telephone: Push-button dialing: …two more buttons, bearing the star (*) and pound (#) symbols, to accommodate various data services and customer-controlled calling features. Each of the rows and columns is assigned a tone of a specific frequency, the columns having higher-frequency tones and the rows having tones of lower frequency. When a button…

star, any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources. Of the tens of billions of trillions of stars composing the observable universe, only a very small percentage are visible to the naked eye. Many stars occur in pairs, multiple

history of publishing: Great Britain: In 1888 the halfpenny evening Star was launched by the Irish nationalist politician T.P. O’Connor. Aiming at a wider public than any previous newspaper, the Star incorporated short, lively news items of human interest in a bold, attractive display. The new paper also gave good racing tips, thus endearing it…

Queen Latifah: …TV work included the series Star (2016–19), about three female singers hoping to become superstars, and The Equalizer (2021– ), in which she starred as a former CIA agent who becomes a vigilante. She also was cast in the special The Little Mermaid Live! (2019), and she played Hattie McDaniel…

Rupert Murdoch: Acquisitions: News of the World, The Sun, and The Times: …national weekly sensationalist tabloid, the Star, and in 1976 he purchased the afternoon tabloid New York Post, but in the late 1980s he sold both, profitably; he repurchased the Post in 1993. He also purchased the Boston Herald American from the Hearst Corporation in 1982 and changed the name to…

Bob Fosse: Later work: Fosse’s last picture was Star 80 (1983), a biopic of Dorothy Stratten, a Playboy magazine model whose nascent acting career ended when her husband, Paul Snider, brutally murdered her after she left him and began an affair with film director Peter Bogdanovich. Although some argued that Mariel Hemingway was…

star anise, dry fruits of the star anise tree (Illicium verum), used as a spice and source of pharmaceutical chemicals. The evergreen tree is indigenous to the southeastern part of China and to Vietnam. The spice is an important component of Chinese traditional medicine and cuisine. The fruit takes

star apple, (Chrysophyllum cainito), tropical American tree, of the sapodilla family (Sapotaceae), native to the West Indies and Central America. It is cultivated for its edible fruit, which is the size and shape of an apple and is named for the star-shaped core. The surface of the fruit is firm

astronomical map, any cartographic representation of the stars, galaxies, or surfaces of the planets and the Moon. Modern maps of this kind are based on a coordinate system analogous to geographic latitude and longitude. In most cases, modern maps are compiled from photographic observations made

Youssou N’Dour: …N’Dour joined the regionally popular Star Band de Dakar. That group, with its incorporation of the Senegalese tama (talking drum) and Wolof and Malinke songs into the popular music repertoire, was a pioneer of the music genre that eventually became known as mbalax.

Roddy Doyle: Other works: A Star Called Henry (1999) centers on an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier named Henry Smart and his adventures during the Easter Rising in 1916. Smart’s further adventures are detailed in Oh, Play That Thing (2004), which follows him as he journeys through the United…

star catalog, list of stars, usually according to position and magnitude (brightness) and, in some cases, other properties (e.g., spectral type) as well. Numerous catalogs and star atlases have been made, some of fundamental importance to stellar astronomy. A star may well appear in several

Star Chamber, in English law, the court made up of judges and privy councillors that grew out of the medieval king’s council as a supplement to the regular justice of the common-law courts. It achieved great popularity under Henry VIII for its ability to enforce the law when other courts were

Sergey Konstantinovich Krikalyov: …be the head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia.

star cluster, either of two general types of stellar assemblages held together by the mutual gravitational attraction of its members, which are physically related through common origin. The two types are open (formerly called galactic) clusters and globular clusters. Open clusters contain from a

electric generator: Phases: This connection is called a star, or wye, connection. Alternatively, since the three winding voltages also sum to zero at every instant, the three windings can be connected in series—a′ to b, b′ to c, and c′ to a—to form a delta connection. The output can then be transmitted using…

bur cucumber: …(Sicyos angulatus), known also as star cucumber, is native to North America and is considered a noxious agricultural weed.

psychomotor learning: Devices and tasks: While using a star discrimeter, a person receives information about his errors through earphones; the task is to learn to selectively position one lever among six radial slots in accordance with signals from differently coloured stimulus lights. A trainee on a two-hand coordinator has to manipulate two lathe…

Sossusvlei: …the dunes near Sossusvlei are star dunes. From the ground, star dunes resemble pyramids, but when viewed from above, long “arms” that radiate from the center of the dunes are visible, similar to the form of a starfish. This dune shape occurs when winds regularly blow from several directions. Near…

