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Vistula
Vistula , Pol. Wisła, longest river and principal waterway of Poland, c.665 mi (1,070 km) long. It rises in the West Beskid range of the Carpathians, S Poland, and flows NE past Kraków, NW past Warsaw and Toruń, and N past Grudziądz and Tczew to the Gulf of Danzig on the... Read more |
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Fashion jewelry
Costume Jewelry Adornments for the body that are made of precious metals and stones are called jewelry, and jewelry is given the name costume jewelry when it is not made from precious materials. Costume jewelry provides an inexpensive way to add glamour and sparkle to fashion because it is usually... Read more |
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Mycenae
Mycenae , ancient city of Greece, in Argolis. In historical times it had little importance and was usually dependent on Argos. Its significance is in its remote past as a center of Mycenaean civilization . The famous Lion Gate, which led into the city, and the Treasury of Atreus, the largest of the... Read more |
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history
history in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form... Read more |
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pastry
pastry general name for baked articles of food made of paste or having paste as a necessary ingredient. The name is also used for the paste itself. The essential elements of paste are flour, liquid (usually milk or water, sometimes beaten egg), and shortening. The making of pastry was known to the... Read more |
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pemmican
pemmican , a travel food of the Native North American. Slices of lean venison or buffalo meat were sun dried, pounded to a paste, and packed with melted fat in rawhide bags. Dried currants or wild berries were sometimes included in the paste. Pacific coast Native Americans used a similar fish... Read more |
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Mystic
Mystic 1 River, c.10 mi (16 km) long, rising in SE Conn. and flowing S past Old Mystic and Mystic villages to the Long Island Sound. Mystic Seaport, a maritime museum, is at its mouth. 2 River, c.7 mi (11 km) long, rising in Mystic Lakes, E Mass., and flowing SE, past Medford, into Boston... Read more |
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Saar
Saar , Fr. Sarre, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising in the Vosges Mts., NE France, and flowing N past Sarrebourg and Sarreguemines. It enters Saarland, W Germany, and continues NW past Saarbrücken into the Moselle River near Trier. The river flows through a heavily industrialized region;... Read more |
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ice-age theories
...began to build up in Antarctica about 36 million years...increased ice growth in Antarctica, while the decrease...However, over the past 100 Ma there has been...The Tibetan uplift has had two main effects on atmospheric...bringing moist air from the ... |
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faunal provinces
...fossils, most interest in past faunal provinces concentrates...delineate tropical shelf, warm temperate, cold temperate...controlled by the presence of warm or cold currents or the...Lystrosaurus is found in Antarctica, India, and South Africa...northern ... |
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Fed: Antarctica once warm: scientists
...06-2000 Fed: Antarctica once warm: scientists SYDNEY...have spent the past two months aboard...conditionsover the past 70 million years...rainforests existed on Antarctica about 40 million...as they separated had dramatic ... |
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Warmer Antarctica sheds a huge mass of ice
...Survey said they had expected the 220...speed at which it had done so was...region.'' In the past half century...opposite side of Antarctica is getting thicker...glaciers by keeping warmer sea air at a distance...ago, already ... |
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ANDRILL RESEARCH INDICATES REMARKABLY WARM PERIOD IN ANTARCTICA 15.7 MILLION...
...evidence of a remarkably warm period in Antarctica...Warny said. "They had noticed that this thin layer had a unique consistency that had been characterized...time during which Antarctica became abruptly much ... |
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Algae and pollen grains provide evidence of remarkably warm period in...
...remarkably warm period in Antarctica that occurred...location, not Antarctica, because of...our countries had received a third...during which Antarctica became abruptly much warmer." These palynomorphs...s climatic ... |
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Just what's going on in Antarctica? Climate change / Warmer and cooler at the...
...was bedeviled by unseasonably warm temperatures and melting ice...8 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past 40 years. In Signy Island...floating Larsen ice shelf that had existed on the peninsula since...warming significantly over the past 50 years or so for which ... |
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Guess what? Antarctica's getting colder, not warmer: New data may affect...
...McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Decades of Antarctic...predictions because Antarctica's temperature record...studies of the west Antarctica Ice Sheet, conducted...information. In the past, scientists have had to place a relatively... |
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SOME VERY COOL WORK OPEN VERY FAR SOUTH JOB FAIR ATTENDEES WARM UP TO...
...000 job seekers had filed into the event...Services jobs in Antarctica last from six to 12 months. During the warmer months of October...January 2002. He had just spoken with...taken care of in Antarctica. ``It would be...others. As in the ... |
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Antarctica's desert valleys cool as Earth grows warmer
...Nearly all of the warmest years in the modern...have occurred in the past decade; 1998 was...According to the report, Antarctica is the only one of...don't understand Antarctica as well as we thought...Antarctica was warming ... |
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Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins.
...overall, West Antarctica is warming about...parts of East Antarctica had cooled slightly...and Lake Vostok. Antarctica's warming began...shrunken over the past 25 years. The loss...storms carrying warm, moist air and... |
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ANTARCTICA IS WARMING MORE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
...shown that much of Antarctica is warming more...thought, and for the past 50 years, it has been getting warmer at a rate comparable...warming in West Antarctica is greater than...subject to relatively warm, moist storms and...cooling in East ... |
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