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  2. List of town defences in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Vestiges Canmore listing as Kirkcudbright, Meickle Yett and Town Wall states that "The town defences of 1547, when Kirkcudbright was besieged by the English under Sir Thomas Carleton, consisted principally, on the east, of a broad marshy creek extending south from the harbour to the Meickle Yett. Here a wall and ditch ran west to where the ...

  3. The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries - Wikipedia

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    The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (Arabic: کتاب الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية) Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiyah `an al-qurūn al-khāliyah, also known as Chronology of Ancient Nations or Vestiges of the Past, after the translation published by Eduard Sachau in 1879) by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī is a comparative study of the calendrical timekeeping of ...

  4. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - Wikipedia

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    Vestiges online, in PDF format, scanned from an original text (Electronic Scholarly Publishing) Vestiges online, in HTML and TXT format (Project Gutenberg) Vestiges online, in HTML format (Stephen Jay Gould Archive) [dead link ‍] Explanations: a sequel to "Vestiges of the natural history of creation" 2nd ed. (1846) from Google Books.

  5. Kanakakkunnu Palace - Wikipedia

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    Located about 800 meters north east of the Napier Museum in the heart of Thiruvananthapuram city, Kanakakunnu Palace is one of the last architectural vestiges of the colonial era. Built during the reign of Travancore king Sree Moolam Thirunal [7] (1885−1924) with the help of Vishwakarmas, the palace served as the main venue for royal banquets ...

  6. Vestiges - Wikipedia

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    Vestiges may refer to: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), by Robert Chambers Vestigiality , genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of their ancestral function

  7. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Ileum, caecum and colon of rabbit, showing Appendix vermiformis on fully functional caecum The human vermiform appendix on the vestigial caecum. The appendix was once believed to be a vestige of a redundant organ that in ancestral species had digestive functions, much as it still does in extant species in which intestinal flora hydrolyze cellulose and similar indigestible plant materials. [10]

  8. Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    In humans, the vermiform appendix is sometimes called a vestigial structure as it has lost much of its ancestral digestive function.. Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species. [1]

  9. Zothique (collection) - Wikipedia

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    The chief language spoken (of which I have provided examples in an unpublished drama) is based on Indo-European roots and is highly inflected, like Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. [ 4 ] Darrell Schweitzer suggests the idea of writing about a far future land may have come from William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land , noting that Smith was an ...