There are state birds, bugs, fish, flowers, and dogs-but North Carolina has a state carnivorous plant. The Venus flytrap is exceptional enough to deserve its own state symbol designation, and due to their rarity, it's a felony to poach them.
While flytraps are cultivated throughout the world, they are native to only a small area of the coastal plain in North and South Carolina. People even make special pilgrimages to North Carolina to see the flytraps. When they arrive, folks soon discover a wealth of special plants, colloquially dubbed meat-eaters, which rely on insects for nutrition.
There are 66 species of carnivorous plants in the United States, and an astounding 36 of them live in North Carolina. Acidic soils, low nutrients, and a high water table provide excellent habitat for carnivorous plants to thrive. These conditions exist in select patches across the state, ranging from longleaf pine savannas in the coastal plain to mountain bogs in the Southern Blue Ridge.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
North Carolina.
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North Carolina
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North Carolina.
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Oddly enough, the answer is North Carolina.
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Wild guess
And hoping they go after Sen. Graham. South Carolina.
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North Carolina.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
More than half of the carnivorous plant species in the United States are native to North Carolina, including pitcher plants, flytraps and sundews.
Deborah responded:
A quick search claims that North Carolina has more native carnivorous plants than any other state. Good for NC, then.
More rain and wintery weather Sunday and today. And since Gov. Good Hair decreed that people over 65 stay indoors, well, that was all the permission I needed to enjoy a lie-in.
Seriously, my daughter in Brooklyn was laid off last week, and my son in SF has no job - the two bars he runs closed on Saturday, and the bar/restaurant in which he has a financial stake has cut hours. The max unemployment he can get is about what he'd make in 2 days. My kids are very worried, and with good reason.
Daniel in The City replied:
My home state, North Carolina
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
My guess was Louisiana or Florida, but a search said that it is North Carolina. and they are proud of it.
Carnivorous Plants: North Carolina's State Treasures
There are 66 species of carnivorous plants in the United States, and an astounding 36 of them are in North Carolina...
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
North Carolina
Cal in Vermont answered:
That would be North Cackey-Lackey. I hope the other half of them are from South Cackie-Lackey and have one big enough to eat Lindsey frickin' Graham.
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• During the early part of the 20thcentury, dancer Anna Pavlova toured in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is famous for its beer. There, Ms. Pavlova's music director, Theodore Stier, asked a traffic officer where he could find a place in Milwaukee that sold really good German beer. The traffic officer looked Mr. Stier over for a moment, and then he said, "Brother, there's a place on every block - thank God!"
• Shortly after Edwin McArthur had become the accompanist for soprano Kirsten Flagstad, he struggled as he attempted to open a champagne bottle in her dressing room. She watched him for a moment and then told him, "Here, Edwin - this is more important for you to learn than all the songs we will do together." She then taught him how to open a champagne bottle.
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• While overseas entertaining troops in the Middle East during the Second World War, Joyce Grenfell was singing when a mouse ran over her foot. Because she was occupied, she didn't even notice the mouse, but her accompanist did - and played the rest of the concert without using the piano's pedals because she kept her feet off the floor. While in the Middle East, they were warned to shake out their shoes each morning before putting them on in case snakes or scorpions were curled up inside.
• In Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigolettois a scene in which the title character throws into a river a sack containing what is supposed to be the dead body of his enemy. Unfortunately, at a 1950 performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, a kitten wandered on stage during the scene and was fascinated with the sack. The kitten kept digging its claws into the sack, and the "dead body" inside the sack kept squirming. Finally, the singer playing Rigoletto noticed the kitten and removed it from the stage.
• Katheryn Bloodgood, a mezzo-soprano, was singing at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, when a bat flew into the recital hall. While she was finishing singing a Henschel lullaby that was supposed to end with the word "shu" sung very quietly, the bat flew directly at her. Instead of singing "shu" very quietly, she shrieked the word, and then ran offstage to escape from the bat.
• During a New Orleans production of the opera Nabucco, a horse committed a large indiscretion on stage. The producer, Jim Lucas, ordered the stagehands to clean up the mess, only to find out that they didn't have a shovel. Angrily, he shouted, "Don't you know you never hire a horse without a shovel?"
