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Port-Miou calanque in Cassis View of the Cassis Harbour. The town is situated on the Mediterranean coast, about 20 kilometres (12 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) east of Marseille. Cap Canaille, 394 metres (1,293 feet), between Cassis and La Ciotat ("the civitas") is one of the highest maritime bluffs in Europe, a sailor's landmark for millennia.
The blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum), also known as black currant or cassis, [a] is a deciduous shrub in the family Grossulariaceae grown for its edible berries. It is native to temperate parts of central and northern Europe and northern Asia, where it prefers damp fertile soils.
A fragment of the Fasti Praenestini for the month of Aprilis, showing its nundinal letters on the left side The full remains of the Fasti Praenestini. The nundinae (/ n ə n ˈ d ɪ n aɪ /, /-n iː /), sometimes anglicized to nundines, [1] were the market days of the ancient Roman calendar, forming a kind of weekend including, for a certain period, rest from work for the ruling class ().
The Australian dollar, which can serve as a more liquid proxy for the Chinese currency, rose 1.2% on the day to $0.6262. The euro, meanwhile rose 1.3% on the day to $1.0401, set for one of its ...
Rewe, a large German retail company, wanted to import and sell Cassis de Dijon, a crème de cassis blackcurrant liqueur produced in France. The liqueur contained between 15 and 20 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV). Germany, however, had a law specifying that products sold as fruit liqueurs be over 25 per cent ABV.
Stock market holidays are non-weekend business days when the two major U.S. stock exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq, are closed for the day.These days often closely ...
The Romans did not number days of a month sequentially from the 1st through the last day. Instead, they counted back from the three fixed points of the month: the Nones ( Nonae, 5th or 7th, depending on the length of the month), the Ides ( Idūs, 13th or 15th), and the Kalends ( Kalendae, 1st) of the following month.
The price of eggs is expected to rise throughout 2025 due to the bird flu outbreak that killed 17.2 million egg-laying hens in November and December alone.