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  • trees were called Meliades while those of ash trees were Meliae. These nymphs ... live in sacred trees such as willows, oak, ash, and thorn trees.Cassandra ...
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  • volcano buried the city under many feet of ash and it was lost for 1,600 ... Thick layers of ash having covered the two towns, they were abandoned ...
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  • ===Ash content=== Ash content reduces the overall activity of activated carbon, and ...
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  • the greater Crater Lake area and deposited ash as far east as the northwest ... This ash has since developed a soil type called andisol. Soils in ...
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  • 2,000 km or 1,200 mi away). Heavy volcanic ash falls were observed as far ... sounds. On the morning of April 6, volcanic ash began to fall in East Java ...
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  • from the ingestion (directly or indirectly) of wood ash from CCA timber. (The lethal human dose is approximately 20 grams of ash). Scrap CCA construction ...
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  • out large quantities of scoria, volcanic ash and lava to form a large mountain ... such as lava flows, magma, scoria, volcanic ash, collapses and side eruptions ...
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  • consisting of volatile chemicals and ash. It is soft, brittle, lightweight ... material and usually produces far less ash than briquettes. ...
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  • *Le Fresne ('The Ash Tree') *Bisclavret ('The Werewolf') ... *Le Fresne (The Ash Tree) *Equitan *Guigemar *Fables *Ysopets ...
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  • *Shafi'i School (named after Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i) ... * Ash'ari, founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (873–935 ...
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  • latter denying it. Later thinkers such as Al-Ash'ari (874-936) searched ... In Shia Islam, Ash'ari's understanding of a higher balance ...
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  • 2,500 °F (1,400 °C)—it also produces fly ash and volatile salts. Wood ash ... coal and wood can introduce smoke, soot and ash into the kiln which can affect ...
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  • This may include being covered by volcanic ash, mud, sand, gravel, or other ... are clay and shale, although volcanic ash may sometimes preserve plant ...
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  • and usually form explosive fragmental ash and tephra deposits. However ... ejecting great clouds of volcanic ash and gas, and producing pyroclastic ...
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  • memory training, Cena de le Ceneri (“The Ash Wednesday Supper,” 1584 ... Giulio Einaudi, 1955; trans. S.L. Jaki, The Ash Wednesday Supper. La Cena ...
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  • events and as such are not lava flows, although tephra and ash deposits are partially preserved. They represent low-volume volatile melts and ...
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  • made of hickory but are now more commonly made of ash. Hickory is sometimes used for hardwood flooring due to its durability and character. ...
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  • A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep ...
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  • * Volcanic ash and lava. * Duricrust, formed by cementation of soils ... It may be freshly formed, such as from an ash fall or alluvium that has ...
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  • tends to form cinder cones of intermingled ash, tuff and lava, and may have ... agglomerate and ignimbrite. Fine volcanic ash is also erupted and forms ...
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  • Burning coal also generates large amounts of bottom ash and fly ash. These materials are used in a wide variety of applications. Harvesting, processing ...
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  • they react quickly, converting the dark lava and ash to white material within a few hours. == Geochemistry == Carbonatite, if composed entirely ...
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  • It is favored by potters who prefer natural ash glazes. This kiln usually ... show its unique firing method that produces ash glazes with gas burning and ...
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  • so that the precipitate is not contaminated with ash.) #After the precipitate is allowed to cool (preferably in a desiccator to keep it from absorbing ...
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  • substances are used to produce clean, white ash for purification ceremonies ... landed in Western Gujarat, they had the ash of such a fire with them. ...
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  • of coal and is high in moisture content and ash content. It is used almost ... Coke is a solid, carbonaceous residue derived from low-ash, low-sulfur ...
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  • work baskets and fish traps from brown ash–the Basket Tree–which ... hole, and burned down to large embers and ash (taking several hours). The ...
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  • down Shasta's east flank via Ash Creek. A separate hot lahar ... Mount Shasta can release volcanic ash, pyroclastic flows or dacite ...
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  • tree, a massive tree—sometimes considered a yew or ash tree—with extensive lore surrounding it. Examples include Thor's Oak, sacred groves, ...
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  • dung is burnt in fuel fires which creates sufficient ash to keep blood-sucking ticks and other parasites at bay. This ash is also used as a sort of toothpaste ...
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  • They use local materials such as brown ash, sweetgrass, and birch trees ... use traditional materials such as brown ash and sweetgrass to make functional ...
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  • distinct types of lava or volcanic deposits: scoria, ash or cinder; breccia and lava flows. Basalt in the tops of subaerial lava flows and cinder ...
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  • Natural zeolites form where volcanic rocks and ash layers react with alkaline groundwater. Zeolites also crystallized in post-depositional environments ...
