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Holkham Hall is an 18th-centurycountry house in Norfolk, England, constructed in theNeo-Palladian style forThomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester. The hall was designed by the architectWilliam Kent, with contributions fromRichard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, the Norfolk architect and surveyorMatthew Brettingham and Thomas Coke himself. Holkham is one of England's finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture. The exterior consists of a central block, of two storeys and four flanking wings. The interior of the hall is opulent, but by the standards of the day, simply decorated and furnished. The Holkham estate was built up bySir Edward Coke, a lawyer in the reigns ofElizabeth I andJames I and the founder of his family's fortune. It remains the ancestral home of the Coke family, who becameEarls of Leicester. The house is aGrade I listed building, and its park is listed as Grade I on theRegister of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. (Full article...)
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Slime mold is an informal name given to apolyphyletic assemblage of unrelatedeukaryotic organisms in thecladesStramenopiles,Rhizaria,Discoba,Amoebozoa andHolomycota. Most are near-microscopic; those inMyxogastria form largerplasmodial slime molds that are visible to the naked eye. Most slime molds are terrestrial and free-living, typically in damp shady habitats such as in or on the surface of rotting wood. Some myxogastrians andprotostelians are aquatic or semi-aquatic. Thephytomyxea are parasitic, living inside their planthosts. Geographically, slime molds arecosmopolitan in distribution. A small number of species occur in regions as dry as theAtacama Desert and as cold as the Arctic; they are abundant in the tropics, especially inrainforests. This picture shows a group ofsporangia of the slime moldComatricha nigra, photographed in a garden in Berlin, Germany. Photograph credit: Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas Recently featured: |
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