The Cains River is a Canadian river in New Brunswick.
The Cains River has its origins in the “Bantalor Game Refuge” in the eastern part of York County, near the boundary with Sunbury County. Generally flowing northeast through heavy forests, the Cains River joins the Southwest Miramichi River at Howard, NB. The Southwest Miramichi River then […]
Stronghold is an unincorporated community in Modoc County, California near the Oregon border.
Its coordinates are at 4,036 feet elevation. Probably named for Captain Jack’s Stronghold at the nearby Lava Beds National Monument.
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Fossil Beds National Monument is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of the earth’s prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different landscape in Colorado of long ago. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions […]
Toyota Motor Manufacturing de Baja California (TMMBC) is an automobile manufacturing plant in Baja California, Mexico. The plant was established in 2002.
TMMBC builds Tacoma pickup trucks and Tacoma truck beds. The plant has an annual capacity of 180,000 truck beds and 30,000 Tacoma pickup trucks. The truck beds are used in production both at […]
The Yoredale Series, in geology, is a local phase of the lower Carboniferous rocks of the north of England. The name was introduced by J. Phillips on account of the typical development of the phase in Yoredale (Wensleydale), Yorkshire.
Properties and Condition
In the Yorkshire dales the Carboniferous rocks assume an aspect very different from that which […]
Barton Beds is the name given to a series of fourteen softish grey and brown clays, with layers of sand, of Upper Eocene age, which are found in the Hampshire Tertiary basin, where they are particularly well exposed in the cliffs of Barton, Hordwell, and in the Isle of Wight. The area was covered with […]
Purified water can come from any source, including spring water, well water, seawater, or municipal water. This source water is then processed by reverse osmosis or deionization to produce a water that is indistinguishable from distilled water from any other source. Purified water contains no dissolved solids.
Purified water may also be unhealthy because minerals and […]
A rock or fault is younger than any rock (or fault) through which it cuts. This principle was developed by James Hutton.
Example
In a series of horizontal sedimentary beds, there is an igneous dyke which cuts vertically through them.
The dyke is younger than the sediment beds, as the beds would have had to be around before […]
Gălăciuc (pronounced Gah-lah-chook) is a youth camp in Vrancea county, Romania, 3 km west from Tulnici village, 10 km east of Lepşa resort and 75 km west of Focşani at an altitude of 710 meters, near National Road 2D, in some of the most beautiful and picturesque surroundings in the Carpathians. Built in the 1970’s […]
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.
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See also
Set-off (architecture)
Socle (architecture)
Dark Water is the title of several things:
There have been several films entitled Dark Water:
Dark Water a 2001 film about a serial-killer stalking recently prison-released pedophiles, directed by Ron Chartier.
Two films based on the story, “Floating Water” (浮遊する水; Fuyū Suru Mizu) by Koji Suzuki, which appeared as part of Suzuki’s anthology Dark […]
North Vista Hospital for-profit hospital is owned and operated by IASIS Healthcare and is the only hospital in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The hospital provides 185 beds.
History
The hospital opened in 1959 as Lake Mead Hospital Medical Center with 33 beds.
Purchased in 2003 by IASIS Healthcare.
Services
Provides the only geriatric psychiatry beds in Las Vegas.
Accreditation
Joint Commission on […]
Water therapy is the use of water to improve health.
According to alternative medicine advocates, one form of water therapy is the consuming of a gutful of water upon waking in order to “cleanse the bowel”. A litre to a litre and half is the common amount ingested. This water therapy, also known as Indian or […]
Water Music may refer to
Water Music (Handel), orchestral suites by George Frideric Handel
Water Music (novel), a novel by T.C. Boyle
Water Music (Kershaw), a novel by Melanie Kershaw
Water Music (Ryerson), a photography book by Marjorie Ryerson
Water Music Records, a record label
Ouvertüre Wassermusik (Hamburger Ebb und Fluth) TWV 55:C3, an orchestral suite by Georg Philipp Telemann
The National Maritime Museum in Galle, Sri Lanka is located within the Galle fort. This museum specializes in the fauna and flora of the sea. Artifacts consist of underwater artifacts and scaled-down models of whales and fish.
Other exhibits include life-size dioramas of the traditional methods of fishing and the “walk into the sea” diorama, showing […]
The San Leandro Oyster Beds in San Leandro, California, were the origin of the oyster industry in the U.S. state of California. During the 1890s the oyster industry thrived until it became the single most important fishery in the state. Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around Cape […]
Mesotrophic lakes are lakes with an intermediate level of productivity, greater than oligotrophic lakes, but less than eutrophic lakes. These lakes are commonly clear water lakes and ponds with beds of submerged aquatic plants and medium levels of nutrients.
The term mesotrophic is also applied to terrestrial habitats. Mesotrophic soils have moderate nutrient levels.
Water therapy is the use of water to improve health.
According to alternative medicine advocates, one form of water therapy is the consuming of a gutful of water upon waking in order to “cleanse the bowel”. A litre to a litre and half is the common amount ingested. This water therapy, also known as Indian or […]
Kokopu are a group of three fish found in the rivers, lakes and swamps of New Zealand and is unique to that land. Kokopu are galaxiids and like others of that family it lacks scales and has a thick, leathery skin covered with mucus. Kokopu like streams with plenty of cover (e.g. logs and overhanging […]
Speeton Beds, in English geology, a series of clays well exposed at Speeton, near Filey on the Yorkshire coast.
Peculiar interest attaches to these beds for they are the principal representatives in Britain of the marine phase of the Lower Cretaceous system. The Speeton Clays pass downwards without break into the underlying Kimeridgian; they are capped […]
Double distilled water (abbreviated “ddH2O” or “Bidest. water”) is prepared by double distillation of water. It is used, among other things, when single distillation does not lead to sufficiently pure water for some applications in biochemistry.
Bidest water is used when pure, sterile water is essential. Whereas distilled water is enough for most chemical reactions, […]
Captain Jack’s Stronghold, named for Modoc chief Captain Jack, is a part of Lava Beds National Monument.
The stronghold can be accessed from the Perez turnoff, off Highway 139 between Tule Lake and Canby, California.
During the Modoc War, Captain Jack’s band settled here following the Battle of Lost River, and held off a United States Army […]
The Varner Unit is a high-security state prison in Arkansas, United States. It is located near the small town of Grady in Lincoln County.
The Varner Unit was opened in 1987 with 300 beds, and its capacity was soon increased to 700 beds. Further construction has brought the total capacity to over 1600 prisoners, a […]
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 […]
Epsomite is a hydrous magnesium sulfate mineral with formula MgSO4·7H2O or simply MgSO4. Epsomite forms as encrustations or efflorescences on limestone cavern walls and mine timbers and walls, as a volcanic fumaroles, and as rare beds in evaporite layers. It was first systematically described in 1806 for an occurrence near Epsom, Surrey, England, for which […]