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And Chip Taylor, our monarch butterfly expert, he replied, "Nothing lasts forever.
The monarch butterfly could be one of the 20 to 50 percent of all species that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates will be ticketed for extinction by the end of the century if we stay on business-as-usual fossil fuel use.
As a biologist, I have been studying monarch butterflies for the last 10 years.
And this is really detrimental to the monarch.
But some of the monarchs were sick, and what I found is that some of these milkweeds are medicinal, meaning they reduce the disease symptoms in the monarch butterflies, meaning these monarchs can live longer when they are infected when feeding on these medicinal plants.
What we do is we put a monarch in a big cage, a medicinal plant on one side, a non-medicinal plant on the other side, and then we measure the number of eggs that the monarchs lay on each plant.
Although this was an important check on royal power, the king couldn't be impeached because the monarch was considered the source of all government power.
And this caricature of the king by Daumier came to define the monarch.
Her daughters help their mother succeed where other queens fail— defeating the reigning monarch, and usurping the brood pile.
Is the King really a "good peacenik monarch" trying to wage a "war to end all wars" or is he just a disturbed, blood thirsty hoodlum?
i will tune in every week to watch it even if i am not home i always have my vcr set to tape monarch cove.
THE YOUNG VICTORIA is a elegantly costumed and reproduced bit of history that benefits from some fine settings, solid direction by Jean-Marc Vallée of stalwart Julian Fellowes' version of the youthful lass who was to become England's longest reigning monarch - Victoria.
She was, apart from our current Queen, the oldest ever British monarch, living to the age of 81.
And she was also the youngest ever British (as opposed to English or Scottish) monarch, coming to the throne as a girl of eighteen.
Although Ronald Colman radiates charisma in the dual role of monarch and impostor in director John Cromwell's "The Prisoner of Zenda," epic saga of intrigue, romance and swordplay, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., steals the show as the audacious amoral Count Rupert of Hentzau in an exuberant performance rivaling anything that his matinée idol father ever did.
Nobody's more astonished than he to discover that he's a dead ringer for the monarch about to be crowned.
When the dissipated monarch is unable to attend his own coronation, the Englishman is pressured to impersonate him temporarily.
But the high points are some of the most inspired of any John Water's flick: the surreal appearance of "The Emperor of Prague," played by small boy in full monarch regalia who guides Lady Divine, and the completely unsolicited cameo of "Lobstora," the enormous lobster prop who, like nearly everybody in the early films, has its way with Divine.
But a last minute commutation by the monarch he satirized, brought him banishment in 1463.
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers portrayal of Henry VIII of England makes him come off as a lisping, spoiled frat-boy and not the powerful monarch that Henry was.
I, for one, (while reasonably coversant with history), have never thought about her early years on the throne, and the difficulty as a teenage monarch, of dealing with Mum and Parliament!
Even if the dollar long remains king, it will not always be such a powerful monarch.
The alternative was an elected monarch: the Fifth Republic’s Constitution, ratified 50 years ago this week, was crafted around that central principle.
Only a king or an elected monarch could incarnate the national interest.
The emperor’s visit to Vietnam – the first by a Japanese monarch – represents an important milestone in the maturing bilateral relationship, which has been buttressed not only by strong cultural links, but also by robust economic ties and growing strategic cooperation.
Queen Victoria, mostly of German blood, did not regard herself as a monarch of Britons alone, but of Indians, Malays, and many other peoples, too.
At a spring garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace – the most genteel of settings imaginable – the British monarch recently laid into the entourage that accompanied Chinese President Xi Jinping to London on his 2015 state visit.
Of course, the head of state – whether the president or the monarch – has other critical duties as well, including acting as guarantor of the constitution and a symbol of national unity.
The Italian president can also compel parliamentary deputies to rethink their decisions (in the United Kingdom, the monarch has outsourced this authority to the House of Lords).
Ideally, that head of state would be an elected president, rather than a hereditary monarch.
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