• The conductor Artur Nikisch was very popular and received many letters from women who asked him for a lock of his hair. A friend told him that he would soon go bald because he always responded to these letters. Mr. Nikisch smiled, and then said, "I won't go bald - but my dog might."
• Tenor Gilbert Louis Duprez once sang a high C in Gioacchino Rossini's apartment. Mr. Rossini checked to see if any of his glassware had shattered; later, he said that the tone of the high C had been like "the squawk of a capon whose throat is being cut."
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• In Vienna, Alfred Piccaver and Elizabeth Schumann gave a joint recital, the program of which promised that they would sing a duet from La Boheme. Unfortunately, the pianist brought the wrong music, so they sang a duet from Madama Butterflyinstead. Nevertheless, the audience declined to go home until they had heard the Bohemeduet, so the house manager asked the audience, "Is there a Boheme[score] in the house?" A person in the gallery answered, "I've got one." Borrowing the score, the pianist played the duet and the audience was able to hear Mr. Piccaver and Ms. Schumann sing it.
Last night's RERUN Colbert had a FRESH open that ran almost a half hour. Don't know if they'll do it again tonight, but sure hope so.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a FRESH'FBI: Most Wanted'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 2/10/20) are John Oliver and Alex Ebert
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 2/12/20) are Aaron Paul, Will Arnett, and Jonas Brothers.
NBC starts the night wiht a RERUN'Ellen's Game Of Games', followed by a FRESH'This Is Us', then a FRESH'New Amsterdam'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 3/3/20) are Kevin Bacon, Tan France, and Taylor Tomlinson.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 2/26/20) are Nick Jonas, Travis Kelce, Finesse Mitchell, and Michel'Le Baptiste.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/12/19) is Tyler Perry.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'The Conners', followed by a FRESH'Bless This Mess', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'For Life'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 2/10/20) are Harrison Ford, "Science Bob" Pflugfelder, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Yachty, and Sueco the Child.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Flash', followed by a FRESH'DC's Legends Of Tomorrow'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'Empire'.
MY recycles an old 'Chicago PD', followed by another old 'Chicago PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'Deep Impact', followed by the movie 'Star Trek'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Transfigurations
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Family
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Drumhead
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Half a Life
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - I, Borg
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Transfigurations
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1)
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Family
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Drumhead
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Half a Life
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - I, Borg
[8:00PM] X-MEN (2000)
[10:15PM] X2: X-MEN UNITED (2003)
[1:15AM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (2005)
[3:45AM] X-MEN (2000) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', another 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', another 'Vanderpump Rules', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has an hour of old 'The Office', 2 hours of old 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Crank Yankers'.
On a RERUNThe Daily Show (from 3/2/20) is Nina Dobrev.
On a RERUNLights Out with David Spade it's TBA.
FX has the movie 'Grown Ups 2', followed by the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3'.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Digging Deeper', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island', followed by a FRESH'Project Blue Book'.
IFC -
[6:10A] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Detectives
[6:35A] The Three Stooges - Dizzy Doctors
[7:00A] 1408
[9:15A] Life of Brian
[11:15A] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[1:15P] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[3:30P] Here Comes the Boom
[6:00P] There's Something About Mary
[9:00P] The Wedding Singer
[11:00P] The Wedding Singer
[1:00A] There's Something About Mary
[4:00A] The Three Stooges - Uncivil Warriors
[4:30A] 1408 (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[12:00pm] Predator 2
[2:30pm] Predator
[5:00pm] Clear and Present Danger
[8:00pm] The Patriot
[11:30pm] The Patriot
[3:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[3:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra', followed by the movie 'Leprechaun's Revenge', then the movie 'Leprechaun Returns'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 11/20/19) is Dax Shepard.
"Cats" won the "honor" of the Worst Picture prize of 2019 from the Razzies, and John Travolta and Hilary Duff were deemed to have given the worst performances of the year.
The Universal musical film "Cats" also picked up Razzies for Rebel Wilson for Worst Supporting Actress, James Corden for Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Director Tom Hooper and Worst Screenplay for Hooper and Lee Hall. The film also won for Worst Screen Combo for what the awards cattily described as "any two half-feline/half-human hairballs" from the film.
