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  American Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
The American Copperhead is overall chestnut in color with dark brown bands crisscrossing the length of its rust and copper colored body forming a striking geometric cross-band pattern.
The snake venom of the American Copperhead is hemotoxic with most snake bites occurring when the snakes are stepped on accidentally or by campers bedding down right next to one.
Copperheads are members of the Viperidae (Pit Viper) family of snakes having folded-fangs classified in the group solenoglypha.
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  American copperhead - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The American copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) is a species of venomous viper native to eastern North America.
American copperheads breed in late summer but not to a fixed pattern: sometimes a female will give produce young for several years running, then not breed at all for a time.
While rarely lethal, a copperhead bite can be very damaging to muscle and bone tissue, especially when the bite occurs in the outer extremities such as the hands and feet, areas in which there is not a large muscle mass to absorb the venom.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/American_copperhead   (851 words)

  
 Copper Head Snakes
The copperhead is 75 to 125 cm (30 to 50 in) long and has a coppery, bronze, brown, or pinkish-brown body marked with bands of darker brown in an hourglass pattern.
The copperhead of India and southeast Asia is a nonvenomous rat snake.
In Pennsylvania, copperheads are found in appropriate habitat in all but the upper portions of the northern tier counties and the extreme northwestern counties.
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 AnimalTrek.com - Copperhead Pictures, Information, Wallpaper, Photos
The American copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) is a species of venomous viper native to eastern North America.
The Southern copperhead (A. contortrix contortrix) of the south-eastern United States is generally paler and has more clearly defined markings, sometimes including a row of dark triangular marks the sides of the body.
American copperheads breed in late summer but not to a fixed pattern: sometimes a female will give produce young for several years running, then not breed at all for a time.
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 Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
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 American Thinker: America's Neo-Copperheads
The serious strategic, political, and moral implications of the defeat of Union forces were not enough to discourage the "Copperheads" or the "Peace Democrats" in the North.
Copperheads (aptly named after the poisonous snake) demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities, and they reviled Lincoln for continuing the military campaign against the South.
Many of our American contemporaries are on the same moral plane as those Copperheads content to live with a fractured regime and slavery, and this fact itself is one of those evils that our Neo-Copperheads can never really acknowledge.
www.americanthinker.com /2007/02/americas_neocopperheads.html   (1451 words)

  
 M712 Copperhead
Copperhead is a cannon-launched, 155mm artillery projectile which guides itself to a laser-designated target.
Copperhead projectiles were used to destroy observation and border guard posts and forward radar installations during the first week of artillery attacks.
The trajectory of the Copperhead projectile is similar to that of a conventional round.
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 WildWNC.org : Animals : NORTHERN COPPERHEAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Northern Copperhead is normally a rather short and heavy-bodied snake, averaging around two to two and one half feet in length, sometimes as much as three feet or longer in large specimens.
Baby copperheads up to a year or so in age may be easily identified by the presence of a bright yellowish-green tail tip, an adaptation that is used by the young snakes to procure their food.
Copperheads are one of our most asked about snakes since they are venomous, but most of the snakes we are questioned about or which are brought in for identification, turn out to be harmless, nonvenomous species.
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 Copperhead,Reptiles,Amphibians,Copperhead Picture Gallery Collection,Copperhead Pictures,Encyclopedia,Copperhead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The copperhead has a reddish brown head and contrasting light- and dark-brown or copper-colored bands.
Copperheads are found from Massachusetts to Illinois, and south through the southern states (exclusive of peninsular Florida) to west Texas.
In Southeast Asia the name copperhead applies to a harmless rat snake, Elaphe radiata, and in Australia to the venomous Denisonia superba, a relative of the cobra.
www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/reptilesindex.asp?counter=12   (199 words)

  
 s010620a - Copperhead Snake Bite
Abstract: Copperhead envenomation cases reported in the literature frequently lack identification of the subspecies of copperhead responsible for the envenomation.
Envenomations from the broad-banded and northern copperhead subspecies caused localized symptoms of pain, edema and ecchymosis.
The snake distribution was rattlesnake: 19 (30%), copperhead: 18 (29%), cottonmouth moccasin: 8 (12%), unknown: 18 (29%).
www.emory.edu /WHSCL/grady/amreport/litsrch00/s010620a.html   (1088 words)

