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Sir Joseph Banks (February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the English naturalist and botanist on Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771) and some 75 species bear Banks' name. He is credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, Banksia. |
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The skuas are seabirds in the family Stercorariidae. The smaller skuas are called jaegers in North America. Skuas nest on the ground in temperate and arctic regions and are long-distance migrants. Outside the breeding season they take fish, offal and carrion. Many are partial kleptoparasites, chasing gulls, terns and other seabirds to steal their catches
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The Congo is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,380 km (2,720 mi) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile). If the Chambeshi River is taken as the source, the overall length increases to 4,670 km (2900 mi). The river and its tributaries flow through the second largest rain forest area in the world, only the Amazon Rainforest being (much) larger. |
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Sail away, sail away To a place where your troubles can't follow Sail away, sail away Save all your tears for tomorrow |
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The Jacques Cartier Bridge (French: pont Jacques-Cartier) is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
The Jacques Cartier Bridge is the site of more suicides than any other single structure in the world besides the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Pictograms, Police Patrols and, more recently, suicide barriers have addressed this somewhat.
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Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northern France on the English Channel. Saint-Malo during the Middle Ages was a fortified island at the mouth of the Rance River, controlling not only the estuary but the open sea beyond. The promontory fort of Alet, south of the modern centre in what is now the Saint-Servan district, commanded approaches to the Rance even before the Romans, but modern Saint-Malo traces its origins to a monastic settlement founded by Saint Aaron and Saint Brendan early in the 6th century.
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