In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game and various other fantasy settings, the crawling claw is an undead or construct creature which consists of the severed hand, paw, or claw of a deceased creature, animated to come alive. Its appearance is that of a severed hand which crawls on its fingers.
Publication history
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)
The crawling claw first appeared in the first edition in Dragon #32 (December 1979).
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)
The crawling claw appeared in the second edition in the adventure module Shadowdale (1989). The creature then appeared in the Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix (1989), reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).
Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 edition (200-2002) and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition (2003-2007)
The crawling claw appeared in the third edition in Monsters of Faerûn (2001), and Lost Empires of Faerûn (2005) in version 3.5.
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (2008-20014)
The crawling claw appeared in the fourth edition in Open Grave (2009).
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (2014-)
The crawling claw appeared in the fifth edition Monster Manual (2014).
Description
Crawling claws are created by and are often used as guards by their creators. Crawling claws attack by leaping at, punching, strangling, and scratching their enemies. Though sometimes solitary, they are often created and travel in groups, which are able to attack by overwhelming foes. Being small and silent, crawling claws also have the benefit of stealth. They may be able to open doors and pull levers and might also be used as laboratory assistants. Although not attached to a brain, crawling claws are nonetheless able to follow spoken and telepathic orders from their creator. They cannot speak, and are neutral in alignment.
Reception
Screen Rant compiled a list of the game's "10 Most Powerful (And 10 Weakest) Monsters, Ranked" in 2018, calling this one of the weakest, saying "At best, you can use a bunch of them to act as a distraction or as a screen while another villain prepares a spell or trap."
Publication history
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition (1977-1988)
The crawling claw first appeared in the first edition in Dragon #32 (December 1979).
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (1989-1999)
The crawling claw appeared in the second edition in the adventure module Shadowdale (1989). The creature then appeared in the Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix (1989), reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).
Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 edition (200-2002) and Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition (2003-2007)
The crawling claw appeared in the third edition in Monsters of Faerûn (2001), and Lost Empires of Faerûn (2005) in version 3.5.
Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (2008-20014)
The crawling claw appeared in the fourth edition in Open Grave (2009).
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (2014-)
The crawling claw appeared in the fifth edition Monster Manual (2014).
Description
Crawling claws are created by and are often used as guards by their creators. Crawling claws attack by leaping at, punching, strangling, and scratching their enemies. Though sometimes solitary, they are often created and travel in groups, which are able to attack by overwhelming foes. Being small and silent, crawling claws also have the benefit of stealth. They may be able to open doors and pull levers and might also be used as laboratory assistants. Although not attached to a brain, crawling claws are nonetheless able to follow spoken and telepathic orders from their creator. They cannot speak, and are neutral in alignment.
Reception
Screen Rant compiled a list of the game's "10 Most Powerful (And 10 Weakest) Monsters, Ranked" in 2018, calling this one of the weakest, saying "At best, you can use a bunch of them to act as a distraction or as a screen while another villain prepares a spell or trap."
The Committee on Socialist Studies was formed in 1967 and renamed The Society for Socialist Studies/Societe D'Études Socialistes (SSS) in 1981. It was formed to "facilitate and encourage research and analysis with an emphasis on socialist, feminist, anti-racist and ecological points of view". The Society is not affiliated with any particular political organization.
Since 2005, the society has published a peer-reviewed academic journal, Socialist Studies. Before this it published the Socialist Studies Bulletin.
The Society is a member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) and meets annually as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest annual multidisciplinary academic gathering in Canada. Its 2019 conference was held 4-7 June in Vancouver.
Since 2005, the society has published a peer-reviewed academic journal, Socialist Studies. Before this it published the Socialist Studies Bulletin.
The Society is a member of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) and meets annually as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest annual multidisciplinary academic gathering in Canada. Its 2019 conference was held 4-7 June in Vancouver.
Grady A. Dugas, M. D. (October 24, 1923 - March 25, 2007), was a Louisiana physician who invented the "Safer Automatic Wheelchair Wheel Locks", a patented device designed for those who sometimes forget to lock their wheelchairs. For four decades Dugas was engaged in a family medical practice in Marion in Union Parish, a part of the Monroe Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area of northeastern Louisiana.
Background
Dugas was born in Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana to Sona Dugas (1894-1964) and the former Mildred Meyers (1900-1987). In 1941, he graduated from Sulphur High School as president of the senior class. He attended McNeese State University (then Junior College) in Lake Charles, the seat of government of Calcasieu Parish. In 1942, he left McNeese to join the United States Army Air Corps He served in the European Theater of Operations with the medical air evacuation unit stationed in England and France for the remainder of World War II.
