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The borders of the historic condominium of Moresnet.Moresnet is colored blue, the Netherlands orange, Belgium yellow, and Prussia green.. An early instance of four political divisions meeting at a point is the Four Shire Stone in Moreton-in-Marsh, England (attested in the Domesday Book, 1086, [6] [7] and mentioned since 969 if not 772 [8]); until 1931, it was the meeting point of the English ...
A vertex of an angle is the endpoint where two lines or rays come together. In geometry, a vertex (pl.: vertices or vertexes) is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet or intersect. As a consequence of this definition, the point where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedra are vertices. [1] [2] [3]
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
2. Either of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface, i.e. the geographic poles, representing the northern and southern extremities of terrestrial latitude: the Geographic North Pole and the Geographic South Pole. 3. Either of the two ends of the geomagnetic field generated by the dynamo in the Earth's core.
Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". [1] Several other idioms such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings. [2]
And yet, crossing back, I couldn’t escape how the border was being militarized right under our noses. A few years later, we watched as a triple-layer fence went up around parts of San Diego; in 2006 we’d hear on the news about George W. Bush’s plan to extend the fence all the way through Texas.
The duo famously came back together in 1981 for a benefit concert in Central Park, which was later released as an album and a concert movie. In the 2024 documentary In Restless Dreams: The Music ...
The place at which two or more rivers or other watercourses flow together to form one larger river or watercourse. [2] coniferous Bearing cones; from the conifer family. [2] contiguity The characteristic of a group of neighboring political or geographical divisions not being interrupted by politically unaffiliated land or water.