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unusual facts about The Moss


The Moss

The 85 species of moths and butterflies includes the White-letter Hairstreak.



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Alkhornet

The moss tundra below the cliffs receives nutrients from the seabird colonies and is lush in places, providing grazing grounds for Reindeer, nesting places for geese and denning sites for Arctic Foxes.

Amity Regional High School

The play is about two Jewish refugee families and their connection to Anne Frank The production received Honorable Mention in the Moss Hart Awards from the New England Theater Conference.

Ampicillin

Ampicillin, like other β-lactam antibiotics, not only blocks the division of bacteria, but also the division of chloroplasts of the glaucophytes (called cyanelles) and chloroplasts of the moss Physcomitrella patens, a bryophyte.

Baulk Head to Mullion

The SSSI contains several plant species listed in the Red Data Book of rare and endangered plant species, such as Hairy Greenweed, the moss Pottia starkenna, part of the Pottiaceae family, Fringed Rupturewort (Herniaria ciliolata) and the only recently recorded instances of wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum).

British School of Boston

The British School of Boston (BSB) is a non-sectarian, co-educational college preparatory day school located in the Moss Hill section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, MA.

Charles James Valentine

He was managing director of the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Co., Limited, and Director of Cleator and Workington Junction Railway which was built to serve the iron works.

Ernie Moss

Off the field Moss established the Moss & Miller sports shop with former England cricketer Geoff Miller.

Great Western Iron and Steel Company

He and his business partners (including Member of Parliament Charles James Valentine) owned the Moss Bay Hematite Iron Company, later renamed Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Company Limited, at Mossbay in Workington, Cumberland.

Mokhovaya Street

The name of a street, literally Moss Street, emerged in 18th century after the Moss Market that stood on site of Moscow Manege and traded in moss for caulking log houses.

Muscinae

From the 19th century, the term "Muscinae" is also an obsolete scientific name for the mosses (modern Bryophyta), once used in the taxonomy of Ernst Haeckel (circa 1899).

Page Moss

On 30 June 2008 the neighbourhood was featured on the BBC TV documentary series Panorama, focusing upon the local youth gang culture, namely the "Moss Edz" and their feuds with adjoining areas, specifically Dovecot, whom they refer to as "Dovey Edz".

Polytrichum alpinum

The moss may also colonise stony soil, boulders and snowy grikes above the treeline.

Vic Stelly

In 2003, as his legislative career wound down, Stelly was "roasted" by the Moss Bluff Civic Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fund raiser to install a monument to former Governor Sam Houston Jones at the Jones State Park in Moss Bluff.

William Weymouth

Jatta named a species of lichen in honour of Weymouth called Ochrolechia weymouthii, and Brotherus named the moss genus Weymouthia.

Wissinoming, Philadelphia

Wissinoming has two playgrounds: Moss Playground (home of the Moss Eagles and located on Torresdale Avenue and Cheltenham Avenue) and American Legion (also known as Devereaux by natives of the neighborhood since it's located on Torresdale Avenue and Devereaux Street)