Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History

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Henry VIII of England was consumed with the need to produce a male heir to his throne. With his first wife past the age to do this he began looking for a way to annul his first marriage and remarry a younger, more fertile woman. Enter Anne Boleyn. In their efforts to make Anne the Queen, England was changed forever. One document appears to detail a tip gathered around a month before that visit from San Francisco police regarding a phone call from “a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet.” Debbie Felton’s Monsters and monarchs: serial killers in classical myth and history seeks to answer that question in the affirmative, thereby not only providing the first cultural history of serial killing in antiquity for the benefit of classicists and ancient historians, but also adding a significant amount of depth and breadth to the persistent and enthusiastic discussion of contemporary serial killers and killing that occurs in various types of media and has seen a significant rise in popularity over the last few years. In the world of raising butterflies, tainted milkweed often rears its ugly leaves when people run out of milkweed for their caterpillars and are forced to make a milkweed emergency run to the nearest store/nursery. If you ever have to do this, make sure you are purchasing pesticide-free milkweed, or your poor caterpillars will never get the chance to finish their amazing transformation… Compassionate sympathisers had managed to sneak pouches of gunpowder to the prisoners to alleviate their suffering. Documents of the heinous spectacle note how the public admired Askew’s bravery as the flames leapt to her chest. An explosion of fire killed all five condemned in a matter of seconds. Mabel Brigge (1506-1536)

One of the key points of Felton’s overall argument is that the examples that she has highlighted are not necessarily always entirely factual (this is obviously particularly true with regard to the activities of early heroes such as Hercules and Theseus), but rather that certain aspects of them can be rationalised and are thus potentially factual. She notes that ancient authors such as Pausanias and Palaephatus were of the same mind, making the same points in their attempts to explain atrocities such as the Sphinx that terrorised Thebes until the intervention of Oedipus. Oberhauser has been director for the Monarchs in the Classroom Program, president of the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation [11] and director of the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project. [9] Select publications [ edit ] In 2014, Oberhauser and a colleague published a scientific article examining how usage of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide on farmland in North America contributes to the decline of milkweeds, important food sources for the butterflies. [6] They found that the size of populations of milkweed were smaller in areas of increased Roundup use, suggesting that the loss of this food source may contribute to the decline of monarchs. The milkweed limitation hypothesis as this has become known, has been tested by other groups of scientists finding conflicting results. [7] Thus, the actual contribution of Roundup use and loss of populations of milkweed to the decline of monarch butterflies is still unclear.Nearly the entire monarch population was crammed into this spot and a few forests close by—just about 18 precious hectares in total. Scientists who study the butterfly knew about the location, but this was the first time Oberhauser had been to it. One freak storm or an illegal logging operation, she thought, could wipe the place out. “It made me realize how incredibly vulnerable they are,” she recalls. With Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the MonsterVerse heads down the same road to ruin that has plagued (and is still plaguing) Marvel: Trying and failing to port the big-budget spectacle of Godzilla to TV.

And the necessity for a united British army was urgent with a renewed threat from the north. The Danes had recommenced raids along England’s coast, breaking the treaty they had made with Aethelred’s father, Edgar. After the English suffered a serious defeat at the Battle of Maldon in 991, Aethelred began paying tribute to the Danes in return for peace. However, the Danes were hard to appease and had restarted hostilities by 997. Poole, Steve (2000), The politics of regicide in England, 1760–1850: Troublesome subjects, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0-7190-5035-0 Oberhauser, K., Howard, E., & Batalden, R. (2009). Monarch butterfly monitoring in North America: Overview of initiatives and protocols. Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

If your caterpillar has ingested pesticides it will often expel green vomit. If this happens, rinse the caterpillar off under a faucet, then place it on a new milkweed source immediately! If the current milkweed has been treated with systemic pesticides, the chemicals are inside the plant and can’t be rinsed off.

Zipkin’s team also used satellite imagery to quantify the amount of living plant material in a given landscape. When the southern U.S. was greener in the fall, more monarchs arrived in Mexico; when it was browner, as happens during droughts, fewer did. This pattern arose because greener, healthier plants produce more nectar capable of sustaining migrating monarchs, Zipkin and her co-authors suspect. And indeed, a powerful drought hit the southern U.S. between 2010 and 2013, just as the Mexican monarch population was bottoming out.

However, this brief moment of royal patronage changed drastically when Barton became outspoken against Henry’s intention to obtain an annulment for his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. When Barton prophesied that the King would die within a few months if he married Anne Boleyn events turned against the outspoken nun who found herself arrested for treason. Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Butterfly ISBN 978-0-8014-5315-1 [5] Kirby 1999, p.21 footnotes 12 and 35. "The record of the Trial also appears in Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, Vol IV, covering 1640–1649 published in London in 1809. p. 1132." Another sign of pesticide poisoning is when a caterpillar dies in the middle of forming its chrysalis. This occurs when caterpillars ingest insect growth regulators, which include organic pesticides like neem oil.