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guano
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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guano natural manure found on islands about Peru XVII; artificial (fish-)manure XIX. — Sp.
guano — Quechua
huanu dung.
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Guano's global footprint ; A historian will outline the effect that bird excrement had on world trade.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 4/23/2008; ; 658 words
; ...Portland Press Herald (Maine) 04-23-2008 Guano's global footprint ; A historian will...crux of a lecture on the 19th-century guano trade that Bob Warren will give at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Topsham Library. Guano - bird excrement - was responsible for...
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Guano happens (sometimes): the discovery during the mid-19th century that bird droppings could be used to reverse falling crop yields saw governments around the world join a frenzied rush to annex any guano-encrusted outcrop they could get their hands on. Jordan Goodman delves into the history of the excreta change the world.(GUANO)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...word came to the West slightly garbled as guano, and so it has remained. For centuries...its potential. So, for the time being, guano remained hidden in the ratified world of...uptake, was becoming a reality. Turning guano into gold In 1838, while guano languished...
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Study of Guano Communities of Big Brown Bat Colonies in Indiana and Neighboring Illinois Counties
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Abstract - Thirty-five samples of guano from 32 different maternity roosts of the...representing 28 species was collected from the guano samples. Of the 28 species, the following...Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Inhabitants of guano of Eptesicus fuscus were more similar to...
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Have you heard of guano? It's nature's own fertilizer
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/23/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but guano still would just stink. Guano, the dried, aged and composted droppings of bats...from the house to the garden. Fertilizing with guano is a far more aesthetic business today. A dry...
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THE ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY IN BAT GUANO FROM AN ABANDONED BUILDING IN PRESIDIO COUNTY, TEXAS.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: The Texas Journal of Science; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...work has been conducted to date on bat guano communities in buildings (Palmer &...differences in the arthropod diversity in bat guano from the two study sites. This current...examine the arthropod community in bat guano from west Texas. During a survey of the...
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Dropping Anchor to Claim Fortune in Government Guano
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/12/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Diego's Bill Warren discovered the 1856 Guano Islands Act, which allows any U.S...buried under at least 20 feet of petrified guano -- up to 500,000 tons of seabird doo...small fortune in natural fertilizer. "The guano is the icing on the cake," Warren said...
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America's Great Guano Grab
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/1996; 476 words
; The article referring to the 1856 Guano Islands Act {"Dropping Anchor to Claim Fortune in Government Guano," Federal Page, Nov. 12} leaves out...territories and commercial interests overseas. Guano, which is seafowl excrement used as a fertilizer...
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'Guano' delights with hilarious improvisations
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 12/3/1998; ; 697 words
; face=+Bold; Guano dell'Amore: A Modern Commedia:face...PLAYWRIGHT Tony Pisculli dedicates "Guano dell' Amore" to "anyone who has ever...A+ for his production. Pisculli's "Guano" consists of segments in which the plot...
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Petroleum Bioremediation in Seawater Using Guano as the Fertilizer
Magazine article from: Bioremediation Journal; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...potential of overcoming this problem with guano as the fertilizer. In the first set of...acid (the major nitrogen component of guano) binds to crude oil and is available for...system, it was demonstrated that commercial guano was an effective source of nitrogen and...
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Entrepreneur seeks rights to guano-rich island.(Nation)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/6/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...has been trying to stop him from mining guano, which is used as fertilizer, on Navassa...bird droppings under the little-known Guano Act of 1856, which provides that any uninhabited land containing guano and not under the control of another nation...
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guano
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
guano The accumulated droppings of birds, bats, or seals...sites where large colonies of these animals occur. Guano is rich in plant nutrients, especially calcium phosphate (bird guano is richer than bat or seal guano). Such deposits...
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Guano
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GUANO GUANO, nitrate-rich bat dung that is an excellent fertilizer, was first imported...manures) to boost production, began to focus attention on the value of guano as an almost magical fertilizer. Its advocates urged farmers to try it...
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Perkin, William Henry
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Historically, textile dyes were made from such natural sources as lichens, mollusks, bat guano, and Madder root. Some of these, such as guano, were unappealing on principle; others, such as the glandular mucus of snails, were difficult...
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uric acid
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...constitutes a large part of the body waste matter of birds (see guano ) and of reptiles. It collects sometimes in the human kidneys...also in normal human blood. The pure acid is obtained from guano and other similar substances. Upon decomposition urea is obtained...
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Howland Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1856, along with Jarvis Island and Baker Island . The three islands were worked for guano deposits by British and American companies during the 19th cent. The guano industry declined, and the islands were forgotten until they became a stop on the...
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