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More DetailsCahnite is a brittle white or colorless mineral that has perfect cleavage and is usually transparent. It usually forms tetragonal-shaped crystals and it has a hardness of 3 mohs. Cahnite was discovered in the year 1921. It was named Cahnite to honor Lazard Cahn, who was a mineral collector and dea ...
Read MoreRajab Sara is a village in Layl Rural District, in the Central District of Lahijan County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 110, in 31 families. ...
Read MorePinheiros is a district in the subprefecture of the same name in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to development, the land which this borough occupies was dominated by the dense forest which contained a Brazilian subtropical species of pine, Araucaria angustifolia , which is also the symbol ...
Read MoreThe facial nerve , also known as the seventh cranial nerve , cranial nerve VII , or simply CN VII , is a cranial nerve that emerges from the pons of the brainstem, controls the muscles of facial expression, and functions in the conveyance of taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the t ...
Read MoreA pyrethroid is an organic compound similar to the natural pyrethrins, which are produced by the flowers of pyrethrums. Pyrethroids are used as commercial and household insecticides. In household concentrations pyrethroids are generally harmless to humans. However, pyrethroids are toxic to insects ...
Read MoreCoughton is a village and civil parish between Studley to the north and Alcester, to the south, in the county of Warwickshire, England. The village lies south of Birmingham on the Birmingham–Alcester A435 road, which here follows the line of the Roman road, Icknield Street. The village is primar ...
Read MoreThe 2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 12 September 2004 to determine the winners of the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the 118th season of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic A ...
Read MoreThe Desert Ridge master-planned community comprises and is situated in the Northeast Valley of Phoenix, Arizona. As one of Arizona’s master-planned communities, Desert Ridge could contains over 50,000 residents. The community includes CityNorth,, Desert Ridge Marketplace, JW Marriott Desert Ridg ...
Read MoreUsingerella is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are at least two described species in Usingerella . Species. These two species belong to the genus Usingerella : Usingerella bakeri * ''Usingerella simplex'' ...
Read MoreMaya Banks is an American bestselling author of erotic romance, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, and Scottish historical romance novels. Career. Banks has written over fifty novels. Her story, No Place to Run , landed on The New York Times Best Seller list in December 2010, while many ...
Read MoreAfrocyclops gibsoni is a species of copepod in the family Cyclopidae. Three subspecies have been identified: * Afrocyclops gibsoni abbreviatus Kiefer, 1933 * Afrocyclops gibsoni doryphorus *''Afrocyclops gibsoni ondoensis'' ...
Read MoreRed Cloud was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1865 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories. He led the Lakota to victory over the United States during Red Cloud's War, establishing the Lakota as the only nati ...
Read MoreThe Parthian Stone is a relief located in the ancient site of Bisotun in Kermanshah Province, Iran, a UNESCO world heritage site. It shows a Parthian king with a bowl in his left hand. It also has an inscription, which identifies the king as Vologases. Six kings named Vologases are known to have r ...
Read MoreChrysaethe viriditincta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Giesbert in 1991. ...
Read MorePycnoderes is a genus of plant bugs in the family Miridae. There are more than 50 described species in Pycnoderes . Species. These 56 species belong to the genus Pycnoderes : Pycnoderes albicornis Reuter, 1905 Pycnoderes albipes Pycnoderes amapaensis Carvalho, 1985 Pycnoderes angustatus Re ...
Read MoreThe Women's team sprint at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was held on April 4. 16 nations of 2 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze. Results. Qualifying. The qualifying was hel ...
Read MoreHMS Standard was a 64-gun Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line, launched on 8 October 1782 at Deptford. She was the last of the 15 vessels, which were built to a design by John Williams. Early career. She was commissioned in September 1782 under Captain William Dickson, and recommissioned in ...
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Read MoreDemonax was an ancient Greek lawmaker of the style of Solon and Lycurgus, known for reforming the constitution of the Cyrenaeans. Life. Besides what is mentioned in the Histories by Herodotus, close to nothing is known about Demonax. He lived in the city of Mantineia, in Arcadia, in the sixth c ...
Read MoreRescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, removal from danger, liberation from restraint, or the urgent treatment of injuries after an incident. It may be facilitated by a range of tools and equipment necessary to deal with the specific circumstances. Rescues ...
Read MoreNorth Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota and Sioux peoples. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west. ...
Read More* Millennium Square, Bristol * Millennium Square, Leeds * Millennium Square, Sheffield ...
Read MoreDecoy oligodeoxynucleotide against STAT transcription factors decreases allergic inflammation in a rat asthma model is a scholarly work by Heiko von der Leyen, published in 2010 in ''Experimental Lung Research''. The main subjects of the publication include STAT1, STAT3, medicine, STAT6, stat, tra ...
Read MoreThe New Castle of Manzanares el Real , also known as Castle of los Mendoza , is a palace-fortress erected in the 15th century in the town of Manzanares el Real, next to the Santillana reservoir at the foot of Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range. Its construction began in 1475 on a Romanesque-Mudé ...
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