The term succubous is used to describe the way in which the leaves of a leafy liverwort are attached to the stem. If you were to look down from above (dorsal side) on a liverwort where the leaf attachment is succubous, the lower edge of each leaf would overlap the next lower leaf along […]
Peter Jackson’s version of The Return of the King differed from J. R. R. Tolkien’s in several important ways.
Omissions
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Movie
Théoden meets Merry and Pippin and calls them holbytlan, suggesting that the word hobbit is derived from Rohirric; Pippin comments that the King of Rohan is “A fine old fellow. Very polite.” Merry promises to tell him […]
Chionodoxa luciliae (also known as Glory of the snow) is a small (3-6″) flower which grows from a hardy bulb and produces one of the earliest flowers of spring. Originally from Turkey, it is hardy in zones 3-8, sun or part shade. Chiodoxa seeds itself and will spread in beds that will […]
Shalbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. Besides Shalbourne itself, the parish includes the widely spaced settlements of Bagshot to the north, and Rivar and Oxenwood to the south. Before 1895, Shalbourne was in Berkshire.
Location
Shalbourne is loacted at .
Local government
Shalbourne is a civil parish with an elected parish council. […]
The Pretoria Academic Hospital of Pretoria, South Africa, previously located at what is now Tshwane District Hospital, this is a state of the art hospital.
Features
State-of-the-art medical equipment to the total value of R442 million has been procured for the new hospital, including an MRI Scanner, two 64-Slice CT Scanners, totally digital radiology, Picture […]
Juanin Clay (November 26, 1949 - March 12, 1995) was an American actress who appeared in the 1983 movie WarGames. She was one of the contenders for the role of Wilma Deering in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series, but lost the role when Erin Gray returned to reprise her role […]
Fast offering is the term used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to denote money or usable commodities donated to the church in order to help the needy.
Members are encouraged to fast once a month on Fast Sunday and to give the money they save by not eating two meals to the […]
Krishna Rajendra Hospital (K R Hospital) and Cheluvamba Hospitals are both tertiary referral centers and teaching hospitals attached to the Mysore Medical College in Mysore, Karnataka, India.
K R Hospital has a total bed capacity of around 1330 beds which includes 335 beds in general medicine, 313 in general surgery and about 500 in other specialties […]
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 […]
In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, the edge space and vertex space of an undirected graph are vector spaces defined in terms of the edge and vertex sets, respectively. These vector spaces make it possible to use techniques of linear algebra in studying the graph.
Definition
Let <math>G:=(V,E)</math> be a finite undirected graph. The […]
Eric Faulkner (born Eric Francis Faulkner, 21 October 1953, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band, the Bay City Rollers.
As a youngster Faulkner learned to play the viola and played for a time in a youth orchestra. He is also adept at playing […]
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 […]
In geology, the Bagshot Beds are a series of sands and clays of shallow-water origin, some being fresh-water, some marine. They belong to the upper Eocene formation of the London and Hampshire basins, in England and derive their name from Bagshot Heath in Surrey. They are also well developed in Hampshire, Berkshire and the Isle […]
Twin Falls are waterfalls, 175 ft (53m) high, located on the Unknown River, a tributary of the Churchill River that drains the central Labrador basin and flows into Lake Melville and the Atlantic Ocean. Hydroelectric power development rights on the river were acquired by the British Newfoundland Corporation (Brinco) in the 1950s. In partnership with […]
Collingwood College of Technology
Believe, Succeed
Type: Grant Maintained
Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom
LEA: Surrey
Ofsted number:
School Category: Comprehensive
Headteacher: Mr Jerry Oddie
Staff: ~300
Students: ~2500
Age Range: 11-3180
Gender: transexual
Website: www.CollingwoodCollege.com
Collingwood College is a secondary school located in Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom for 11-18 year olds. Its […]
The Gault Clay is a formation of stiff blue clay deposited in a calm, fairly deep water marine environment during the Lower Cretaceous Period (Upper and Middle Albian). It is well exposed in the coastal cliffs at Copt Point in Folkestone, Kent, England, where it overlays the Lower Greensand formation,and is found in exposure on […]
Portland stone is limestone from the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively throughout the UK, notably in major public buildings in London such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. It is also exported […]
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbits and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of the realm. It is located in the northwest of the continent Middle-earth, in […]
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 […]
Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver, Canada’s downtown peninsula and the Brockton Peninsula of Stanley Park. It is also in recent years the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline, which was redeveloped as an upscale high-rise condominium district in the 1990s.
The harbour is […]
Williamsdale is village on the New South Wales - Australian Capital Territory border in Australia on the Monaro Highway. The postcode is 2620.
Geology
To the east of Williamsdale is the Williamsdale Volcanics. These are made up from blue-green crystal tuff. The crystals are sized from 0.3 mm to 1 mm and are embedded in […]
There are communes and places that have the name Holtensen:
A part of Barsinghausen in Lower Saxony, Germany
A part of Einbeck in Lower Saxony, Germany
A part of Göttingen northwest of downtown in Lower Saxony, Germany
A part of Suenteltal, itself part of Hameln in Lower Saxony, Germany
A part of Springe in Lower Saxony, Germany
A part of Wennigsen […]
Bel-Air is a place located in Seminole County, Florida. It should not be confused with Belleair, located in Pinellas County; Belair, Florida, located in Clay County; or Belair, located in Leon County. Bel-Air is located at .
Welcome to Clay County Your guide to Clay County, Iowa government offices, conservation area, recreation, golf courses, […]
David Lambkin is an English novelist. He was born in England but has spent many years in Africa. He divides his time between his running his own advertising agency and his pursuit of solitude in the wilder parts of east, central and southern Africa. A keen amateur naturalist, clay pigeon shot and fisherman, he is […]
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 […]