Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A bluff is a Canadian English term used on the Canadian Prairies to indicate a clump of trees on the prairies, usually poplars or willows. [1] A bluff is naturally occurring, not cultivated. A bluff of trees normally occurs on the flat lands. "Bluff" in this sense is different from the geographical term "bluff", meaning a cliff.
The plant communities in the Llanos include open grasslands, savannas with scattered trees or clumps of trees, and small areas of forest, typically gallery forests along rivers and streams. There are seasonally flooded grasslands and savannas ( llano bajo ) and grasslands and savannas that remain dry throughout the year ( llano alto ).
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
Rocky Clump. Rocky Clump , east of Upper Lodge Wood, was a late Iron Age/Romano-British site. There is a huge sarsen stone in the trees as well as evidence for a Roman grain storage building and pit almost 2 metres deep. [17] After the Romans left, it is thought to have been used as a pagan Saxon temple known as ‘Paeccel's Weoh’. [18 ...
There are many place names which begin with the name of the Hora tree. Even Tamil place names like Norochcholai (where a controversial coal power plant in Sri Lanka is located) is said to refer to a clump of Hora trees - i.e., "Horagolla" in Sinhalese. [2] It is used as a strong and hard wood and a weight of 54 lb/cu ft (0.86 g/cm 3). The ...
Growing to 8 m (26 ft) tall by 200–350 mm (0.66–1.15 ft) broad, Chusquea culeou forms a substantial clump of greenery. It has hairy lanceolate leaves with a spine on their end, and its flower is a whisk of light brown colour. The plant also produces a caryopsis fruit. Blooming occurs after variable periods, that could last 60 years.
A Catholic nun was arrested by Italian police on Thursday for bringing messages for the mafia to prisoners, police said in a news statement. Sister Anna Donelli acted on several occasions as an ...
Aerial photographs suggest that the trees may be at The Nile Clumps are sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Trafalgar Clumps. In 2005, a Trafalgar Woods project organised by the Woodland Trust and the Society for Nautical Research aimed to plant 250,000 trees in a series of woods across the UK, to commemorate the 2005 bicentenary of the ...