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unusual facts about Bur


Benjamin Szold

Szold studied under Rabbis Jacob Fischer of Shalgaw, Wolf Kollin of Werbau, and Benjamin Wolf at the Pressburg Yeshiva, and received the rabbinical authorization from Judah Assod of Bur and Simon Sidon of Tyrnau.


B. laevis

Bidens laevis, the bur-marigold or smooth beggartick, a flowering plant species native to the southern half of the United States

Babasan Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrenov

Babasan Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrenov, also known as Tsirenov (bur. Цэрэнэй Цэрэнжабай Бабаасан, 1910, Burdun, Buryat State - 1987, Kyakhta, Buryatia) - a legendary hero of the Buryat-Mongol, a pilot, a veteran of World War II, from the beginning of the Finnish front from 1938 - 1945.

Burl

A burl (American English) or bur or burr (used in all non-US English speaking countries) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.

Cachet, Ontario

Many students who attended Ashton Meadows Public School go on to Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School, located at Berczy Village, on Bur Oak Avenue and Kennedy Road.

Har-Bur Middle School

Har-Bur Middle School is one of the four schools in the Region 10 school district, along with Harwinton Consolidated Elementary School, Lake Garda Elementary School, and Lewis S. Mills High School.

Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708

Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 was a domestic non-scheduled passenger flight between Hawthorne Industrial Airport, Nevada (HTH) and Hollywood-Burbank Airport, California (BUR/KBUR), that crashed into the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, near Lone Pine, on February 18, 1969, killing all 35 passengers and crew on board.

Hope Airport

Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, United States (IATA: BUR)

Lebia grandis

The original host plant of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata was the buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum, in Mexico.

Monson Lake State Park

The lakeshores and other marshes are characterized by emergent plants like prairie bulrush, bur-reed, arrowhead, and spikerush.

Nichols Arboretum

Oaks - native oaks including red (Quercus rubra), white (Quercus alba), black (Quercus velutina), bur (Quercus macrocarpa), shingle (Quercus imbricaria), and swamp white (Quercus bicolor), as well as three Asian oaks representing sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima) and oriental oak (Quercus variabilis).

Park Bum-shin

Of special note are Country of Fire (Bur ui nara) and Country of Water (Mul ui nara), which appeared in The Dong-a Ilbo in the early and mid-1980s and won critical recognition.


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