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  • ! Ash | seed || < 14,200 |- ! Caffeine | seed || 9,100 - 76,000 |- ! Catechutannic-acid | seed || |- ! Choline | seed || |- ! D-catechin ...
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  • nearby areas and raining volcanic ash as far away as 200|mi|km ... was a May 22, 1915, episode that sent ash and steam in a ten-kilometer ...
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  • holes on one side. It is most frequently made of ash wood, plum tree, Pear|pear tree, cornel, or boxwood. The tune is played on the one pipe, which ...
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  • to ashes." It refers to the opaque, ash-gray material that is formed when the mineral is burnt, such as for industrial use. == Occurrence == ...
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  • Bentonite is an absorbent clay consisting mostly of the mineral montmorillonite. It is formed by the weathering of volcanic ash, most often in ...
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  • plums, cherries, the hawthorn tree, the mountain ash, and many others. The genus Rubus is a very complex one, containing 13 subgenera and over ...
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  • today. The original version included an ash body, a 25.5" maple neck ... a brighter, but well rounded sound), swamp ash (producing more pronounced ...
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  • grounds, wearing nothing but a garland of skulls and ash from the pyre, and unable to remove the skull of Brahma fastened to his hand. The skull hence ...
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  • and chunks of entrapped detritus (such as sand, ash, or mud). Occasionally agate fills a void left by decomposed vegetative material such as a tree ...
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  • no solvents are needed beyond the soda ash solution, though a ventilation ... cleaned up with warm water and either soda ash solution or ammonia. Etching ...
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  • volcanic rocks. They are also used to date volcanic ash layers within or overlying paleoanthropologic sites. The younger limit of the argon-argon method ...
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  • Megaera, and Tisiphone), the Meliae, a group of ash-tree nymphs, and according to some, the Telchines (inhabitants of the island of Rhodes). From the ...
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  • eruption spewed an immense volume of ash that covered all of what is ... ago that released 1,000 cubic kilometers of ash, rock and pyroclastic materials ...
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  • The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an ash-colored, thickset, arboreal, herbivorous marsupial averaging about 9 kg in weight. A rather stout ...
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  • (mostly near the western canyon area) deposited ash and lava over the area, which at times completely obstructed the river. These volcanic rocks are ...
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  • presence of the chief deciduous trees—oak, beech, ash, and sycamore maple. These do not reach exactly to the same elevation, nor are they often found ...
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  • Shiva observed the two heaps of ash that had been his brothers and revived them. Together, the three gods decide that the heap of ash that was ...
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  • plums, cherries, the hawthorn tree, the mountain ash, and many others. [[Image:Strawberry flower.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Strawberry flowers and ...
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  • sand, mud, and wind-transported volcanic ash, then formed the uranium-containing ... cottonwood, exotic tamarisk, single leaf ash and numerous other trees are ...
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  • allowing Catholics to consume muskrat on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent when the eating of meat, except for fish, is prohibited. Because ...
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  • * Ash, Russell. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Harry N. Abrams, 1995. ISBN 0810937840 * Fredeman, William. The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...
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  • rich in hardness salts are treated with soda-ash (Sodium carbonate) to precipitate ... water is acidic (lower than 7), lime or soda ash is added to raise the pH. ...
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  • miracles, materializations of vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects, ... materialized and distributed vibhuti (sacred ash) or called groups or individuals ...
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  • transfer. Oak, mulberry, chestnut, cherry, juniper, ash, and acacia are the most commonly used woods. Some older balsamic vinegar is added to the must ...
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  • bottles. The glass was made from sand, plant ash, and lime (calcium oxide). ... limestone (calcium carbonate), soda ash (sodium carbonate), dolomite ...
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  • cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride), soda ash (sodium carbonate), and soda ... Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), also known as washing soda or soda ash ...
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  • the first humans were made from an ash and an elm. In Chinese mythology ... ** Ash, Fraxinus species *Paulowniaceae (Paulownia family) ...
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  • *samara (elm, ash, maple key) *utricle Fruits in which part or all of the pericarp (fruit wall) is fleshy at maturity are simple fleshy fruits ...
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  • |relatedto=Passover, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Palm Sunday ... in preparation for Easter which begins on Ash Wednesday. ...
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  • :It has turned to ash and freed me :Of every concept and image my mind has ever known. The works of Hafez are inspired by the Sufi teachings of ...
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  • drawn upon the forehead with ashes. Ash used for this purpose is held ... Shiva-worshippers also wear this type of ash upon various other parts ...
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  • water, or "bucking," when using wood ash (lye) and water. * The hide is then scraped over a beam with a somewhat dull knife, and then ...
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  • Alaska border blanketed the southern Yukon with ash. That layer of ash can still be seen along the Klondike Highway. Yukon First Nations stories speak ...
