#thoat

Some of the many pen-and-ink illustrations by Frank Frazetta for the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

TSR published the original D&D rules in the same year which also included references to Red Martians, Tharks (a type of Green Martians, as are Warhoons), the 8-legged horse-like thoat, the 10-legged lion-maned banth, and the frog-like/dog-like calot, all found in the Barsoom-themed "Desert (Mars)" and "Optional Arid Plains" encounter tables.

Alvaro Siza, 1985-1986

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Vibrating voices! It is often said that human sounds are produced from their plural vocal chords, but in reality there is only one “chord” which allows for speech, the grocery bag of the throat, aka the vuvla. When speaking, the vuvla begins to vibrate and very specific frequencies causing a resonation which is echoed off of the back of the throat and eventually out of the mouth where it interacts with the air creating the sounds that we can all hear. When the tonsils are removed it affects the resonation of the vuvla and patients of this procedure find themselves unable to speak for at least a full day before the vuvla can adjust its vibrations to the new throat structure.

'Dejah Thoris' by William Stout.

A typical afternoon on Barsoom by William Stout.