Natural hazards include the heavy surf and the lack of natural harbors on the coast ; during the rainy season torrential flooding is a danger.

Natural resources include timber, tropical fruit and deepwater harbors.

* Michigan Department of Natural Resources website, harbors, hunting, resources and more.

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* Michigan Department of Natural Resources website, harbors, hunting, resources and more.

* Michigan Department of Natural Resources website, harbors, hunting, resources and more.

He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.

Films have been made featuring Ruth, or a Ruth-like figure (" The Whammer " in The Natural, for example ).

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

Although 875 extinctions occurring between 1500 and 2009 have been documented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the vast majority are undocumented.

Natural disasters have been frequent and varied.

Natural color mutations of these carp would have occurred across all populations.

Museums, such as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, have popular collections of mineral specimens on permanent display.

Metal-coated glass mirrors are said to have been invented in Sidon ( modern-day Lebanon ) in the first century AD, and glass mirrors backed with gold leaf are mentioned by the Roman author Pliny in his Natural History, written in about 77 AD.

Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.

** Natural rights theories, such that of John Locke or Robert Nozick, which hold that human beings have absolute, natural rights.

Natural polymeric materials such as shellac, amber, wool, silk and natural rubber have been used for centuries.

Natural language processors have been proposed as a way to eliminate the need for a specialized language for programming.

Some reviewers have identified similarities between the style and narrative of the 2003 Korean film Natural City and Dick's novel, as well as Blade Runner.

Natural plumcots / apriplums have been known for hundreds of years from regions of the world that grow both plums and apricots from seed.

Natural disasters have plagued the country throughout the 20th century.

Natural gas companies in Europe and South America have adopted 15 ° C ( 59 ° F ) and 101. 325 kPa ( 14. 696 psi ) as their standard gas volume reference conditions.

* Natural replicators have all or most of their design from nonhuman sources.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection.

The Idaho Natural Law Party remained active, and was prepared to have three candidates on the ballot for state and federal office in 2006 by entering into a coalition with the new United Party, and thus remained the only Natural Law Party still active in the United States of America.

Natural goods, on the other hand, have to do with objects, not persons.

" Synergistic effects of various kinds have played a major causal role in the evolutionary process generally and in the evolution of cooperation and complexity in particular ... Natural selection is often portrayed as a “ mechanism ”, or is personified as a causal agency ...

Natural selection was expected to work very slowly in forming new species, but given the effectiveness of artificial selection, he could " see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection ".

Thus, Paley's use of the watch ( and other mechanical objects like it ) continued a long and fruitful tradition of analogical reasoning that was well received by those who read Natural Theology when it was published in 1802.

" It had long been believed that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the French Blue until confirmation finally happened when a three-dimensional leaden model of the latter was rediscovered in the archives of the French Natural History Museum in Paris in 2005.

Natural waxes are typically esters of fatty acids and long chain alcohols.

While it may have come as a surprise to Rivers, the offer of a Cambridge lectureship had come about as part of a long process of evolution within the University's Natural Science Tripos.

* The mascot for the undergraduate students ' Mathematics Society ( MathSoc ) is the Natural Log ( see natural log ), which is a wooden log about long.

Originally, the Nature Conservancy Council ( now Natural England ), pressed for a special authority to manage the Broads which had been neglected for a long time.

However, according to the NAIRU, exploiting this short-run tradeoff will raise inflation expectations, shifting the short-run curve rightward to the " New Short-Run Phillips Curve " and moving the point of equilibrium from B to C. Thus the reduction in unemployment below the " Natural Rate " will be temporary, and lead only to higher inflation in the long run.

Natural immunity lasts longer than vaccine-induced immunity, with one study reporting maximum effectiveness as long as 20 years in the former and 12 in the latter.

Natural fibers such as wool, cotton, and silk of lighter colors should not be left in dirty or soiled condition for long amounts of time as they absorb dirt in their texture and are unlikely to be restored to their original color and finish.

Although the story is set in 1862, Arthur Denison mentions Tyrannosaurus Rex ; however, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, named Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1905, long after the events in Dinotopia are supposed to take place, although it is possible that the Dinotopians were the first to discover Tyrannosaurus and coincidentally gave it the same name.

Cetti took long excursions in the vicinity of Sassari, collating his discoveries in the Storia Naturale di Sardegna ( Natural History of Sardinia ) ( 1774 – 7 ).

It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1966 because it contains the great ripples, ( often measuring 25 to 50 feet high and 300 feet long ), that served as a strong supporting element for J Harlen Bretz's contention that Washington State's Channeled Scablands were formed by repeated cataclysmic floods over only about 2, 000 years, rather than through the millions of years of erosion that had been previously assumed.

In North Carolina, a segment of the river long was designated as the " New River State Scenic River " and included in the state's Natural and Scenic Rivers System in 1975.

The want of brief, but comprehensive Manual of the Natural History of India has been long felt by all interested in such inquiries.

The issue of a Manual, which should comprise all available information in sufficient detail for the discrimination and identification of such objects of Natural History as might be met with, without being rendered cumbrous by minutiae of synonymy or of history, has therefore long been considered a desideratum.

Clifton has a long history of natural history television programming and global conservation, due to the presence of Bristol Zoo in the north of the ward and the proximity of the BBC Natural History Unit, which means that more than 25 % of the world's wildlife programmes are made in Bristol.

Morbegno is partnering with the international non-profit organization The Natural Step to design a vision of what the people living in Morbegno want to create in the long term, and choose the strategic path to move towards the vision from the present reality.

* In the defunct World Championship Wrestling promotion, a group of new and younger wrestlers known as the Natural Born Thrillers enjoyed a long and steady push and winning titles despite getting no crowd response and repeatedly going over established talent.

In an attempt to keep the oil from contaminating the Mississippi River, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources set a controlled burn that lasted for 1 day and created a smoke plume about high and long.

There is a fossil record of two adults and a 12. 2 meter ( 40 ft ) long juvenile that died together in the Late Jurassic Period, approximately 150 million years ago ( in north east Wyoming, USA, excavated by the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Center, during the 1997 and 1998 ' field seasons ').

Natural patinas may occur by oxidation due to long exposure to air or earth — the most common of which is verdigris on copper or bronze.

Natural gas must be stored in cylinders, whether it is CNG ( compressed ) or LNG ( liquefied ), and these cylinders are usually located in the vehicle's trunk, reducing the space available for other uses, particularly during long distance travel.

Natural history in India has a long heritage with a recorded history going back to the Vedas.