Travolta won for both his work in "The Fanatic" and "Trading Paint," and Duff won for her film "The Haunting of Sharon Tate," in which she played the iconic '60s starlet in a horror film.
Sylvester Stallone's (hopefully) final turn as Rambo in "Rambo: Last Blood" also picked up a pair of prizes for Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property.
Eddie Murphy was snubbed at the Oscars themselves for his work in "Dolemite Is My Name," but he beat out Adam Sandler for the Razzies' Redeemer Award, which recognizes strong performances from past honorees of the Razzies.
"Saturday Night Live" postponed its next three episodes because of coronavirus concerns, a source close to the NBC sketch comedy show confirmed to Variety.
"SNL" was supposed to return on March 28 with host John Krasinski and musical guest Dua Lipa. But since "Saturday Night Live" films in front of a live audience in New York City, one of the epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak, the postponement was inevitable.
But the cancellation is the latest disruption in the entertainment world, which has seen dozens of television shows and movies shut production down in the past week. In fact, Krasinski was hosting the show to promote the sequel to "A Quiet Place," which was postponed indefinitely last week. Its was originally scheduled to hit theaters March 18.
On March 7, Daniel Craig, whose James Bond movie "No Time To Die" has been pushed until November, hosted "Saturday Night Live." His opening monologue mentioned the delay, which had happened earlier that week.
On Sunday night, John Oliver had a stripped-down version of Last Week Tonight. Like many talk shows, he has opted to not have a studio audience during the coronavirus pandemic.
"This isn't going to be our usual show," he said on a stark white set, admitting that where they usually tape had confirmed cases of coronavirus so they moved to another set with a limited crew.
He started by saying, "This was the week that the coronavirus, for many people in the U.S. seemed to go from an abstraction to a very real threat."
From here, he began to break down the week in coronavirus including major sports events being suspended as well as Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks and numerous political figures testing positive for COVID-19. "We are clearly in the midst of a rapidly escalating outbreak," he points out. "It's difficult to say where things stand."
He then began his unpacking of Donald Trump's handling of the outbreak. "Despite what Trump says, tests are not available in most places to those who need them," he said. "Which means we cant properly track the virus or know how quickly it is spreading. That's not only catastrophic because we are having to fly blind in fighting this pandemic, it's also deeply frustrating especially when you see how countries like South Korea ramped up their testing capabilities."
This will mark the last episode of Last Week Tonight for a while and Oliver said that they will be back in some form in the near future. He urged for people to take care of themselves and each other before signing off and saying, "Stay safe and good night."
Here's some good news for moviegoers forced to self-quarantine during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. In an unprecedented move so far amid the shifting and postponed release dates for major movies during the pandemic, NBCUniversal has pledged to make a raft of its titles currently in theaters available for home viewing. According to Deadline, Universal Pictures' "The Invisible Man," and the just-opened "The Hunt," as well as Focus Features' "Emma," are set to hit VOD platforms as early as this Friday in 48-hour viewing windows for the price of $19.99.
Universal and DreamWorks Animation's "Trolls World Tour," which was set for an April 20 release, will now roll out on Easter weekend this April 10, and will go the day-and-date route for audiences to have the chance to stream the film, or see it on the big-screen if they still wish. When the upcoming "Trolls" sequel heads for its international release on April 20, Universal will make that film available to stream for global audiences also. (That's a relief for reviewers, too, for whom forthcoming screenings of the film have begun to be canceled.)
This is also great news for the box office, too, which took a major nosedive over the weekend due to the outbreak as theaters started to shut down or limit their audience capacities to 50-percent the normal rate. On Sunday night, both Los Angeles and New York announced the shuttering of all non-essential public spaces, and that included movie theaters, with many more cities surely to follow.
Decisions on other upcoming Universal titles have yet to be made, according to Deadline. In response to the pandemic, last week Disney made the call to make "Frozen 2" available on Disney+, and put "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" on VOD platforms far earlier than expected.
President Trump (R-Inept) told a group of governors on Monday that they should be a little more industrious in their attempts to obtain the equipment necessary to treat patients infected with COVID-19, and to stop waiting for federal assistance to combat the pandemic.
