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3 unusual facts about gall


Kel Ayr

Kel Ayr controlled the sedentary populations of the trading and farming centers in Assodé, Agadez, In-Gall, Timia and Iferouane.

Kel Fadey (centered at Tchimoumenene; nomadize in regions around In-Gall) ~1780 in 1979.

Northern Songhay languages

The sedentary varieties include Sawaq (Tasawaq) in northern Niger (with two dialects, Ingelsi in In-Gall and the extinct Emghedeshie of Agadez) and Korandje far to the north, 150 km east of the Algerian–Moroccan border at Tabelbala.


Aodh Méith

A series of castles were built, and much of what are now counties Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone were granted to Ailean Alan, Lord of Galloway (or "King of the Gall-Gaidhil"), his brother Tomás Mac Uchtraigh and their cousin Donnchadh of Carrick.

Barthélemy Adoukonou

Between 1977 and 1984 he was rector of the Minor Seminary of St. Paul at Djimi, Abomey, Missionary Professor at the University of West Africa in Abidjan and professor of methodology of research in human and social sciences at the University of the State of Abomey-Calavi and at the Major Seminary of Saint Gall in Ouidah, Benin.

Celtis occidentalis

The leaves are eaten by four gall-producing insects of the Pachypsylla genus, which do not cause serious damage to the tree.

Chronicon Suevicum universale

On the first hypothesis, it has been called the Epitome Sangallense Herimanni Augiensis, a Saint Gall version of Hermann of Reichenau's chronicle.

Dymaxion map

It has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Gall–Peters projection.

Enterolobium cyclocarpum

An insect pest, common to Guanacaste trees of the Costa Rican Central Valley, produces spherical green galls of 1.5 cm diameter on new shoots in February and March.

Eriophyidae

Aceria malherbae, the bindweed gall mite, an agent of biological control against field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

Aceria chondrillae, the chondrilla gall mite, an agent of biological control against skeleton weed (Chondrilla juncea)

Flipside film festival

The next Flipside Collective project is a collaboration between Allister Gall and Dan Paolantonio, which taking inspiration from Julio García Espinosa, is entitled 'Imperfect Cinema.'

Franz Joseph Gall

Gall's theories had an influence both on the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso and on his French rival, Alexandre Lacassagne.

Gall Force

Ten Little Gall Force was released along with Scramble Wars in the United States by AnimEigo on a single VHS video titled Super-Deformed Double Feature.

Gall stereographic projection

The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is cylindrical projection.

Gall–Peters projection

The Gall–Peters projection was first described in 1855 by clergyman James Gall, who presented it along with two other projections at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (the BA).

The Gall–Peters projection, named after James Gall and Arno Peters, is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection.

The map is a favorite of military strategist Thomas Barnett, who has included it in his presentations of The Brief, which have aired on C-SPAN in the United States.

Gaultier GAA

Situated on the west side of Waterford Harbour on Ireland's southeastern coast, it lies within the barony of Gaultier (Gáll Tír – "foreigners' land" in Irish): a reference to the influx of firstly Viking (Norwegian) and then Norman settlers in the area.

Geena Gall

Gall broke her personal record in the 800m at the 2012 Prefontaine Classic, finishing behind Alysia Montaño with a run of 1:59.28 minutes and then broke it again at the USA Track and Field Olympic Trials, finishing second to Alysia Montaño once again, in a time of 1:59.24 minutes.

Hierodoris illita

A specimen has also been reared from a gall on a stem of Muehlenbeckia australis.

Juniperus occidentalis

The plants often bear galls caused by the Juniper Tip Midge Oligotrophus betheli (Bibionomorpha: Cecidomyiidae); these are violet-purple fading to brown, 1–2 cm diameter, with dense modified spreading scale-leaves 6–10 mm long and 2–3 mm broad at the base.

Lothar Gall

Gall's doctoral thesis examined the political thought of Benjamin Constant, and its influence in Vormärz Germany.

