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What’s the Difference Between Venomous and Poisonous?
The term venomous is applied to organisms that bite (or sting) to inject their toxins, whereas the term poisonous applies to organisms that unload toxins when eaten. With respect to snakes, very few are poisonous, but some, like the black mamba, are venomous.
See also: venom, black mamba
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The Sound and the Fury
In 1897 American novelist and short-story writer William Faulkner, considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born.