Search results for "Foot" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • prehensile upper lip, and two toes on each foot. While its native range is ... (order Artiodactyla), with two-toes on each foot and an "unguligrade" ...
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  • land mass of North and South America with a foot (30 cm) of water. The shoreline ... rapids on the river resulting from the 25 foot (7.6 m) difference in elevation ...
    18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
  • to the head. Gastropoda (meaning "stomach-foot") is typified by a large, ventral, muscular foot for locomotion, and a distinct head that ...
    14 KB (1,887 words) - 17:15, 14 October 2021
  • The Willis Tower, built and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower, is a 108-storey, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United ...
    13 KB (2,043 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
  • of the three sites. Built from east to west at the foot of a series of hills at an altitude of fifteen to fifty meters, the dolmens have been discovered ...
    7 KB (1,041 words) - 03:57, 24 May 2024
  • units of length in common usage are the inch, the foot, the yard, and the mile. Units used to denote distances in the vastness of space, as in ...
    18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
  • the Khitans but the Koreans were mostly on foot. The Liao were heavily mounted ... the Khitan from the moment they set foot on Goryeo territory. After ...
    14 KB (2,116 words) - 07:45, 23 January 2023
  • destroyed the Bridge of the Gods, a 200 foot high landslide that crossed ... are almost exclusively above the 6,000 foot level, which also is about ...
    18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
  • In 1565, Tasso for the first time set foot in that castle at Ferrara ... September be reached the gates of Turin on foot, and was courteously entertained ...
    18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
  • central adductor muscle, the absence of a muscular foot, and by the two valves typically being fan-shaped, often with a radiating fluted pattern, and ...
    19 KB (2,833 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
  • ::Left foot, peg foot, traveling on ::Follow the Drinking Gourd. ... the Appalachians become too rugged for foot travel. At the center of the ...
    21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
  • occurred. The result of one such 2,500-foot displacement, the Moab Fault ... limited within park boundaries: camping, foot hiking (along designated trails ...
    13 KB (1,918 words) - 06:16, 12 August 2023
  • the Nilgiri hills. Europeans first set foot the jungles in 1602 when a ... they had been the first Englishmen to set foot in the Nilgiri hills, leading ...
    15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
  • and Mackinaw City. The airport has a 3,500-foot (1,070 m) paved runway, and ... vehicles. Travel on the island is either by foot, bicycle, or horse-drawn carriage ...
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  • appear in a layer of a grayish-black, 2,000 foot thick, sedimentary rock called ... Reservation. The band, led by Chief Big Foot, was finally overtaken by ...
    20 KB (3,121 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
  • also an unblemished body. He tells us of a foot injury in several poems: ... :and peer down a thousand-foot cliff :or up where clouds curl around ...
    19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
  • event in the history of the Middle Ages. Russian foot soldiers had surrounded and defeated an army of knights, mounted on horseback and clad in thick ...
    15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
  • Brock began as an ensign in the 8th Regiment of Foot in 1785 at the ... In 1802, Brock and the 49th Foot were ordered to Canada. ...
    28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
  • as was possible in his time (the twenty-foot mural Triceratops vs. Tyrannosaurus ... The Regenstein Laboratory is a 1,600-square-foot conservation and collections ...
    15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
  • The Dargah Shareef of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, situated at the foot ... Emperor Akbar made a pilgrimage on foot from Agra with his queen, ...
    14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023

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