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- Fur seal is the common name for eared seals comprising the genera Callorhinus (one extant species) and Arctocephalus (eight extant species), ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- Earless seal is the common name for any of the pinnipeds comprising the family Phocidae, characterized by the absence of a pinna (external part ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 16:04, 10 October 2020
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising ... Sea lions are a type of "eared seal"; that is, marine mammals ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- marine, but one species, the Baikal seal or nerpa (Phoca sibirica) ... 18 or 19 phocids (one, the Caribbean monk seal, may be extinct). See classification ...15 KB (2,167 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- for her pup. It should be noted that the common seal (harbor seal in the U ... **** Common Seal or Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina **** Spotted Seal or ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- Eared seal is the common name for any of the marine mammals comprising the pinniped family Otariidae, characterized by presence of a pinna (external ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect ... The most common characteristic of all these plants is an inflorescence ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- the Northern Hemisphere and is the only non-seal pinniped (Pinnipedia) and ... The walrus should not be confused with the elephant seal, another ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes ... Flatfish have various common names, including flounder, sole, plaice ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- A Seal, in an East Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps ... refers to the imprint created by the seal, as well as appearing in combination ...36 KB (5,590 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
- may also have evolved from the mysterious Seal of Solomon (five-pointed star ... both David's shield and Solomon's seal. Later, it is recorded that ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- Open plains and deserts became more common. Grasses expanded from the ... trees such as roses, beech, and pine were common. The legumes of the pea and ...6 KB (898 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- an early excavation of Megiddo, a bronze seal was discovered belonging to ... poor and helpless—even by priests—was common. Amos therefore declared: ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- (3,200 feet), and has characteristics common to both seas and lakes. It ... Mammals include fifteen species of Arctic seal, and Mediterranean seals. ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- This strict confidentiality is known as the Seal of the Confessional. Priests ... spiritual guide is protected by the same seal as would be any priest hearing ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- Burial grounds were located near the villages. The mot common form ... C.E.; the Na state of Wa received a golden seal from the Emperor of the Later ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- to gel to rubber to hard plastic. The most common siloxane is polydimethylsiloxane ... of silicones can be synthesized. The most common siloxane is linear polydimethylsiloxane ...15 KB (2,090 words) - 22:06, 29 January 2023
- of the House of Lords while the Great Seal was in commission. During ... of the following words about English common law (although Mansfield himself ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- serve as a haven for large colonies of the common and thick-billed murres, ... breeding ground for some 100,000 Northern Fur Seal. ===Animal life=== ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- the term oracle bone script is by far more common. Bones and shells used in ... (會意字 huìyìzì) were already common. The characters or oracle ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- from the Dutch Robbe Eiland, meaning "seal island." ... Dutch name, Robbe Eiland, meaning "seal island." At the time ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- [[Image:1638vellumlarge.jpg|thumb|240px|right|A vellum deed with ... computerized world is built. It is still common for engineers and architects ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- republic, his figure being featured in its official seal. ... than they ever knew am looked upon as a common cutthroat." ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Herring is the common name for any of the various fish comprising ... and other tiny crustaceans are the most common zooplankton eaten by herring. ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 22:35, 1 January 2023
- bell. Straight soprano saxophones are more common than curved ones, and very ... (Since 1970, the high F# key has become common among intermediate and professional ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- were developed by Crown Cork & Seal, now known as Crown Holdings ... Pull-tabs were a common form of litter. Some users dropped the aluminum ...13 KB (2,176 words) - 03:29, 1 October 2023
- resources, especially salmon and seal. However, during the twentieth ... The common ancestors of Eskimos and Aleuts (as well as various Paleo ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- of Shiva. Worship of the linga is most common in South India where Shaivism ... Archaeologists have also found an engraved seal depicting an ithyphallic male ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 23:15, 18 April 2020
- Weasel is the common name for various carnivorous mammals in the genus ... references to weasels, such as their common appearances in fables, refer ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- The term “hieroglyphics,” used as a noun, was once common, but ... [[Image:Troy VIIb hieroglyphic seal reverse.png|thumb|160px|Drawing ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- The stopper used to seal the hole in a barrel is called the bung. ... Earlier, another size of whiskey barrel was the most common size; ...10 KB (1,477 words) - 10:53, 20 September 2023
- a heraldist, a designer of the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey ... Day (July 4). On Memorial Day it is common to place small flags by war ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- in North America and Europe and are also common as pets and laboratory animals ... build feeding platforms in wetlands. It is common to find muskrats living in ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is the common name for a species of burrowing ... pigs, being placed in its own order. The common term antbear generally is ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
