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  2. Waterloo Soldier - Wikipedia

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    The Waterloo Soldier is the skeleton of a soldier who died during the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. The skeleton is kept at the Memorial of Waterloo 1815 . The remains were discovered in 2012 during archaeological excavations carried out on the construction site of a new car park created at the approach of the bicentenary of the battle in ...

  3. Waterloo Farm lagerstätte - Wikipedia

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    Waterloo Farm in 1988. Waterloo Farm main fossil site in 1999 preceding roadworks. Robert Gess, main researcher of Waterloo Farm Lagerstätte. The Waterloo Farm Lagerstätte is an approximately 360 million year old Famennian (latest Devonian) fossil-rich locality of the Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group, Cape Supergroup) in Makhanda (former Grahamstown) within the Eastern Cape Province ...

  4. Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia

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    The Field of Waterloo, by J. M. W. Turner, 1818 "The morning after the battle of Waterloo", by John Heaviside Clark, 1816 Waterloo cost Wellington around 17,000 dead or wounded, and Blücher some 7,000 (810 of which were suffered by just one unit: the 18th Regiment, which served in Bülow's 15th Brigade, had fought at both Frichermont and ...

  5. Waterloo Elm - Wikipedia

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    The Waterloo Elm by Anna Children (married name Atkins; died 1873 [1]). The Waterloo Elm was located just south west of the intersection of the sunken lane and the Genappe–Brussels main road. It was the Duke of Wellington's command post for much of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815). The tree was killed by souvenir hunters after the battle.

  6. Lagerstätte - Wikipedia

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    Well-preserved basal arthropod Opabinia from Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (Middle Cambrian) . A Fossil-Lagerstätte (German: [ˈlaːɡɐˌʃtɛtə], from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.

  7. Waterloo, Belgium - Wikipedia

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    Waterloo was a place where travellers and merchants, particularly those carrying coal from the mine to the south, could find rest and protection from bandits. Waterloo was located in the Duchy of Brabant created in 1183 with Leuven as the capital city. The Duchy of Brabant extended from Luttre to 's-Hertogenbosch in 1477.

  8. Digestate - Wikipedia

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    Acidogenic digestate can also be used as an environmentally friendly filler to give structure to composite plastics. Growth trials on digestate originating from mixed waste have showed healthy growth results for crops. [6] Digestate can also be used in intensive greenhouse cultivation of plants, e.g., in digeponics.

  9. History of fertilizer - Wikipedia

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    Humphry Davy found that, of two parcels of minced veal, the one mixed with gypsum, the other left by itself, and both exposed to the action of the sun, the latter was the first to exhibit symptoms of putrefaction. Davy's own belief on this subject is, that it makes part of the food of vegetables, is received into the plant, and combined with it.