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A Brief History of Hollywood

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Even as it grows in popularity, early television remains the realm of newcomers. Former second-tier film and stage performers earn their moment in the spotlight, including Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Lucille Ball. Despite never finding her place in the movie industry, Lucy and her husband Desi Arnaz strike gold on television with “I Love Lucy.” The show debuts in 1951 and pioneers the multi-camera setup still used in television sitcoms today, as well as live audiences instead of the traditional “canned laughter”. For four of its six seasons, “I Love Lucy” is the most-watched show in the United States. By 1957, Lucy and Desi’s company, Desilu, owns more soundstages than either MGM or 20th Century Fox.

Image from page 112 of “Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home” (1885)

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Identifier: cu31924001111958
Title: Glimpses of the animate world; or, Science and literature of natural history, for school and home
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Johonnot, James, 1823-1888, comp
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sucking disks,or some two thousand air-pumps. The edges arc sharpand saw-like, burying themselves in the flesh of their vic-tims. With some of their arms attached to a rock, theythrow out the oth-ers as lassos, andwhile in this posi-tion scarcely any-thing can resist theirforce. 4. The long ap-pendages are usedboth as arms andlegs. All the octo-pods swim freely atwill, and associatein numbers, but thelarger ones, as theybecome older, flyfrom community life and retire into the clefts and hol-lows of the rocks which have been worn by the waves, gen-erally in places only a few feet below the level of low water.There, with one arm clasped close to the wall of its dwell-ings the watchful savasje extends the others, alert, like theboa-constrictor, for the approach of prey, and no less dead-ly in the crushing force of its folds. Its movements inseizing its victims are swift as an arrow. 5. When the animal is swimming, its long tentacleswould be in the way if extended or left pendent, so they

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The Octopus. *8 NATURAL HISTORY READER. are drawn close alongside and allowed to float behind,where they act as the tail to a kite. Motion in the wateris gained by drawing in and expelling water from the loco-motory tube. The octopus thus swims backward insteadof forward. Its food consists of crustaceans, fishes, andother mollusks ; every kind of animal, in fact, whichcomes within its reach. But it disdains carrion flesh,and feeds only on living victims. The general life of theoctopus, as of the other cuttle-fish, is about five or sixyears ; and it lays eggs, which are large, and generallyfound in clusters. Fishermen call them sea-grapes. G. The locomotion of the devil-fish is as easy on land asin the water. They have been known frequently to run up perpendicularcliffs, two hundredfeet high, as easilyas the fly runs up awall, the machineryof attachment be-ing very similar.They are said tomove as fast onland as a man canrun, and they fre-quently pursue their prey out of the sea, though

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