Characters in Romeo and Juliet he is given a direct connection to his brother. Although he has a very small role in Shakespeare's play, earlier versions of the story gave him no role or mention at all. In fact, they gave even Mercutio a very minor role. Shakespeare was the first English dramatist to use the name "Valentine" on stage, in his earlier plays, "Titus Andronicus" and "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". In "Titus", Valentine plays a minor role, but in "Two Gentlemen", he is one of the title characters. Incidentally, the Valentine of "Two Gentlemen" borrows heavily from Arthur Brooke's Romeus in "The Tragical
Amoeba proteus amoeboid protozoa various names: Carl Linnaeus termed Rösel's organism "Chaos protheus" in 1758. Otto Friedrich Müller referred to it as "Proteus diffluens" in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name "Amoeba proteus" to describe Rösel's "Proteus", "Proteus diffluens", and another described amoeba "Amoeba princeps". Amoeba proteus Amoeba proteus (core of Amoeba), alternatively Chaos diffluens, is an amoeba closely related to the giant amoebae and a species commonly bought at science supply stores. This small protozoan uses tentacular protuberances called pseudopodia to move and phagocytose smaller unicellular organisms,(which may be greater in size than of amoeba), which are enveloped