Frank Bidart: …Dirt were later included in Star Dust (2005), which also features new material, including “The Third Hour of the Night,” a monumental narrative that examines the act of creation through the eyes of Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. Watching the Spring Festival (2007), a book of lyric poems, included meditations on…

star finch, species of grass finch

carambola, (Averrhoa carambola), woody plant of the wood sorrel family (Oxalidaceae) and its edible fruit, native to tropical Asia and extensively cultivated in tropical areas. Barely ripe carambola has a verjuicelike sharpness. As it ripens, it acquires notes of pear, melon, and gooseberry, with a

cypress vine: The closely related star ipomoea (I. coccinea), with crimson flowers and heart-shaped leaves, which grows wild over much the same area, is also an annual.

A Star Is Born, American musical film, released in 1954, that was the third—and widely considered the most enduring—version of the classic tale of passion and jealousy between a Hollywood power couple. The film charts the rise of Esther Blodgett (played by Judy Garland) from band singer to

Bradley Cooper: …a remake of the movie A Star Is Born, in 2018. He also cowrote the script and played the lead role, as a hard-drinking musician who facilitates the meteoric rise of a singer-songwriter (played by Lady Gaga). The film earned numerous Oscar nominations, and Cooper received nods for best actor…

Joan Didion: Journalism, Play It as It Lays, screenplays, and memoirs: … and Kris Kristofferson remake of A Star Is Born (1976; written with others); True Confessions (1981); and Up Close and Personal (1996), a romantic drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford set in the world of television news.

Dorothy Parker: …more than 15 films, including A Star Is Born (1937), for which they were nominated for an Academy Award. She became active in left-wing politics, disdained her former role as a smart woman about town, reported from the Spanish Civil War, and discovered that her beliefs counted against her employment…

figure skating: Lifts: The star lift requires the man to raise his partner into the air by her hip while she forms a five-point “star” position with her extended legs, arms, and head. The twist lift requires both partners to skate backward as the man lifts his partner over…

Stern, weekly general-interest magazine published in Germany. It began publication in 1948 and quickly became the leading post-World War II magazine in the country, known for its outstanding photography and its blend of light and serious material. It publishes issues-oriented reporting, celebrity

magnolia: Major species: …tree with crimson fruits; and star magnolia (M. stellata), of similar height with spidery flowers.

science fiction: Alien encounters: His Star Maker (1937) follows an Englishman whose disembodied mind travels across space and time, observing aliens as metaphysical actors in a fiery cosmic drama remote from all human concern, and encounters the creator of the universe (Star Maker). This critically acclaimed book is more a…

Andre Norton: …hand at science fiction, producing Star Man’s Son, 2250 A.D. (1952); it was reprinted in paperback as Daybreak—2250 A.D. and sold more than a million copies.

astronomical map, any cartographic representation of the stars, galaxies, or surfaces of the planets and the Moon. Modern maps of this kind are based on a coordinate system analogous to geographic latitude and longitude. In most cases, modern maps are compiled from photographic observations made

Dhaka: The contemporary city: …buildings of note are the Star Mosque (Tara Masjid), built in the Mughal architectural style in the early 19th century with later renovations; Curzon Hall at the University of Dhaka, erected at the beginning of the 20th century, combining Mughal and European influences; and the National Assembly Building (Jatiya Sangsad…

telecommunications network: Broadcast network: …in a bus, ring, or star topology, as shown in the figure. Nodes connected together in a wireless LAN may broadcast via radio or optical links. On a larger scale, many satellite radio systems are broadcast networks, since each Earth station within the system can typically hear all messages relayed…

star: Star formation and evolution: …discovered stars that are well evolved or even approaching extinction, or both, as well as occasional stars that must be very young or still in the process of formation. Evolutionary effects on these stars are not negligible, even for a middle-aged star such as the Sun. More massive stars must…

Star of India, a large, cabochon-cut, gray-blue star sapphire, slightly oval in shape. The polished but unfaceted gem weighs 536 carats and was found in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). It was presented to the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, by J.P.

Franz Rosenzweig: ” Der Stern der Erlösung, completed in 1919, appeared in 1921. The work was ignored by the various trends in academic philosophy but highly regarded by Existentialist and, especially, younger Jewish theologians.

