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proglottis (proh-glot-iss) n. (pl. proglottids or proglottides) one of the segments of a tapeworm. Mature segments, situated at the posterior end of the worm, each consist mainly of a branched uterus packed with eggs.
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Nazca photos deepen mystery: Japanese team unveils aerial images of `new' ancient etchings on a Peru plateau, setting off another round of laments among scholars.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 5/23/2006; 700+ words
; Byline: Colin McMahon May 23--NAZCA, Peru -- The Nazca Lines have been a source of mystery and dispute since their...aerial photographs of figures etched in the ground of the Nazca region, adding a fresh dollop of wonder to the giant geometric...
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Nazca photos deepen mystery.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 5/24/2006; 700+ words
; Byline: Colin McMahon NAZCA, Peru _ The Nazca Lines have been a source of mystery and dispute since their...new aerial photographs of figures etched in the ground of the Nazca region, adding a fresh dollop of wonder to the giant geometric...
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Nazca Lines: art and mystery become one here.
Magazine article from: Dig; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...collection of colossal shapes, zigzags, and drawings. Located in the Nazca Valley, this "art" has come to be known as the Nazca Lines. Spread over 193 square miles, the Nazca Lines consist of geometric figures, spirals, and whorls, and even...
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Nazca Lines in peril
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 2/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; NAZCA, Peru - Standing inside the maze of mysterious...time gold diggers threaten Peru's fragile Nazca Lines. Grave robbers, tractor trailers...Urbano blew the whistle on the municipality of Nazca in October for briefly dumping trash inside...
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Squatters, graffiti threaten Peru's Nazca lines
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 10/21/2005; 700+ words
; ...barbed wire fence warns visitors to Peru's Nazca lines: "No entry. Area off-limits...chief pilot at Aerocondor, who flies over Nazca almost daily. The squatters who have been...else to go have invaded the edge of the Nazca no-go area, next to an older shanty...
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Peru's enigmatic Nazca Lines trampled by tourists, neglect
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/6/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Associated Press Writer AP Online 08-06-1998 NAZCA, Peru (AP) _ The American tourists drove...tourists are not the only threat to the Nazca Lines. Trucks rumble across them. At...recent death of the woman who defended the Nazca Lines for 50 years, archaeologists warn...
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The archaeology and pottery of Nazca, Peru: Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 expedition.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...COLLIER. The archaeology and pottery of Nazca, Peru: Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 expedition...Kroeber, excavated dozens of tombs in the Nazca region of south coastal Peru in an attempt...styles. 'The archaeology and pottery of Nazca, Peru' is the report on these excavations...
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ICHOR Corporation announces that it has restructured its ownership of Nazca Holdings Ltd.
PR Newswire; 7/29/1999; 481 words
; ...that it has restructured its ownership of Nazca Holdings Ltd. which it acquired in October...The restructuring became necessary when Nazca failed to complete the sale of certain...the agreements governing the purchase of Nazca. Under a new agreement entered into with...
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Peru's Nazca Lines vanishing over time Ancient desert etchings that are miles long threatened by tourism, years of neglect
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...tourists are not the only threat to the Nazca Lines. Trucks rumble across them. At...recent death of the woman who defended the Nazca Lines for 50 years, archaeologists warn...scorchingly hot on the eerily lifeless plains of Nazca in southern Peru. Italian archaeologist...
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 "Américas (Spanish Edition)")
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Corredores de vida en la arena: en la región de Nazca, en Perú, la union de diversas zonas protegidas podría contribuir a la conservación de especies biológicas raras de un legado cultural milenario.(TT: Corridores of life in the sand: in the desolate Nazca region of Peru, the convergence of several protected areas could contribute to the conservation of rare animal species of an ancient cultural legacy)
Magazine article from: Américas (Spanish Edition); 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; En la regin de Nazca, en Per, la unin de diversas zonas protegidas...altura que puede verse desde el pueblo de Nazca, en la costa del Per. Nuestro viaje al...del continente americano. La regin de Nazca tiene yacimientos arqueolgicos milenarios...
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The Nazca Lines
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
The Nazca Lines On the western side of the Andes mountain range are a modern town and a river named Nazca, as well as the mysterious remains of an ancient civilization also identified as the Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca). Remnants of...
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Nazca "Spaceport"
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Nazca "Spaceport" A mysterious area of desert markings on the plains of Nazca, Peru, about 250 miles southeast of Lima between the towns of Nazca and Palpa. This barren plateau covering 200 square miles has over 13,000 lines, 100 spirals...
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Nazca
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nazca or Nasca , ancient culture of the Nazca, Pisco, and Ica river valleys on the desert coast of S Peru. Flourishing during the first millennium AD, the Nazca culture seems to have developed out of the Paracas culture...
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Nazca Lines
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Nazca Lines a group of huge abstract designs, including representations of birds and animals, and straight lines on the coastal plain north of Nazca in southern Peru, clearly visible from the air but almost indecipherable...
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Nazca Plate
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Nazca Plate The lithospheric plate which is subducting under the South American...faults which separate it from the Pacific , Cocos , and Antarctic Plates . The Nazca Plate is thought to have decreased in size: the former, more extensive plate...
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