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8 unusual facts about alder


Alder, Oregon

Alder railroad station on Southern Pacific's Toledo Line (now owned by the Portland and Western Railroad) was established in 1911, but in 1922 the Post Office Department would not name the community's new post office "Alder" because of potential confusion with many other offices with the same name.

Cary, Wisconsin

Alders in the swamps the streams are fed by the swamps and are not durable during times of drowth.

Cleveland, Taylor County, Wisconsin

The Meadow and Alder bottoms are all subject to be overflowed to a depth of 1 too 2 feet and are good for hay.

Emil Janel

During the 1930s, he spent considerable time at Russian River, where he produced carvings of a local species of Alder Wood.

Leib-Olmai

He lives in the trees of Alder and gives good luck to hunters against bears, and he appears to humans in the form of a bear.

Pershing, Wisconsin

The meadow and Alder bottoms are all subject to be overflowed to a depth of 1 to 2 feet and are good for Hay.

Phantastes

Anodos then encounters a woman and her daughter in a cottage who warn him about the Ash Tree and the Alder Tree, who seek to destroy him.

Westboro, Wisconsin

It is a deep narrow Stream banks low and principally lined with Alder.


A. glutinosa

Alnus glutinosa, the black alder, European alder or common alder, a tree species native to most of Europe

A. viridis

Alnus viridis, the green alder, a tree sspecies with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust runs Alder Hey Children's Hospital a children's hospital in West Derby, Liverpool.

Aulne

Whether due to a mistranslation of "Erlkonig" or not, the word "Erlkönig" (as in Goethe's poem Der Erlkönig) is rendered in French (as in the title of Michel Tournier's eponymous 1970 novel) Le Roi des aulnes i.e., the Alder King.

Autographa ampla

They prefer willow and poplar, but have also been recorded on alder, birch, blueberry, Shepherdia canadensis, cherry, elder, raspberry, Amelanchier species, stinging nettle and Viburnum species

Baffin Bay

There are about 400 plant and tree species on the bay shores, including birch, willow, alder and plants adapted to salty soils, as well as lyme grass, mosses, and lichens.

Boulder River Wilderness

Common vegetation in Boulder River Wilderness includes old-growth Douglas fir, true fir, western hemlock, and western red cedar, as well as bigleaf maple, alder, willow, and devil's club.

Cannop Ponds

Conservation measures to prevent the Marsh from drying out includes coppicing of the Alder in the central area and the removal of Bracken.

Casper's Scare School

Captain & Tennille - Murray and Belle, Alder and Dash's "Ankle" (Aunt + Uncle = Ankle)

Chiral Lewis acid

Hisashi Yamamoto and coworkers have developed a practical Diels-Alder catalyst for aldehyde dienophiles.

Cocidius

Another inscription, at Ebchester, refers to him as Cocidius Vernostonus, Cocidius of the alder tree.

E.G. Records

Alder and Fenwick were investors in Lloyd's of London, and suffered financially as a result of its major losses in the early 1990s.

Eduard Khil

Other popular songs performed by Khil included From What the Homeland Begins? (С чего начинается Родина?), How the Steamers Are Seen Off (Как провожают пароходы), Winter (Зима), Birch Sap (Берёзовый сок), Alder Catkin (Серёжка ольховая), We Need Only the Victory (Нам нужна одна победа), and many others.

Elite Stratocaster

This guitar model featured an alder body, a maple neck featuring a rosewood or maple fingerboard with 21 jumbo frets, 12" radius, Schaller die-cast tuners with pearloid buttons, BiFlex truss-rod system with MicroTilt neck adjuster, Schaller Straplock Ready locking strap buttons, two hardened steel EasyGlider string trees, side-mount jack socket and a Freeflyte vibrato system, as well as three serrated "rubber insert"-style control knobs.

Frankia alni

One species, Alnus glutinosa, is also found in Africa and another, the Andean alder, Alnus acuminata, extends down the mountainous spine of Central and South America as far as Argentina.

Geography of Póvoa de Varzim

In the past the Atlantic forest predominated, with trees from medium to great size, such as oaks, ash trees, hazels, strawberry trees, holm oak, and alders.