LOVE Park

Ricky Oyola and Roger Browne, Fred Gall and Matt Reason were early Philadelphia skateboard pioneers who began to explore the space.

Madonna with the Fish

On the other side the archangel Raphael is presenting at the foot of the throne the young Tobias, whom he formerly guided to the River Tigris, and who bears the miraculous fish whose heart, liver and gall were to restore his father's sight, and drive the demons from his bride.

Magnus of Füssen

It relates that the two Irish missionaries Saints Columbanus and Gall, spent some time with Willimar, a priest at Arbon.

Mary-Dell Chilton

She was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue.

Mulga apple

The mulga apple is in fact a combination of plant and animal; the insect gall grows inside the wood of the mulga tree (Acacia aneura).

N. albipes

Neuroterus albipes, a gall wasp species that forms chemically induced leaf galls on oak trees

Notker

Notker of Liège, provost of Saint Gall and later first Prince-Bishop of Liège

Notker the Stammerer

He would seem to have been born at Jonschwyl on the River Thur, south of Wil, in the modern canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland; some sources claim Elgg to be his place of birth.

regardless of historical verisimilitude (Pepin the Hunchback, for example, is supposed to have been sent to Saint Gall as punishment for his rebellion, and – in a trope owed to Livy's tale of Tarquin and the poppies – earns a promotion to rich Prüm Abbey after advising Charlemagne through an implicit parable of hoeing thistles to execute another group of rebels).

Park of Armentia

The park of Armentia, commonly known as "El bosque de Armentia", is a gall-oak forest located between Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Mountains of Vitoria, in the province of Álava and of the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain.

Pau Villalonga

"Villalonga, Pau", Compositors de les Illes Balears, prologue by Antoni Pizà (Pollença: El Gall, 2000) p.

Protestantism in Switzerland

The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel (Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gall (Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France.

Rosa nutkana

nutkana hosts gall-making wasps of the family Cynipidae, genus Diplolepis, in the insect class Hymenoptera.

Salah Shehade

All those bleeding hearts who have the gall to use Mafioso methods of blackmail against fighters – I don't recall that they ever threatened to turn over one of the arch-terrorists, the terrorists who have killed many Israeli civilians, to The Hague.

Sandy Gall

Henderson Alexander "Sandy" Gall, CMG, CBE (born 1 October 1927), is a Scottish journalist, author, and former ITN news presenter whose career as a journalist has spanned more than 50 years.

Tactile alphabet

Samuel Gridley Howe's Boston Line using lowercase angular letters, influenced by Gall's system but more closely resembling standard Roman letters

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster

On his return to London he published a sketch of Gall and Spurzheim's system, which, like many of his writings, appeared in the Pamphleteer, together with an essay on the application of the organology of the brain to education.

Uncompahgre Fritillary

It is the last butterfly to be discovered in North America and was found by one Stanford University student, Larry Gall, and one University of Alberta student, Felix Sperling, working out of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

Vasates quadripedes

Vasates quadripedes, the maple bladder-gall mite, is an eriophyid mite in the genus Vasates, which causes galls on the leaves of silver maple (Acer saccharinum), red maple (A. rubrum), and sugar maple (A. saccharum).

Vila Nova de Gaia

The origin of the name Cale (or Gale, since in Classical Latin there was not always a clear distinction between the letters "g" and "c") is likely Celtic, from the root "Gall-" with which Celts referred to themselves, similarly to Galicia, Gaul or Galway.

Ytterlännäs parish

He was vicar in Frösön, November 25, 1835, entered May 1, 1836, got the title "vice vicar", honor and dignity the August 17, 1836 the same year named; empowered vicar in Torsåker-Ytterlännäs February 13, 1839, entered May 1, 1841, was at head of the pastoral custody in Torsåkers gäll April 10, 1844 through October 31, 1846.


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