Star of South Africa, first large diamond found in South Africa; it was discovered in 1869 on the banks of the Orange River by an African shepherd boy, who traded it to a Boer settler for 500 sheep, 10 oxen, and a horse. It weighed about 84 carats in rough form and was cut to about 48 carats. When

Star of the South, unblemished 129-carat white diamond with a rosy glow, one of the largest ever found in Brazil; it weighed about 262 carats in rough form. It was discovered in 1853 in the Bagagem River (in Minas Gerais state) by a slave woman, who was given her freedom and pensioned as a reward.

James A. Garfield: Presidency of James A. Garfield: …short term of office, the Star Route scandal, involved the fraudulent dispersal of postal route contracts. “Go ahead regardless of where or whom you hit,” Garfield told investigators. “I direct you not only to probe this ulcer to the bottom, but to cut it out.” Despite such strong talk, Grant…

Verneuil process: Synthetic corundum.: Star rubies and sapphires, first developed in 1947 in the United States, are made by adding one percent rutile (titanium oxide, TiO2) to the starting powder, forming the boules in the usual manner, and then heat treating them at temperatures between 1,100° C and 1,500°…

Verneuil process: Synthetic corundum.: Star rubies and sapphires, first developed in 1947 in the United States, are made by adding one percent rutile (titanium oxide, TiO2) to the starting powder, forming the boules in the usual manner, and then heat treating them at temperatures between 1,100° C and 1,500° C. The rutile…

Milky Way Galaxy: Space motions: …used to demonstrate the so-called stream motion. Calculations based on the Dutch-born American astronomer Peter van de Kamp’s table of stars within 17 light-years, excluding the star of greatest anomalous velocity, reveal that dispersions in the V direction and the W direction are approximately half the size of the dispersion…

chondrostean: Distribution: The starry sturgeon (A. stellatus) occurs in rivers leading to the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea. The lake sturgeon of North America (A. fulvescens) occurs in the Mississippi River valley, in Lake Huron, and northward into Canada. The white, Oregon, or…

Adolph Zukor: …recognize the potential of the star system and to pay his screen actors large salaries. The other key to his success was the huge number of movie theatres he controlled, which showed the films produced by the studio. His autobiography is The Public Is Never Wrong (1953).

telecommunications network: Broadcast network: …in a bus, ring, or star topology, as shown in the figure. Nodes connected together in a wireless LAN may broadcast via radio or optical links. On a larger scale, many satellite radio systems are broadcast networks, since each Earth station within the system can typically hear all messages relayed…

virtual reality: Entertainment: …the early projects was Disneyland’s Star Tours, an immersive flight simulator ride based on the Star Wars movie series and designed in collaboration with producer George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic. Disney had long built themed rides utilizing advanced technology, such as animatronic characters—notably in Pirates of the Caribbean, an…

trap: …mysterious appearance is required, a star trap is used. The star trap is a circular opening with a lid composed of wedge-shaped sections, individually hinged to the circumference. An actor, standing below on a heavily counterweighted platform, can be projected through the opening with great speed. The sections of the…

Star Trek and Our Nuclear World: …represented by the television series Star Trek, addressing those aspects of Star Trek technology that might be realistic or unrealistic. Perhaps what is most remarkable about the future envisioned by the writers of that program is that unlike many science fiction futures, this one is not dystopic. In the Star…

J.J. Abrams: …2009 Abrams directed the film Star Trek, which explored the early years of the crew members of the 23rd-century starship USS Enterprise from the 1960s science-fiction TV series of the same name. The then 42-year-old director was credited with adding a youthful energy to a film franchise that many thought…

Star Trek, American television science-fiction series that ran on NBC for only three seasons (1966–69) but that became one of the most popular brands in the American entertainment industry. Star Trek was created by American writer and producer Gene Roddenberry and chronicles the exploits of the

After atomic bombs were detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Albert Einstein wrote, “The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking.” More than 70 years have passed since then, and our thinking has not changed. The world possesses more than

Star Trek: …Trek into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016).

Kirstie Alley: Family and early career: …role in the hit movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Leonard Nimoy: …The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He also directed The Search for Spock (in which he appeared only briefly) and The…

David Ellison: Film productions and franchise work: He executive produced Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and later worked on Terminator Genisys (2015), a planned revival of the Terminator series. He also continued his association with the Mission: Impossible franchise, executive producing Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025).

