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Microrestes Robustus
''Microrestes robustus'' is a Phasmatodea, stick insect species native to northwestern Vietnam. Characteristics ''Microrestes robustus'' can be distinguished from the only other species of the genus described so far, ''Microrestes trapezius'', by its smaller size and less pronounced surface structure. The anterior side margins of the mesonotum are only reinforced with an indistinct hump, while in ''M. trapezius'' these are clearly spiny. Females are about long and compact in Habit (biology), habit. They show light, yellowish to orange-colored patterns on a brown ground color, which are more pronounced in the Abdomen (insect anatomy), abdomen area. With age, they become uniform dark brown. On the long head, the supraantennas and the occipitals are present as small blunt spines. The vertex is raised and slightly elongated. The supraorbitals, procoronals, and anterior coronals are almost continuously fused into two wavy crests that almost touch posteriorly. The posterior and la ...
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Joachim Bresseel
Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocryphal Gospel of James. His feast day is 26 July, a date shared with Saint Anne. In Christian tradition The story of Joachim, his wife Anne (or Anna), and the miraculous birth of their child Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told for the first time in the 2nd-century apocryphal infancy-gospel the Gospel of James (also called Protoevangelium of James). Joachim was a rich and pious man, who regularly gave to the poor. However, Charles Souvay, writing in the ''Catholic Encyclopedia'', says that the idea that Joachim possessed large herds and flocks is doubtful. At the temple, Joachim's sacrifice was rejected, as the couple's childlessness was interpreted as a sign of divine displeasure. Joachim consequently withdrew to the desert, where he fasted and ...
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