Gonfreville-l'Orcher

The Orcher suffix comes from the name of the first seigneurs of the village, now corrupted to Orcher, but originally Aurichier (alor = alder and kjarr / ker = marsh. Cf. Ellerker, Yorkshire), that took themselves in turn their name from the same place, where the chateau is located.

Hansen, Wisconsin

the streams are fed by the swamps and are subject to very sudden rise & fall the timber is of various kinds such as soft-maple sugar Pine (TamaracK & alder in the swamps) Linn Oak Ash Ironwood +c, the stone are a Blue Flint.

Hello, Larry

Larry Alder (McLean Stevenson) is a radio talk show host who left Los Angeles after being divorced and moved to Portland, Oregon, with his two teenage daughters, Diane (played in the first season by Donna Wilkes and in the second season by Krista Errickson) and Ruthie (played by Kim Richards).

Holly Lam-Moores

Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Lam-Moores started playing handball aged 12 at Alder Grange High School in Rawtenstall after it had been introduced by coach Bill Baillie.

Inverse electron-demand Diels–Alder reaction

The Diels–Alder reaction was first reported in 1928 by Otto Diels and Kurt Alder; they were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in 1950.

Jackson DK2M

The DK2M uses an alder body in the classic Soloist/Dinky shape with a bevel in the bottom horn cutaway (for non-veneer finishes), while no pickguard is used as the controls are rear mounted.

JGraph

JGraph is a graph drawing open source software component written in the Java programming language; started by Gaudenz Alder as a University project in 2000 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Laurence Fogerty

Alder later talked about and commended Fogerty in his biography Marathon and Chips

Liverpool and District Cricket Competition

First Division: Ainsdale, Alder, Fleetwood Hesketh, Formby, Liverpool, Newton le Willows, Northop Hall, Orrell Red Triangle, Rainhill, Sefton Park, Wallasey, Wigan.

Los Alcornocales Natural Park

Forests and smaller wooded areas within the park are comprised mainly by cork oaks (Quercus suber), Portuguese oaks (Quercus faginea), Pyrenean oaks (Quercus pyrenaica), olive trees (Olea europaea), alders (Alnus glutinosa and Alnus incana incana), holly trees (Ilex aquifolium), bay laurels (Laurus nobilis), rhododendrons (Rhododendron ponticum), ferns, mosses, and lichens.

Monti Volsini

In the area grape and olives are intenselvy cultivated, while vegetation include Oak, Alder and Sweet Chestnut.

Neolithic Subpluvial

In the highlands of the central Sahara beyond the Libyan desert,... in the great massifs of the Tibesti and the Hoggar, the mountaintops, today bare rock, were covered at this period with forests of oak and walnut, lime, alder and elm.

Pershing, Wisconsin

Balsam and Elm line the margins of the Meadow and Alder bottoms.

Port Kent and Hopkinton Turnpike

It continued eastward from modern NY 3 on Alder Brook Park and Brook Roads to the hamlet of Union Falls, situated near the Franklin–Clinton county line.

Roman Museum

In the first century AD the Cantiaci were the inhabitants of Kent when the Romans captured a settlement on the River Stour and later called it Durovernum Cantiacorum, or stronghold of the Cantiaci by an Alder marsh.

Root nodule

Root nodules that occur on non-legume genera like Parasponia in association with Rhizobium bacteria, and those that arise from symbiotic interactions with Actinobacteria Frankia in some plant genera such as Alnus, vary significantly from those formed in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis.

Rufous-bellied Saltator

Its habitat is open land, including cultivated land, that has patches of scrub, alder trees, or Polylepis trees.

Sherry, Wisconsin

This Township is heavily Timbered with Maple Oak Birch & Pine Maple Oak & Birch being the prevailing Kinds - along the Border(?) of Mill Creek there is some good scattering Pine - along the Border(?) of the small stream (?) almost invariably(?) find alder thickets caused by Beaver dams.

Thomas Porter McMurray

He served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France for a short time, returning to the Alder Hey Military Hospital in Liverpool in 1914.

Trimetasphere

The first TMS adduct, a Diels-Alder cycloadduct of Sc3N by C80, was reported by Dorn et al. in 2002.

Viking Age arms and armour

The sagas specifically mention linden wood for shield construction, although finds from graves shows mostly other timbers, such as fir, alder and poplar.


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