Leonard Nimoy: …The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He also directed The Search for Spock (in which he appeared only briefly) and The Voyage Home. Another directorial effort—the comedy Three Men…

William Shatner: Other work: His other directorial credits included Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) and the television movie TekWar (1994). The latter was based on a novel (1989) that Shatner conceptualized and collaborated on with another writer. The novel begat a series of books set in the same futuristic universe as well…

Leonard Nimoy: …The Final Frontier (1989), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). He also directed The Search for Spock (in which he appeared only briefly) and The Voyage Home. Another directorial effort—the comedy Three Men and a Baby—was the most lucrative film released in 1987. Known for his engagement with…

Louise Fletcher: …recurring part on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Fletcher received a second Emmy nomination for a 2004 guest role on Joan of Arcadia, and she later played recurring characters on ER, Heroes, Private Practice, Shameless, and Girlboss.

David Cronenberg: Other work: …had a recurring role on Star Trek: Discovery. His other notable work includes the novel Consumed (2014), about a salacious pair of journalists investigating a philosopher who may have eaten his wife.

LeVar Burton: Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation: …franchise: Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). In 2023 Burton appeared in five episodes of the TV show Star Trek: Picard.

LeVar Burton: Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation: …several movies in the franchise: Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). In 2023 Burton appeared in five episodes of the TV show Star Trek: Picard.

F. Murray Abraham: Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He also appeared in Wes Anderson’s comedies The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and the stop-motion animated Isle of Dogs (2018), and he provided the voice of the villainous Grimmel in How

LeVar Burton: Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation: …Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). In 2023 Burton appeared in five episodes of the TV show Star Trek: Picard.

LeVar Burton: Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation: …episodes of the TV show Star Trek: Picard.

Robert Wise: Last films: …Anthony Hopkins; and the big-budget Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), the first entry in the franchise of movies based on the Star Trek television series. Wise took a 10-year hiatus and then filmed Rooftops (1989), a gritty nonmusical variation on West Side Story that failed to find an audience.…

Gene Roddenberry: …of the sequel television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. In addition, he wrote Star Trek—The Motion Picture: A Novel (1979).

Cowles family: …to approve their purchase of The Minneapolis Star, which was at the time in financial difficulties, and in 1937 John moved to Minneapolis to manage it. He later bought the Minneapolis Tribune. Active in government affairs, John was a member of the General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control…

Sean O’Casey: The Star Turns Red (1940) is an antifascist play, and the semiautobiographical Red Roses for Me (1946) is set in Dublin at the time of the Irish railways strike of 1911.

Rupert Murdoch: 20th Century Fox, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal: In 1993 he purchased Star TV, a pan-Asian television service based in Hong Kong, as part of his plan to build a global television network. In 1995 the News Corporation entered into a partnership with MCI Communications Corporation, a major provider of long-distance telecommunications services in the United States.…

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983. Because parts of the defensive

Darth Vader: …IV—A New Hope (originally titled Star Wars), the towering, black-clad Darth Vader is a menacing villain. His head is covered by a signature black helmet, and the sound of his breathing is an eerie, mechanical hiss. Star Wars creator George Lucas conceived Vader’s character, while designer Ralph McQuarrie contributed some…

Wilco: In 2015 Wilco unexpectedly released Star Wars, making it available for free on the band’s website. The concise album won praise for its experimentalism and songcraft. More accessible than the band’s last releases, Star Wars captured the spirit of Wilco’s live performances. Schmilco (2016) was largely acoustic, quiet, and personal.…

Star Wars, film score by American composer John Williams for George Lucas’s Star Wars (1977), which launched the film series of the same name. At a time when many scores were largely compilations of popular music from the film’s period, Williams crafted a grand orchestral score in the tradition of

Star Wars, space opera storytelling universe (created by George Lucas) that is one of the most successful and influential multimedia franchises in entertainment history. Begun in the 1970s and ’80s and resuscitated at the turn of the 21st century, Star Wars continually advanced the field of

George Lucas: The growth of Lucasfilm: …anticipated releases of the decade, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (1999), the first installment in a prequel trilogy about the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker. For that film, which received mixed reviews but reaped enormous profits, Lucas returned to the director’s chair for the first time in more than 20…

George Lucas: The growth of Lucasfilm: Lucas followed with Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (2005), both of which he also directed, before returning to an executive production role on the fourth Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…

George Lucas: The growth of Lucasfilm: …of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (2005), both of which he also directed, before returning to an executive production role on the fourth Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), which Spielberg directed. Lucas created two animated television…

Darth Vader: …IV—A New Hope (originally titled Star Wars), the towering, black-clad Darth Vader is a menacing villain. His head is covered by a signature black helmet, and the sound of his breathing is an eerie, mechanical hiss. Star Wars creator George Lucas conceived Vader’s character, while designer Ralph McQuarrie contributed some…

John Williams: From jazz pianist to film composer: 2015, 2017, and 2019) and the first three Harry Potter films (2001, 2002, and 2004). He also composed themes for some of the NBC network’s news programs and for the 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2002 Olympic Games. He was known especially for his lush symphonic style, which helped…

Irvin Kershner: Star Wars, James Bond, and RoboCop: …his at USC, to helm The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second installment in the original series. With Lucas relegating his contribution to the basic plot, Kershner made arguably the best of the series’s original three films. He then turned to the blockbuster James Bond franchise with Never Say Never…

George Lucas: The growth of Lucasfilm: …Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (1983).