"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment - try getting it yourselves," Trump said, according to The New York Times, which obtained a recording of the meeting. "We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself."
According to the Times, the suggestion "surprised" some of the governors, who are looking to the federal government for assistance to combat the outbreak.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of several who have requested assistance. New York is closing in on 1,000 confirmed cases, and Cuomo said on Sunday that the state has only about 600 ICU beds available, and added that "thousands and thousands" more ventilators and ICU beds will be needed to accommodate the coming surge of confirmed cases. "These ventilators are expensive to begin with and they are scarce, and you can't find available ventilators no matter how much you're willing to pay right now, because there is literally a global run on ventilators," he said.
In his latest petty attempt to politicize the crisis, Trump on Monday afternoon singled out Cuomo - with whom he has sparred politically - on Twitter, writing that the Democrat has to "do more."
When Steve Green paid millions of dollars from his family fortune for 16 fragments of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, it seemed the perfect addition to their new Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
But now experts have confirmed what has long been suspected: the artefacts proudly displayed in the nation's capital by the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of stores are not part of one of the most significant archaeological finds of all time.
They are worthless forgeries, probably made from old shoe leather.
Confirmation of the hoax came in a report published online by a team of five art fraud investigators, after a two-day conference at the museum focusing on the comprehensive testing of the supposed scroll fragments was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The experts spent six months analyzing each fragment, concluding a study born from 2017 revelations that the lucrative international trade in Dead Sea Scroll pieces was awash in suspected forgeries and indications that at least five pieces bought by Green, the museum's chairman, for an undisclosed amount ahead of its opening that year, were fake.
For 20,000 years, the bones from dozens of mammoths have held together in a large structure constructed by ancient humans during the European Ice Age. Now, archaeologists digging below the Earth's surface are illuminating the lifestyles of our ancient relatives during times of scarcity.
Kostenki 11 is a well-known archaeological site located about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Moscow. Here, archaeologists with the University of Exeter unveiled a 9-by-9-meter (30-foot) circular feature constructed almost entirely of large mammoth bones used to house ancient people during the last ice age, which began in northern Europe around 75,000 years ago and ended around 18,000 years ago. Climate reconstructions of the time suggest that summers in the region were short and cool while winters were long and cold, often seeing temperatures of -20°C (-4°F) and colder.
To combat the harsh environment, early humans constructed dwellings from bones sourced from animal graveyards. At the Kostenki 11 site, a total of 51 lower jaws and 64 individual skulls were used to line the walls of the structure and then scattered across the interior. Researchers also found bones from reindeer, horse, bear, wolf, and horses as well as red and arctic foxes. The research is published in the journal Antiquity.
Within the structure were also the remains of charred wood and other soft, non-woody plants, which suggests that people were burning both wood and bones for fuel and foraging plants to use for poisons, medicines, string, and fabric. The additional discovery of more than 50 charred seeds suggests that the human inhabitants were likely cooking plants, meaning that they had learned to find edible plants even in the face of extreme scarcity. Nearby, hundreds of tiny stone and flint chips were found, which were likely used for hunting and butchering animals.
Altogether, the site represents a "rare example of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers living in a harsh environment" where survival was difficult and resources scarce. Many groups of ancient people left the region when temperatures plummeted, creating large bone structures along the way to warmer climates. But what might have set Kostenki 11 apart from other potential stops?
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, thus wrecking your travel plans and endangering a city's local economy, it's become more important than ever to actually wash your hands before doing the weird Face/Off hand thing to other people. It's been recommended that people wash their paws for at least 20 seconds, the time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday To You" two times. Since then, others have suggested a whole slew of other 20-second choruses to sing in its place, and now a new tool has arrived that lets you slot your favorite hand-washing tunes into a helpful PSA.
WashYourLyrics.com, reports Mashable, was created by a teenage developer in the U.K., who synced his tool with Genius. All you need to do is type in the song and artist and its lyrics will autofill on the poster-based on ones shared by the National Health Service-which you can then post online or hang in the office bathroom for your coworkers to roll their eyes at. And since the tool pulls from the massive repository that is Genius, you have pretty much any song at your fingertips.
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