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The Virgo interferometer is a large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves.The detector measures minuscule length variations in its two 3-kilometre (1.9-mile) arms induced by the passage of gravitational waves.
West Brighton Avenue leads to Brighton Beach Avenue at the intersection of Ocean Parkway. After, the streets begin numerically, beginning at Brighton 1st Road, Brighton 1st Place, Brighton 2nd Street, Brighton 3rd Street, Brighton 4th Street, Brighton 5th Street, Brighton 6th Street, Brighton 7th Street before hitting Coney Island Avenue, which ...
Tree avenue in Normandy, France An avenue at Alexandra Park, London. In landscaping, an avenue (from the French), alameda (from the Portuguese and Spanish), or allée (from the French), is a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape ...
A dialectal word can become part of the standard language in a compound, but not in its root form: e.g. blatherskite ("one who talks nonsense"), as Scots has the word skite ("contemptible person"). A word can become obsolete in its root form but remain current in a compound: e.g. lukewarm from Middle English luke ("tepid").
carmogilev/Getty Images. Scientific name: Rubus ursinus x Rubus idaeus Taste: Sweet, tangy, floral Health benefits: Boysenberries—a cross between a raspberry, blackberry, dewberry and loganberry ...
Starting on August 13, 1818, this lane way became known as Berry Street, and was named after Simon Després dit Le Berry. Involved in a conflict at La Flèche in 1653, he was killed by the Iroquois in 1663. He owned a piece of land west of the street. At the beginning of the Nineteenth century, this piece of land was always known as la Berry.
Owners of the land on which the avenue was built. The avenue was originally the primary runway of Nielson Field. Paseo de Azcárraga: Binondo, Santa Cruz and Quiapo, Manila: Marcelo de Azcárraga Palmero (1832–1915) 13th prime minister of Spain (1897–1900) and the only Spanish prime minister of Filipino descent.
Such tissue is commonly formed, for example, at the base of a petiole or pedicel. acaulescent Having no apparent stem, or at least none visible above the ground surface. [2] Examples include some species of Oxalis, [5] Nolina, [6] and Yucca. [7] Antonym: caulescent (possessing stem). accrescent