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  2. Rupes Nigra - Wikipedia

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    The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself. Described by Gerardus Mercator as 33 French miles in size, it provided a supposed explanation for why all compasses point to this location.

  3. Inventio Fortunata - Wikipedia

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    Inventio Fortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably dating from the 14th century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents.

  4. List of the prehistoric life of Texas - Wikipedia

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    This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas.

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  6. Mount Qaf - Wikipedia

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    According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent —such as Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states. [8]

  7. ‘Hissing’ mushroom found only three places on Earth spotted ...

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    Texas Star Mushrooms, which attach themselves to decaying cedar elm stumps, have been found in just 16 counties in central and northern Texas, researchers at the Botanical Research Institute of ...

  8. Nigra - Wikipedia

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    Dermatosis papulosa nigra, a condition of many small, benign skin lesions on that face that closely simulate seborrheic keratoses, a condition generally presenting on dark-skinned individuals; Linea nigra, a dark vertical line that appears on the abdomen during pregnancy; Substantia nigra, a portion of the brain associated with dopamine production

  9. List of the Paleozoic life of Texas - Wikipedia

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    This list of the Paleozoic life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.