Queen Victoria reportedly offered a knighthood to anyone who could bring her a specimen in edible condition.
At the Keen Mountain Correctional Center, a gray complex of poured concrete in rural southwest Virginia, Joseph Jesse Dick Jr. sits behind the thick glass pane of a prison interview booth like a specimen in an oversize shadow box.
He never smiles when Gabe burps or chews his toes; he simply stares disinterestedly, as if his son were a specimen in a lab or an anthropological sample, performing curious local customs.
The particular cobra he discovered was the kind that spits its venom, a feat Slowinski would later experience himself, when a specimen in Myanmar rose up, spread its silvery scaled hood and spat at the gap-toothed herpetologist.
Last June that panel offered its opinion that "it seems quite unlikely that Julia Pastrana would have wanted her body to remain a specimen in an anatomical collection".
The African baobab (A. digitata) boasts the oldest known angiosperm tree: carbon-14 dating places the age of a specimen in Namibia at about 1,275 years.
Location of a specimen in the test set-up is shown in Fig. 10.
The fractured thickness of a specimen in simple tension test is adopted as the fracture criterion in simulation.
While heating a specimen in the furnace, the temperature is monitored by an R-type thermocouple placed approximately 1 cm below a specimen.
Powder samples were obtained from at least 4 6 different drilled positions in a specimen, in order to collect the required sample size.