  
 Dodge Copperhead 1997 concept car
Designer's achieved Copperhead's sleek dimensions by moving the front and rear wheels to the limits of the vehicle's frame.
Copperhead's interior is designed to complement the exterior and features contoured bucket seats with an unconventional Deep Amethyst snakeskin-like leather finish.
Copperhead's performance is defined by an all-new, aluminum block, high-output 2.7 liter four cam V-6 which churns out 220 horsepower (162 kW).
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 American Beer
I'd say their American Ale is more an amber than this one, both in color and in taste.
American ale with a slight hint of wheat taste.
While freezing the bottle to death rock bottom in your cooler may be the only way to make most yellowish mountain spring water of American provenience drinkable at all, this is not what you shall do with this brew.
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 Copperhead Basics
The copperhead is a good choice for a "first" hot because of its relatively mild venom and usually docile manner.
Copperheads range from S.E. New York, to West Texas, to the Florida Panhandle.
The copperhead you have in the photo is one of the most beautiful "coppers" I have ever seen.
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 CD Baby: COPPERHEAD: Live And Lost
Copperhead is known as one of the last great Southern rock bands to emerge from the 90’s.
Copperhead’s CD “Live and Lost” packs the energy and passion of Neil Carswell as both a performer and songwriter.
“Copperhead is the truest example of new-breed southern rock purity in motion,featuring Van Zant-esqu vocalisms blended with a modern-day hard rock onslaught.
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 Copperhead - North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Warning: The Copperhead is the most common venomous snake encountered in North Carolina, and is the only venomous species that is common throughout the state.
Although copperheads are generally not aggressive, they have very good camouflage and can easily be stepped on by accident.
Copperheads are usually diurnal but often move at night and are often encountered while crossing roads.
www.bio.davidson.edu /projects/herpcons/herps_of_NC/snakes/Agk_con.html   (314 words)

  
 Survival - APPENDIX E - POISONOUS SNAKES AND LIZARDS - Page 3
Copperheads are rather quiet and inoffensive in disposition but will defend themselves vigorously.
Bites occur when the snakes are stepped on or when a victim is lying next to one.
A copperhead lying on a bed of dead leaves becomes invisible.
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 Al Qaeda Releases Video Of Attack On U.S. In Afghanistan » Netscape.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
The name Copperheads was given to them by their opponents the Republicans, probably derived from the venomous snake (the American copperhead) that strikes without warning - Copperheads reinterpreted this insult as a term of honor, and wore copper liberty-head coins as badges.
Copperheads nominally favored the Union but they strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted the draft laws.
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 Working Terriers: Poisonous Snakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The American Copperhead can blend easily into its environment with its chestnut brown body color, narrow darker crossbands of deep browns at the top and then wider at the bottom, and its coppery-colored head.
Copperheads are not normally an aggressive snake unless startled or provoked into defending themselves.
Copperheads populate coastal flatwoods, densely vegetated areas, wooded and rocky areas, and mountainous regions up to 3,000 feet elevation.
www.madisonridgejrt.com /wt_poisonoussnakes.htm   (975 words)

  
 Copperheads. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
in the American Civil War, a reproachful term for those Northerners sympathetic to the South, mostly Democrats outspoken in their opposition to the Lincoln administration.
The Knights of the Golden Circle was a Copperhead secret society.
It afforded an opportunity for impugning the loyalty of those who opposed Lincoln’s policies, either military or civil (e.g., the suspension of habeas corpus), and it was not until years after the Civil War that the Democratic party succeeded in living down the association.
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Back in the 1980s, the American 155mm Copperhead round was developed, at great expense, to take out tanks with one shot.
Each of the 3,000 Copperhead shells eventually built, cost several hundred thousands dollars (the price varied, up to half a million bucks, depending on who was doing the calculating).
A new American smart shell, Excalibur, is to be used in urban fighting, where you just want to hit one building, and enable nearby infantry to quickly rush in.
www.strategypage.com /htmw/htart/articles/20061215.aspx   (408 words)

