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Caerdroea or Caer Droea is a Welsh word meaning "a labyrinth, a maze; maze cut by shepherds in the sward, serving as a puzzle." It also means "Troy, Walls-of-Troy".[1] [2] Variations include Caer Droia and Caerdroia, the latter being the spelling generally used today.
Historically, a turf maze is a labyrinth made by cutting a convoluted path into a level area of short grass, turf or lawn. Some had names such as Mizmaze, Troy Town, The Walls of Troy, Julian's Bower, or Shepherd's Race. This is the type of maze referred to by William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 2, Scene 2) when Titania says:
[5] [6] It spreads by its rhizomes and stolons, forming a thick turf. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] In the wild this species grows in salt marshes and brackish marshes . [ 4 ] The genome of Paspalum vaginatum was sequenced in 2022 and the species' haploid genome was determined to be approximately 590 megabases in size.
Geographic regions of turbary works in Europe include the Netherlands, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and The Broads in Norfolk and Suffolk, England, and the Audomarois marshlands near Saint-Omer, France [5] [6] The term is also used in colloquial language by older generations in Ireland, in places such as County Clare, to refer to the area where turf is cut, or to the material extracted.
Manchester United forward Amad Diallo has signed a contract extension with the Premier League club until 2030. Diallo, who scored a late equalizer in a 2-2 draw with league leader Liverpool on ...
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Travis Kelce’s crowd-pleasing catch has come with a hefty fine!. During the Kansas City Chiefs’ Christmas Day victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kelce’s touchdown catch — meant to honor ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...