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Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat (The entire World in a Cloverleaf). Jerusalem is in the centre of the map surrounded by the three continents. The Bünting cloverleaf map, also known as The World in a Cloverleaf, (German title: "Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat/Welches ist der Stadt Hannover meines lieben Vaterlandes Wapen") is a historic mappa mundi drawn by the German Protestant pastor ...
Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode.The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf"); [7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also ...
Bünting's world map. Made to look like a clover leaf. The coat of arms of his hometown of Hannover Bünting's map of Europe Bünting's map of Africa. Heinrich Bünting (1545 – 30 December 1606) was a German Protestant pastor and theologian.
The ortolan bunting is 16–17 cm (6.3–6.7 in) in length and has a wing-span of 23–29 cm (9.1–11.4 in). [9] In appearance and habits it much resembles its relative the yellowhammer , but lacks the bright colouring of that species; the ortolan's head, for instance, is greenish-grey, instead of a bright yellow.
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[2] [5] Bunting decorations are used on streets and buildings [4] at special occasions [1] and political events. [2] The term bunting also refers to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship; [6] the officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ship's communications officer.
Cretzschmar's bunting breeds on sunny open hillsides with some bushes. It is mainly coastal or insular, and often breeds at lower levels than the closely related ortolan bunting where both occur. It lays four to six eggs in a ground nest. Its natural food consists of seeds and when feeding young, insects.