- He mass produced cameos depicting the seal for the Society for the Abolition ... with overlaid white decoration, still common throughout the world. ...13 KB (1,954 words) - 19:59, 7 September 2022
- record inventory or census information are common. The text on these documents ... at Knossos unearthed 150 Linear A seal impressions and three disks ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... eagle (which is comparable in size to a common buzzard or red-tailed hawk ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- Quite often a ritual meal was required to seal the covenant, involving the ... Abraham is the common forefather of the Muslims as well as Jews and ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- What bullets have in common is that they are single projectiles—as ... primary problems. They must first form a seal with the gun's bore. ...22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- | seal = CIA.svg | seal_width = 125 px | seal_caption ... and CIA Interventions Since World War II. Common Courage Press, 2003. ISBN ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- /; meaning "beloved ornament of the palace") is the common ... so far that he even gave her his imperial seal, the Muhr Uzah. Mumtaz was ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic ... body is sparsely covered in short hair, a common feature among sirenians, ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros ... only be obtained through the consumption of seal, whale, and walrus. The livers ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- a number of thinkers who emphasize common themes, but whose ultimate ... Waking Life, Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, are ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking, where it ... paintings. Engravings continued to be common in newspapers and many books ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- Leech is the common name for any of the annelids (segmented worms ... are especially prominent in the common North American worm-leech ...20 KB (3,061 words) - 06:24, 6 March 2023
- | Seal = Hawaii-StateSeal.svg | Seallink = Seal | Coat of Arms = Coat ... you," are Hawaiian words in common use. Some Hawaiian words ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- were constructed from animal skins (such as seal) stitched together and stretched ... , made with seal skins and wood. It was originally paddled with single ...36 KB (5,715 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- listed below, with a brief explanation and common applications of each. Most ... and Canada, only a licensed engineer may seal engineering work for public ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- 12,000 known species of caddisflies. Other common names include sedge-flies ... their case to some underwater object, seal the front and back apertures ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 16:48, 2 May 2023
- cannot shatter or scratch, and a waterproof seal that molds around the diver ... Less common, but becoming increasingly available, are closed and semi ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- to the word tarmac, which is now used in common parlance to refer to road ... a layer of crushed rock or gravel. Slurry Seal involves the creation of a ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- called braid bars. Braided streams are common wherever a drastic reduction ... of deposition and rapid flow work to seal the meander, cutting it off ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:44, 25 January 2023
- this day the wide open treeless spaces are common in most of the state where ... Meadowlark, the state bird, is very common and its melodic song makes ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- Anatolia, suggest that such practices were common in the worship as far back ... the "lesser" and "greater seal" (i.e. partial and complete ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 22:47, 29 January 2023
- economically, having both the industry common to the North, making such ... supported the protests and dismay common to all 13 colonies after ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Limpet is the common name for any of the marine gastropod mollusks ... term limpet also is broadly applied as a common name for many marine and ...20 KB (2,800 words) - 08:45, 8 March 2023
- is an official list of 2,928 characters in common use in Japan; it consists ... Early instances of kanji include a gold seal discovered in 1748, which ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- Bridgeman, who became keeper of the great seal, and Samuel Pepys. ... to be understood by them. There is, thus, common ground for the two opposing ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- colored inclusions of pyrite. These inclusions are common in lapis and are an important help in identifying the stone. The carving is 8 centimeters ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- one Buddha hanging from peoples necks is a common sight even today; in Bolivia ... The Seal of Solomon is probably the best known of Jewish amulets. ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- The common peoples' language, the Hurrian language is neither ... treaties, or only in reaction to a common threat, remains open to debate ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Halibut is the common name for any flatfish (order Pleuronectiformes) belonging to the genus Hippoglossus from the family of right-eye flounders ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- Pinnipeds: The Kuril islands are home to two species of eared seal ... . A distinct Kuril island subspecies of the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Manatee is the common name for large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine ... species. Deaths by boat strikes, however, are still common. ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- and azalea are flowering shrubs common in the park, especially in ... of extinction in the region, are now a common site in park areas south ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- chapters. Today, Mao's version is the most common. ... of Changsha, found the Imperial Jade Seal at the bottom of a well in ...29 KB (4,917 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- sense of co-responsibility and of a common, Christian identity that ... was understood as a necessary, sacramental seal of succession. If the Pope ...12 KB (1,984 words) - 20:06, 25 October 2022
- Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Privy Seal, or Secretary of State among ... 1st Earl of Chatham (who was Lord Privy Seal) and, for most of his three ...42 KB (6,582 words) - 21:49, 26 April 2023
- Alligators are common in Louisiana's extensive swamps, bogs, ... Roman law—as opposed to English common law. Common law is "judge ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- Persian gulf seals, a circular button seal, provides evidence of trade ... (2000-1900 B.C.E.), and inhabited by common tradesmen and newly built ...37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
- and in orchestras or concerts. Its most common form is triangular in shape ... By the start of the Common Era, "robust, vertical, angular harps ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Bar codes (below), universal product codes, and RFID labels are common ... are also used to aid in handling. Some common ones are shown below while ...16 KB (2,163 words) - 06:12, 18 November 2022
- difficulty in forming a reliable gas-tight seal prevented widespread adoption. ... in loading a firearm. The problem of proper seal creation had been solved with ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- heirlooms, and often given as gifts to seal important agreements. With ... In New Zealand English, the common term for this jade is "greenstone ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- its first degrees in 1771, obtaining a seal to affix on them in 1773. ... are not proctored, take-home exams are common, and students are entrusted ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- Pharaoh’s daughter as his primary wife to seal the bargain. He proceeds with ... in the world that was not accessible to common human beings. ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- or Revelation) of John," and the most common title found on later manuscripts ... there. Those in favor of a single common author of the Johannine literature ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- Sweden, while Denmark retained all of her common overseas possessions: the ... The culture of Greenland has much in common with Inuit tradition, ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- tropical marine waters worldwide, being common in the Pacific Ocean and ... genera (all in the family Scombridae) have common names containing "tuna ...16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- changes in weather patterns. Famine was common, as evidenced by Harris lines ... on subsistence sea harvests including seal, walrus, fish and bowhead ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- of a large southern landmass were common in maps such as the early ... The Antarctic fur seal was very heavily hunted in the eighteenth and ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- the term usually used instead of fishing). Among common mollusks that are the target of a fishery are clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops, and such ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- has borrowed, without hesitation, from the common stock of significant symbols ... Common in most Christian religious symbolism are emblems, figures ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- 05/no-02/miller/index.shtml History], Common Place History. Retrieved ... and, after 1956, to enforce a convention on seal protection agreed upon by ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- assumed rather than constant. Wings, while common in Victorian artwork of fairies ... described in fairy tales as shape-shifting seal people, were attributed to ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- debated. This tendency became especially common among Christian commentators ... :Place me like a seal over your heart, ::like a seal on your arm; ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- A seal discovered during excavation of the Mohenjo-daro archaeological ... seal shows a seated figure, possibly ithyphallic, surrounded by animals ...43 KB (6,555 words) - 20:31, 21 April 2021
- of Canterbury, implemented the Book of Common Prayer during Edward’s ... English-language services of the Book of Common Prayer that it was destined ...24 KB (3,796 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- law today. Magna Carta influenced many common law documents, such as the ... a variety of documents referred to under a common name). Nonetheless, rights ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- rest of the Deep South, thunderstorms are common, especially in the southern ... and animal life, and pleasure fishing is a common past-time. The state's ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- Cockroach is the common name for any insect in the order (or suborder ... with tropical and subtropical the most common climates and with the greatest ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- of the order, nevertheless, because of the common weal, the hatred borne them ... freedom and preached equality and common ownership of property. They ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- . Winters are brisk and snowfall is common. Spring ushers in the beginning ... Retrieved November 19, 2008. Tornadoes are common during the spring and summer ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- contained the city archives. A single seal of a Luwian scribe has been ... death of individual heroes that assumes common knowledge of the Trojan War ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- to hunt seals among the ice. Caribou are common, as are some 200 species ... ground for the Hudson Bay subspecies of the Common Eider. ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- are important as they have created a common culture in the United States completely unknown before the twentieth century. Sarnoff's obituary ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- late July to early November. Storms are common in the North Atlantic during ... Icebergs are common in the Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the northwestern ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- by caring, sharing and a concern for the common good. Their early collaboration ... six months. The first structure, a "common house" of wattle and ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- referred to as Wisconsinites, although a common nickname (sometimes used ... herd to be about 1.4-1.5 million. It is common for over 600,000 deer hunting ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
