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Featured Article: Amphisbaenia

Amphisbaenia

Amphisbaenia is a subgroup of the reptile order Squamata composed of peculiar, usually small and legless animals, known as worm lizards. Worm lizards are distantly related to lizards and snakes, in spite of their resemblance to worms (due to their pink color and scales arranged in rings).

Popular Article: Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) Born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, he was a Dutch painter who came to New York City. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group. Proponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order, advocating pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color. Mondrian is best known for his non-representational paintings that he called compositions, consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow, blue or black, separated by thick, black rectilinear lines.

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Felix Adler founded the Society for Ethical Culture, a nontheistic religious movement (source: Felix Adler (professor))

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