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Gold Ants from CNN-Interactive
Herodotus, the Greek historian, who wrote of creatures that dug up rich, gold bearing soil. The legend attracted dozens of treasure seekers over the centuries until finally Herodotus' story was ... "mountain ant". And the mountain ants do indeed dig up gold on occasion. "We could see the strata where, indeed, the gold-bearing layer lay three feet beneath the surface of the white ...
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Microbial Technologies - Case Studies
Forestry Microbial Technologies cleaned up PCP contaminated soil at a lumber mill. This was the first large- ... developed a low-cost treatment wetland to protect a fish-bearing creek from a toxic leachate produced by a wood waste ... Technologies assessed the environmental impact of discharges from a proposed gold mine in the Yukon Territory, on behalf of the local First Nations. ...
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1250-1050 BC -- An Example of an Historical Cycle
Certainly, these had been covered quickly or they would not have ... majority of which reigned but a few years. Eleven weak rulers bearing the name of Ramses were among those that followed him. Little ... accumulated in Norway, Alpine folk legends, and the sudden end of gold mining in the Alps attest to the widespread effects of the ...
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River of Words: Poetry
From above, the great river is but a band of meandering blue, Bearing no sign of its true nature, Ferocious, snarling waters. All pay ... Colorado Teacher: Liz Schneider McCormick Ranch The singing of trees, Makes the soil feel full. The mountains will rise, The lakes will be mighty oceans ... the rabbit that knows where to find secret places I am gold like the sun over Ocean Beach at evening I am from ...
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Uranium Ore Minerals
Witwatersrand and Orange Free State gold-bearing conglomerates of the Union of South Africa, and the medium-grade uranium and copper-bearing carbonaceous slates at Rum Jungle, Northern Territory, ... small rounded masses composed of aggregates of flaky crystals distributed through soft rocks or soil. Schroeckingerite is the least important of the uranium ore minerals and barely qualifies ...
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DISCOVER CHIMPANZEES!
It was wonderful to spend a peaceful day with this family ... hills and beaches, grasses are in seed and turning from green to gold. In the forests, the leaves of many vines are already starting to ... . Termite season has begun, now that the rains have softened the soil of the termite mounds. It is exciting to see chimpanzees make ...
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Path finders
UNESCO Gandhi gold medal in 1999, the Magsaysay award, and the World Food Prize in ... Anna's moral code of conduct is also quite strict. The fruit bearing trees are not protected by any watchman, yet not a single ... the depletion of the fish catch and the erosion of the soil were direct results of the disappearing mangroves. Just before the onset ...
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The ST. LAWRENCE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
Saguenay, were motivated more by tales of gold and diamonds than by geographical curiosity. But shipwrecks, winter cold, ... understood. As ship upon ship dropped anchor at the island, bearing ever more sickness and disease, Grosse Īle became an island of ... are filled with the graves of those who finally reached Canadian soil, only to be quickly buried in it. Lachine Canal Renaissance ...
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Anacardium occidentale
In the Gold Coast, the bark and leaves are used for sore gums ... tolerate aluminum, drought, fire, insects, laterite, low pH, poor soil, sand, shade, slope, and savanna. (2n = 42, 40) Distribution ... (Ceara, Brazil) trees average 17.4 kg/yr with one tree bearing 48 kg/yr. Major producers of cashew nuts are India, Tanzania ...
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Gold Ants
Most ... had exposed the darker, gold-bearing soil that was three feet below the surface. That was the same soil the marmots brought up from under the sand. Specialists have long argued about why Herodotus and other ancient writers described the furry gold ...
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