Ashland is the name of the estate of the 19th century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, located in Lexington, Kentucky. It is a registered National Historic Landmark.
The house was built in 1806, and Clay lived there full time with his family from 1809 until his death in 1852. The adjoining farm at its largest was 600 […]
Meringandan is a small town 20 km north of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. It contains 2 parks; it is also the gateway to Cooby Dam. Meringandan has 1 small school and is near Highfields. It has an annual rodeo where many people gather. The name Meringandan is derived from 2 aboriginal words […]
Southfleet is a small compact village five miles SW of Gravesend in Kent; although it is a civil parish within Dartford Borough. The village is grouped around a crossroads and many of its buildings, including the Ship Inn, are extremely old. The parish church of St Nicholas has 14th century origins, although pre-Roman Christian remains […]
A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making.
It is also a word used in the popular internet game word whomp.
In architecture, a plinth is the platform or base upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests.<ref>
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Hoysala temple on plinth
Plinth of the Sign of the Kiwi, Dyers Pass, Port Hills, Christchurch […]
Westron, or the Common Speech, is an artificial language developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. In Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, Westron is the closest thing to a universal language, at least at the time during which The Lord of the Rings is set. “Westron” is an English word, derived from West, not a word from the […]
Spring may refer to:
In common use:
Spring (season), a season of the year
Spring (device), a mechanical part
Spring (hydrosphere), a natural source of water
In film and television:
The Spring, a 1989 film about the Fountain of Youth
“Spring” (Pee-wee’s Playhouse), an episode of the American children’s show Pee-wee’s Playhouse
Spring (television soap), a Flemish-Belgian […]
Sand is the administrative centre of Nord-Odal municipality, Norway. It is located at between two lakes; Råsen and the northwestern arm of Storsjøen. Its population (SSB 2005) is 946.
Sand has the postal code 2120 Sagstua. Sagstua is really a part of Sand, but the name is used to disambiguate from other places in Norway […]
In geology, the Purbeckian refers to the highest and youngest member of the Jurassic system of rocks, also known as the Purbeck Beds. Either name is derived from the district known as the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset where the strata are splendidly exposed in the cliffs west of Swanage. The rocks include clays, shales […]
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main feature of the Monument is a valley of the Niobrara River.
The area largely consists of grass-covered plains. Plants on the site include prairie sandreed, blue grama, little bluestem and needle and thread grass, and the wildflowers lupine, spiderwort, western wallflower […]
Renziehausen Park Rose Garden and Arboretum (258 acres) is a city park with rose garden and arboretum located on Eden Park Boulevard off Walnut Street, in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. It is open to the public daily without charge.
The rose garden contains some 1,200 rose bushes in 28 beds, plus an additional 3 […]
Trundle beds (or truckle beds) are usually considered a pair of beds, one slightly smaller than a twin bed that is on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. Trundle beds allow for two separate beds to be available when necessary, but do not require […]
Netto Koshien (熱闘甲子園) is a television program in Japan providing a digest of the games of the summer National High School Baseball Championship, produced through a collaboration of TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and is shown as part of the ANN program.
Although this program was broadcast from the convention of 1981 of start […]
An adjustable bed (also called a Semi-Fowler bed) can be adjusted to a number of different positions. For individuals with certain types of back problems, sleeping on an adjustable bed that is at a slight incline (”semi-Fowler position“, e.g. 30 to 45 degrees) may be comfortable, with the upper body positioned higher up than the […]
A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit which contains bones of whatever kind. Inevitably, such deposits are sedimentary in nature. Not a formal term, it tends to be used more to describe especially dense collections. It is also applied to brecciated and stalagmitic deposits on the floor of caves, which frequently contain osseous […]
Gustaf Lindström (27 August 1829 - 16 May 1901) was a Swedish paleontologist.
He was born in Visby on Gotland. In 1848 he entered Uppsala University, and in 1854 he took his doctor’s degree. Having attended a course of lectures in Stockholm by Sven Lovén, he became interested in the zoology of the Baltic, and published […]
The Great Beds Light sits in the Raritan Bay in South Amboy, New Jersey. Over the years the lighthouse has become the symbol for the city of South Amboy.
History
Built in 1880, the 60 foot (18 m) tall Great Beds Lighthouse sits atop a caisson. It is constructed of white steel plates. […]
The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Australia’s Northern Territory, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds on Alcoota Station and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station. It is located about 550km south-southeast of Darwin, on Camfield Station.
The Bullock Creek Fossil Site is part of the […]
Blacktown Hospital is an acute care hospital in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Together with Mount Druitt Hospital and associated community health centres, it forms Blacktown-Mt Druitt Health, which is a unit within the Sydney West Area Health Service.
Blacktown hospital has approximately 400 beds, and major clinical services cover medicine, surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology. […]
Shame-Based Man, released on April 11, 1995 (see 1995 in music), was the first album by the comedian Bruce McCulloch. It has 20 tracks of McCulloch’s comedic music.
Track listing
“Grade 8″ (Bruce McCulloch) – 2:59
“Stalking” (McCulloch) – 2:11
“Al Miller” (McCulloch) – 2:30
“Heroin Pig” (McCulloch) – 0:41
“40 Housewives” […]
Fire clay is a specific kind of clay used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick. The fire attribution is given for its refractory characteristics. There are two types of fire clay: flint clay and plastic fire clay.
It is resistant to high temperatures, has a fusion point higher than 1,600°C, and therefore it is […]
Procol’s Ninth, by Procol Harum, was released in 1975.
Track listing
Pandora’s Box
Fool’s Gold
Taking The Time
The Unquiet Zone
The Final Thrust
I Keep Forgetting
Without a Doubt
The Piper’s Tune
Typewriter Torment
Eight Days a Week
Credits
Chris Copping - organ
Alan Cartwright - bass guitar
B.J. Wilson - drums
Mick Grabham - guitar
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Eriosyce is a genus of cacti native to Chile.
Synonymy
The following genera have been brought into synonymy with Eriosyce:
Ceratistes Labour. (nom. inval.)
Chileniopsis Backeb.
Chileocactus Fric (nom. inval.)
Chileorebutia Fric (nom. inval.)
Chiliorebutia Fric (orth. var.)
Delaetia Backeb.
Dracocactus Y.Itô (nom. inval.)
Euporteria Kreuz. & Buining
Hildmannia Kreuz. & Buining
Horridocactus Backeb.
Islaya Backeb.
Neochilenia Backeb. ex Dölz
Neoporteria Britton & Rose
Neoporteria Backeb.
Neotanahashia Y.Itô
Nichelia Bullock (nom. inval.)
Pyrrhocactus (A.Berger) […]
An urchin barren is an area of the subtidal where the population growth of sea urchins has gone unchecked, causing destructive grazing of kelp beds or kelp forests. Sea urchins eat kelp holdfasts but also climb on kelp to graze on the stipes and fronds.
Waterbed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Waterbeds primarily consist of […]
HMS Saltash in 1940. She has been re-armed with the 12 pounder forwards.
Hunt-class minesweeper
General Characteristics
Displacement:
710 tons
Length:
231 feet
Beam:
28 feet
Draught:
8 feet
Propulsion:
Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp
Range:
140 tons coal
Speed:
max 16 knots
Complement:
73 men
Armament:
1x QF 4 inch forwardQF 12 […]
St. Peter sandstone is an Ordovician formation in the Chazyan stage of the Champlainian series. This sandstone originated as a sheet of sand in clear, shallow water near the shore of a Paleozoic sea and consists of fine-to-medium-size, well-rounded quartz grains with frosted surfaces. The extent of the formation spans north-south from Minnesota […]