Painted turtles are brightly marked. They have a smooth shell about 90 to 250 mm long. The upper shell is relatively flat with red and yellow markings on a black or greenish brown background. Their shell acts as protection, but since the ribs are fused to the shell, they cannot expand their chests to breathe.
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Andrew Mellon took over his father's bank and built up a financial-industrial empire. He founded Alcoa, Gulf Oil and Union Steel and by the early 1920s was one of the richest men in the US. Mellon was appointed to head the U.S. Treasury by President Harding and continued under Coolidge and Hoover. His fortune and art collection were the basis for the National Gallery of Art. He died in 1937.