Rex Stout / AUTHOR CATALOG
Rex Stout, born 1886 in Indiana/USA, worked at thirty different professions until he earned enough money to travel. In 1932, he began to write thrillers focusing on the famous detective Nero Wolfe. Nero is a gourmet weighing more than a hundred ... [... more]
Random House |
Bird Feeder
Rita Hill demonstrated a simple technique for making a bird feeder and a birdbath for your garden. You'll need: bamboo or long, straight, stout prunings from the garden river pebbles 2 shallow dishes (such as terracotta pot plant bases or shallow ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Tiger Grass
This striking plant from Thailand looks like bamboo but it's actually a perennial grass. In Asia the large leaves are used to wrap food for steaming, and the flower heads are tied together and used as brooms. Perennial grass with stout culms to 3 ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Print fact sheet - Yuccas
Members of the Agave family, yuccas are native to southern USA and Mexico. There are around thirty species, and most have stout woody trunks, rosettes of spiky leaves and big clusters of creamy white flowers. In the wild these fascinating plants ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Fourby Chili
Rinse the black beans, pick out any pebbles; then cover with water and let soak overnight. Then pour off the soaking water, add 1 bottle of stout, and add fresh water to cover the beans plus about 1". Cover partway (it will boil over if fully ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
Martha Stout, Ph.D.
Martha Stout, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in private practice, served on the faculty in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years. She is also the author of The Myth of Sanity. She lives on Cape ... [... more]
Random House |
Lou Diamond Phillips
Mafatu's name means "Stout Heart," but his people call him a coward. Ever since the sea took his mother's life and spared his own, he has lived with deep fear. And even though his father is the Great Chief of Hikueru--an island whose seafaring . [... more]
Random House |
John Austin
John Austin is a former toy designer for Hasbro in their Boys Research and Development Department. He spent his college years at the University of Wisconsin, Stout, terrorizing his friends with one hysterical prank after another. The author of ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
European Wasps
The European Wasp is easily distinguished from native wasps by its vivid yellow and black markings. European Wasps are a stout wasp with a bright yellow and black banded abdomen, and a pair of black spots on each yellow band. They have two pairs ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
