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Mary Anning Mary Anning
Mary Anning Mary Anning (1799-1847) made several important discoveries as an amateur fossil collector in the first half of the nineteenth century, including a nearly complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaur. Her findings were key to the development paleontology as a scientific discipline in Britain. ... Read more
hurdy-gurdy hurdy-gurdy
hurdy-gurdy musical instrument with three strings, caused to vibrate by a wooden wheel turned by a crank. Stopping was accomplished by keys that usually affected only one string that played the melody, the others acting as drones. Usually two players were required. First described in the 10th... Read more
Fire ecology Fire ecology
Fire Ecology Fire is one of the leading natural forces that has shaped nearly all land-based ecosystems for several thousand years. Fire is especially important in regulating the species composition of vegetation. Fire is particularly important in forests of cold northern regions, such as Canada... Read more
Brut y tywysogyon Brut y tywysogyon
Brut y tywysogyon (‘Chronicle of the Princes’) is the most valuable narrative source for the history of medieval Wales. Translated from a lost Latin original, three independent versions in Welsh survive from the 14th cent. as continuations of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum... Read more
Survival Survival
Survival The continued possession of personality after the change called death. It is a fundamental doctrine of Spiritualism that Spiritualist phenomena demonstrate survival, and the investigation of that phenomena has been a major aspect of psychical research. The emergence of parapsychology... Read more
William II (England) William II (England)
William II ( Rufus) (1056–1100) King of England (1087–1100). He was the second surviving son of William I (the Conqueror). His elder brother, Robert Curthose ( Robert II), was Duke of Normandy, and William had to crush revolts by Anglo-Norman lords in Robert's favour. He invaded... Read more
Evenki (Asian people) Evenki (Asian people)
Ewenki PRONUNCIATION:ee-WEHN-kee ALTERNATE NAMES:Kamonikan; Suolun; Tongusi; Yakute LOCATION:China; Mongolia POPULATION:30,000 LANGUAGE:Ewenki; Chinese RELIGION:Traditional beliefs; Lamaism; Eastern Orthodox Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION Until the... Read more
natural selection natural selection
natural selection (‘survival of the fittest’) A complex process in which the total environment determines which members of a species survive to reproduce and so pass on their genes to the next generation. This need not necessarily involve a struggle between organisms.... Read more
woods and forests woods and forests
woods and forests formed the original postglacial natural or ‘climax’ vegetation over most of Ireland, but have been progressively destroyed by 5,000 years of human land use, particularly during the last 300 years. Thus despite plantings of exotic hardwoods and conifers by landlords... Read more
Compote Compote
COMPOTE COMPOTE. The word "compote" comes from compositum, the past participle of the Latin verb componere used as a noun. The basic culinary meaning refers to any preparation assembled from a variety of ingredients, with the added inference that this was done in a predetermined or formulaic... Read more

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Magazine article from: Ecology Key words: Amazonian...experiments where the survival and growth of a...in the primary forest area north of Manaus...forest pools and peccary wallows in high...and clear water. Peccary wallows are also...Streams and ...
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Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) ...presents the light-hearted survival show, a little earlier than...instance, jangling a set of keys, then tossing them in the...lines. Meanwhile, jungle peccaries are pretty intimidating - these forest pigs have major tusks and hang...Ciccolella) collects ...
WWF Study Explores Need for More Panda Reserves in China's Qinling Mountains
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire ...corridors that link key panda habitats...biologically rich temperate forests in the world, but...conserve additional key habitat areas, such...low-mid elevation forests, the pandas in the...a good chance of survival," Loucks said...and ...

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