bring up the rear. On the quay, behind the bishops are two bales labeled "Stamps from America" and "Black cloth returned from America." There are three ships "Conway", "Rockingham", and "Grafton" moored in the river

Digital ID: cph 3a05303 Source: digital file from b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-1505 (b&w film copy neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,730 kilobytes)

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Summary: Images in the British Cartoon collection are in the public domain.

Publication and other forms of distribution: Permitted. Images in this collection were generally published between 1780-1830 and are therefore in the public domain.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, (reproduction number, LC-USZ62-1505) Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-1505 (b&w film copy neg.), Call Number: PC 1 - 4140b (A size) [P&P], Medium: 1 print : etching with engraving.

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