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ROOK s. bird that looks very similar to the crow.
— Rooks (corvus fruqilegus, Linn.) are smaller than crows, their bill is longer and sharper. Males are 50 cm (20 in) long ; females, smaller and not quite as … Read more »

A shepherd, neighbour to the sea,
Lived with his flock contentedly.
His fortune, though but small,
Was safe within his call.
At last some stranded kegs of gold
Him tempted, and his flock he sold,
Turn’d merchant, and the ocean’s waves … Read more »

ABU SIMBEL, A place in lower Nubia on the left bank of the Nile, 45 kilometers (28 miles) southwest of Derr, remarkable for its two Egyptian temples carved in rock. Both have a front wall made of sandstone and interior walls are dug into solid rock. The smaller … Read more »

I0NA or Icolmkill, also known as I or Hy, small island in the Inner Hebrides (Scotland), separated from Mull by a 2 km (1.24 miles) wide channel, called Strait of I or Icolmkill. This island is 5 km (3.11 miles) long and 2.25 km (1.4 miles) wide … Read more »

GENTIAN s. (lat. gentiana; after Gentius, king of Illyria who first made known the medicinal properties of this plant, in the second century BC). Bot. genus in the family Gentianaceae, which includes a large number of species of perennials plants, most of them indigenous.
The Great Yellow Gentian (gentiana lutea), common … Read more »

KERCH (formerly Panticapaeum or Bosporus), Crimean city on the Strait of Yenikale, commanding the entrance to the Sea of Azof, 170 km (105.63 miles) east-northeast of Simferopol; Pop. approximately 22.450. The present-day city is … Read more »

Jacques Fosse, merchant in Beaucaire, was gifted with one of those vigorous natures and powerful constitutions to which danger is a spur, and it is therefore not surprising that Fosse has become the major rescuer of southern France and of all places where there’s been dangers to be faced and lives to be saved.
Fosse was ten years old when, for the first time, he gave … Read more »