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They are also known as hearth spaniels or fireplace dogs as they were positioned on top of the mantelpiece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many other breeds were produced, particularly the greyhound, though the spaniels were especially popular and this is attributed to royalty favouring the King Charles Spaniel breed.
Thurneysen was of the opinion that this was a different whelp, but the attributes of these two dogs were melded into one by the prosifier, [52] so that in the prose it was "a hound by night and a sheep by day" and whatever pool of water touched its hide or pelt (Irish: croccenn) turned to wine.
A wine glass is a type of glass that is used for drinking or tasting wine. Most wine glasses are stemware (goblets), composed of three parts: the bowl, stem, and foot. There are a wide variety of slightly different shapes and sizes, some considered especially suitable for particular types of wine.
Excavations at Worms, Trier, Cologne, and in the Eifel revealed glass factories that were probably Roman in origin—indeed, Römer is German for 'Roman'. Ancient Rhenish graves have yielded gilt-decorated bowls and beakers which were made using the fondo d'oro ('base of gold') process in which the design is etched into a layer of gold on the ...
Dogs' vision is dichromatic; their visual world consists of yellows, blues, and grays. [39] They have difficulty differentiating between red and green, [40] and much like other mammals, the dog's eye is composed of two types of cone cells compared to the human's three. The divergence of the eye axis of dogs ranges from 12 to 25°, depending on ...
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Bocksbeutel. The Bocksbeutel (German: [ˈbɔksˌbɔɪ̯tl̩] ⓘ) is a type of wine bottle with the form of a flattened ellipsoid.It is commonly used for wines from Franconia in Germany, but is also used for some Portuguese wines, in particular rosés, where the bottle is called cantil, and in rare cases for Italian wine (in this case called pulcianella) and Greek wine.
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