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Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a desert island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation planting guide for Maryland recommends that, for optimum wildlife and pollinator habitat in mesic sites (especially for monarchs), a seed mix should contain 6.0% A. syriaca by weight and 2.0% by seed. [233] However, monarchs prefer to lay eggs on A. syriaca when its foliage is soft and fresh.
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio [1] (/ d i ˈ k æ p r i oʊ, d ɪ-/; Italian: [diˈkaːprjo]; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer.Known for his work in biographical and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Mature cones and seed. The giant sequoia regenerates by seed. The seed cones are 4–7 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –3 in) long and mature in 18–20 months, though they typically remain green and closed for as long as 20 years. Each cone has 30–50 spirally arranged scales, with several seeds on each scale, giving an average of 230 seeds per cone.
A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique (' opposite to the Arctic ') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus (' opposite to the north ').
The South Island piopio, Chatham rail, [142] and the New Zealand merganser [192] are a few from a long list, with the most extreme case being the flightless Lyall's wren, which was driven to extinction only a few years after its discovery. [193] [194] One feral cat in New Zealand killed 102 New Zealand lesser short-tailed bats in seven days. [195]
[9] [10] [11] Between 1845 and 1855, at least 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also on steamboats and barques—one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history. [12] [13] The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans) [14] throughout Europe during ...