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  2. Golden Horns of Gallehus - Wikipedia

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    The second horn bore an Elder Futhark inscription in Proto-Norse which is of great value for Germanic linguistics. Both horns were once the same length, [dubious – discuss] but a segment of the narrow end of the second (shorter) horn, which was missing when it was found (1734), had already been plowed up and recovered prior to 1639. It also ...

  3. Talk:Golden Horns of Gallehus - Wikipedia

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    The six plain segments and the plain rim are additions made by Christian IV (hardly Christian V, b. 1646) just like the screw-on pommel, as he "refurbished it into a drinking-horn" in 1639 or 1640 before Wormius ever set eyes on it in 1640 or 1641 (Wormius explicitly states that he had never seen the horn in its original state).

  4. Gjallarhorn - Wikipedia

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    Simek notes that the horn is among the most ancient of Germanic musical instruments, along with lurs, and, citing archaeological finds (such as the 5th century Golden Horns of Gallehus from Denmark), comments that there appears to have been sacral horns kept purely for religious purposes among the Germanic people; understood as earthly versions ...

  5. The Incredible Reason Sloths Grow Algae on Their Fur - AOL

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    What we do know is, the moths benefit when the sloths leave their trees to poop. The more moths that make the sloth fur their home, the more the algae can grow, and the greener the sloth fur becomes.

  6. Hornbeam - Wikipedia

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    The common English name hornbeam derives from the hardness of the woods (likened to horn) and the Old English beam, "tree" (cognate with Dutch Boom and German Baum).. The American hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood, the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American beech Fagus grandifolia, the other two from the hardness of the wood and ...

  7. Barringtonia asiatica - Wikipedia

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    It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 7–25 m tall. The leaves are narrow obovate, 20–40 cm in length and 10–20 cm in width. Fruit produced as mentioned earlier, is otherwise aptly known as the Box Fruit, due to distinct square like diagonals jutting out from the cross section of the fruit, given its semi spherical shape form from stem altering to a subpyramidal shape at its base.

  8. List of Roblox games - Wikipedia

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    Blox Fruits (formerly known as Blox Piece), is an action fighting game created by Gamer Robot that is inspired by the manga and anime One Piece. [165] In the game, players choose to be a master swordsman, a powerful fruit user, a martial arts attacker or a gun user as they sail across the seas alone or in a team in search of various worlds and ...

  9. Treemapping - Wikipedia

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    The original tree is converted to a binary tree: each node with more than two children is replaced by a sub-tree in which each node has exactly two children. Each region representing a node (starting from the root) is divided to two, using a line that keeps the angles between edges as large as possible.