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Percé Rock

Percé Rock , E Que., Canada, just off the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula. It is a massive rock (1,420 ft/433 m long; c.300 ft/90 m wide; and 290 ft/88 m at the highest point), rising sheer from the Atlantic. It takes its name from an arch 50 ft (15 m) high near its seaward end. With nearby Bonaventure Island, it is a well-known tourist attraction.

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African Sanctus

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

African Sanctus. Comp. by David Fanshawe for 2 sop., pf., org., ch., and perc. incl. rock-kit drummer, cymbals, congas, timp., bass and ten. drums, tam-tam, tom-tom, amplified lead and rhythmic guitars, and tape recordings made in Africa. F.p. London 1972. Rev. version f.p. Toronto, Jan. 1978, f.p. in England BBC TV film. F. concert p. Worcester 1978.

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parsley

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parsley The earliest antecedents of the present form, percely, pers(e)le, -ly (XIV), appear to repr. a blend of (i) OE. petersilie, corr. to MDu. petersilie (mod. -selie), OHG. petersilia (G. -silie) — Rom. *petrosilium, for L. petroselīnum — Gr. petrosélīnon, f. pétrā rock, pétros stone + sélīnon parsley, with (ii) ME. percil, per(e)sil — OF. peresil (mod. persil), of the same L. — Gr. orig.

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