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Aesop's Fables: The Ox and the Frog

by Aesop The Ass and the Old PeasantThe Man and the ImageThe Ox and the Frog Two little Frogs were playing about at the edge of a pool when an Ox came down to the water to drink, and by…

Aesop's Fables: The Two Frogs

by Aesop The Farmer and the ViperThe Cobbler Turned DoctorThe Two Frogs Two Frogs were neighbours. One lived in a marsh, where there was plenty of water, which frogs love: the other in a…

Aesop's Fables: The Frogs and the Well

by Aesop The AntThe Crab and the FoxThe Frogs and the Well Two Frogs lived together in a marsh. But one hot summer the marsh dried up, and they left it to look for another place to live…

Aesop's Fables: The Boys and the Frogs

by Aesop The Crow and the PitcherThe North Wind and the SunThe Boys and the Frogs Some mischievous Boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and, catching sight of some Frogs swimming about…

Aesop's Fables: The Hares and the Frogs

by Aesop The Goods and the IllsThe Fox and the StorkThe Hares and the Frogs The Hares once gathered together and lamented the unhappiness of their lot, exposed as they were to dangers on…

Aesop's Fables: The Quack Frog

by Aesop The Boy BathingThe Swollen FoxThe Quack Frog Once upon a time a Frog came forth from his home in the marshes and proclaimed to all the world that he was a learned physician,…

Examples of Systematic Classification (table)

(Encyclopedia) Examples of Systematic Classification Common Name Species Name Genus Family Order Class Phylum (Division) Kingdom Humans Homo sapiens Homo Hominidae Primates Mammalia Chordata…

Galvani, Luigi

(Encyclopedia) Galvani, LuigiGalvani, Luigil&oomacr;ēˈjē gälväˈnē [key], 1737–98, Italian physician. He was professor of anatomy from 1775 at the Univ. of Bologna and was noted as a surgeon and…

toad

(Encyclopedia) toad, name applied to certain members of the amphibian order Anura, which also includes the frog. Although there is no clear-cut distinction between toads and frogs, the name toad…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Leap-Frog

The Snow QueenThe ElderbushThe Leap-Frog A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides…