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is a flat black or brown barbed cypsela up to a centimeter long which has two obvious hornlike pappi at one end. The barbed pappi on the fruit help it...

dugout systems opposing each other along a front, protected from assault by barbed wire. The area between opposing trench lines (known as "no man's land")...

throughout the United States until this usage was superseded by the invention of barbed wire in 1874. By providing a barrier that was "horse-high, bull-strong,...

Tallahatchie River Old Little Tallahatchie River Panola Quitman Floodway McIvor Drainage Canal Tippah River Cassidy Bayou Black Bayou Ascalmore Creek Tillatoba...

Uncle Joe decides to start his own telephone company. He plans on using the barbed wire fencing surrounding all the local farms as the primary communication...

rectangular, U- or I-shaped, or may have a handgrip. A plug is a short barbed fitting with a blank end that can only be used with PEX piping to end the...

hours. Dioscorides reported that ancient Greek shepherds would use the barbed stems of cleavers to make a "rough sieve", which could be used to strain...

of fellow inmates, he hid in a drainage hole, used a makeshift ladder and small tin scissors to cut through a barbed wire perimeter. Boyce was on the...

Diverticulum, in the most remote part of the cave; under man and bison, a complex barbed sign that can be found almost identically on other walls of the cave, and...

PBT – flexible (usually gray or black) plastic pipe which is attached to barbed fittings and secured in place with a copper crimp ring. The primary manufacturer...

will keep catch rates with barbless hooks as high as those achieved with barbed hooks.[citation needed] One study looking at brook trout found that barbless...

childhood, Green lost use in one eye after suffering an accident involving barbed wire, which later had to be replaced with a glass eye. He attended school...

insect-pollinated.[citation needed] The fruit is a nut with four 1 cm (1⁄2 in) barbed spines. Seeds can remain viable up to 12 years, although most germinate...

Cambria Iron Works in the town of Woodvale, sweeping up railroad cars and barbed wire. Of Woodvale's 1,100 residents, 314 died in the flood. Boilers exploded...

worms, and salted minnows." Barbed hooks may be carried in a tackle box but must not be used on the fishing line. Barbed hooks must be pinched before...

Custer's Crow scout who had left Custer near Medicine Tail Coulee (a drainage which led to the river), recounted the battle, reporting that Custer had...

Dream - Large drainage pipes to crawl through, usually placed through mud tunnels. Commando Crawl - A crawl through muddy waters under barbed wire. Usually...

the sea"; Baldwin's Sewer (drainage ditch) remains in use. The marsh has since become covered by a dense network of drainage ditches that once supported...

2007. The 1972 RW-01 perimeter fence with height 6 ft (1.8 m) topped with barbed wire was extended by 2007 to include a larger area on the south. A 2013...

and fireguards were also built. The camp consisted of tents within a dual barbed wire enclosure. The tents however proved inadequate during the severe winter...