After World War II, he returned to college. In 1949, he graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and thereafter in 1953 from the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. After a year of internship at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, he moved with his wife, the former Annie Jo Sehon (1929-2011), a medical technologist whom he had married in 1950, and infant son to Marion, where, in 1954, he joined Dr. Virgil Gully in the Marion Hospital-Clinic. After Gully left for health reasons, Dugas maintained the hospital until 1965, and thereafter the clinic and private practice until 1991.
Discover magazine reported in 1993 how Dugas had used maggots to cure the bedsores of an 80-year-old male patient. Some of the sores were nearly an inch deep, and infection had set in. Conventional therapies, including antibiotics and surgery, had failed. Dugas told the magazine that he remembered his grandmother, who was diabetic, had undergone successful maggot treatment in the 1930s. He followed suit, and the man's sore healed within a month. Instead of facing amputation, the patient instead went into the hospital for skin grafts.
In 1972, Marion named Dr. Dugas "Outstanding Citizen of the Year". On March 30, 1990, Marion declared "Dr. Dugas Day" with the presentation of special awards. In 2005, Union Parish proclaimed him the "Outstanding Citizen of the Year for Community Service".
Dugas and his wife are interred at Roark Cemetery in Marion.<ref name=findagrave/>
Background
Dugas was born in Sulphur in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana to Sona Dugas (1894-1964) and the former Mildred Meyers (1900-1987). In 1941, he graduated from Sulphur High School as president of the senior class. He attended McNeese State University (then Junior College) in Lake Charles, the seat of government of Calcasieu Parish. In 1942, he left McNeese to join the United States Army Air Corps He served in the European Theater of Operations with the medical air evacuation unit stationed in England and France for the remainder of World War II.
After World War II, he returned to college. In 1949, he graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and thereafter in 1953 from the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. After a year of internship at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, he moved with his wife, the former Annie Jo Sehon (1929-2011), a medical technologist whom he had married in 1950, and infant son to Marion, where, in 1954, he joined Dr. Virgil Gully in the Marion Hospital-Clinic. After Gully left for health reasons, Dugas maintained the hospital until 1965, and thereafter the clinic and private practice until 1991.
Discover magazine reported in 1993 how Dugas had used maggots to cure the bedsores of an 80-year-old male patient. Some of the sores were nearly an inch deep, and infection had set in. Conventional therapies, including antibiotics and surgery, had failed. Dugas told the magazine that he remembered his grandmother, who was diabetic, had undergone successful maggot treatment in the 1930s. He followed suit, and the man's sore healed within a month. Instead of facing amputation, the patient instead went into the hospital for skin grafts.
In 1972, Marion named Dr. Dugas "Outstanding Citizen of the Year". On March 30, 1990, Marion declared "Dr. Dugas Day" with the presentation of special awards. In 2005, Union Parish proclaimed him the "Outstanding Citizen of the Year for Community Service".
Dugas and his wife are interred at Roark Cemetery in Marion.<ref name=findagrave/>
Chidi Nwaogu (born 20 May 1990) is a Nigerian-Ghanaian serial tech entrepreneur, writer, publisher, and software developer. Nwaogu was listed as one of the Young Innovators making Africa great in 2019. Together with his twin brother, Nwaogu has created and sold two companies in the last decade. and listed as one of the 100 most innovative African startups. Nwaogu won the first prize in Entrepreneurship at the 2019 Africa 35.35 Awards, an award that recognizes 35 people under 35 from Africa or the African diaspora that have made outstanding achievements in their communities.
Early life and career
Nwaogu started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 16 with the creation of the video game development company, 9ja Boi Interactive. Before the age of 25, Nwaogu had co-founded, grown, and sold two companies, which includes LAGbook, a social networking platform with over one-million registered members. Nwaogu co-founded LAGbook with his twin brother while studying Physics at the University of Lagos. LAGbook started as an exclusive social network for students of the university, but expanded, and was acquired by a Canadian tech company in January 2013. Nwaogu began to code at the age of 13.
Awards and recognition
2018
* African Entrepreneurship Award
* OD Young Person of the Month
2019
* Africa 35.35 Award
* The Bizz Business Excellence Award
* OD Young Person of the Month<ref name=":2" />
Early life and career
Nwaogu started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 16 with the creation of the video game development company, 9ja Boi Interactive. Before the age of 25, Nwaogu had co-founded, grown, and sold two companies, which includes LAGbook, a social networking platform with over one-million registered members. Nwaogu co-founded LAGbook with his twin brother while studying Physics at the University of Lagos. LAGbook started as an exclusive social network for students of the university, but expanded, and was acquired by a Canadian tech company in January 2013. Nwaogu began to code at the age of 13.
Awards and recognition
2018
* African Entrepreneurship Award
* OD Young Person of the Month
2019
* Africa 35.35 Award
* The Bizz Business Excellence Award
* OD Young Person of the Month<ref name=":2" />