  
 Reptiles UK
For example, the North American copperhead has brown bands that blend with the dead leaves on the forest floor where it lives.
North American hognose snakes, indigo snakes, and some other species spread the neck ribs and inflate the lung, which makes them look larger and fiercer.
The North American hognose snake is especially well known for such behavior.
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 Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The American Copperhead is a North American poisonous snake renowned for striking without warning.
It's also a political label: The Copperheads were a group of Northern Democrats who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement.
I think that'll eventually get shortened to simple Copperheads and I think they might be a little over broad in their criteria, they bring to...
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 Chapter 6
American airplanes dropped leaflets with Gen. MacArthur's command to all Koreans – “any Korean who harms either Japanese or American personnel will be punished by death.”, and that all powers of government over the territory and people of S. Korea were under MacArthur’s authority.
But the American misconception of the Korean communism led them to embrace any groups who were opposed to the communists regardless of their background.
The Americans were on the side of Korean capitalists fighting against the communists behind labor movements, and four days later, the US military outlawed the People's Committees in South Korea.
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 Copperhead (snake) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Copperhead (snake) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Copperheads (political party), name popularly applied during the American Civil War to Northern members of the Democratic Party, also known as Peace...
Snake (reptile), legless animal with a long, flexible body covered with overlapping scales.
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 Copperhead - A Two Wheel American Chopper Hot Rod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Copperhead's quality features include Weld Racing wheels, Arlen Ness controls, a custom frame, sheet metal, handlebars, exotic seat skin, custom paint and eye-catching graphics.
The heart of the Copperhead is a ground-shaking fully polished 124 cubic inch S&S engine pumping out plenty of horsepower power through a six-speed transmission.
All the details are available in the Copperhead brochure.
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 Copperhead - AOL Music
The Copperhead is the most common venomous snake found in the eastern US.
It is also known by the name "Highland Moccasin." As a species, it belongs to the...
Download, listen and watch Copperhead music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Op Ed: What Lincoln Really Said » Netscape.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The name Copperheads was given to them by their opponents the Republicans, probably derived from the venomous snake (the American copperhead) that strikes without warning - Copperheads reinterpreted this insult as a term of honor, and wore copper liberty-head coins as badges.
Copperheads nominally favored the Union but they strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted the draft laws.
Their attempts to paint all opposition as treasonous really exposes who the traitors to the American way of life really are.
politics.netscape.com /story/2007/02/18/op-ed-what-lincoln-really-said   (2630 words)

  
 SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer
Copperhead Snake on Dead Leaves, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
VII Copperhead Snake among dead leaves, study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
XI "A group of North American Indians in full dress", study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
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 copperhead - OneLook Dictionary Search
copperhead : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include copperhead: american copperhead, dodge copperhead, indian copperhead, southern copperhead, trans pecos copperhead
Words similar to copperhead: agkistrodon contortrix, denisonia superba, more...
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 Wildlife - Reptiles and Amphibians
Please respect the following three venomous snakes: Texas coral, western cottonmouth, and southern copperhead.
American alligators share the ponds with smooth and spiny softshell turtles.
Bullfrogs and upland chorus frogs fill the night air with their calls.
www.fws.gov /southwest/refuges/texas/attwater/reptiles.html   (75 words)

  
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American Capital Invests $4 Million in Crosman Corporation
Bethesda, MD -- American Capital Strategies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACAS), today announced a $4 million investment of senior subordinated debt with detachable warrants in Crosman Corporation.
In October 1999, Crosman's management refinanced the business to provide additional liquidity and build a sound financial basis to invigorate sales and pursue new opportunities.
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