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  • plums, cherries, the hawthorn tree, the mountain ash, and many others. Plants in the Rubus genus have prickles like roses and are often called ...
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  • *Garton Ash, Timothy 2002. The Polish Revolution: Solidarity. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300095686. *Kaminski, Marek M. 2004. Games Prisoners ...
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  • that steadily diminishes the body to fine ash. Cremation occurs in a "crematorium ... H. Mates (eds.). Encyclopedia of Cremation. Ash gate Publishing, 2005. ISBN ...
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  • rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during ... in this region, were formed from volcanic ash from an eruption of Mount ...
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  • quality black opal has been mined from volcanic ash deposits. This opal is known for its stability. There is also opal in South America. The Brazilian ...
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  • pitch substance, it burns cool without leaving an ash residue, which symbolizes consciousness. ==Toxicity== In larger quantities, it is poisonous ...
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  • of traditional baskets made of splint ash wood, birch bark, and split ... of traditional baskets made of splint ash wood, birch bark and split ...
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  • fiber, 6 percent soluble sugar, and 3 percent ash. They are also good sources of the minerals phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. Chickpea ...
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  • symbol of France. The day after Shrove Tuesday was Ash Wednesday. This was the first day of Lent when everyone began to abstain from eating certain ...
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  • with God's jabr, or divine commanding power. Al-Ash'ari (874-936) developed an "acquisition" or "dual-agency" form of compatibilism ...
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  • After a leak by Iranian radical Mehdi Hashemi, the Lebanese magazine ... nation from the White House Oval Office on Ash Wednesday, March 4, 1987; ...
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  • *Ash, Mitchell G. 1998. Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN ...
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  • of Drops of Blood, Queen Ortruda, and Smoke and Ash), contained many of the same characteristics, but presented a considerably more positive and ...
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  • Drops of Blood, Queen Ortruda, and Smoke and Ash), had many of the same characteristics ... **Smoke and Ash ===Short stories=== *Light and Shadows *Beauty ...
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  • in 1660 resulting in 10 inches (25 cm) of ash covering the city. The latest ... Reventador, the city was showered with ash for several days with greater ...
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  • which includes the lilac, jasmine, forsythia, and ash. Olive oil is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a ...
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  • dreadful third eye and reduced Kama to a pile of ash with a single fiery glance. The consequences of the calamity were more than merely personal, however ...
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  • physician, philosopher, scholar, teacher, Ash'ari theologian, and traveler; ... ophthalmologist, philosopher, and Ash'ari theologian; "a ...
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  • and the remains of containers which once held human ash. The curator of the museum, Avner Shalev, explained, "It is impossible to understand ...
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  • water is reduced to hydrogen gas, carbon dioxide, and ash. This hydrogen gas can be used to produce electrical power in combined-cycle gas turbines, while ...
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  • and food waste as well as significant amounts of wood ash. In good weather, many daily activities may also have taken place on the rooftops, which conceivably ...
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  • on November 11, at 11:11, and continues until Ash Wednesday. The so-called "Tolle Tage" (mad days) do not start until Weiberfastnacht ...
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  • a copper vessel with 3 gallons (13.6 liters) of pearl ash (potassium carbonate) solution contained within compressed air. The soda-acid extinguisher ...
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  • were zoned and sold for resort development. The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 halted the plans for development. The Nor'easter destroyed the few ...
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  • The poem ends: "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air." More recently, Harry Potter series author J.K. ...
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  • season of Epiphany extends from January 6 until Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent leading to Easter. Depending on the timing of Easter ...
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  • word turamali, meaning "stone attracting ash" (a reference to its pyroelectric properties). The meaning of the word "schorl" is ...
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  • in 1966, once buried 6.5 meters under volcanic ash. The main temple houses a linga and yoni, and the wall surround it displayed the images of Agastya ...
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  • shaheb), and therefore the city is also called Halab ash-Shahba. [[Image:Aleppo_citadel001.jpg|left|thumb|250px|A front view of the Aleppo Citadel]] ...
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  • Index of 6) has been identified by ash fallout in eastern Crete, ... Claims were made that the ash falling on the eastern half of Crete ...
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  • * Black Leg - This fungus causes ash gray spots with tiny dots on the leaves and stems. The stems become girdled, wither and die. * Wirestem ...
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  • modern Holocene geologic period, deposited erupted ash material as far away as Hokkaido, in Northern Japan, about 1,200 km away, and created the 4.5 ...
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  • terrain, which consisted of volcanic ash. This ash allowed for neither a secure footing nor the construction of defensive foxholes to protect ...
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  • seven hundred important sites. Those sites include ash mounds, ancient settlements, megalithic cemeteries, temples, and rock art. Those findings show ...
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