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Score: 4.5/5 (49 votes) make-hawk (plural make-hawks) (falconry) A trained and seasoned hawk flown with young birds to teach them to take the quarry.What is a male hawk?A male hawk is called a tercel, which comes from the German word “terzel,” meaning “one-third.” The name was assigned to the hawk b...
Score: 5/5 (3 votes) Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald).How many US presidents were assassinated?In the co...
Score: 4.6/5 (34 votes) Where do Lily and Rosaleen go after they escape from the hospital? How do they get there? They go to Tiburon, South Carolina; they hitchhike and get a ride from a cantalope truck driver. After Lily and Rosaleen are dropped off outside of Tiburon, they have a fight and part wa...
Score: 5/5 (21 votes) "Cellophane" is a vulnerable piano ballad in which FKA Twigs sings of a relationship in the public eye. FKA Twigs started dating Twilight actor Robert Pattinson in September 2014. A number of his fans made it clear on social media they wanted the British star to split from Twig...
Score: 5/5 (12 votes) The answer is usually YES! Many homeowners don't realize that you can change the color of hardwood flooring when you refinish your floors. Yes, it's true…you can go light or dark or red tones or anywhere in between. Most are pleasantly surprised it doesn't matter...
Score: 4.8/5 (6 votes) RideGuru - Rideshares, Uber, Lyft, Ola, Didi available in Folkestone, Kent.Where does Uber operate?Uber operates in about 250 cities across the world. But it's being challenged in a lot of them, including Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro, Pari...
Score: 4.8/5 (23 votes) The term “benshi” derives from the longer designation, katsudō shashin benshi (活動寫眞辯士), which parses literally in Japanese as “motion picture speaker.” During the silent film era in Japan, these vocal narrators sat or stood in a dimly visible spot to the left of the movie scr...
Score: 4.5/5 (39 votes) The loss of trees and other vegetation can cause climate change, desertification, soil erosion, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and a host of problems for indigenous people.How does cutting down of trees pollute the environment?Cutting dow...
Score: 4.1/5 (27 votes) The thoracic cage (rib cage) forms the thorax (chest) portion of the body. It consists of the 12 pairs of ribs with their costal cartilages and the sternum (Figure 1). The ribs are anchored posteriorly to the 12 thoracic vertebrae (T1–T12). The thoracic cage protects the hear...
Score: 4.4/5 (60 votes) As part of the world's largest delta, formed from sediments deposited by three great rivers; the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, and covering the Bengal Basin, the land has been moulded by tidal action, resulting in a distinctive physiology.How is Sundarban delta formed?...
