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Narmer Palette. The Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC, belonging, at least nominally, to the category of cosmetic palettes. It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found.
A detail from the Narmer Palette, with the oldest known depiction of vexilloids. The oldest known vexilloids appear as depictions on Egyptian pottery from the Gerzeh culture and on the reverse of the Narmer Palette. These vexilloids were symbols of the nomes of pre-dynastic Egypt. The oldest surviving vexilloid was carried in Persia around ...
The Canada goose was one of the many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work Systema Naturae. [ 3 ] It belongs to the Branta genus of geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the gray species of the genus Anser. Branta was a Latinized form of Old Norse Brandgás, "burnt (black) goose ...
The Bull Palette (French: palette célébrant une victoire) is the fragment of an Ancient Egyptian greywacke palette, carved in low relief and used, at least in principle, as a cosmetic palette for the grinding of cosmetics. It is dated to Naqada III, the final two centuries of the fourth millennium BC, immediately preceding the Early Dynastic ...
Number of employees. 4,462 (2024) [ 5 ] Website. canadagoose.com. Footnotes / references Financials as of March 31, 2024 [update] [ 5 ] Canada Goose Holdings Inc. is a Canadian holding company of luxury winter clothing manufacturers. The company was founded in 1957 by Sam Tick, under the name Metro Sportswear Ltd.[ 6 ]
The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) is a species of goose that is closely related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (A. erythropus). [2] The greater white-fronted goose is migratory , breeding in northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Russia, and winters farther south in North America, Europe and Asia. [ 1 ]
Giant Canada goose. The giant Canada goose (Branta canadensis maxima) is the largest subspecies of Canada goose, on average weighing in at 5 kg (11 pounds). It is found in central North America. These geese were at one point considered extinct, but were later rediscovered. The giant Canada goose was once kept and bred in captivity for use as ...
CBSNews. Updated October 4, 2024 at 7:29 AM. Twelve bodies — all bearing signs of torture and left with messages by cartels — were found on Thursday in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato ...