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  2. Bulla (seal) - Wikipedia

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    A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...

  3. Bulla (amulet) - Wikipedia

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    Before the age of manhood, Roman boys wore a bulla, a neckchain and round pouch containing protective amulets (usually phallic symbols), and the bulla of an upper-class boy would be made of gold. [1] Other materials included leather and cloth. A freeborn Roman boy wore a bulla until he came of age as a Roman citizen.

  4. Bombay duck - Wikipedia

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    Fried and crumbled, the fish preparation called Bombay duck became a popular condiment in Anglo-Indian cookery. [3] An 1829 book of poems and "Indian reminiscences" published under the pseudonym "Sir Toby Rendrag" notes the "use of a fish nick-named 'Bombay Duck'" [4] and the phrase is used in texts as early as 1815. [5]

  5. Early seal gets the fish: Secret hunting habits of Weddell ...

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    The seals can live for as many as 30 years in the wild, while dealing with predators like orcas and larger leopard seals. They survive on fish, squid, and other smaller prey to survive.

  6. Hawaiian monk seals grow to be 6-7 feet long, weigh 400-600 pounds, and can live more than 30 years. Males and females are generally the same size — the only way to tell them apart is to look at ...

  7. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 14 February 2025, at 22:57 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices - Wikipedia

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    Cylinder seals: daily life, production processes (weaving), pig-tailed figures, schematic designs (files of animals, e.g. spiders and scorpions, eye pattern, fish pattern) Example: Colored limestones and dark, hard stones preferred; steatite, serpentine, schist; extensive use of the drill: Container sealings; sealings on tablets, bullae

  9. Quackers! Wrinkle the 'service duck' banned from all Buc-ee's ...

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    Wrinkle the duck was banned from all Buc-ee's locations in January, according to viral video.