marsh
marsh Flat, wetland area, devoid of peat, saturated by moisture during one or more seasons. Typical vegetation includes grasses, sedges, reeds and rushes. Marshes are valuable
wetlands and maintain water tables in adjacent ecosystems. Unlike
Bogs, they have alkaline not acidic soil. See also
swamp
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Achilles' heel
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
Achilles' heel The ‘Achilles' heel’ is one's weak point, and is named for the only part of the body of the Greek hero Achilles which was vulnerable. The son of King Peleus of Thessaly and...
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Achilles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Achilles , in Greek mythology, foremost Greek...uncontrollable anger. Thetis, knowing that Achilles was fated to die at Troy, disguised him...Lycomedes' daughters, Deidamia, bore Achilles a son, Neoptolemus. According to Homer...
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Achilles' tendon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Achilles' tendon ( tendo calcaneus ) , sinew prominent...musculature contracts, the pull on the Achilles' tendon elevates the heel in the springy...severely adverse leverage ratio, the Achilles' tendon by necessity is the toughest...
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Achilles Painter
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Achilles Painter. Greek vase painter, active in Athens in the mid-5th century bc , named after a red-figure amphora decorated with a figure of Achilles (Vatican Mus.). He was a contemporary of Phidias and his paintings have...
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Richard Achilles Ballinger
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Richard Achilles Ballinger , 1858-1922, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1909-11), b. Boonesboro (now in Boone), Iowa. He was mayor...
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