J.J. Abrams: …sci-fi franchise with the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), which he cowrote and directed. Set several decades after the 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, it was billed as the seventh episode in the series and featured both new and old characters. While he stated that…

Rian Johnson: In-demand studio director: …on the iconic franchise in Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017) won over many critics and audience members and was a box-office success. However, a vocal contingent of Star Wars fans criticized Johnson’s film for, among other things, deviating from the tone and characterizations established by previous entries in…

Ryan Gosling: Barbie and The Fall Guy: …will star in the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter (2027), a standalone entry in the long-running Star Wars franchise.

George Lucas: The growth of Lucasfilm: …Wars: Clone Wars (2003–05) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–20). He was then executive producer of Red Tails (2012), an action-packed account of the Tuskegee Airmen and his first film in nearly two decades that was not affiliated with either the Star Wars or Indiana Jones franchises.

Star Wars: The prequel trilogy (1999–2005): …animated feature film and series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020)—which depicted Anakin Skywalker and his apprentice Ahsoka Tano during the period of war between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith—and numerous successful video game lines created by another of Lucas’s companies, LucasArts. By the time the…

J.J. Abrams: …sci-fi franchise with the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), which he cowrote and directed. Set several decades after the 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, it was billed as the seventh episode in the series and featured both new and old characters. While he stated that…

Rian Johnson: In-demand studio director: …on the iconic franchise in Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (2017) won over many critics and audience members and was a box-office success. However, a vocal contingent of Star Wars fans criticized Johnson’s film for, among other things, deviating from the tone and characterizations established by previous entries in…

Jon Favreau: A new era of Star Wars: …the 2026 spin-off feature film The Mandalorian and Grogu. Favreau—alongside writer, director, and producer Dave Filoni—established himself as a leading storyteller for a new era of Star Wars, a franchise started in the 1970s, that introduced that multimedia universe to a new generation of fans.

John Williams: From jazz pianist to film composer: 2015, 2017, and 2019) and the first three Harry Potter films (2001, 2002, and 2004). He also composed themes for some of the NBC network’s news programs and for the 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2002 Olympic Games. He was known especially for his lush symphonic style, which helped…

nature worship: Stars and constellations: …of astronomy—was the origin of astral religions and myths that affected religions all over the world. Though the view is controversial, Mesopotamian astral worship and influence may have reached as far as Central and Andean America (by way of China or Polynesia). Sumerian, Elamite, and Hurrian contemplation of the stars…

France: Culture and art: When John II formed the Order of the Star (1351), an institution imitated by the great lords for their clientages, chivalry stood incorporated as the most distinguished of religious confraternities. The dream of the Crusade remained strong, notably among princes of the fleur-de-lis, who dominated the public life of Valois…

Arthur C. Clarke: In the Hugo Award-winning “The Star” (1955), an expedition to a distant planet finds the ruins of a civilization that was destroyed when its star went supernova. A Jesuit priest on the expedition has his faith tested when he discovers that the supernova was the Star of Bethlehem.

Derek Walcott: In Sea Grapes (1976) and The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979), Walcott uses a tenser, more economical style to examine the deep cultural divisions of language and race in the Caribbean. The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) explore his own situation as a black writer in America who has become increasingly…

George Crumb: … (1970), for electric string quartet; Star-Child (1977), a huge choral and orchestral composition that required the use of four conductors; Celestial Mechanics, Makrokosmos IV (1978); and Apparition (1980). Crumb taught at the University of Colorado (1959–64) before joining (1965) the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the…

10 Animals With Evolutionary Traits Plucked Straight Out of a Nightmare: Star-Nosed Mole: We’ll finish this unnerving list with what might be the most underrated nightmare-dwelling animal alive. The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) can be found in wet low areas, typically in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Its main claim to fame is its…

Ornithogalum: Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) and Arabian starflower (O. arabicum) are common garden ornamentals grown for their attractive star-shaped flowers.