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glasses are a type of eyeglasses. Originally made out of either horn or tortoise shell, for most of their history they have actually been constructed out of...

Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle,...

and horn-rimmed frames were made from either European deer horn or tortoise shell, so eyeglasses were considered an expensive luxury. Bausch realized...

A lorgnette (/lɔːˈnjɛt/) is a pair of spectacles with a handle, used to hold them in place, rather than fitting over the ears or nose. The word lorgnette...

Churchill), oval shape, panto shape, and tortoise shell frames became the fashion around 1930. The round spectacles and the pince-nez continued to be worn...

another context, why the ant is a mean, thieving creature or how the tortoise got its shell. Other fables, also verging on this function, are outright jokes...

Achilles and the Tortoise Taking Place in Sundry Spots of the Globe", which they begin to read, the Tortoise taking the part of the Tortoise, and Achilles...

"We're Looking for Marilyn" (Japanese: ネコのお世話も大変だゾ) "Are Principal's Spectacles Magical?" (Japanese: 勇気の出るサングラスだゾ) Misae and Shin-chan do not find Himawari...

Greeks, was not a harp, but instead had a sounding body of wood or a tortoise shell covered with skin, and arms of animal horn or wood, with strings stretched...

underground habitats and even a matchbox-sized one was attached to the shell of a tortoise. Expert scientists helped the producers to film animal behaviour...

glass; and one patient's remarkable ensemble collection consisting of spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine. Medicine – Presented...

a Tortoise shell may also have been used to make a type of instrument known as a chelys. Different areas were thought to provide different tortoise shells...

called a tortoise, or testudo. According to Vegetius, it was given this name because the ram would swing out of the shelter much like a tortoise's head comes...

of seer stones bound in a breastplate, or by silver bows into a set of spectacles. (Mormon mythology) Lapis manalis (Stone of the Manes), was either of...

make him a tortoise pitta. In return, he gives Small a scarf. Small uses it to finish off his new tortoise home. Customer: Timothy the Tortoise Food they...

vegetables were grown. Early inscriptions from this period, carved on tortoise shells, have three Chinese characters for garden, you, pu and yuan. You was...

Charles Darwin and the process of natural selection, using the giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands (where Darwin voyaged on HMS Beagle) as an example...

cooperates with Andy and the Wolves. He sold the town out for a pair of spectacles and protection for his son, Ben Slightman Jr. His son was not safe from...

advancing towards the walls of the besieged settlements. The famous testudo ("tortoise") formation was utilized to protect the advancing legions. This was done...

Attenborough pieced together a complete elephant bird egg from fragments of shell collected for him. Madagascar was first announced in March 2009 as a partnership...