Search results for "American Mink" - New World Encyclopedia

lutreola (European mink) and Neovison vison (American mink; synonym Mustela vison) and one recently extinct species, Neovison macrodon (sea mink; synonym ...

In technical discourse, however, as in American usage, the term "weasel ... for many centuries. In particular, the mink, the sable (a type of marten ...

have been important in the fur trade. The mink is often raised for its fur. ... **Genus Neovison - (American mink and sea mink) **Genus Poecilogale ...

resource for many other animals, including mink, foxes, coyotes, wolves, lynx ... Native American Indians have long considered the muskrat to be a very ...

The Oxford American College Dictionary (New York: G. P. Putnam's ... :* Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) in mink :* Chronic Wasting ...

name for either of two species of North American freshwater fish comprising ... blue heron, and so on), mammals (otter and mink), and reptiles (turtles). ...

27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright ... (1961), Do the Right Thing (1989), and American Gangster (2007) for which ...

second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema by the American Film ... Petticoat, Indiscreet, That Touch Of Mink, and Father Goose. ...

, birds (owls, herons, and so on), snakes, mink, raccoons, and many other ... into English as crevise. The largely American variant "crawfish" ...

Fisher is the common name for a largely arboreal, North American carnivorous mammal, Martes pennanti, of the marten genus (Martes) and weasel ...

soil in future generations of German and American Jews, among whom he is regarded ... accumulate a small fortune. He then married Mink Samson, the daughter of respected ...

of dogmatism in debates between American Communists and American ... In the 1970s, the American New Left began using the term politically ...

of the largest and most important Native American sites in North America and ... bayous. Other water-loving mammals such as mink, raccoons, otters, muskrats ...

animal rights, utilizing analogies to the American Suffrage and Civil Rights ... people associated with such laboratories. Mink farms have been attacked and ...

which also includes other weasels, mink, otters, ferret, badgers, ... confuse these kinds of weasels. The North American name for the ermine, the ...

makeup, a full length coat of ermine or mink, caused quite a stir. It was ... been drawn to play Elinor Goss, a leading American player. Goss immediately ...

for 15 years. French support of the American Revolution led to a British ... vestige of France's once vast North American possessions. They have always ...

of King George III of Great Britain (cf. American poet Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson ... L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Douglas J. Mink, using the Kuiper Airborne ...

*January 1878: First North American telephone exchange opened in New ... *1880: National Bell merges with others to form the American Bell ...

Island were incorporated into the early American government, particularly ... It was the first of the thirteen original American colonies to declare independence ...

10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer. Lamour ... among the more popular pin-up girls among American servicemen, along with Betty ...

Once considered part of the Great American Desert, it is now one of ... as the beaver, bobcat, black bear, coyote, mink, mountain lion, muskrat, opossum ...

During the American Revolutionary War, British and American armies ... to the carnivorous sundew. Deer, foxes, mink, and snakes can be found in ...

on the verge of eradication. Scientific American 302(1):24. Health Sciences, and Distributed by The American College of Radiology, the ...

influential in the development of early American government. Connecticut ... Notable figures from the state span American political and cultural ...

at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War while serving ... well known as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, particularly ...

Native American tribes have played an influential role in the state ... mountain lions, otters, martens, weasels, mink, and small rodents. Beaver ...

The elusive predator features in Native American mythology, often intertwined ... (also known as the Canada lynx and North American lynx) has hind legs that ...

together they work in conjunction with American Indian tribes, states, local ... be considered to be the apex of the North American continent, although the ...

abounded in wild game including grazing American Bison herds. In colonial ... westward expansion, despite Native American presence in the Area. Massachusetts ...

wolves, lynxes, marmots, chamois, deer, mink]] and otter. Birdlife includes ... * Junas, Lil. My Slovakia: An American's View. Matice Slovenskej ...

30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction ... flow of short fiction, including "A Mink of One's Own," ...

Some 12,000 years ago it was occupied by Native American populations ... lions, black bears, elk, bighorn sheep, mink, muskrats and bobcats, 300 ...