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  • Thumbnail for Mexican jumping bean
    larvae bore into the immature green pods and begin to devour the seeds. The pods ripen, fall to the ground and separate into three smaller segments, and those...
    5 KB (509 words) - 07:18, 11 March 2024
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    Maenad (redirect from The maenads)
    the sweat from their heated cheeks. Fierce bulls fall to the ground, victims to numberless, tearing female hands, and sturdy trees are torn up by the...
    37 KB (4,537 words) - 08:59, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fall of Constantinople
    The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire...
    113 KB (12,838 words) - 16:27, 29 May 2024
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    Battledore and shuttlecock (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the top. The object is for players to bat the shuttlecock from one to the other as many times as possible without allowing it to fall to the ground....
    2 KB (232 words) - 06:23, 20 May 2024
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    charnel ground (Sanskrit: श्मशान; IAST: śmaśāna; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö; Tibetan: དུར་ཁྲོད, Wylie: dur khrod) is an above-ground site for the putrefaction...
    40 KB (5,300 words) - 22:16, 8 May 2024
  • Air Canada Flight 621 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-8)
    to break off and fall to the ground in flames. Six and a half seconds after the second explosion, a third explosion occurred, destroying most of the right...
    20 KB (1,945 words) - 21:20, 20 May 2024
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    and lie in the subcutaneous tissue, causing the formation of tumors. On reaching full growth, the larvae leave the host, fall to the ground, bury themselves...
    12 KB (1,495 words) - 15:01, 23 December 2023
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    severe method was to set fire to the base of a tree nested with pigeons; the adults would flee and the juveniles would fall to the ground. Sulfur was sometimes...
    141 KB (17,591 words) - 11:40, 26 May 2024
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    rapidly fall to the ground or another surface and so are only briefly suspended, while droplets much smaller than 100 μm (which is most of them) fall only...
    20 KB (2,065 words) - 02:55, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monstera deliciosa
    and Panama. The seeds fall to the ground, then the seedlings crawl (negative phototropism) until they meet a tree on which to attach. The many adjacent...
    16 KB (1,888 words) - 15:35, 25 May 2024
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    and as it starts to fall to the ground backward, tail first, the nose drops through the horizon to a vertical down position and the aircraft enters a...
    2 KB (251 words) - 02:47, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrage balloon
    the balloon and fall to the ground under a parachute; at the same time a panel would be ripped away from the balloon causing it to deflate and fall independently...
    10 KB (1,206 words) - 01:59, 5 February 2024
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    stem tubers on 3.5-to-7.5-metre-tall (12 to 25 ft) vines; the tubers fall to the ground and grow. Plectranthus esculentus, of the mint family Lamiaceae...
    14 KB (1,809 words) - 02:39, 3 May 2024
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    which break up the specially adapted softer cones. Ripe cones may remain on the plant for a varied amount of time before falling to the ground; in some fire-adapted...
    50 KB (5,821 words) - 21:01, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb
    BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb (category Military equipment introduced in the 1980s)
    When the bomblets fall, they separate from the main bomb and independently free fall to the ground. They contain an inflatable bag (ballute) on the top...
    4 KB (479 words) - 20:24, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Safety harness
    a fall is greatly reduced. The harness allows the user to attach themselves to an object that is stationary, ensuring they will not hit the ground in...
    10 KB (1,371 words) - 09:53, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fall of the Western Roman Empire
    The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western...
    144 KB (19,296 words) - 03:48, 9 May 2024
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    Artocarpus odoratissimus (category Trees of the Philippines)
    eventually fall to the ground and easily split open. The appearance of the fruit can be regarded as an intermediate shape between the jackfruit and the breadfruit...
    7 KB (905 words) - 19:43, 20 April 2023
  • The Fall Guy is a 2024 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch and written by Drew Pearce, loosely based on the 1980s TV series. The plot...
    36 KB (3,485 words) - 07:27, 29 May 2024
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    Cemetery (redirect from Burying ground)
    plaque, typically designed to hold a single flower stem or a small posy. As the flowers decay, they simply fall to the ground and do not create a significant...
    73 KB (8,576 words) - 11:36, 11 April 2024
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