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small and grove
Due to its high rainfall ( 900 – 1200 mm ), mild temperatures and high mountains ( Mount Meron's elevation is 1, 000 – 1, 208 metres ), the upper Galilee region contains some unique flora and fauna: prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ), Lebanese cedar ( Cedrus libani ), which grows in a small grove on Mount Meron, cyclamens, paeonias and Rhododendron ponticum which sometimes appears on Meron.
The endangered California Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera has a small number of grove occurrences within the county.
By 1878 Carlota Vela at the Laguna Seca Ranch had a small orange grove that was known for the quality of its fruit.
As families returned to the grove year after year, tents pitched on the ground gave way to tents pitched on wooden platforms and eventually to small wooden cottages.
Later on, the Methodist and Presbyterian people met to worship in the grove a few yards east of this house ( if house it may be called with puncheon floor and grotesque furnishings ) and there built an arbor and small house in which to worship.
* James Olley Park-End of Sherman Ave, offers a man-made beach with public swimming and fishing, a small play ground, picnic grove, un-improved walking trails, and is home to the Village's Summer Recreation Camp
According to some accounts, shortly after the rout of the Lancastrians at Tewkesbury, a small contingent of men under the Duke of Clarence found the grieving prince near a grove where he was immediately beheaded on a makeshift block, despite his pleas.
The name is Japanese: means " small grove " and is a common family name ; is a common suffix for Japanese ship names meaning " round " as in " to return.
The small, detached General Grant Grove section preserves several groves of giant sequoias, including the General Grant Grove, with the famous General Grant Tree, and the Redwood Mountain Grove, which is the largest remaining natural grove of giant sequoias in the world ( covering and with 15, 800 sequoia trees over one foot in diameter at their bases ).
Such woods were called " gaje " in the Proto-Slavic language ( compare Polish gaj ' small wood, thicket, bush, grove '; see: sacred grove ), and were sometimes encircled by a fence which created a sacred area, both a natural and social sphere.
* Sacred grove, a small group of trees used as a place of worship
** Grove, a small area in Belfast with grove park and grove well being center ( in construction due January 2008 )
In Texas, a small grove of trees, such as live oaks ( Texas live oak or southern live oak ) or elm, is known as a mott.
Water and firewood were major issues from the start ; the water was brackish and the round grove of trees was quite small.
They then proceed to Tado shrine, nestled in a small pine grove.
Other sources suggest that the name Lucus Augusti comes from the Latin word Lucus, which means " sacred grove ", or " sacred forest ", as the city was founded on the place of a small grove.
Memory grove is in a small canyon immediately east of Capitol Hill.
A grove is a small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth, such as a sequoia grove, or a small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts.

small and against
Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.
He courageously defended the rights of small nations, and he stood his ground against the savage attacks of the Communist bloc.
The precipitate was washed twice with an 80% saturated solution of Af, dissolved in a small quantity of 0.1 M neutral phosphate buffer, dialyzed against cold distilled water till free from ammonium ions, and lyophilized using liquid nitrogen.
I put a small electric amplifier against the wall on the side I wanted to case.
" At its worst, Scheler says, " love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena: wealth, strength, power, largesse.
Mug House, a typical cliff dwelling of the period, was home to around 100 people who shared 94 small rooms and eight kivas built right up against each other and sharing many of their walls ; builders in these areas maximized space in any way they could and no areas were considered off-limits to construction.
England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”
A year later in 881 Alfred fought a small sea battle against four Danish ships “ on the high seas ”.
Spencer saw tariffs as a form of taxation that levied against the majority in service to “ the benefit of a small minority of manufacturers and artisans ”.
However, they protect their crews against shrapnel and small arms and are therefore usually included as armoured fighting vehicles.
However, the small 37 mm gun would not be effective against the front armor of German tanks so as an armored car, designated M8 Light Armored Car, it was used for reconnaissance instead.
In the 2005 – 06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team.
* Leprosy: BCG has a small protective effect against leprosy of around 26 %, although it is not used specifically for this purpose.
Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and in turn cannon against slightly larger bodies.
Regarding the shape of the breast, the study The Evolution of the Human Beast ( 2001 ) proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breast evolved to prevent the sucking infant offspring from suffocating while feeding at the teat ; that is, because of the human infant's small jaw, which did not project from the face to reach the nipple, he or she might block the nostrils against the mother's breast if it were of a flatter form ( cf.
It reminds him of the injustices committed against his family, and of how, in his small way, he felt responsible and helpless.
The next thirty years were marked by small scale revolts against French rule and the development of a plantation-style economy.
By 1943, the Partisan resistance movement had gained the upper hand, against the odds, and in 1945, with help from the Soviet Red Army ( passing only through small parts such as Vojvodina ), expelled the Axis forces and local supporters.
In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.
Banks would hold only a small percentage of their assets in the form of cash reserves as insurance against bank runs.
It takes place when the conditional threat is decided upon by one particular individual or small group, and / or directed against some other individual or small group.
During the 17th century cavalry in Europe lost most of its armor, ineffective against the muskets and cannon which were coming into use, and by the mid-19th century armor had mainly fallen into disuse, although some regiments retained a small thickened cuirass that offered protection against lances and sabres and some protection against shot.

small and river
Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.
He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.
The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.
The Aal is a small river located only within the town's territory.
Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.
During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.
A small number of pockets of land on the right-hand side of the river Dragonja in Istria have remained under Croatian jurisdiction after the river was re-routed after the Second World War.
It is operated by river tugs pushing several barges lashed together, and for the hundreds of passengers and traders these function like small floating towns.
Rather than mooring at riverside communities along the route, traders come out by canoe and small boat alongside the river barges and transfer goods on the move.
A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.
460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers ; 3, 300 km navigable by native craft
Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".
It is primarily a low-level bridge which possesses an elevated span with a vertical clearance of in the middle of the river to permit small craft to pass.
Shipbuilding on Clydeside ( the river Clyde through Glasgow and other points ) began when the first small yards were opened in 1712 at the Scott family's shipyard at Greenock.
Their first armed assault fell on the small town of Ústí, on the river Lužnice, south of Prague ( today's Sezimovo Ústí ).
Afraid to return to Delhi and be seen as a failure, he stayed for a time in southern India under the protection of Jamal-ud-Din, ruler of the small but powerful Nawayath sultanate on the banks of the Sharavathi river next to the Arabian Sea.
There are a number of small private reserves along the river, which arrange wildlife viewing
It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon from the east at Dawson.
Superman captured the two small pieces of kryptonite, one from a fake swami ( pretending to " hex " Superman with it ) and another he purchased from a jewelry store, and threw them into Metropolis ' river.
Inland water transport is limited to small ferry boats at river crossings, and the Government of Lesotho operates boats at major crossings.
Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes (' susilieti, lietis ' means to unite and the word ' lietuva ' means something which has been united ).

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